NMS Editorial Team

NMS Editorial Team

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300,000 Domains Tested llms.txt. It Does Nothing for AI Visibility.

The premise behind llms.txt was straightforward: give AI models a structured file that explains what your site is about, and they'll cite you more often. It's a clean idea. Intuitive, even. It arrived in the SEO world with the kind of momentum that usually means

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Microsoft's Own Terms of Use Say Copilot Is for Entertainment. Your Marketing Team Uses It for Strategy.

Microsoft's Copilot terms of use page says something that doesn't get enough attention. In plain text, right at the top: "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don't rely on Copilot for important

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Amazon's April 23 Deadline Will Strip Thousands of Sellers' Strikethrough Prices Overnight

Amazon just told every third-party seller that their List Price needs to be provable, not just plausible. Starting April 23, the company will require sellers to substantiate submitted List Prices through one of two methods: either the product was offered at that price at another retailer recently, or customers actually

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Google Finally Wrote Down the 2MB Indexing Limit. Now You Have to Care About HTML Order.

Google has spent the last decade telling SEOs to focus on content quality and stop obsessing over technical minutiae. Then, in February 2026, they rewrote their entire Googlebot documentation three times in nine days and formally published a 2MB indexing limit that changes how you should think about the structure

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Bing's Vanishing Ad Labels Are a Regulatory Time Bomb Disguised as a UX Test

Microsoft calls it a "user-experience optimization." That's a very polished way to describe making your ad labels nearly invisible. Bing is currently testing Sponsored labels so faint they're barely distinguishable from the white background behind them. The text is there, technically. A user squinting

Liquid Death Is Giving Away a House. The Stunt Isn't the Story.

A publicly traded homebuilder and a canned water company with a death metal logo just partnered on a house where every faucet pours soda-flavored sparkling water. If your first instinct is to call this a gimmick, I'd slow down. The stunt is funny. The strategy behind it is

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Google Spent Three Years Saying Trust PMax. Now They Are Handing the Controls Back.

Google spent the last three years telling PMax advertisers to trust the algorithm. Hand over your assets, set a budget, let the machine figure out where to show what. Now they're quietly adding features that do the exact opposite: giving advertisers more granular creative control inside the campaigns