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The Quid Pro No Method Of Link Building
Expressly paying for links has been out for awhile. Quid Pro No is in. These are some things you can do when a website asks for money in exchange for…
Google Sharpens Suspension Accuracy and Speeds Up Appeals for Advertisers via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson
Google improves suspension accuracy and appeal turnaround times, reducing false positives and helping legitimate advertisers resolve issues faster with clearer policy enforcement. The post Google Sharpens Suspension Accuracy and Speeds…
Google Reminds Websites To Use One Review Target
Google updated its review snippet documentation to clarify that each review or rating in structured data should point to one clear target, reducing ambiguity. Google updated its review snippet docs…
How to Compare Your AI Visibility Against Your Competitors
If a competitor is mentioned more often, cited more frequently, or framed more favorably in AI answers, they win attention and trust before searchers even know you exist. This guide…
How To Protect A Budget From Competitor-Branded Terms
This week’s question comes from Evan, who asked: “How do I prevent my PPC budget from getting eaten by branded competitor terms?” It’s a good question, as few things frustrate…
Is AI Search SEO Leaving Bigger Opportunities Behind?
A recent podcast by Ahrefs raised two issues about optimizing for AI search that can cause organizations to underperform and miss out on opportunities to improve sales. The conversation illustrates…
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Says Personalized AI Raises Privacy Concerns
In a recent interview with Stanford University, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman predicted that AI security will become the defining problem of the next phase of AI development, saying that AI…
How To Evaluate Creative Performance in Meta Ads (and What To Test)
When running a Meta Ads campaign, creative should be at the center of your strategy. As targeting options have become more limited in the platform from the super-granular segments available…
2026 SEO Trends: Top Predictions from 20 Industry Experts
If 2024 felt like a telenovela, 2025 was the spinoff nobody asked for. Many websites suffered declining clicks due to AI search features, and just as we were getting used…
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.1 With Improved Instruction Following
OpenAI released GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking with updates to conversational style and reasoning capabilities. The updates begin rolling out today to paid users before expanding to free accounts. OpenAI…
YouTube Debunks 24-48 Hour Upload Delay Recommendation
YouTube’s Rene Ritchie says the recommendation system relies on audience behavior that only begins once a video is public.. Waiting 24–48 hours offers no benefit. YouTube’s recommendation system relies on…
Google Launches Ads Advisor & Analytics Advisor Globally
Google is introducing two AI-powered tools built on Gemini: Ads Advisor in Google Ads and Analytics Advisor in Google Analytics. Availability starts in early December for English-language accounts globally. What’s…
Why Web Hosting Is A Critical Factor To Maximize SEO Results
Most SEO professionals obsess over content, links, and technical implementations. We track algorithm updates and audit on-page elements with precision. But there’s one factor that determines whether all that work…
43 B2B SEO Statistics for 2025
Get the week’s best marketing content If you’re looking for fresh numbers you can paste into a slide and defend in your budget/RFP meetings, this is the place for you.…
Google Launches Structured Data For Merchant Shipping Policies
Google Search now supports organization-level shipping policy markup, giving ecommerce websites a code-based way to surface delivery costs and transit times in Search and knowledge panels. When you add ShippingService…
More ways to share your shipping and returns policies with Google | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 Shipping speed, cost, and return policies are critical factors for online shoppers. When customers have clear information on fulfillment, it builds trust and improves their shopping…
Report Links Original Research to Higher B2B ROI
TopRank Marketing and Ascend2 released a survey involving 797 B2B leaders. They discovered that 97% consider thought leadership as essential for achieving success throughout the entire marketing funnel. The report…
Do I Need To Rethink My Content Strategy For LLMs?
For this week’s Ask An SEO, the question asked was: “Do I need to rethink my content strategy for LLMs and how do I get started with that?” To answer,…
Budget SEO For Capacity, Not Output
Marketing leaders are still budgeting to grow clicks in 2026, even though AI Overviews cut organic traffic in half and AI Mode kills it almost entirely. Image Credit: Kevin Indig…
Search Central Live is back in Zurich! | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 We’re thrilled to announce our upcoming Search Central Live Zurich on December 9th! This is a fantastic opportunity for SEO and digital marketing professionals to connect,…
AI Overviews Change Every 2 Days (But Never Change Their Mind)
Just how stable are AI Overviews? If you manage to get your brand mentioned or cited in them, can you take the rest of the month off? Or do you…
Google Is Not Diminishing The Use Of Structured Data In 2026
A recent announcement on the Google Search Central blog gave a Redditor the impression that Google was significantly reducing the use of structured data, causing them to ask if it’s…
13 Things That Changed, 4 Things That Stayed The Same
AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity have become the new places people turn to for answers—handling millions of prompts every day. Even Google now uses AI to generate summaries…
Automattic Disputes Use Of Word “Automatic” For WordPress Product
Lawyers representing Automattic, the for-profit founded by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, sent a trademark complaint letter to WordPress developer Kevin Geary, asking him to rebrand his WordPress CSS framework, which…
Why Strategic Review Is The Missing Layer In Many SEO Campaigns
Whether you call your SEO efforts a strategy, campaign, or channel, many SEO programs start strong but slowly drift. That could be in the form of reports getting routine, dashboards…
How To Cultivate Brand Mentions For Higher AI Search Rankings
Building brand awareness has long been an important but widely overlooked part of SEO. AI Search has brought this activity to the forefront. The following ideas should assist in forming…
Google AI Overviews Appear On 21% Of Searches: New Data
Ahrefs analyzed 146 million search results to determine which query types trigger AI Overviews. The research tracked AIO appearance across 86 keyword characteristics. Here’s a concise look at the patterns…
Meta Projected $16B From Scam Ads, Internal Docs Show
Advertisers on Meta may be unknowingly competing against suspected scam ads that stay in auctions at higher “penalty bid” prices. Internal documents obtained by Reuters estimate that around 10% of…
The John Lewis Christmas Winning Formula Returns
It’s that time of year again. The John Lewis Christmas ad has dropped – a little earlier than usual – and with it, the annual debate over whether the retailer…
What Triggers AI Overviews? 86 Factors and 146 Million SERPs Analyzed
What triggers an AI Overview? What types of queries are most likely to generate an AIO, and which are relatively safe? Can we predict where AIOs will appear, and even…