In this week’s Ask An SEO, a marketing manager asks which SEO skills are most valuable to look for in candidates today, especially with AI in the mix: “I’m a…

OpenAI has quietly added Shopify as a third-party search partner to help power their shopping search, which shows shopping-rich results. The addition of Shopify was not formally announced, but quietly…

If you’ve been affected by AI Overviews, traffic drops, or feel uncertain about SEO’s future, then this episode is for you. Search Engine Journal’s Editor-in-Chief Katie Morton sits down with…

The old rules no longer apply. It’s time for a smarter, AI-ready playbook. AI-driven search is changing the landscape fast. Organic traffic is dropping, visibility is shrinking, and traditional SEO…

TikTok has denied a Reuters report claiming it’s building a standalone U.S. app with a separate algorithm. TikTok strongly denies it is developing a separate U.S.-only version of the app.…

Credible rumors are circulating that OpenAI is developing a browser. However, the timing of the anonymous tip is curious, because Perplexity coincidentally announced they are releasing a browser named Comet.…

Internet Marketing Ninjas has been acquired by SEO consultancy Previsible, an industry leader co-founded by a former head of SEO at eBay. The acquisition brings link building and digital PR…

Yoast SEO announced a new feature that enables SEO and readability analysis within Google Docs, allowing publishers and teams to integrate search marketing best practices at the moment content is…

An investigation by SEO professional James Brockbank reveals that ChatGPT may be recommending businesses based on content from hacked websites and expired domains. The findings aren’t a comprehensive study but…

The last few years have fundamentally transformed how businesses and consumers discover, evaluate, and engage with brands. What began as a digital acceleration in 2020-2021 has evolved into an AI-driven…

Finix, a payment processing company, has launched a new WooCommerce plugin that enables WordPress merchants to integrate embedded payments directly into their stores. The new plugin enables WooCommerce merchants to…

Most brands don’t know they’re wasting money on branded ads. Are you one of them? What if your Google Ads strategy is quietly draining your budget? Many advertisers are paying…

For most of its history, SEO has been a reactive discipline, being asked to “make it rank” once a site is built, with little input into the process. Even crazier,…

For all the noise around keywords, content strategy, and AI-generated summaries, technical SEO still determines whether your content gets seen in the first place. You can have the most brilliant…

People are increasingly turning to AI for answers, and publishers are scrambling to find ways to consistently be surfaced in ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and other AI search interfaces. The…

A large-scale analysis by Ahrefs of 600,000 webpages finds that Google neither rewards nor penalizes AI-generated content. The report, authored by Si Quan Ong and Xibeijia Guan, provides a data-driven…

It’s been suggested that agentic AI will change SEO from managing tools to managing intelligent systems that manage SEO tools, essentially turning an SEO into a worker who rides a…

Google Search Console now includes a dedicated search appearance filter for discussion forum content, giving publishers new visibility into how user-generated discussions perform in search. The update applies to pages…

As some of you have already heard, I accepted the role of Microsoft Ads Liaison in June of 2025. That means I will start sharing Microsoft-first strategies. It doesn’t mean:…

I recently compared my March 2025 “What works well in LLMs” analysis with Ahrefs’ May 2025 study of 75,000 brands, and we independently arrived at the same surprising conclusion about…

This edited excerpt is from Human-Centered Marketing by Ashley Faus ©2025 and is reproduced and adapted with permission from Kogan Page Ltd. Decision-makers are more likely to buy from organizations…

This post was sponsored by Vehnta. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Why isn’t Google Ads working for my B2B marketing campaigns? How do I improve…

SEO died a thousand times only this year, and the buzzword that resonates across every boardroom (and let’s be honest, everywhere else) is “AI.” With Google releasing several AI-powered views…

As more companies race to adopt generative AI tools, some are learning a hard lesson: when used without oversight or expertise, these tools can cause more problems than they solve.…

There’s no one-size-fits-all answer when it comes to deciding how much of your marketing budget should go toward SEO versus PPC. But that doesn’t mean the decision should be based…

The Movement For An Open Web and other organizations filed a legal challenge against Google, alleging harm to UK news publishers. The crux of the legal filing is the allegation…

Paid media is often treated like a checklist item in a marketing plan: launch a few search ads, run a Meta campaign, maybe test YouTube if there’s budget left. But…

An SEO shared on social media that his SEO tests proved that not using a meta description resulted in a lift in traffic. Coincidentally, another well-known SEO published an article…

No ranking data. No impression data. So, how do you measure success when AI-generated answers appear and disappear, prompt by prompt? With these significant changes to how we optimize for…

Something important is happening in Google Search. If you’ve looked at your website data in Google Search Console, you may have noticed something odd. Your pages are showing up more…