If you’ve been following this series of exploration of vectors and their application in SEO, we have covered the building blocks of the plugin I’m sharing with you: Understanding the…

Planning is not an exciting topic, I admit. Yet, I wrote a book recently on the topic of planning, introducing a framework for doing it for digital marketing. Over the…

When OpenAI quietly added native shopping to ChatGPT – alongside a partnership with Walmart – it marked more than another AI feature rollout. It signaled a fundamental shift in how…

2025 was notable for GEO, Google patents, and research papers. WordPress entered the year with uncertainty and ended it roaring into 2026. The post Review Of 2025: Highlights & Lowlights…

Ahrefs tested how AI systems behave when they’re prompted with conflicting and fabricated information about a brand. The company created a website for a fictional business, seeded conflicting articles about…

Landing pages are a core part of the user journey, influencing ad performance, conversion rates, and how effectively you can test, personalize, and scale your marketing. Lead generation isn’t just…

Santa’s coming! The world waits with excitement and anticipation for the arrival of Santa Claus as he starts his world tour for 2025. Children (and adults) everywhere are eager to…

Every December, brands battle for something far more valuable than views: emotional resonance. And according to new data from DAIVID, 2025 may be one of the strongest holiday seasons yet…

In this week’s Ask An SEO, Bre asks: “What is the threshold between keyword stuffing and being optimized? Is there a magic rule for how often to use your main…

In 2025, Google’s AI tool Gemini topped global searches. People tracked cricket matches between India and England, looked up details on the new Pope, and searched for information about Iran…

Most PPC marketers love talking about automation, Smart Bidding, and the latest AI-powered magic Google rolls out. But the truth is that none of those shiny features can save your…

A claim about YouTube thumbnails is getting attention on X: that showing your face is “probably killing your views,” and that removing yourself will make click-through rates jump. Nate Curtiss,…

As we head into the new year, the age of experimentation is giving way to the age of execution. The past few years have been about “Can we do it?”…

I recently became frustrated while working with Claude, and it led me to an interesting exchange with the platform, which led me to examining my own expectations, actions, and behavior…and…

A vulnerability in the popular WordPress Contact Form 7 plugin addon installed in over 300,000 websites enables attackers to upload malicious files and makes it possible for them to copy…

Google sued SerpApi in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging the company developed methods to bypass protections Google deployed to prevent automated scraping of Search…

Google’s John Mueller and Danny Sullivan discussed their thoughts on AI search and what SEOs and creators should be doing to make sure their content is surfaced. Danny showed some…

The Core Web Vitals Technology Report by the open source HTTPArchive community ranks content management systems by how well they perform on Google’s Core Web Vitals (CWV). The November 2025…

In an interview with the Big Technology Podcast, Sam Altman seemed to struggle answering the tough questions about OpenAI’s path to profitability. At about the 36 minute mark the interviewer…

When your search and social strategies are intertwined, they work together like a well-oiled machine, and your search visibility can multiply. For years, SEO and social media teams more often…

Microsoft has shared new guidance on duplicate content that’s aimed at AI-powered search. The post on the Bing Webmaster Blog discusses which URL serves as the “source page” for AI…

In this week’s PPC Pulse: updates include an inventory expansion for Apple Ads, and Google confirms that Exact match keywords are not eligible to serve for Ads in AI Overviews.…

In this week’s Pulse: updates include AI Mode’s growth and missing features, what Google’s latest model brings to search, and what drives citations across different AI experiences. Google’s Nick Fox…

Google’s Danny Sullivan discussed SEO and AI where they observed that their ranking systems are tuned for one thing, regardless if it’s classic search or AI search. What he talked…

Google’s Danny Sullivan offered advice to SEOs who have clients asking for updates on what they’re going to do for AI SEO. He acknowledged it’s easier to give the advice…

What link building should be trying to accomplish, in my opinion, is proving that a site is trustworthy and making sure the machine understands what topic your web pages fit…

Robby Stein, Vice President of Product for Google Search, recently sat down for an interview where he answered questions about how Google’s AI Mode handles quality, how Google evaluates helpfulness,…

For many years, organizations have relied on a familiar view of the customer journey. The idea that a user moves from awareness to consideration to decision in a neat and…

Coursera has agreed to acquire Udemy in a stock-for-stock transaction that will combine two large online learning platforms with consumer and enterprise businesses. Under the terms of the deal, each…

The search industry is entering a transition that many people still treat as a footnote. The systems consumers rely on are changing, and the way information is gathered, summarized, and…