7 Best Marketing Newsletters (Most Voted For)
Newsletters are hot again. The media has dubbed it the “Substack revolution.” Journalists, venture capitalists, marketers—it seems like everyone is starting a newsletter these days. But with more newsletters comes…
Search Atlas Announces New Features For Agencies
Search Atlas held an event last week to showcase new capabilities and improvements to their SEO platform which make it easier for digital marketer to scale SEO and take on…
What Our AI Mode User Behavior Study Reveals About The Future Of Search
Our new usability study of 37 participants across seven specific search tasks clearly shows that people: Read AI Mode Rarely click out, and Only leave when they are ready to…
Effective Social Media Management Is Human-Centered
This edited excerpt is from “The 10 Principles of Effective Social Media Marketing” by Jon-Stephen Stansel ©2025 and is reproduced and adapted with permission from Kogan Page Ltd. People log…
What We Know & What Experts Think
AI Mode is Google’s most powerful AI search experience, providing answers to complex questions in a way that anticipates the user’s information needs. Although Google says that nothing special needs…
Are AI Tools Eliminating Jobs? Yale Study Says No
Marketing professionals rank among the most vulnerable to AI disruption, with Indeed recently placing marketing fourth for AI exposure. But employment data tells a different story. New research from Yale…
OpenAI Launches Apps In ChatGPT & Releases Apps SDK
OpenAI has launched a new app ecosystem within ChatGPT, along with a preview of the Apps SDK, enabling developers to create conversational, interactive applications based on the Model Context Protocol.…
YouTube View Drops Likely Tied To Ad-Block List Change
Creators have reported view declines on YouTube since mid-August. YouTube’s official Liaison account says the change wasn’t on YouTube’s side and points to a widely shared explanation on X: an…
Builderius Brings AI-Assisted GraphQL Development To WordPress
Builderius WordPress website builder announced the ability to develop sites using GraphQL together with AI. The new functionality enables developers to use the power of GraphQL with the assistance of…
Staying Ahead Of The Multi-AI Search Platform Shift (Part 2)
Where is search going to develop? Is ChatGPT a threat or an opportunity? Is optimizing for large language models (LLMs) the same as optimizing for search engines? These are some…
Maximize Your AI Visibility Before Your Competitors Do
AI-driven search is rewriting the rules of discovery. ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews are changing how customers find brands. Traditional rankings no longer guarantee visibility. Are you appearing where…
Google Search Experiencing Ongoing Service Disruption
Google reports a data center issue is causing a partial Search disruption, affecting some pages in certain locales. Google confirms a data center issue causing a partial Search disruption. Check…
Microsoft Launches New Bing Places For Business
Microsoft has rolled out a redesigned Bing Places for Business platform, moving business listing management to bing.com/forbusiness and introducing a new recommendation tool with streamlined import workflows. The platform lets…
New Report Reveals An 8% Mobile Landing Page Conversion Gap
A report from Unbounce shows that unoptimized mobile landing pages are costly, finding 83% of visits come from mobile devices, yet desktop pages convert 8% better. Based on over 57…
The 11 Best Marketing Insights from the Ahrefs Podcast
We’ve published 70 episodes of the Ahrefs Podcast. That’s almost 100 hours of content. But even if you’re our most loyal fan, there will still be plenty of insights that…
Reddit Marketing Veteran Shares What Works On The Platform
Part of our work at OGS Media with Reddit is making it easier for brands to get on the platform the right way: transparent, authentic, and really connecting with your…
How to Audit Brand Mentions for Modern SEO
Brand mentions are to AI search what backlinks are to traditional SEO. Links tell Google who to trust; mentions tell AI systems who you are. Auditing your brand’s mentions is…
What Are The Most Common Hreflang Mistakes?
This week’s Ask An SEO question comes from a reader facing a common challenge when setting up international websites: “I’m expanding into international markets but I’m confused about hreflang implementation.…
Perplexity Launches Comet Browser For Free Worldwide
Perplexity released its Comet browser to everyone today, shifting from a waitlist to free desktop downloads worldwide. Comet bakes an AI assistant into every new tab so you can ask…
W3C Rolls Out A New Evocative Logo
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) unveiled a new logo for the organization that is designed to transcend one language family and expresses abstract qualities like timelessness and reliability. The…
Branding, Survival And The State Of SEO
Branding has never been more important. Online audiences continue to yearn for connection, and a strong brand identity can bridge the gap. Katie Morton, Editor-in-Chief of Search Engine Journal, sits…
A New Layer Of Technical SEO
For years, technical SEO has been about crawlability, structured data, canonical tags, sitemaps, and speed. All the plumbing that makes pages accessible and indexable. That work still matters. But in…
How AI Is Redefining Search And What Leaders Must Do Now
Artificial intelligence is transforming how people search, discover, and act on information. For chief marketing officers and senior leaders, this is not a question of whether SEO is “dead” but…
Yoast Announces New AI Visibility Tool
Yoast announced the release of their Brand Insights tool, which helps track and monitor brand sentiment and visibility in AI platforms like ChatGPT. The new tool, currently in beta, is…
Google AI Overviews Overlaps Organic Search By 54%
New research from BrightEdge offers insights into how Google’s AI Overviews ranks websites across different verticals, with implications for what SEOs and publishers should be focusing on. AIO And Organic…
How People Really Use LLMs And What That Means For Publishers
OpenAI released the largest study to date on how users really use ChatGPT. I have painstakingly synthesized the ones you and I should pay heed to, so you don’t have…
How AI Really Weighs Your Links (Analysis Of 35,000 Datapoints)
Before we jump in: I hate to brag, but I will say I’m extremely proud to have placed 4th in the G50 SEO World Championships this past week. I’m speaking…
The Current State Of Marketing Analytics
As a marketing specialist who has gone through the transition from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4 on countless projects, I can confidently say that no platform migration has divided…
From Loyalty To Fandom – How Brandoms Are Redefining Engagement
This excerpt is from “Transforming Customer-Brand Relationships” by Christina Garnett ©2025 and is reproduced and adapted with permission from Kogan Page Ltd. If a brand wants consumers to love them…
OpenAI Launches Sora iOS App Alongside Sora 2 Video Model
OpenAI launched the Sora iOS app, beginning an invite-based rollout in the United States and Canada. With Sora, OpenAI appears to be releasing its first non-ChatGPT consumer app and its…