Here is the Raptive requirements page, which was updated on 10/16. Goodbye 100K pageview requirement... now you just need 25K... https://t.co/XpvmgZpDrM

Raptive just dropped its pageview requirement from 100K per month to just 25K per month "Raptive's long-time requirement was 100K page views per month in order to qualify. This has to be verifiable by Google Analytics. This week Raptive announced they are going to a blanket 25K

Focus on Paid? Meta confirmed this -> Meta Is Testing Skippable Ads on Instagram Reels, Borrowing From YouTube’s Playbook "A spokesperson for Meta confirmed that the company is testing the ad format, adding that the limited test is designed to assess whether the format helps

"For this new standard for robots.txt, success looks like Google allowing content to be available in Search but not in AI Overviews" -> An interview with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the company's new Content Signals Policy, which lets sites fine tune how their data can be

And I'm also seeing the "Shop conversationally" results in AI Mode now too. Makes sense they would roll out about the same time since they were announced at the same time. Again, you can refine your queries to filter the shopping results like I did with color and price. From

Finally seeing AI Mode with the more visual layout for certain queries. This was announced at the end of September but I haven't seen it until recently... You can follow up and refine the visuals as well (like I did below focusing on baseball versus all sports). From the

Wirecutter update: It seems that robots.txt change for Wirecutter might have worked. Visibility has been steadily creeping back since they made that change on 9/6. I need to update my post about this.

I do believe we'll see the AI Search platforms' version of Panda and Penguin, and maybe soon. Saturday AM is a great time to read my latest post in case you missed it this week. I cover the growing need for AI Search platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and others to

Focus on Paid? Good catch by @ThomasEccel -> Google AI Max "Sources" Column is now showing in your Search Term Reporting (so it's finally revealing the source behind AI Max traffic) "This update quietly rolled out but it's an important one for understanding how your traffic is

What could go wrong? I mean, who doesn't want Facebook to 'comb through your camera roll'? 🤦‍♂️-> Facebook’s new button lets its AI look at photos you haven’t uploaded yet "Meta has rolled out an opt-in AI feature to its US and Canadian Facebook users that claims to make their

Gemini 3 could be arriving this quarter -> Google plans to release Gemini 3 in December; it is expected to be more performant across the board, especially in coding and multimodal generation "Google targets Gemini 3 for December, weighs putting more capability into the free

Well, that was an interesting project. Cookies Live On-> Google Formally Ends Privacy Sandbox Initiative "Google formally ended on Friday its six-year old effort aimed at ending the use of cookies in its Chrome browser. In a blog post, Google said it would retire a suite of

AGI is still a decade away. Andrej was part of the founding team at OpenAI and previously Director of AI at Tesla. He knows a thing or two about AI -> Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI still being a decade away, why reinforcement learning is terrible, superintelligence, his AI

My son and his friends (18) just told me recently that they are using ChatGPT much less and Gemini much more (and they love NotebookLM) -> ChatGPT’s mobile app is seeing slowing download growth and daily use, analysis shows https://t.co/PjuNNzsxDL

LLM Deals 2.0. Publishers licensing content for LLMs but not with the big AI companies -> The Economist, the FT, and Dow Jones are licensing their archives and live content to enterprise clients for use in their private LLMs "Publishers are increasingly licensing decades of

Interested in agents? -> Anthropic's Skills for Claude, which are conceptually very simple, may become a bigger deal than MCP, whose high token usage is its most significant limitation "Skills are conceptually extremely simple: a skill is a Markdown file telling the model how

Some good nuggets of information in the interview. Like this about AI-generated content, what gets surfaced in AIOs, how Google works to keep spam levels down there (and even how they expanded the concept of 'spam' to include low-value content). Liz: "And actually, what we see

Kayak AI Mode. Yes, they are calling it that... -> Kayak launches a ChatGPT-powered chatbot on its desktop and mobile website that lets users ask travel questions and compare flights, hotels, and car rentals "The feature is currently available across both desktop and mobile

Reddit Answers goes international -> Reddit says it is expanding Reddit Answers, its Google Gemini-powered search experience, to 5 new languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese "Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in August that Reddit search has more than 70

I'll use this gif since I think it's fitting :) -> Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through "Ironically, while generative AI and search engines are causing a