California wine executives plead guilty to $360,000 bribery scheme Two former employees of Deutsch Family Wine and Spirits bribed a Southern Glazer’s employee and a retailer to promote products such as Josh Cellars.

We love our winery client, Little Uvas Vineyards (LUV), and we could never in a million years imagine spending their marketing budget this way. Nor would they ever do something so unscrupulous. Unbelievable. www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/ar...

Is My Business Facebook Page Really in Violation Is that Facebook Message about your business page real or fake? How to tell if that Facebook message about your business page is real or not.

It seems every other day, we receive an urgent message from a client worried about losing their #Facebook Business Page. Please look for these "tells" to determine if the warning is a #scam. www.juleekleinmarketing.com/blog/scam-al...

Google Says LLMs.Txt Comparable To Keywords Meta Tag Google's John Mueller offered a realistic assessment of the usefulness of LLMs.txt, comparing it to the keyword meta tag

Rest in peace LLM.TXT. "None of the major #AI services, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, have announced support for the proposed LLMs.txt standard. So if none of them are actually using it then what’s the point?" —Roger Montti, SEJ www.searchenginejournal.com/google-says-...

Google Is a Monopolist in Online Advertising Tech, Judge Says The ruling was the second time in a year that a federal court had found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its dominance.

Breaking News: Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled.

Delete All Texts On Your Phone If You See These 2 Words iPhones and Android phones are under attack.

The headline is a little misleading. You don't need to delete "All" texts. Delete the text and report as junk if you see a link ending in ".com-toll" or ".com-track" in the message. These are the latest tools scammers are using to spoof real websites. www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Google quality raters now assess whether content is AI-generated Automated or AI-generated content may now earn a Lowest rating. Here’s what else changed in the latest quality rater guidelines update.

It turns out that using AI to generate website content is not the cheat code or small business marketing hack you may have thought it was. Instead of somehow leap-frogging the competition on SERPs, your page content will be flagged as low quality. Whomp. Whomp. searchengineland.com/google-quali...