Google Announces A New Era For Voice Search
Google announced an update to its voice search, which changes how voice search queries are processed and then ranked. The new AI model uses speech as input for the search…
Surfer SEO Acquired By Positive Group
The French technology group Positive acquired Surfer, the popular content optimization tool. The acquisition helps Positive create a “full-funnel” brand visibility solution together with its marketing and CRM tools. The…
Brave Reveals Systemic Security Issues In AI Browsers
Brave disclosed security vulnerabilities in AI browsers that could allow malicious websites to hijack AI assistants and access sensitive user accounts. The issues affect Perplexity Comet, Fellou, and potentially other…
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Atlas Browser For macOS
OpenAI released ChatGPT Atlas today, describing it as “the browser with ChatGPT built in.” OpenAI announced the launch in a blog post and livestream featuring CEO Sam Altman and team…
The Impact Of AI Mode On SEO – Analysis Of 10 Studies
I just got back from San Diego and Toronto, where I spoke at Ahrefs Evolve and SEO IRL – both of which were fantastic. A lot of people I met…
Aligning For Performance, Purpose & LLM Visibility
A major category, focus, or pillar (as I have defined it for decades) of SEO is content. Influencing a range of on-page factors, but more so to develop authentic context…
Review Of AEO/GEO Tactics Leads To A Surprising SEO Insight
GEO/AEO is criticized by SEOs who claim that it’s just SEO at best and unsupported lies at worst. Are SEOs right, or are they just defending their turf? Bing recently…
Wikipedia Traffic Down As AI Answers Rise
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) reported a decline in human pageviews on Wikipedia compared with the same months last year. Marshall Miller, Senior Director of Product, Core Experiences at Wikimedia Foundation,…
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…