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25/08/2026

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Free Virtual Event: September 17

12/08/2026

What makes LinkedIn content appear in AI answers? Our analysis of 89K cited URLs reveals what AI models trust—and how brands can win visibility.

12/08/2026

The search revolution has a social one running alongside it.

Search and social discovery aren't separate strategies anymore, and treating them that way is probably costing you visibility. This week's blog breaks down what's actually changed and what to do about it.

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23/07/2026

Your prospective clients are researching you in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode before they ever find your website.

AEO for B2B works differently from consumer search - and most B2B content strategies have not caught up yet. Read the blog on our website, link in bio.

23/07/2026

This blog started as a phone call with an old friend, a conversation about oversharing online that somehow traced a straight line from window dressing to AI search visibility. https://www.nuancecollaborative.com/beyond-the-glitter

09/07/2026

Your reporting stack just got bigger again.
This week Google rolled out "platform properties" in Search Console, a way to track how your social content performs inside Google Search, even without a website. Plus AI performance reports have expanded, and Google Trends got a Gemini upgrade.
More visibility is good. But the real question isn't "what can I now see," it's "what actually changes a decision I'm about to make."
Issue 11 of The Brief is out now https://mailchi.mp/nuanceme/the-brief-issue-11-your-reporting-stack-just-got-bigger

02/07/2026

Issue 10 of The Nuance Brief just landed.

A lot of noise out there about AI changing search overnight. This issue breaks down what's genuinely new (Google's spam policy update, Search Console's AI controls) versus what's just the same rules being applied more visibly, plus a fun example from a London coffee brand doing it right.

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26/06/2026

Organic traffic used to be the number you reported. It is now the least reliable reading on the dashboard.
So much of what shapes a buying decision happens before someone reaches your site. They ask an AI assistant, read the answer, then either search your brand directly or land looking like direct traffic with no story attached. A single figure cannot see any of that.

The new post breaks down how to build a reporting stack that actually can, layer by layer: the free Google base, what your platform already gives you, and the dedicated AI visibility tools worth paying for (and when they are not). Choose by the size of the business and its goals, not the length of the feature list.

https://www.nuancecollaborative.com/2026-reporting-stack-what-to-measure-what-to-buy

08/05/2026

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22/04/2026

Impressions up 📈 Traffic down 📉 Direct traffic growing for no obvious reason 📊 Your measurement tools just haven't caught up with how search works now.

This week's Nuance Collaborative Brief explains the gap 🔗 in comments.