“Once Per Session” Conversion Counting Method
An update to GA4 brings greater flexibility in conversion counting, allowing you to choose between two different methods. GA4 introduces a “once per session” conversion counting method, similar to Universal…
Complete Crawler List For AI User-Agents [Dec 2025]
AI visibility plays a crucial role for SEOs, and this starts with controlling AI crawlers. If AI crawlers can’t access your pages, you’re invisible to AI discovery engines. On the…
The 8 Most Important PPC KPIs You Should Be Tracking
If your PPC performance reports still start with vanity metrics like click-through rate and impressions, you’re only seeing the surface of performance. Executives are not impressed by screenshots of green…
YouTube Shorts Algorithm May Now Favor Fresh Over Evergreen
YouTube appears to have changed how it recommends Shorts, according to analysts who work with some of the platform’s largest channels. The shift reportedly began in mid-September and deprioritizes videos…
AI Max Insights, Cyber Monday Trends & A New Google Asset
The conversations shaping PPC this week focused on how AI interprets intent, how holiday demand played out across Shopping and Performance Max, and how Google is adding more automated language…
Google Updates Console, Maps & AI Mode Flow
Google packed a lot into this week, with Search Console picking up AI-powered configuration, Maps loosening its real-name rule for reviews, and a new test nudging more people from AI…
How To Measure Impressions & Visibility
AIO Is Reshaping Click Distribution On SERPs AI Overviews change how clicks flow through search results. Position 1 organic results that previously captured 30-35% CTR might see rates drop to…
Google Maps Lets Users Post Reviews With Nicknames
Google Maps now lets users leave business reviews under a custom nickname instead of their real name. The feature is part of a four-feature Maps update and is rolling out…
YouTube Title A/B Testing Rolls Out Globally To Creators
YouTube is rolling out title A/B testing globally to all creators with access to advanced features, expanding the testing capability beyond the select group that had early access. The announcement…
2026 Marketing Forecast for PPC Leaders [Webinar]
The strategies that worked in 2025 will not carry your campaigns through the new year. Buyer behavior is evolving, budgets demand tighter discipline, and channels like calls, text, and voice…
How CMOs Should Prioritize SEO Budgets In 2026 Q1 And H1
Search evolved quickly throughout 2025 as AI systems became a primary route for information discovery, which, in turn, reduced the consistency and predictability of traditional organic traffic for many brands.…
Google Adds AI-Powered Configuration To Search Console
Google is rolling out an experimental feature that lets Search Console users configure the Search results Performance report using natural language instead of manual filter selection. The feature, called AI-powered…
The New Structure of AI Era SEO
People keep asking me what it takes to show up in AI answers. They ask in conference hallways, in LinkedIn messages, on calls, and during workshops. The questions always sound…
5 Reasons To Use The Internet Archive’s New WordPress Plugin
The Internet Archive, also known as the Wayback Machine, is generally regarded as a place to view old web pages, but its value goes far beyond reviewing old pages. There…
Do Self-Promotional “Best” Lists Boost ChatGPT Visibility? Study of 26,283 Source URLs
Across 60,000+ websites we track daily analytics for, ChatGPT sends 8-9x the referral traffic of the next leading AI-first platform, Perplexity. Just last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that…
Gemini, DeepSeek Top Trending Lists
Google released its Year in Search data, revealing the queries that saw the largest spikes in search interest. AI tools featured prominently in the global list, with Gemini ranking as…
How To Maximize Paid Ads Profitability With A Strategic Landing Page Audit
Your campaigns are only as strong as the pages they lead to. You can have the most targeted ads, the sharpest copy, and a budget that makes your CFO nervous.…
7 SEO, Marketing, And Tech Predictions For 2026
Previous predictions: 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 This is my 8th time publishing annual predictions. As always, the goal is not to…
Quantifying Lost Organic Market Share
Every month, companies lose millions in unrealized search value not because their teams stopped optimizing, but because they stopped seeing where visibility converts into economic return. When search performance drops,…
The Data Says Both Work
Lately, I’ve seen some particularly bad advice floating around on how long content should be to show up in AI search. For instance, this study of only 20 brands (narrow…
Predicting Future Impact Of Content Marketing
This edited excerpt is from “B2B Content Marketing Strategy” by Devin Bramhall ©2025, and is reproduced and adapted with permission from Kogan Page Ltd. Marketing can contribute to company growth…
Is An XML Or HTML Sitemap Better For SEO?
In this edition of Ask An SEO, we break down a common point of confusion for site owners and technical SEOs: Do I need both an XML sitemap and an…
YouTube Launches First Annual Recap Feature For All Users
YouTube launched its first annual Recap feature, providing users with a personalized summary of their viewing activity throughout the year. The feature is available starting today for users in North…
OpenAI Declares ‘Code Red’ To Improve ChatGPT In Response To Google
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared a “code red” to focus company resources on improving ChatGPT, according to an internal memo reported by The Wall Street Journal and The Information.…
Google Connects AI Overviews To AI Mode On Mobile
Google is testing a new mobile search flow that connects AI Overviews to AI Mode. Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, announced the test on X. The feature…
Black Hat SEO Is Back
For as long as online search has existed, there has been a subset of marketers, webmasters, and SEOs eager to cheat the system to gain an unfair and undeserved advantage.…
Google Reports Search Console Page Indexing Report Delays
Google announces delays in Search Console’s Page indexing report. The company confirms crawling, indexing, and ranking remain unaffected by the reporting issue. Google is experiencing longer than usual delays in…
Should Your PPC Strategy Focus On The Lead Pipeline Or Revenue?
Marketing leaders often believe they have a performance problem when, in reality, they have a goal problem. A PPC strategy built around generating leads behaves very differently than one optimized…
Pragmatic Approach To AI Search Visibility
Bing published a blog post about how clicks from AI Search are improving conversion rates, explaining that the entire research part of the consumer journey has moved into conversational AI…
The Impact AI Is Having On The Marketing Ecosystem
I’m not someone who’s drunk much of the AI Kool Aid. I have sipped it. Swilled it around my mouth like you would an 1869 Château Lafite Rothschild. But I’ve…
Google’s Mueller Says Sites In A ‘Bad State’ May Need To Start Over
Google’s John Mueller says sites with low-quality AI content should rethink their purpose rather than manually rewrite pages. Starting fresh may be faster than recovering. Manually rewriting AI content doesn’t…