SEO

A thread at Reddit asked if a one-year-old website can beat a four-year-old website in SEO and perform better in Google Search. John Mueller from Google answered with his classic “it depends."

Break the habit of reporting easy metrics and adopt KPIs that reflect how growth actually happens today.
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On the Reddit Q4 2025 Earnings Call (see transcript here), Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, was asked about how he feels about how Google and OpenAI link or use citations to link to Reddit’s content. Overall, Steve made it sound like the interfaces are adapting quickly and he is hopeful they will drive traffic to the conversation (within Reddit) in the future.

Google announced on Friday that there is a delay with the Google Ads team reviewing and thus approving developer token access applications. This is because Google is “seeing significant interest in the developer community for Google Ads API access, and are receiving an increase in developer token access applications," the company said.

The Google preferred sources deeplink button feature is broken and has been since at least last Wednesday. When you click on a button to make a site a preferred source, such as for this site, it does not pre-fill in the site’s URL in the box, as it should. You can retype it in the box but it does not pre-fill it for you.

An AI-aligned approach to PPC budget strategy that moves spend toward conversion probability instead of traditional channel-based planning.
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