How Marketers Can Drive Sales Through Emerging Platforms
Social commerce for marketers has become a strategic growth lever, evolving from a customer retention and engagement channel to a source of revenue generation. Social media sales defy traditional ecommerce…
How To Optimize Google Ads In 2025
In the beginning, there was only Search. Then Google said, “Let there be Shopping.” And so began the golden age of search advertising. Fast forward, and machines now perform the…
Google Expands AI Overviews To Thousands More Health Queries
Google is expanding AI overviews to “thousands more health topics,” per an announcement at the company’s health-focused ‘The Check Up’ event. The event included developments spanning research, wearable technology, and…
What Content Works Well In LLMs?
Over the last 12 months, we filled significant gaps in our understanding of AI Chatbots like ChatGPT & Co. We know: Adoption is growing rapidly. AI chatbots send more referrals…
New Cybersecurity Bot Attack Defense Helps SaaS Apps Stay Secure
Cybersecurity company HUMAN introduces a new feature for its HUMAN Application Protection service called HUMAN Sightline. The new Sightline enables users to defend their SaaS applications with detailed analyses of…
Bing Webmaster Tools Adds Data Comparison & UX Improvements
Bing Webmaster Tools launches new comparison features and improved interface for enhanced search performance analysis. Bing Webmaster Tools now offers data comparison across time periods. Microsoft improved the time filter…
Inside The Negative Keyword Limit Increase & What’s Next
As Google’s Ad Product Liaison, I often share updates and insights with the community of digital advertisers and, best of all, get to hear your feedback first-hand. We heard quite…
A Guide To Enterprise-Level Migrations (100,000+ URLs)
An enterprise website migration is no small feat. We’re talking hundreds of thousands of URLs and years of SEO equity on the line. To pull it off without traffic loss,…
[SEO & PPC] How To Unlock Top Hidden Conversion Sources
This post was sponsored by CallTrackingMetrics. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Did you know 92% of all customer interactions are from phone calls? And very…
Online Review Trends Broken Down by Industry [Webinar]
Are you ready to transform your approach to online reputation management? With the evolving landscape of digital marketing, understanding how customer feedback impacts your business is crucial for success. Why…
AI Shortens B2B Sales Cycles By 1 Week
A new report shows that B2B sales teams increasingly use AI to improve efficiency and close deals. Commissioned by LinkedIn and conducted by Ipsos, the survey included 1,250 sales professionals…
Google Researchers Improve RAG With “Sufficient Context” Signal
Google researchers introduced a method to improve AI search and assistants by enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) models’ ability to recognize when retrieved information lacks sufficient context to answer a query.…
Google’s Mueller Predicts Uptick Of Hallucinated Links: Redirect Or Not?
Website owners and SEO professionals are facing a new problem. AI content generation tools are creating fake URLs when referencing real websites. This issue was discussed in a recent social…
Google’s Muller Cautions SEO Pros On Changing Business Needs
John Mueller, a Google Search Advocate, suggests that SEO professionals should reconsider how their work fits into the modern web stack. He references a “vibes-based” visualization highlighting how developers’ focus…
AI Agents & Workflows For Ideation (Part 1)
For more than two years, a new concept has been emerging called Agentic SEO. The idea is to perform SEO using agents based on language models (LLMs) that perform complex…
Top 17 SEO Podcasts For 2024
The pace of change in search marketing has accelerated, and the stakes for keeping up to date have never been higher. This year’s selection of podcasts reflects a growing sophistication…
Get Ready for Search Central Live Asia Pacific 2025 | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers
Monday, March 17, 2025 Hello 2025! (Yeah, we know, time flies!) We’ve had some exciting plans in the works for Search Central Live (SCL) Asia Pacific this year, and we’re…
4 Essential Strategies for Navigating SEO in the AI Search Era
We’re barely into 2025, and the transformation of search through AI is already reshaping how users discover and consume content. At BrightEdge, we’re closely monitoring these developments to help marketers…
16 of the Best AI Marketing Tools We’ve Tried & Spied in 2025
We’ve shared, discussed, tested out, and invested in a whole tech stack’s worth of different AI marketing tools lately. Below, you’ll find some we love and use every day, and…
Google Updates Structured Data Requirements For Return Policies
Google requires ecommerce stores to specify in their structured data which country their return policies apply to. Google now requires country information for return policies in structured data. Merchants should…
Robots refresher — page-level granularity | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers
Friday, March 14, 2025 With the robots.txt file, site owners have a simple way to control which parts of a website are accessible by crawlers. To help site owners further…
Google Opens Gemini Deep Research To Free Users (With Limits)
Google announced it will make its Deep Research feature available to all users for free on a limited basis, while introducing several updates to Gemini. With this rollout, Gemini is…
Google Search History Can Now Power Gemini AI Answers
Google announced an update to their Gemini personal AI assistant that increases personalization of responses so that it anticipates user’s needs and feels more like a natural personal assistant instead…
WordPress Backup Plugin Vulnerability Affects 5+ Million Websites
A high-severity vulnerability was discovered and patched in the All-in-One WP Migration and Backup plugin, which has over five million installations. The vulnerability requires no user authentication, making it easier…
Education SEO for Higher Education, EdTech and K-12 Schools
If you’re doing SEO for higher education institutions, schools, or EdTech startups, this is hands down the only education SEO guide you’ll ever need. Before I started SEO, I was…
Google Begins Rolling Out March Core Algorithm Update
Google has officially begun rolling out its March 2025 core algorithm update, according to an announcement posted to the Google Search Status Dashboard today. The update commenced at 9:23 AM…
How To Justify And Make A Business Case For SEO Budgets
Effective budgeting is crucial not just for planning SEO, providing value to clients, and justifying the spend to achieve it. It’s also critical for a business to understand SEO budget…
Leveraging Multi-Channel Strategies For Maximum Reach
Content is everywhere. Consumers are inundated with it throughout the day – catching up on social media happenings, scanning the news, consuming articles, or listening to podcasts. Given the staggering…
Mullenweg Considers Delaying WordPress Releases Through 2027
A leaked WordPress Slack chat shows that Matt Mullenweg is considering limiting future WordPress releases to just one per year from now through 2027 and insists that the only way…
Using SEO To Capture Growth Opportunities In Emerging Markets
With the increase in AI-generated search results and the growing popularity of answer engines, multinational businesses experience declining organic traffic and revenue from organic searches in more established markets. It…