This week's Search Influence briefing is about search visibility moving beyond web pages. Social posts, videos, chat answers, and AI-labeled ads are all becoming part of the same discovery system.

The larger takeaway: the edge still comes from basics that work across channels, including clear entities, clean page structure, first-party data, creative QA, and a measurement story tied to revenue.

• Google now measures social and video content in Search Console - Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube are officially part of search visibility work.
• Ask YouTube is expanding - conversational discovery is moving deeper into video.
• Canonicalization fixes can take up to two weeks - duplicate-page cleanup needs patience before teams make more changes.
• Google is labeling AI-made ads - creative QA and disclosure are now visible to users across Search, YouTube, and Discover.
• ChatGPT Ads now accepts audience lists - first-party data is becoming more important inside AI-native ad workflows.
• GEO still needs business metrics - revenue opportunity and revenue risk matter more than citation counts alone.

• 00:00 - Opening note and weekly theme
• 00:35 - Six things to know this week
• 01:45 - Search Console platform properties
• 03:00 - Ask YouTube and conversational video discovery
• 04:10 - Canonicalization timing
• 05:20 - AI ad disclosures
• 06:35 - ChatGPT Ads audience lists
• 07:35 - GEO business-case framing
• 08:35 - Company-wide takeaway and client-call cheat sheet

• Google Search Central Blog: See how content from social and video platforms performs on Google Search
• Search Engine Land: Google Search Console gains reporting on social and video platforms
• Search Engine Land: Ask YouTube AI search experience expands to U.S. desktop users
• Search Engine Land: Google clarifies canonicalization fixes can take up to two weeks to resolve
• Google Blog: Expanding AI transparency in ads
• Search Engine Land: Google expands AI ad disclosures across Search, YouTube, Discover
• Search Engine Land: ChatGPT Ads rolling out audience lists
• Search Engine Land: How to justify GEO investment without perfect attribution

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