Google Explains Expired Domains And Ranking Issues
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about an expired domain that was unable to rank for relevant search queries, including its own brand name. The answer sheds light on how…
Google Ads Adds Deeper Performance Max Reporting
Google is providing you with more clarity on where Performance Max is working. A new round of reporting updates adds segmentation to asset reporting and continues the rollout of a…
Squarespace Rolls Out New AI Tools For SEO And Design
Squarespace announced their Refresh 2025, in which they roll out new features and improvements. This year there’s a strong emphasis on useful AI tools that enable users to build unique…
Google AI Mode Gets Visual + Conversational Image Search
Google announced that AI Mode now supports visual search, letting you use images and natural language together in the same conversation. The update is rolling out this week in English…
What OpenAI’s Research Reveals About The Future Of AI Search
The launch of ChatGPT in 2022 didn’t so much cause a shift in the search landscape as trigger a series of seismic events. And, like seismologists, the SEO industry needs…
Hostinger Makes WordPress Agentic Web-Ready
Hostinger announced a new AI-agent optimization feature that makes any WordPress website AI-agent-friendly, optimizing websites to provide the best experience for humans using AI agents to compare products, plan vacations,…
Brave Introduces Ask Brave, A Unified AI Search Interface
Brave is rolling out Ask Brave, a unified search tool that combines AI chat features with regular search results. It’s accessible on all browsers via the Brave Search homepage. Ask…
Google Launches New Small-Business Resource Hub
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,…
The Impact Of AI Overviews & How Publishers Need To Adapt
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…
Learning From Last Year’s Winning Tactics
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…
How to Monitor and Win Brand Mentions in AI Answers
Brand mentions happen when people talk about your company online without necessarily linking to your website. They’ve always happened on social media, forums, news sites, and blogs. But now they’re…
YouTube Answers Creator Questions On Profanity Monetization
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 Launches “Top of Search” Ads In Beta
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…
Why Reddit Is Driving The Conversation In AI Search
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…
Clearer Answers, Better Image Understanding
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…
When Agents Replace Websites
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 Is 4th Most Exposed To GenAI, Indeed Study Finds
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…
How People Use ChatGPT & What It Means For The C-Suite
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…
The 50 Best PR Pitching Opportunities in ChatGPT
We analyzed our Brand Radar database of 9.6 million ChatGPT queries to find the most visible, pitch-worthy publishers in ChatGPT responses. Pitching these outlets means your brand gets in front…
Get Found Without Paying for Ads
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 App Adds Search Live For Real-Time Visual Search
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 Sharp Drop In ChatGPT Web Searches
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…
Newfold Digital Sells MarkMonitor As Part Of Strategic Refocus
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…
And The Truth? This Writing Style Screams AI
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…
How Web Performance Impacts Shareholder Value
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…
Are AI Search Summaries Making Evergreen Articles Obsolete?
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…
How To Adapt To The New SEO Visibility Rules
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…
How To Diversify Your Traffic Outside of Google SERPS
How to build a brand-led content strategy that drives demand outside search You’ll learn to move beyond traditional pillar-based models and create problem-solution content for specific audience segments. I’ll show…
Most Americans Want AI Labels, Few Trust Detection
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…
Making SEO Personas Actionable Across Teams
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,…