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Libby Day @libby.day · 30/09/2026

I'm hosting all three Day 3 sessions at DudaCon '26: local AEO, turning leads into customers, and live design. It's free and online, on 28 Oct, 5pm UK / 10am PT. Register here ➡️ dudacon.duda.co/agenda

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Libby Day @libby.day · 28/09/2026

Tomorrow. Real builds, no feature tour. 6pm UK/10am PT.Register for free or to be sent the playback here → www.duda.co/webinars/bui...

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Libby Day @libby.day · 25/09/2026

Issue 22 of The Nuance Brief is out. WordPress 7.1.2 is a critical security release, Google is testing AI summaries inside Discover, and Meta's cost per ad is up 12% year on year. #SEO for Paws, and a #Duda webinar next Tuesday! mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the...

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SEO for Paws, a WordPress emergency, and a question about tools

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Libby Day @libby.day · 24/09/2026

A good craftswoman doesn't blame her tools. But that assumes she chose it and knows its limits. With AI, none of that holds. Notes from the Edinburgh Futures Institute panel on research and AI. www.nuancecollaborative.com/good-craftsw...

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A Good Craftswoman Doesn't Blame Her Tools: AI, Craft and Agency

Notes from an Edinburgh Futures Institute panel on research and AI, through a maker's lens: incentive, intent, agency and who answers for the tools.

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Libby Day @libby.day · 16/09/2026

Issue 21 of The Nuance Brief: AI crawlers don't render JavaScript, and Google's own indexing crawler isn't reliable at it either. New data, plus three signals from this week. www.nuancecollaborative.com/why-ai-crawl...

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Glenn Gabe @glenngabe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just thinking out loud about the new CrUX ad metrics announced yesterday. Why introduce these now? We know Google already has powerful Navboost data for understanding the user experience, but with AIOs and AI Mode changing user behavior, Navboost data is clearly changing...

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Chrome ad measurements | Ads | Chrome for Developers

User ad experiences in Chrome.

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Libby Day @libby.day · 10/09/2026

Two websites. One accessibility specialist business. A stronger search presence. This week's case study covers our work with Access by Design: merging two separate sites into one, cleaning up a spam-hit backlink profile, and getting lost pages back into Google's index. mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the...

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Libby Day @libby.day · 03/09/2026

Issue 19 of The Nuance Brief is out. This week's Signals: Search Console now splits out AI visibility from standard search performance, Chrome moves to a two-week release cycle from 8 September, and ChatGPT Ads has passed a $1bn run rate. Read it here 👉 mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the...

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Is vibe coding the new polyester?

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Barry Schwartz @rustybrick.com · 03/09/2026

Publishers noticing pages disappearing from the Google News tab but showing find within Google web search www.seroundtable.com/google-news-... #google #googleseo #googlenews #publishers #content #seo

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Libby Day @libby.day · 02/09/2026

Is vibe coding polyester? Tested 4 AI website builders on a real charity build. Bolt failed outright, Duda Vibe won on output but ate a month of credits. What shipped: Editor 2.0 + Copilot, hand-finished. www.nuancecollaborative.com/ai-website-b... #VibeCoding #WebDev

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Barry Schwartz @rustybrick.com · 01/09/2026

Google Search Console generative AI performance reports and search AI controls are now fully and globally available www.seroundtable.com/google-searc... #googlesearchconsole #googleperformancereport

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Glenn Gabe @glenngabe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Focus on Local? Smart post from Phil Rozek -> How Can Filtered Reviews Help Your Local SEO & Marketing? Phil provides 12 ways you can use that filtered review: www.localvisibilitysystem.com/2026/08/31/h...

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Libby Day @libby.day · 28/08/2026

Took the train through to Glasgow yesterday and was greeted with some actual sunshine, no small thing at this point in August. This week's Nuance Brief - read it here: mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the...

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Libby Day @libby.day · 12/08/2026

Issue 16 of The Nuance Brief is out: search, social, and why the two aren't separate problems anymore. Three Signals this week on AEO tools, a WordPress security update, and how much of LinkedIn is actually written by AI. Link in the reply below.

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Matt Wright 🤞 @honed.co · 12/08/2026

Content publishers need to consider this aspect from Claude, to protect their interests: "When a supported Claude model generates text, it weaves an imperceptible watermark directly into the text itself." support.claude.com/en/articles/...

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How Claude marks AI-generated content | Claude Help Center

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Barry Schwartz @rustybrick.com · 12/08/2026

Jeff Dean's Google badge and laptop being turned in www.seroundtable.com/photos/jeff-... via @jeffdean.bsky.social

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Libby Day @libby.day · 10/08/2026

This summer has had me juggling elder family duties, running Nuance Collaborative, so The Nuance Brief is arrived fashionably late this week. Issue 15 out Friday: Why a proper digital audit beats a panic decision when your search visibility takes a dip mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the...

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The Nuance Brief — Issue 15: Why a Digital Audit Beats a Panic Decision

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Libby Day @libby.day · 07/08/2026

If AI was animal it would be a cat, as they say you can tell a dog to fetch something and it brings it back - tell a CAT, it takes a message and gets back to you later. In haste to get a train last week, realized I had not posted the weekly blog Choo-choo! www.nuancecollaborative.com/googles-rela...

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Google's Relationship With the Web Is Getting Complicated

Big publishers are rethinking Google, and a quiet bug can drop pages from its index. Two stories this week point to the same lesson about search visibility.

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Libby Day @libby.day · 23/07/2026

Issue 13 of The Nuance Brief is out. Search moved. Most strategies didn't. The new blog unpacks AEO for B2B - why it works differently, what good content looks like when AI tools are doing the research, and where the shortlist is actually being built now. mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the...

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Libby Day @libby.day · 20/07/2026

Oh there you are human...#CatsOfBlueSky

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Libby Day @libby.day · 16/07/2026

New issue of The Brief: branding, window dressing, and what they taught me about AI search. Plus three real signals from this week. mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the...

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Libby Day @libby.day · 09/07/2026

Google Search Console can now track how your TikTok, Instagram, X and YouTube content shows up in Google Search. No website required. It's part of a bigger reporting stack expansion this month. Broke it down in Issue 11 of The Brief 🔗 mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the...

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Libby Day @libby.day · 02/07/2026

New issue of The Nuance Brief is live. Google's spam policy for AI content, new Search Console AI controls, and a London coffee brand's cheeky take on the whole AI search panic. mailchi.mp/64d50e86a7e6...

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Libby Day @libby.day · 26/06/2026

Organic traffic is now the least reliable number on your dashboard. Most of what shapes a decision happens before anyone reaches your site. New post: how to build a reporting stack that can actually see the AI era, layer by layer. www.nuancecollaborative.com/2026-reporti...

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Libby Day @libby.day · 24/06/2026

Been feeling a proud 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 seeing the reels, and hearing from clients in the US about the vibe they've brought to their cities, even inspiring some new content opportunities. #TartanArmy #WorldCup share.google/hBv52hBM3hRH...

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Darren Shaw @whitespark.ca · 11/06/2026

🚨 Breaking Google News: Gemini can now help manage your Google Business Profile. You will soon be able to connect your Business Profile directly to Gemini and ask it to help with things that normally require going into the GBP dashboard.

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Libby Day @libby.day · 11/06/2026

This weeks brief is about why rebrands, rebuilds and growth are only painful when your digital foundations are weak. The devil really is in the details. Signals over noise, as always. Read it here: mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the...

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Who plays devil's advocate before you commit?

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Libby Day @libby.day · 10/06/2026

Fantastic venue for a business pitch this morning: The Signet Library, Edinburgh. Home of the WS Society since the early 1800s, with roots back to 1594. George IV reputedly called the Upper Library 'the finest drawing room in Europe'. He had a point. #Edinburgh #Scotland #Architecture

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Beth Woodcock @bethwoodcock.com · 04/06/2026

this is why log file access matters :D

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Libby Day @libby.day · 29/05/2026

Travelling today, and have already done two good deeds. Mother with temper tamper toddler l distracted while she got her other kids shoe back on - then outside the train station helped rescue a cat who escaped its owners travel case. It’s not even 9am yet 😅 #Edinburgh #Travels #CatEscape

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Libby Day @libby.day · 28/05/2026

SEO benchmarking in 2026 -- why the data looks different and what to do about it. Issue 7 of The Nuance Brief is out. mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the...

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Benchmarking Search in 2026: More Tools, Fewer Certainties

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Libby Day @libby.day · 22/05/2026

Issue 6 of The Nuance Brief is out. Big week - Google I/O, WordPress 7.0 with native AI, and Google's first proper AI search guide. All in one place. mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the...

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Google finally wrote the AI search guide. And it was a big week.

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Martin Stepanek @techseovitals.com · 17/05/2026

🟣 Underrated #TechSEO Tip Google has a crawl rate limit for every site. If your site is slow, it crawls fewer pages. Faster server response means more pages crawled. More pages crawled means faster discovery of new and updated content.

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Glenn Gabe @glenngabe.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Banned for a year if you submit AI slop -> ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have “incontrovertible evidence” of AI-generated work

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ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop

The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.

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Libby Day @libby.day · 15/05/2026

Coorie Bosie the cat getting her 5 mins of SEO fame 😸

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Libby Day @libby.day · 13/05/2026

Issue 5 of The Nuance Brief is out. Too many tools, not enough trust - and if you have ever inherited a website with 47 pending plugin updates, you already know what we mean. mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the...

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The foundation work that comes before strategy.

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Libby Day @libby.day · 22/04/2026

Impressions up 📈 Traffic down 📉 Direct traffic growing for no obvious reason 📊 Your measurement tools just haven't caught up with how search works now. This week's Nuance Collaborative Brief explains the gap; mailchi.mp/nuanceme/you...

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Your traffic numbers aren't wrong. They're just incomplete.

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Anton Shulke @antonshulke.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

68 Million AI Crawler Visits Show What Drives AI Search Visibility by @martinibuster.bsky.social via @sejournal.bsky.social @duda.co snip.ly/what-drives-...

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Libby Day @libby.day · 21/04/2026

Nearly 60% of Google searches end without a click. New blog: what AEO looks like in practice, and what the March 2026 Core Update confirmed. www.nuancecollaborative.com/your-traffic...

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Your Traffic Numbers Are Not Wrong. They're Just Incomplete.

Organic traffic looks like it's falling but your measurement tools haven't kept up with how AI search works. Here's what's actually happening to your data.

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Marie Haynes @mariehaynes.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

New podcast episode! In this episode I share about Gemini in Chrome, how I built a plant journal with Antigravity, UCP, WebMCP, WordPress' EmDash, Shopify's AI Toolkit, Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch and more. youtu.be/CmhzPhGGe1o

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Google admits that Search is becoming agentic.

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