8 GEO Strategies For Boosting AI Visibility in 2025
This post was sponsored by Writesonic. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. AI search now makes the first decision. When? Before a buyer hits your website.…
Google Quietly Raised Ad Prices, Court Orders More Transparency
Google raised ad prices incrementally through internal “pricing knobs” that advertisers couldn’t detect, according to federal court documents. Google raised ad prices 5-15% at a time using “pricing knobs” that…
Make AI Writing Work for Your Content & SERP Visibility Strategy
Are your AI writing tools helping or hurting your SEO performance? Join Nadege Chaffaut and Crystie Bowe from Conductor on September 17, 2025, for a practical webinar on creating AI-informed…
What To Expect AT NESS 2025: Surviving The AI-First Era
This post was sponsored by NESS. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. For anyone who isn’t paying attention to news SEO because they feel it isn’t…
ChatGPT May Scrape Google, but the Results Don’t Match
We know that AI assistants like ChatGPT access search indices, like Google and Bing, to retrieve URLs for their response. But how, exactly? To find out, we’ve run a series…
Navigating The Multi-AI Search Era
Some of the critical questions that are top of mind for both SEOs and CMOs as we head into a multi-search world are: Where is search going to develop? Is…
100 Most Cited Domains in Google’s AI Mode
Get the week’s best marketing content We analyzed our Brand Radar database of 5.5 million AI Mode queries to identify the domains that appear most often in Google’s AI Mode…
The Behavioral Data You Need To Improve Your Users’ Search Journey
We’re more than halfway through 2025, and SEO has already changed names many times to take into account the new mission of optimizing for the rise of large language models…
9 Content Management Systems Ranked
Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is a meaningful Core Web Vitals metric because it represents how quickly a web page responds to user input. It is so important that the…
How To Measure Content Revenue and Prove Success
When you pair it with an SEO tool like Moz Pro, you can show how optimising a specific page could lead to increases in traffic, what that traffic would cost…
Google Avoids Breakup As Judge Bars Exclusive Default Search Deals
A federal judge outlined remedies in the U.S. search antitrust case that bar Google from using exclusive default search deals but stop short of forcing a breakup. Reuters reports that…
Evolving From Link Juice To Entity Maps
Let’s reminisce for a moment. Do you remember how, back in 2020, we all obsessed over “link juice” and PageRank flow as far as internal links are concerned? In 2025,…
How Often Do AI Assistants Hallucinate Links? (16 Million URLs Studied)
AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude can hallucinate URLs and direct visitors to non-existent pages on your website. But how often does it happen? To find out, we looked at…
What We Actually Know About Optimizing for LLM Search
When you search on the internet, there’s a good chance LLMs are involved somewhere in the process. If you want any chance of visibility in LLM search, you need to…
Stop Trying To Make GEO Happen
“Stop trying to make GEO happen. It’s not going to happen.” With apologies to Gretchen Wieners and the writers of “Mean Girls,” the line feels like the only way to…
All You Need to Know
Google announced AI Mode as a Labs experiment on 5 March 2025. Two months later, on 20 May 2025, Google rolled out AI Mode to everyone in the U.S. Just…
AI Mode Sees “Big Improvements” On STEM Queries
Google says AI Mode now handles complex STEM questions better and surfaces key details sooner, timed for back to school. Google rolled out an iterative update to AI Mode …
81 AI SEO Statistics for 2025 (Fresh and Original Data)
It pays to know how AI is changing search. 32% of Nasdaq companies see a strong correlation between their search visibility and stock prices. (Source) If traffic from search goes…
How to Use Google Ads Performance Max Channel Reporting
For years, marketers have asked for better visibility into how individual channels contribute to Performance Max results. Google has released a tutorial walking advertisers through its new Performance Max channel…
Google Adds Guidance On JavaScript Paywalls And SEO
Google is apparently having trouble identifying paywalled content due to a standard way paywalled content is handled by publishers like news sites. It’s asking that publishers with paywalled content change…
Ways Community Can Help Your SEO
So I’ve heard a lot of folks kind of starting down here and saying, “Community is really important. This is something we have to get off the ground for our…
WordPress Ocean Extra Vulnerability Affects Up To 600,000 Sites
An advisory was issued for the Ocean Extra WordPress plugin that is susceptible to stored cross-site scripting, which enables attackers to upload malicious scripts that execute on the site when…
TablePress WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Affects 700,000+ Sites
A vulnerability in the TablePress WordPress plugin enables attackers to inject malicious scripts that run when someone visits a compromised page. It affects all versions up to and including version…
AI Max for Search Has No Conversion Minimums
Google states that AI Max for Search can run in low-volume accounts, confirming there’s no minimum conversion recommendation. However, you must use a conversion-based Smart Bidding strategy for search-term matching…
What CMOs Need To Ask About Their WordPress Stack
WordPress is still the most popular open-source content management system (CMS) – by far – powering 43.5 % of all websites on the web, and still in my opinion the…
Why WooCommerce Slows Down (& How to Fix It With the Right Server Stack)
This post was sponsored by Cloudways. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Wondering why your rankings may be declining? Just discovered your WooCommerce site has slow…
Track, Prioritize & Win In AI Search
AI search is reshaping buyer discovery. Every week, 800 million searches happen across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and other AI engines. If your brand isn’t showing up, you’re losing leads and…
Research Shows How To Optimize For Google AIO And ChatGPT
New research from BrightEdge shows that Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, and ChatGPT recommend different brands nearly 62% of the time. BrightEdge concludes that each AI search platform is interpreting…
How To Find Conversion Opportunities With Audience and Keyword Research
SparkToro helped me understand that my ideal customers are women aged 30-40 who spend time on Reddit, Google, and Pinterest. They care about brand prestige and storytelling and love treating…
How Do You Prioritize Technical SEO Fixes?
Today’s question cuts to the heart of resource management for SEO: “How do you prioritize SEO fixes when technical debt keeps piling up and you can’t get dev resources?” In…