Google Adds AI Previews To Discover, Sports Feed Coming
Google rolled out AI trending previews in Discover and will add a “What’s new” sports feed to U.S. mobile search in coming weeks. AI trending previews in Discover are live…
YouTube Upgrades Shorts Editor With Timeline View
YouTube is launching an all-new timeline editor for Shorts that puts video clips, overlays, and audio in one unified view. The update responds to creator requests for more precise controls…
28 Expert-Level Prompt Examples For SEO
AI provides many ways to augment and assist how SEOs work. From analyzing SERP intent, to brainstorming content strategy for new pages, to running competitive analysis, to producing stakeholder-ready presentations,…
15 Ahrefs MCP Use Cases for SEOs & Digital Marketers
With the recent launch of our remote MCP server, anyone can now chat directly with Ahrefs data to get actionable SEO insights. MCP, which stands for Model Context Protocol, is…
Multiple WordPress Vulnerabilities Affect 20,000+ Travel Sites
Two critical vulnerabilities were identified in the WP Travel Engine, travel booking plugin for WordPress that’s installed on more than 20,000 websites. Both vulnerabilities enable unauthenticated attackers to obtain virtually…
Google Quietly Signals NotebookLM Ignores Robots.txt
Google has quietly updated its list of user-triggered fetchers with new documentation for Google NotebookLM. The importance of this seemingly minor change is that it’s clear that Google NotebookLM will…
Google Lighthouse 13 Launches With Insight-Based Audits
Google has released Lighthouse 13 with a broad audit consolidation that aligns Lighthouse reports with Chrome DevTools’ newer insight model. The update is available now via npm and Chrome Canary.…
AI Survival Strategies For Publishers
The rise of AI technologies has brought a level of panic to the publishing industry not seen since the birth of the world wide web. We all know AI is…
YouTube Lets Some Terminated Creators Request A New Channel
YouTube is piloting a policy change that allows some previously terminated creators to request a new channel after a one-year waiting period. The program will roll out to eligible creators…
Timeline Of ChatGPT Updates & Key Events
At the end of 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT and opened up an easy-to-access interface to large language models (LLMs) for the first time. The uptake was stratospheric. Since the explosive…
YouTube Launches Brand Pulse Report to Measure Full Brand Impact
For years, marketers have struggled to measure the full picture of how their brand shows up on YouTube. Paid campaigns have their own dashboards. Creator collaborations usually live in separate,…
The Ultimate 82-Point Checklist for SEO & AI Visibility
Get the week’s best marketing content You don’t need another debate about whether optimizing for AI counts as SEO. You need to know what to actually do. This checklist combines…
Why AI Search Isn’t Overhyped & What To Focus On Right Now
Out of many direct conversations I’ve had in the industry, there’s a mixed reaction to how much AI might impact SEO and search. It depends on your business model as…
The Ultimate 82-Point Checklist for SEO & AI Visibility
Get the week’s best marketing content You don’t need another debate about whether optimizing for AI counts as SEO. You need to know what to actually do. This checklist combines…
When AI Assistants Become The First Layer
What I’m about to say will feel uncomfortable to a lot of SEOs, and maybe even some CEOs. I’m not writing this to be sensational, and I know some of…
Preparing C-Level For The Agentic Web
Artificial intelligence is changing how the web works. Search engines, voice assistants, and generative platforms are altering how people find information and make decisions. The internet is no longer built…
WP Engine Vs Automattic & Mullenweg Is Back In Play
WP Engine filed a Second Amended Complaint against Automattic and Matt Mullenweg in response to the September 2025 court order that dismissed several counts but gave WP Engine an opportunity…
Microsoft Explains How To Optimize Content For AI Search Visibility
Microsoft has shared guidance on structuring content to increase its likelihood of being selected for AI-generated answers across Bing-powered surfaces. Much of the advice reiterates established SEO and UX practices…
The 5 Hidden Organizational Forces That Undermine Enterprise SEO
If you’ve read “From Line Item to Leverage” or “Who Owns Web Performance?,” you know I’ve argued that enterprise SEO failures are rarely due to incompetence or lack of effort.…
Google AdSense Replaces Ad Networks With Authorized Buyers
Google is updating its demand source management by replacing the Ad Networks blocking control with a new Authorized Buyers control in AdSense. This change affects how you control which demand…
How To Build SEO Strategies Around Real Customer Behavior
What if your SEO strategy could predict what customers want before they even search? The shift from keyword-centric to behavior-driven SEO is important. When you understand why people search, not…
How AI is Helping Brands Convert More Customers
Turn insights into smarter conversions and higher ROI. AI is changing how customers convert. Are your landing pages and CRO strategies keeping up? Each missed lead is lost revenue. Relying…
7 Best Marketing Newsletters (Most Voted For)
Newsletters are hot again. The media has dubbed it the “Substack revolution.” Journalists, venture capitalists, marketers—it seems like everyone is starting a newsletter these days. But with more newsletters comes…
Search Atlas Announces New Features For Agencies
Search Atlas held an event last week to showcase new capabilities and improvements to their SEO platform which make it easier for digital marketer to scale SEO and take on…
What Our AI Mode User Behavior Study Reveals About The Future Of Search
Our new usability study of 37 participants across seven specific search tasks clearly shows that people: Read AI Mode Rarely click out, and Only leave when they are ready to…
Effective Social Media Management Is Human-Centered
This edited excerpt is from “The 10 Principles of Effective Social Media Marketing” by Jon-Stephen Stansel ©2025 and is reproduced and adapted with permission from Kogan Page Ltd. People log…
What We Know & What Experts Think
AI Mode is Google’s most powerful AI search experience, providing answers to complex questions in a way that anticipates the user’s information needs. Although Google says that nothing special needs…
Are AI Tools Eliminating Jobs? Yale Study Says No
Marketing professionals rank among the most vulnerable to AI disruption, with Indeed recently placing marketing fourth for AI exposure. But employment data tells a different story. New research from Yale…
OpenAI Launches Apps In ChatGPT & Releases Apps SDK
OpenAI has launched a new app ecosystem within ChatGPT, along with a preview of the Apps SDK, enabling developers to create conversational, interactive applications based on the Model Context Protocol.…
YouTube View Drops Likely Tied To Ad-Block List Change
Creators have reported view declines on YouTube since mid-August. YouTube’s official Liaison account says the change wasn’t on YouTube’s side and points to a widely shared explanation on X: an…