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…
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…