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Here are SMS API options to consider for different purposes:

SMS API	PROs	Cons
Mobile Text Alerts	Easy documentation, strong APIs, and MCP servers	Focuses on SMS automation only
Twilio	Multi-channel option for developers, with SMS, WhatsApp, email, voice, and a large ecosystem	For purposes when you need SMS automation only, Twilio is almost “too much” + the API documentation is hard to figure out.
Bandwidth	Advanced solution for dev teams	friction for a team that just wants reliable send and receive capabilities
Plivo	Voice-driven (calling) and programmable communications	A frequent user complaint is that support can be slow and outsourced. Lack of MMS support in some regions
Tatango	Good for fundraising, with a track record in nonprofit, advocacy, and political campaign messaging	High cost and Rigid "All or Any" Logic (which makes it harder to segment donor lists or recipient lists)

Statistics is a funny thing. When something grows from 0 clicks to 3 clicks, it makes it a 300% growth rate, to be sure. :)

AI traffic is 0.3% of all traffic for websites, on average, after three years of sending traffic, but we are still excited about reporting that :)

To be sure, traffic is not going to be a major AI visibility metric for a foreseeable future, since AI Answers are not designed for clicking. But it is nice that it grew to 0.3%

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Source: Seranking

Long-awaited, somewhat disappointing, but it is a start!

Wix just came up with its State of Websites report with one of those takeaways.

I genuinely like Wix and what they are doing for SEO (as far as education goes), but these correlation studies are a bit insane at this point.

I have the same theory here as to "Pages with schema are cited more" studies. There's another one for same as well:

Sites with structured data markup that passes Google’s rich-results inspection earn 2x more revenue and get 9x more traffic than sites without.

Look...

Businesses that use LLMs / Schema are more likely to have better SEO strategies overall, because they obviously care. That's it.

There's no direct impact here.

With the changes made to GPT-5.5 two days ago, ChatGPT also changed its behaviour around asking follow-up questions.

According to Peec.AI there are 90% fewer follow-up questions now.

There had already been a 50% drop in late May. But it recovered to previous levels in mid June.

One of the more interesting comments there:

>this has to correlate with the rollout of ads. Fewer follow-up questions means more focus on the answer at hand, which means a higher likelihood to engage with an ad...

https://preview.redd.it/fvt9jumkin9h1.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=18b632c897604eff90951e05cb25d0fd3df46357

Source: LinIedin

"Google just followed their user". Reddit ranks because people genuinely want real human opinions, not because of any backroom deal.

People use ChatGPT as their personal shopping advisor, and now you can track how your products are performing.

For every product in your catalog, you see:

• Visibility → how often it appears in AI shopping answers
• Position → where it ranks when it shows up, and which products appear next to it
• Attributes → the attributes ChatGPT uses to compare products in your category
• Mentioned price → the price AI quotes, checked against your catalog
• Where AI sends the buyer → your store, a marketplace, or a retailer

https://preview.redd.it/iz5zv83hb28h1.jpg?width=1472&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce7b221a32e775457f898d6085b8308397397eaf

More on the update here: https://peec.ai/product/shopping

An MCP server is a connector that allows an AI agent such as Claude or ChatGPT to work directly with another piece of software. Through it, you can instruct your AI to take actions through and search within the software in your own language, no coding needed. Imagine it as a translator that helps you interact in ways that different software can understand without actually needing to know how to.

Your AI assistant can connect with multiple MCP servers at once, enabling it to mix capabilities and databases from multiple sources. This can greatly expand the speed, targeting, and personalization that can be achieved through your SMS campaigns! For example, you can integrate a MCP server that accesses customer research data with the Mobile Text Alerts Action Server and ask for it to target certain behaviors or groups directly with the combined capacities.

Mobile Text Alerts has published two of these servers:

Action Server
Knowledge Base Server

Action Server:

Connecting your AI to this server allows it to run the Mobile Text Alerts platform on your behalf through natural language instruction, bypassing the need for a dashboard or a programmer. You can send messages, start and adjust campaigns, update contacts and lists, etc. It suits prototyping, automation workflows, and AI-driven customer engagement. If you are using an automation tool like Zapier, you can access the full suite of the Mobile Text Alerts platform without having to build a true API integration.

Knowledge Base Server:

Meant for those wanting to incorporate SMS via API. Connecting your AI to this server gives it working knowledge of our API so you can get answers and integration help inside your coding environment without having to search the docs. It can also draft integration code and help troubleshoot code as you build, greatly speeding up development. While this complements the coding process, we still recommend an engineer review the code for functionality (although with AI/LLMs improving so rapidly, less code review will be needed over time).

Official MCP Registry (https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/)
PulseMCP: https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/mobile-text-alerts
Microsoft Power Platform (AI agent automation tool): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/mobiletextalertsmcps/

Please let us know if you have any questions!

Making sense of how LLMs search has been a struggle for a while. They seem to be dynamic and spontaneous (and often monstrous).

This Peec.AI feature has been a lot of help. It extracts fan-outs for the tracked prompt but also categorizes them based on the most common keyword. This makes analysis and optimization much easier!

https://preview.redd.it/4nq7p184yb6h1.png?width=1858&format=png&auto=webp&s=9018cf8c423cc18f0ba93b2ad4feee1ecd35639f

Cloudflare came out with new stats showing that we have more bots than human visitors hitting our websites:

• Bots: 57.4%
• Humans: 42.6%

https://preview.redd.it/0ed30z5fsh5h1.jpg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3bb424c1a31495965fcf295cc76ee4de7b49d7a0

Some of the comments are just hilarious:

>While Google/AI companies monetize all your data, you still pay the hosting bill for them to crawl it (Cyrus Shepard)

>Site owners: "So... you're gonna steal my stuff, republish it on your own site without trademark/copyright exposure, and I'm going to PAY for you to do it?" Google & AI Tools: "Yup!" Site owners: "Sigh... OK, fine." (Rand Fishkin)

Loganix in the comments suggests that this is mostly training data bots (which give you no credit in AI answers):

https://preview.redd.it/46bvuxpcsh5h1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=e398f9df452dec76a43fb4e537c30ac2ea5af689

Check out the discussion on Linkedin

Profound just came up with the study that Reddit is the most requested and used domain by ChatGPT. Coinidentally, I also published an article earlier today on how to build your brand and reputation on Reddit, the correct way.