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New research reveals that Google’s AI Overviews tend to favor major news outlets. The top 10 publishers capture nearly 80% of all news mentions. Meanwhile, smaller organizations struggle for visibility…
Microsoft Clarity announced their new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server which enables developers, AI users and SEOs to query Clarity Analytics data with natural language prompts via AI. The announcement…
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When launching your business online you are faced with many decisions. One of these is whether to go with a template website such as WordPress, or invest in a custom…
As paid media marketers, we often default to the “big” platforms: Google, Meta, and increasingly, TikTok. However, there’s a quiet powerhouse in the app marketing world that too many advertisers…
Anthropic released the underlying system prompts that control their Claude chatbot’s responses, showing how they are tuned to be engaging to humans with encouraging and judgment-free dialog that naturally leads…
Is AI Changing How Local Customers Find You? If your clients rely on local search to drive business, the landscape is shifting faster than ever. AI-driven updates are changing how…
A patent recently filed by Google outlines how an AI assistant may use at least five real-world contextual signals, including identifying related intents, to influence answers and generate natural dialog.…
This week’s Ask an SEO question comes from a medium-sized ecommerce site manager who’s run up against a common problem: “Our product pages rank well, but our category pages rarely…
Bluehost announced two competitively priced managed WordPress ecommerce hosting solutions that make it easy for content creators and ecommerce stores to get online with WordPress and start accepting orders. Both…
Automattic announced that it is reversing its four-month pause in WordPress development and will return to focusing on the WordPress core, Gutenberg, and other projects. The pause in contributions came…
New research from ZipTie reveals an issue with Google Search Console. The study indicates that approximately 50% of search queries driving traffic to websites never appear in GSC reports. This…
WordPress announced the formation of an AI Team that will focus on coordinating the development and integration of AI within the WordPress core. The team is to function similarly to…
Many companies approach SEO reactively – chasing rankings, responding to algorithm updates, being distracted by AI, or focusing on quick wins – without a long-term plan. But successful SEO strategies…
For chief marketing officers of retail brands and businesses, knowing which channels and campaigns deserve the marketing budget can directly impact the success and length of their tenure. But in…
Redirects are essential to every website’s maintenance, and managing redirects becomes really challenging when SEO pros deal with websites containing millions of pages. Examples of situations where you may need…
Reddit Karma has evolved far beyond a simple upvote tally. It plays a central role in how content spreads, how trust is earned, and how visibility is gained, especially for…
Google has integrated Lens into YouTube Shorts. Now, you can search for items you see in videos directly from your phone. How The New Feature Works Here’s how to use…
A patent that Google filed in December 2024 presents a close match to the Query Fan-Out technique that Google’s AI Mode uses. The patent, called Thematic Search, offers an idea…
A Google engineer has warned that AI agents and automated bots will soon flood the internet with traffic. Gary Illyes, who works on Google’s Search Relations team, said “everyone and…
Google has confirmed that most websites still don’t need to worry about crawl budget unless they have over one million pages. However, there’s a twist. Google Search Relations team member…
With the introduction of AI Overviews and ongoing Google updates, it’s been a challenging few years for news publishers, and the announcement that Google Discover will now appear on desktop…
The question for this edition of Ask An SEO comes from a reader who’s trying to make their rebrand stick in search: “Our company recently went through a rebrand with…
Google has fixed a bug that caused AI Mode search traffic to be reported as “direct traffic” instead of “organic traffic” in Google Analytics. The problem started last week. Google…
Google’s Sundar Pichai said in an interview that AI Overviews sends more traffic to a wider set of websites, insisting that Google cares about the web ecosystem and that he…
New research analyzing 25,000 user searches found that websites ranked #1 on Google appear in AI search answers 25% of the time. This data demonstrates that traditional SEO remains relevant,…
Search is changing. I hate saying that (again) because it feels cliche at this point. But, cliche or not, it is true and it is seismic. With the rollout of…
If your rankings are stable but your clicks are fading, AI Overviews could be the reason. These AI-powered summaries now show up on nearly half of Google searches. While they…
This excerpt is from B2B Marketing Fundamentals by Kate Mackie ©️2025 and is reproduced and adapted with permission from Kogan Page Ltd. Building a consistent brand is increasingly important in…
Google claims that search results with AI Overviews generate the same amount of advertising revenue as traditional search results. This claim was made during Google Marketing Live when the company…