Marketing & SEO

Uncover proven tactics in digital marketing, content strategy, and search engine optimization. This category highlights actionable insights, case studies, and tools that help brands grow online visibility.

Forget B2B or B2C: It’s time for B2H

This pains me greatly to say, but: That typo in your last campaign may have made your audience more engaged. That’s because in a world where you don’t always know what’s real and what’s AI — and trust in general…

Local SEO Citations: What They Are & How to Use Them

Forty-six percent of all Google searches have local intent. That means nearly half the time someone types something into the search bar, they’re looking for something nearby, like a dentist or a plumber. If your business isn’t showing up in…

Google and AI slop are ruining Thanksgiving for food bloggers

Food bloggers say this Thanksgiving is a breaking point. Google Search and AI Overviews, powered by Gemini 3, are rewriting recipes, stealing clicks, and in some cases serving dangerously wrong cooking instructions, Bloomberg reported. Why we care. For more than…

AI KPIs: Turning mentions into strategy in the age of LLMs

For years, marketers measured digital success through impressions, backlinks and clicks. If you ranked high in search results and won the click, you had visibility and control of the funnel. But that landscape is already shifting. Large Language Models (LLMs)…

ChatGPT, Perplexity push deeper into AI shopping

In the last 24 hours, ChatGPT and Perplexity have introduced new AI-driven shopping experiences that aim to deliver more personalized product discovery and guidance. Both experiences are meant to help users find, compare, and purchase products through conversational queries informed…

Google Ads MCC hijacks are surging

A wave of sophisticated phishing attacks is letting scammers hijack full Google Ads Manager Accounts (MCCs), giving them instant access to hundreds of client accounts — and the ability to spend tens of thousands in hours, undetected. Driving the news.…

How to make products machine-readable for multimodal AI search

As shopping becomes more visually driven, imagery plays a central role in how people evaluate products. Images and videos can unfurl complex stories in an instant, making them powerful tools for communication.  In ecommerce, they function as decision tools.  Generative…

The AI Consistency Paradox via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester

AI assistants generate shifting realities for your brand, making consistency a probabilistic challenge across every new conversation timeline. The post The AI Consistency Paradox appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Canonicalization and SEO: A guide for 2026

Canonicalization has long been a core SEO practice, yet it’s still one of the easiest to overlook. At its simplest, canonicalization helps search engines identify the original source of content and prevents duplicate versions from competing with each other. Large…