WiFi Money News Roundup March 2026
Links from around the web
News you should be paying attention to
Manipulating AI Memory for Profit: The rise of AI Recommendation Poisoning from Microsoft. It turns out that clicking on those “Summarize with AI” buttons isn’t as harmless as you’d think. The buttons inject a prompt that tells the AI to recommend the company as a source for all future prompts. Definitely an interesting black hat technique I wouldn’t have thought of on my own. This sounds like something that’s going to come back and bite you in the ass if you do it though.
A Hard Reset, and What Comes Next from Digg. The soft relaunch of Digg was a total disaster. The company was forced to pull the plug after an onslaught of spam (I may have partially been responsible). As a business owner it’s my obligation to exploit any opportunity that presents itself. If platforms don’t want marketers to market, it’s their job to come up with countermeasures. It is what it is.
OpenAI pulls the plug on its Sora AI video app from CBS. At least there will be a little bit less slop in the world.
March 2026 Spam Update and March 2026 Core Update Released from Google Search Status Dashboard. More Google updates. Unfortunately most sites were wiped out years ago so I predict this will have very little effect on the SERPs.
Earn Earlier: Expanding YouTube Shopping to Creators With 500+ Subscribers from YouTube Blog. Smol kings can now start earning from YouTube’s affiliate program. With YouTube Shopping you can tag products in videos where they’re mentioned and earn commissions when people click and buy. The commissions are usually much lower than what you’d get from real affiliate programs, but there are some hidden gems. It’s worth enabling on a case-by-case basis.
Quote of the month
There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first; be smarter; or cheat. Now, I don't cheat. And although I like to think we have some pretty smart people in this building, it sure is a hell of a lot easier to just be first.
- Jeremy Irons playing John Tuld in Margin Call
If you see an opportunity you have to move fast. The first mover advantage is real. I’ve found it’s way easier to beat your competitors to the punch than it is to try to regain lost ground later on.
From the archive
Pure-play SEO is dead. If you want to succeed online, you need to build a brand.
What does that mean?
Read this article to find out: