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Daily Minute Master Series
July 27, 2026

by Corey Padveen

Marketing News and Updates

You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore

The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn’t perfect and certainly made Google more money than it made the websites, but it worked for a long time. Now, however, the deal seems to be dead. And the web is being forced to reckon with what happens when the Google traffic dries up.

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Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star

Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported earlier by Bloomberg.

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Meta still has the widest social media reach

Meta remains the leader of the pack in terms of total social platform reach and usage, while Threads continues to gain on X and Pinterest continues to rise. The information comes from the latest snapshot of overall users, as measured by app.

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Google Expands Review Guidelines And Warns Of Manual Actions

Google updated their review snippet documentation to add three more reasons why a site may become eligible for a manual action. Authentic human insights are an important quality of the kind of content that Google wants to rank, arguably even more so when it comes to review content.

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Google Ads’ Target-Based Bidding Update For Ecommerce

If you run ecommerce campaigns on target CPA or target ROAS and any of them sit at “Limited by budget,” Google’s August 17 bidding change is going to move your numbers, and we’re likely not talking about the direction you want. Starting August 17, campaigns that are limited by budget and use a target-based bid strategy will deliver more consistently toward the target you set instead of overshooting it. For the many accounts that have quietly been beating their targets, that means a higher cost per conversion or a lower ROAS unless you act first.

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Google May Be Penalizing AI-Generated Content As Thin Content

A forum website published a post on Reddit expressing disbelief that Google issued a manual action for thin content, finding it hard to reconcile how Google could send so much traffic for nearly twenty years only to find fault with it now. Google is calling it a manual action for thin content, but SEOs believe it may be for AI-generated content.

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