New newsletter is out! Instead of giving you a novel to read, I'm now focusing on the most important things I'm discussing with my clients.
🎨 Canvas in AI Mode
🛒 Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP): New documentation
💻 Google Workspace CLI
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Ah my apologies! I clearly did not have my morning coffee before writing that. You are correct. There is no documentation on disavowing a TLD.
Deleted so it doesn't cause confusion.
The three most important topics to discuss this week (IMO):
1. WebMCP
2. UCP
3. Self Improving Agents are bringing us closer to the singularity.
New format this week!
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New blog post on 4 sites that did well following the December 2025 core update!
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A new type of core update! This one impacts Discover.
Less clickbait. More in-depth, original and timely content from websites with expertise.
US English only (for now.)
Google's Q4 earnings call starts soon.
I'm live-note-taking again. Here are my notes if you want to follow along:
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Here are my full notes from the OpenAI Town Hall with Sam Altman.
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That file download bit is very interesting! 🙏
What if user satisfaction is the MOST important factor in SEO?
The algorithm's only job is to predict what users will love. Our goal is to figure out how to be that result.
New blog post:
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There was some real gold in Liz Reid's declaration in Google's appeal of the DOJ vs Google judgment.
There are some nuggets here about user data as it is used to train GLUE (a form of Navboost) and RankEmbed BERT.
Wrote it all up in a new blog post:
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Listened to @mariehaynes.bsky.social explain Google's UCP -- worth 20 minutes.
AI agents can now complete purchases without leaving the conversation.
No website. No checkout. Your site might not be in the journey at all.
This newsletter is a fun one with some super important info in it.
It starts off with info on how I built tools with AntiGravity to research the latest treatments and rapidly speed up my healing from frozen shoulder.
And boy is AI progressing quickly!
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The core update is live & seems impactful, Gemini is now showing rich visual results for local.
GPT 5.2 is live and good, image generation has improved, and the bit about Alpha Evolve being in preview has me freaked out.
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I keep hoping there's an option to be exhausted and exceptional until you've finally done enough to sit back and enjoy the work done and then be exceptional and content. Wishful thinking perhaps?
Updated my algo update list. Loads of new things happening!
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A great chat about the future! Ty @shelleywalsh.bsky.social for inviting me on to your podcast.
Extremely unlikely, but any manual actions or security issues in GSC?
Actually it's not likely the latter as the URLs appear on site: search.
Would sure love to see the indexing report in GSC because this is odd.
It's really odd it's not ranking for text in quotes taken directly from the site tho. I'd be curious to know what's in the "crawled not indexed" section of GSC.
And, silly question but has the URL removal tool been used at all in the past?
WHAT A WEEK.
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This week's Marie's Notes (paid content) is a little different - some thoughts on how we survive and thrive in this next era.
Plus a bunch more!
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It's the new fake EEAT thing. Pretend you have a quote from an expert and just make one up.
Option 2 is code, but I think the SF version is better.
A start...
Yeah! Exactly. I don't think you can say, here LLM, write the regex. But I do think it can act as a partner to help get through it faster.
I know you said no AI but I really think this could be done. Not with AI making the decisions but rather writing code to sort it for you.
If you're open I'd love to take a stab at it. Feel free to DM. But totally get it if you decline.
