Mullenweg Talks About Commercially Motivating WordPress Companies
At the recent WordCamp Canada, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg answered a question about how individuals and agencies could support the WordPress ecosystem against “bad actors” who don’t share the same…
Raptive Drops Traffic Requirement By 75% To 25,000 Views
Raptive lowered its minimum traffic requirement to 25,000 monthly pageviews from 100,000. The ad network announced the new threshold represents a 75% reduction from the previous standard. Raptive retired its…
17 Data Reports That Every SEO Should Be Tracking in 2026
SEO and marketing are driven by the choices that you make, and those choices should be guided by clear, trustworthy data. Having a range of sources that you track on…
3 LinkedIn Strategies To Turn Your Founder’s Voice Into A Pipeline Driver
Your founder’s voice is your startup’s most valuable – and often most underleveraged – asset. I see this so often with startup leaders. They either avoid posting on LinkedIn (my…
Study Shows 2-5 Weekly TikToks Deliver Biggest View Increase
Buffer’s analysis of 11.4 million TikTok posts from over 150,000 accounts reveals that posting 2-5 times per week delivers the steepest per-post view increase. The study challenges the usual recommendation…
Google Says What Content Gets Clicked On AI Overviews
Google’s Liz Reid, Vice President of Search, recently said that AI Overviews shows what kind of content makes people click through to visit a site. She also said that Google…
Top 10 Content Management Systems (Oct 2025)
WordPress remains the dominant force in content management systems, powering 43.3% of websites surveyed and holding a 60.7% share among sites using a CMS, according to W3Techs (October 2025). That…
Why Authority In Online Communities Such As Reddit And Quora Matters
Online communities have infiltrated the internet, appearing at the top of search engine results pages (SERPs) for most queries. They play an integral role in shaping brand perception, purchasing decisions,…
How I Used Vibe Coding to Build Custom SEO Tools (Without Writing Code!)
Here’s what stuck with me: Start simple. A rough prototype beats a perfect idea. Be specific when debugging, and tell your copilot exactly what’s going wrong. Read the API documentation.…
Google Reminds SEOs How The URL Removals Tool Works
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about removing hacked URLs that are showing in the index. He explained how to remove the sites from appearing in the search results and…
Google Business Profile Tests Cross-Location Posts
Google Business Profile appears to be testing a feature that lets managers share the same update across multiple locations from a single dialog. Tim Capper reported seeing the option. After…
How To Manage Brand Safety In PPC
Brand safety has always been part of the conversation in digital advertising, but recent shifts in the broader media landscape have brought new layers of complexity. Advertisers today are working…
Your Brand Is Being Cited By AI. Here’s How To Measure It
Search has never stood still. Every few years, a new layer gets added to how people find and evaluate information. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT, Copilot Search, and Perplexity haven’t…
New WordPress Vibe Coding Simplifies Building Websites
10Web, an AI website-building platform, launched Vibe for WordPress, an AI-based site builder that works natively with WordPress. Vibe for WordPress aims to simplify and scale the process of creating…
Google Answers What To Do For AEO/GEO
Google’s VP of Product, Robby Stein, recently answered the question of what people should think about in terms of AEO/GEO. He provided a multi-part answer that began with how Google’s…
How Structured Data Shapes AI Snippets And Extends Your Visibility Quota
When conversational AIs like ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Mode generate snippets or answer summaries, they’re not writing from scratch, they’re picking, compressing, and reassembling what webpages offer. If your…
Google Says It Surfaces More Video, Forums, And UGC
Google says it has adjusted rankings to surface more short-form video, forums, and user-generated content in response to how people search. Liz Reid, VP and head of Google Search, discussed…
Bing Supports data-nosnippet For Search Snippets & AI Answers
Bing now supports the data-nosnippet HTML attribute, letting websites exclude specific page sections from search snippets and AI-generated answers in Bing. Websites can exclude selected sections from Bing Search snippets…
Google’s John Mueller Flags SEO Issues In Vibe Coded Website
Google Search Advocate John Mueller provided detailed technical SEO feedback to a developer on Reddit who vibe coded a website in two days and launched it on Product Hunt. The…
Google’s AI Mode SEO Impact
Last week, I shared the largest usability study of AI Mode, and it revealed how users interact with the new search surface: They focus on the AI Mode text first…
Are LLM Visibility Trackers Worth It?
TL;DR When it comes to LLM visibility, not all brands are created equal. For some, it matters far more than others. LLMs give different answers to the same question. Trackers…
Google &num= and Changing SERP lengths in Moz Pro
Virtually every SEO tool is powered by scraped search results. In order to get more insight from each scrape—and thus keep costs down for end users—tools generally use this parameter…
How Leaders Are Using AI Search to Drive Growth
Turn Data Into an Actionable AI Search Strategy AI search is transforming consumer behavior faster than any shift in the past 20 years. Many teams are chasing visibility, but few…
What Agencies Need To Know For Local Search Clients
This post was sponsored by GatherUp. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Local Search Has Changed: From “Found” to “Chosen” Not long ago, showing up in…
5 SEO Tactics to Be Seen & Trusted on AI Search
Is your brand ready for AI-driven SERPs? Search is evolving faster than ever. AI-driven engines like ChatGPT, Google SGE, and Bing Copilot are changing how users discover and trust brands.…
WPBakery WordPress Vulnerability Lets Attackers Inject Malicious Code
An advisory was issued for the popular WPBakery plugin that’s bundled in thousands of WordPress themes. The vulnerability enables authenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts that execute when someone visits…
Google Redesigns How Search Ads Are Labeled
Google is rolling out a change to how ads appear in Search, and this time it’s focused on clarity and user control. Text ads will now be grouped under a…
Get Your Ad Campaigns Ready Before Black Friday
For most PPC marketers, the weeks leading up to Black Friday aren’t just doing busy work. They’re loaded with decisions, deadlines, and last-minute requests. If you’re managing Google Ads, Microsoft…
Google Explains Next Generation Of AI Search
Google’s Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google, explained that Google Search is converging with AI in a new manner that builds on three pillars of AI. The implications for…
Google Tests “Analytics Advisor” Inside GA4, According To Reports
Some GA4 users are reporting that a new conversational interface called Analytics Advisor is appearing inside Google Analytics. The sighting comes from analytics consultant Himanshu Sharma, who posted screenshots on…