Microsoft AI Max defaults: check new campaigns and Google imports
Audit AI Max settings before launching or syncing Microsoft Search campaigns. Download a settings record for landing pages, imports and performance reviews.
From this desk
Start with the most useful page
The featured page offers a strong introduction. The remaining cards help readers move through this editorial section without turning the archive into a service menu.
Read the featured method
Keep the method with the result
A useful workflow story records the account state, request, expected output, retained evidence, and stop condition beside the result.
API behavior
Compare API behavior
Record method, parameters, filters, cache behavior, timestamps, and response differences before choosing an integration.
Index freshness
Make synchronization observable
Keep job IDs, changed-file evidence, retries, cancellation, and sentinel retrieval visible when CI triggers an index update.
Citation checks
Audit the answer against its sources
Preserve the response, map citations to claims, and separate retrieval quality from the final wording.
Privacy controls
Keep location and storage boundaries separate
Verify processing location, stored data, logs, provider settings, and regional limits as distinct controls.
Latest stories
Latest Tools & Workflows articles
Read the archive in publication order. Each story focuses on one implementation question and keeps its inputs, failures, evidence, and limits visible.
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Bing’s API retirement deadline has passed: check your SEO reports
Bing set August 31 for SOAP and POX retirement. Check integration protocols, JSON parsing and data freshness with our downloadable reporting audit sheet.
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ChatGPT custom audiences: why uploaded rows are not matched users
ChatGPT Ads needs 25,000 matched users for inclusion targeting. Work through exclusions, overlapping lists, and bid adjustments with a count-only worksheet.
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AdSense impression counting changes in 2027: how to prepare
Google will change banner impression counting from February 17, 2027. See how to compare counts and RPM without confusing measurement with earnings.
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OpenAI 429 vs 503 Errors: Retry Without Skewing Your Data
OpenAI now distinguishes 429 slow_down from 503 server_is_overloaded. Honor Retry-After, cap backoff, and preserve failed queries in AI visibility study denominators.
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Claude Fable 5.1 Migration: Two Changes Can Break Agent Workflows
Claude Fable 5.1 rejects forced tool choice and its thinking blocks cannot be read by older Claude models. Test tool, transcript, refusal, retention, and cost paths before migrating.
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AI Visibility Reports: Track Mentions, Recommendations, Citations, and Revenue
Build separate ledgers for mentions, recommendations, citations, detected referrals and business outcomes, then connect them with stable keys and explicit uncertainty.
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AI SEO Prompts That Produce Auditable Work, Not Generic Content
Use separate research, synthesis, drafting and review prompts with claim-source IDs, rejection rules, human ownership and measurable correction rates.
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How to Choose an AI SEO Agency Without Paying for Vanity Metrics
Compare agencies on raw exports, definitions, evidence quality, ownership, security and a paid pilot—not a proprietary visibility score.
A useful standard
What makes a workflow trustworthy
A workflow is useful when another person can inspect what went in, what happened, what failed, and why the result changed a decision.
Inputs before outputs
Preserve the request, configuration, account state, environment, and relevant versions before interpreting the response.
Failures remain in the record
Keep timeouts, empty results, parser errors, retries, and zero-result runs. Removing them hides how the real system behaves.
Secrets stay out of evidence
Use stable internal labels for credentials and redact tokens, personal data, and licensed content that should not enter a report.
References and next steps