Marketing & SEO

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Google Ads adds “Association” metric to Brand Lift Studies

Google is filling a key measurement gap between awareness and consideration, giving advertisers a clearer view of how their brand is actually perceived — not just remembered. What’s new. Google Ads has introduced a new “Association” metric within Brand Lift…

Reddit marketing for SaaS: Insights from 117 brands

Reddit is quickly becoming a powerful platform shaping how people discover and perceive brands. As AI search engines increasingly surface Reddit threads and comments, these conversations now influence visibility. To understand this shift, I analyzed 117 SaaS brands on Reddit.…

Google Preferred Sources now works for all languages

Google’s Preferred Sources now supports all languages, not just the English language. “Preferred Sources is now rolling out globally in all supported languages,” Google wrote on its blog this morning. “This feature gives you more control over the news you…

From paid clicks to answer equity: Your new 2026 search strategy

The difference between a 2% margin and a 20% margin increasingly comes down to whether you’re renting attention or owning the answer. For years, search rewarded the ability to buy visibility. That model is weakening. As AI systems increasingly resolve…

What blog posts should you write to be mentioned in ChatGPT?

Across 90 prompts we tested in ChatGPT, commercial prompts triggered web searches 78.3% of the time. Informational prompts did so just 3.1%. That gap changes what you should write if you want to appear in a ChatGPT answer. ChatGPT doesn’t…

How AI models ‘understand’ your brand

I keep hearing people say AI understands their brand. It doesn’t. Let’s get that out of the way first. What it does is pattern-match at scale. It compresses your positioning, product, proof, and tone into a bundle of signals it…