WordPress Announces AI Agent Skill For Speeding Up Development
WordPress announced wp-playground, a new AI agent skill designed to be used with the Playground CLI so AI agents can run WordPress for testing and check their work as they…
What It Means For SEO
Google published a research paper about creating a challenging dataset for training AI agents for deep research. The paper offers insights into how agentic AI deep research works, which implies…
ChatGPT Ads CPMs, Ads Decoded Talks Analytics
Welcome to this week’s PPC Pulse. This week’s news is a continuation of last week’s announcements about ChatGPT ads and the Google Ads Decoded podcast. ChatGPT announced premium-priced ads with…
Google Explores AI Opt-Outs, Gemini 3 Powers AIOs
Welcome to this week’s SEO Pulse: updates affect publisher control over AI features, how AI Overviews process queries, and what AI model tradeoffs mean for content workflows. Here’s what matters…
AI Recommendations Change With Nearly Every Query: SparkToro
AI tools produce different brand recommendation lists nearly every time they answer the same question, according to a new report from SparkToro. The data showed a Rand Fishkin, SparkToro co-founder,…
Google Analytics To Become A Growth Engine For Business
On the first episode of the Google Ads Decoded podcast, host Ginny Marvin sat down with Eleanor Stribling, Group Product Manager for Google Analytics. In the episode, Stribling noted an…
4 Reasons Your Google Ads Clicks Are Down & What You Can Do
A click drop in your Google Ads account can feel like the floor just moved under your account. Not because clicks are considered more of a vanity metric. But because…
The Way Your Agency Handles Leads Will Define Success in 2026
If you’ve made it this far, driving leads is no longer a challenge for you. The real issue is what happens after your leads come in. Are you seeing more…
What The Latest Web Almanac Report Reveals About Bots, CMS Influence & llms.txt
The Web Almanac is an annual report that translates the HTTP Archive dataset into practical insight, combining large-scale measurement with expert interpretation from industry experts. To get insights into what…
How Visibility Compounds In Brand-Led SEO
If building a brand is the new SEO cliche, then how visibility compounds is the part that rarely gets explained. We can all agree, at least on principle, that repeated…
People Love It, Models Ignore It
You publish a page that solves a real problem. It reads clean. It has examples, and it has the edge cases covered. You would happily hand it to a customer.…
Chrome Updated With 3 AI Features Including Nano Banana
Gemini in Chrome has just been refreshed with three new features that integrate more Gemini capabilities within Chrome for Windows, MacOS, and Chromebook Plus. The update adds an AI side…
The SEO Cost Of Slow WordPress Site & How It Affects AI Visibility
This post was sponsored by WP Media. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. You’ve built a WordPress site you’re proud of. The design is sharp, the…
What If User Satisfaction Is The Most Important Factor In SEO?
Let me see if I can convince you! I’ve shared a bunch in this video and summarized my thoughts in the article below. Also, this is the second blog post…
What It Means For Social & Search
Google has been testing Social Channel Insights inside Google Search Console (GSC). This update may appear small, but it’s more than meets the eye. In the search landscape, these new…
Google May Let Sites Opt Out Of AI Search Features
Google says it’s exploring updates that could let websites opt out of AI-powered search features specifically. The blog post came the same day the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority opened…
Information Retrieval Part 1: Disambiguation
TL;DR Disambiguation is the process of resolving ambiguity and uncertainty in data. It’s crucial in modern-day SEO and information retrieval. Search engines and LLMs reward content that is easy to…
New Yahoo Scout AI Search Delivers The Classic Search Flavor People Miss
Yahoo has announced Yahoo Scout, a new AI-powered answer engine now available in beta to users in the United States, providing a clean Classic Search experience with the power of…
Browser Wars Are Coming To AI Search: An AMA With Mark-Williams Cook
Yeah, for sure. When Reddit started dominating visibility, first in Google and then in LLMs, I saw many people saying, “We need to be posting there.” That always makes me…
WP Go Maps Plugin Vulnerability Affects Up To 300K WordPress Sites
A security advisory was published about a vulnerability affecting the WP Go Maps plugin for WordPress installed on over 300,000 websites. The flaw enables authenticated subscribers to modify map engine…
Unlocking Meta’s Product-Level Ad Data
Ecommerce and Meta often go hand in hand. You can give Meta a 20,000-item catalog and a budget, and with its AI-powered Advantage+ campaigns, it’ll try to pair the right…
Google AI Overviews Now Powered By Gemini 3
Google is making Gemini 3 the default model for AI Overviews in markets where the feature is available and adding a direct path into AI Mode conversations. The updates, shared…
How Do You Compete In Agentic Commerce?
Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! Agentic commerce transforms organic search from a source of cheap traffic into the mandatory gatekeeper of AI verification.…
How To Build Site Authority and Multi-Channel Relevance in the Age of AI
Step 1: Define relevant campaign ideas for off-site campaigns that work across the entire digital landscape We all know that in link building, relevance is king. In 2024, the Google…
Sam Altman Says OpenAI “Screwed Up” GPT-5.2 Writing Quality
Sam Altman said OpenAI “screwed up” GPT-5.2’s writing quality during a developer town hall Monday evening. When asked about user feedback that GPT-5.2 produces writing that’s “unwieldy” and “hard to…
Why CFOs Are Cutting AI Budgets (And The 3 Metrics That Save Them)
Every AI vendor pitch follows the same script: “Our tool saves your team 40% of their time on X task.” The demo looks impressive. The return on investment (ROI) calculator…
Search Central Live is coming back to South America | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers
Monday, January 26, 2026 Leia em Português Leer en español We’re excited to announce that Search Central Live is returning to São Paulo and to Buenos Aires in 2026. Following…
Why Google Gemini Has No Ads Yet: ‘Trust In Your Assistant’
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said Google doesn’t have any current plans to introduce advertising into its Gemini AI assistant, citing unresolved questions about user trust. Speaking at the World…
Semantic Search Is the Only Search That Matters Now (For SEO and AI Visibility)
We first wrote about semantic search back in 2020, when it was just starting to gain attention. A lot has happened since then. ChatGPT was launched, AI Overviews showed up…
5 Google Analytics Reports PPC Marketers Should Actually Use
Google Analytics has never been perfect, but it used to feel familiar. The shift to Google Analytics 4 forced PPC marketers to rethink how they pull insights, not just where…