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Google has launched a small-business resource hub, positioning it as a single starting point for setup, advertising, measurement, and support. The page pulls together direct entry points for Business Profile,…

Google rolled out AI Overviews to all U.S. users in May 2024. Since then, publishers have reported significant traffic losses, with some seeing click-through rates drop by as much as…

Black Friday 2024 rewrote the playbook for holiday retail, setting new sales records, ushering in mobile-first shopping, and unleashing bold, creative campaigns from leading brands. With the 2025 planning window…

YouTube released a video to clarify how its recent update to advertiser-friendly guidelines affects creators. The company acknowledged communication gaps and outlined what it has already done for previously affected…

Pinterest has introduced new ad products focused on visual search, highlighted by ‘Top of Search’ ads. Currently in beta across all monetized markets, these ads can appear within the first…

The How AI Search Can Drive Sales & Boost Conversions webinar, presented recently by Bartosz Góralewicz, touched on something that I think every marketer needs to understand about how people…

Google updates Gemini 2.5 Flash with clearer step-by-step help, more structured responses, and stronger image understanding, now live in the Gemini app. Gemini 2.5 Flash adds step-by-step guidance aimed at…

Let’s talk about an agentic future. As task-completing agents move from concept to adoption, their impact on how we discover and transact online will be significant. Websites won’t vanish, but…

Marketing professionals face one of the highest levels of potential AI disruption across all occupations, with 69% of marketing job skills positioned for transformation by generative AI, according to new…

ChatGPT adoption is accelerating at a scale rarely seen in technology. By mid-2025, around 700 million people worldwide were using it every week, sending 18 billion messages, which is roughly…

All businesses, large or small, must establish a level of authority for the products and/or services they offer in the minds and hearts of their target audience if they expect…

Google has rolled out Search Live in English in the United States, bringing real-time, camera-aware conversations to the Google app on Android and iOS. You can tap the new Live…

SISTRIX reports that ChatGPT is triggering live web searches far less often for people who use the app without logging in. In daily spot-checks over the last two weeks, the…

London-headquartered corporate domain management company Com Laude announced the acquisition of its competitor, MarkMonitor, previously one of the holdings of Newfold Digital. Newfold Digital Simplifies Portfolio Newfold Digital owns many…

Six months ago, you could spot AI-generated text by its polished grammar, rigid essay structure, suspicious fondness for em dashes – and, of course, the inevitable emoji bullets (🔥🚀✨). The…

Despite years of digital transformation talk, too many CEOs and CFOs still treat the corporate website as a necessary marketing expense, a sunk cost with limited upside. I have far…

Ahrefs’ Tim Soulo recently posted that AI is making publishing evergreen content obsolete and no longer worth the investment because AI summaries leave fewer clicks for publishers. He posits that…

This post was sponsored by Semji. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. For three decades, SEO has been the cornerstone of digital visibility. Keywords, backlinks, and…

A new Pew Research Center survey reveals a gap between people’s desire to know when AI is used in content and their confidence in being able to identify it. Seventy-six…

Here’s what I’m covering this week: How to get the most out of personas in your day-to-day work across SEO, content, and the broader org. Because in the AI-search era,…

A new analysis from Search Atlas quantifies the interaction between proximity and reviews in local rankings. Proximity drives visibility overall, while review signals become stronger differentiators in the highest positions.…

Google Ads in 2025 looks nothing like it did in 2019. What used to be a hands-on, keyword-driven platform is now powered by AI and machine learning. From bidding strategies…

Many popular WordPress SEO plugins and content management platforms offer the ability to generate LLMs.txt for the purpose of improving visibility in AI search platforms. With so many popular SEO…

This post was sponsored by AdRoll. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Text‑heavy AI Overviews blocking your brand? The “People Also Ask” that you could scroll…

Google says the August 2025 spam update has finished rolling out worldwide. The rollout ran from August 26 to September 22, and applied globally in all languages. Early third-party data…