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A new analysis from SE Ranking suggests the llms.txt file isn’t delivering measurable benefits yet. After examining roughly 300,000 domains, the company found no relationship between having llms.txt and how…
In SEO, we are at a turning point, and after more than a decade of chasing rankings and traffic volume, many of us are beginning to recognize the need to…
AI-generated answers are spreading across search. Google and Bing are each presenting synthesized responses alongside regular results. These answers are not replacing traditional SERPs yet, but they are taking up…
Ecommerce demand doesn’t rise and fall in a straight line throughout the years. It can build gradually, spike hard, stall, or drop with little-to-no warning. During peak shopping periods like…
Your brand is being talked about on YouTube right now—and you probably have no idea what’s being said. YouTube is the second-largest search engine, where users spend roughly 50 minutes…
One scroll through LinkedIn and you’d struggle not to see a post, video, or ad about AI, whatever the industry you work in. For digital marketing, it’s completely taken over,…
Most mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fail to account for the digital infrastructure and visibility of the acquired brands. While executives obsess over legal, financial, and branding integration, they overlook the…
Large language models cite sources differently than Google ranks them. Search Atlas, an SEO software company, compared citations from OpenAI’s GPT, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity against Google search results. The…
For years, Google’s predictable, and at times too easily gamed, ecosystem created an illusion that SEO success came from creating any and all content and checking boxes rather than understanding…
Adobe and Semrush announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Adobe to acquire Semrush in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.9 billion. Adobe will pay…
As marketers, we love a great funnel. It provides clarity on how our strategies are working. We have conversion rates and can track the customer journey from discovery through conversion.…
This edited excerpt is from B2B Content Marketing Strategy by Devin Bramhall, ©2025, and is reproduced and adapted with permission from Kogan Page Ltd. Modern content strategy is no longer…
A Cloudflare incident is returning 5xx responses for many sites and apps that sit behind its network, which means users and crawlers may be running into the same errors. From…
Google has integrated Gemini 3 in Search’s AI Mode. This marks the first time Google has shipped a Gemini model to Search on its release date. Google AI Pro and…
In this guide, you’ll learn what makes ChatGPT traffic unique, how to track it in your analytics, and strategies to increase both direct and indirect visits from this AI assistant.…
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Google’s John Mueller answered a question about whether a generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) with a keyword in it offered any SEO advantage. His answer was in the context of…
Ask yourself the following: Do you reply to reviews? Do you engage? Do you make the interaction feel personal? Do you follow through on your promises? Do you keep information…
Google launched custom annotations in Search Console performance reports, giving you a way to add contextual notes directly to traffic data charts. The feature lets you mark specific dates with…
If you’re a CMO, I feel your pain. For years, decades even, brand visibility has largely been an SEO arms race against your competitors. And then along comes ChatGPT, Perplexity,…
Google announced three AI-powered updates to Search that extend how users plan and book travel within AI Mode. The company is launching Canvas for travel planning on desktop, expanding Flight…
In the last two years, incidents have shown how large language model (LLM)-powered systems can cause measurable harm. Some businesses have lost a majority of their traffic overnight, and publishers…
Monday, November 17, 2025 We’re always looking for new ways to help you understand your data and make smarter decisions when it comes to Google Search. That’s why we’re happy…
A critical vulnerability was recently discovered in Imunify360 AV, a security scanner used by web hosting companies to protect over 56 million websites. An advisory by cybersecurity company Patchstack warns…
WordPress 6.9, scheduled for release on December 2, 2025, is shipping with a new Abilities API that introduces a new system designed to make advanced AI-driven functionality possible for themes…
Successful link and brand mention building is strongly about overcoming skepticism and building relationships with the people behind the websites that you want to acquire a link or brand mention…
Back in 2005 I intuited that there are wildly successful Internet enterprises that owed nothing to SEO. These successes intrigued me because they happened according to undocumented rules outside of…
BrightEdge’s latest research shows that Google’s AI Overviews are now appearing in ways that reflect what BrightEdge describes as “deliberate, aggressive choices” about where AI shows up and where it…
I like coming up with novel approaches to link building. One way to brainstorm an approach is to reverse a common method. I created a couple of approaches to link…
Google is rolling out AI shopping updates across Search and the Gemini app, introducing conversational shopping and agentic features that automate price tracking and local inventory checks. The updates begin…