Google Expands Performance Max Controls and Reporting
Google Ads just dropped another wave of updates to Performance Max today. For those who’ve been asking for better audience targeting, clearer reporting on new customer acquisition, and more transparency…
How To Discover Who You Are As A Brand
Brand identity is the foundation of your business, from the conceptualization of your services and products all the way to marketing. Before you can create an effective marketing, SEO, content…
6 AI Marketing Myths That Are Costing You Money
Stop letting AI drain your budget. Learn how to make it work for you. Think AI can fully run your marketing strategy on autopilot? Or that AI-generated content should deliver…
Effective SEO Organizational Structure For A Global Company
Global companies today face a paradox. Search is more important than ever, yet how it’s managed across markets is often inconsistent, inefficient, and misaligned with broader digital goals. Too often,…
Advanced Personalization Linked To Higher Conversions
A new study commissioned by Meta and conducted by Deloitte finds that advanced personalization strategies are associated with a 16 percentage point increase in conversions compared to more basic efforts.…
Ecosia & Qwant Launch European Search Infrastructure
Ecosia has begun delivering its own search results for the first time in its 16-year history, starting with users in France who will receive a portion of results from a…
Google Says AI Clicks Are Better, What Does Your Data Say?
Google’s latest blog post claims AI is making Search more useful than ever. Google says people are asking new kinds of questions, clicking on more links, and spending more time…
Why OpenAI’s Open Source Models Are A Big Deal
OpenAI has released two new open-weight language models under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. These models are designed to deliver strong real-world performance while running on consumer hardware, including a…
Claude Opus 4.1 Improves Coding & Agent Capabilities
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.1, an upgrade to its flagship model that’s said to deliver better performance in coding, reasoning, and autonomous task handling. The new model is available…
Why Aren’t My Pages Getting Indexed?
This week’s question comes from Xaris, who asks: “Why, even though I have correctly composed and linked the sitemap to a client’s website, and I have checked everything, am I…
5 Key Findings On What Buyers Really Want
Search is changing, and not just because of Google updates. Buyers are changing how they find, evaluate, and decide. They are researching in AI summaries, asking questions out loud to…
Google Ecommerce SERP Features 2025 Vs. 2024
In 2024, Google turned the SERP into a storefront. In 2025, it turned it into a marketplace with an AI-based mind of its own. Over the past 12 months, Google…
My Complete AI Content Process for Ahrefs
Here’s the complete process I use to publish high-quality AI content on the Ahrefs blog. I’ll be honest: there are parts of my job that I don’t like. Writing my…
Perplexity Says Cloudflare Is Blocking Legitimate AI Assistants
Perplexity published a response to Cloudflare’s claims that it disrespects robots.txt and engages in stealth crawling. Perplexity argues that Cloudflare is mischaracterizing AI Assistants as web crawlers, saying that they…
Why Your PPC Structure Should Mirror Your Business Model
A lot of PPC accounts are built from the bottom up. You start with keyword research, group them by themes or match types, maybe throw in some location targeting, and…
Cloudflare Delists And Blocks Perplexity From Crawling Websites
Cloudflare announced that they delisted Perplexity’s crawler as a verified bot and are now actively blocking Perplexity and all of its stealth bots from crawling websites. Cloudflare acted in response…
ChatGPT Nears 700 Million Weekly Users, OpenAI Announces
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is on pace to reach 700 million weekly active users, according to a statement this week from Nick Turley, VP and head of the ChatGPT app. The milestone…
How AI Search Should Be Shaping Your CEO’s & CMO’s Strategy
AI is rapidly changing the rules of SEO. From generative ranking to vector search, the new rules are not only technical but also reshaping how business leaders make decisions. Join…
Which SEO Jobs AI Will Reshape & Which Might Disappear
You’ve probably seen the headlines like: “AI will kill SEO,” “AI will replace marketing roles,” or the latest panic: “Is your digital marketing job safe?” Well, maybe not those exact…
Researchers Test If Sergey Brin’s Threat Prompts Improve AI Accuracy
Researchers tested whether unconventional prompting strategies, such as threatening an AI (as suggested by Google co-founder Sergey Brin), affect AI accuracy. They discovered that some of these unconventional prompting strategies…
5 Ways To Prove The Real Value Of SEO In The AI Era
As SEO evolves with AI optimization, generative engine optimization, and answer engine optimization, brands and marketers must rethink their SEO strategies to stay competitive. Instead of focusing solely on traditional…
Google Backtracks On Plans For URL Shortener Service
Google announced that they will continue to support some links created by the deprecated goo.gl URL shortening service, saying that 99% of the shortened URLs receive no traffic. They were…
What Is AI Mode? – Moz
So key points, as I say, it’s a tab like News and like those other things. Unlike News and like those other things, it doesn’t get broken out unfortunately in…
Google Confirms It Uses Something Similar To MUVERA
Google’s Gary Illyes answered questions during the recent Search Central Live Deep Dive in Asia about whether or not they use the new Multi‑Vector Retrieval via Fixed‑Dimensional Encodings (MUVERA) retrieval…
Chrome Trial Aims To Fix Core Web Vitals For JavaScript-Heavy Sites
Google Chrome is testing a new way to measure Core Web Vitals in Single Page Applications (SPAs), which is a long-standing blind spot in performance tracking that affects SEO audits…
2025 Core Web Vitals Challenge: WordPress Versus Everyone
The Core Web Vitals Technology Report shows the top-ranked content management systems by Core Web Vitals (CWV) for the month of June (July’s statistics aren’t out yet). The breakout star…
Merging SEO And Content Using Your Knowledge Graph To AI-Proof Content
New AI platforms, powered by generative technologies like Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, Grok, and countless specialized chatbots, are rapidly becoming the front door for digital discovery. We’ve entered an era…
Reddit Prioritizes Search, Sees 5X Growth in AI-Powered Answers
Reddit is investing heavily in search, with CEO Steve Huffman announcing plans to position the platform as a destination for people seeking answers online. In its Q2 shareholder letter, Reddit…
OpenAI Is Pulling Shared ChatGPT Chats From Google Search
OpenAI has rolled back a feature that allowed ChatGPT conversations shared via link to appear in Google Search results. The company confirms it has disabled the toggle that enabled shared…
Google URL Removal Bug Enabled Attackers To Deindex URLs
Google recently fixed a bug that enabled anyone to anonymously use an official Google tool to remove any URL from Google search and get away with it. The tool had…