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.

7 ways to use storytelling in a business blog

SEO has moved past shortcuts and quick wins. What drives results now isn’t just content — it’s content that earns attention, builds trust, and converts.  Storytelling plays a direct role in that. Used well, it can improve engagement signals, strengthen…

Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website

Walmart said conversion rates for purchases made directly inside ChatGPT were three times lower than when users clicked through to its website. Why we care. This suggests agentic commerce isn’t ready to replace traditional shopping. Sending users to owned environments…

Perplexity’s Comet for iOS uses Google Search by default

Perplexity’s new Comet browser for iOS defaults to Google Search. That’s because mobile queries often focus on navigation, local results, and transactions, where “Google does a much better job … than anyone else … including Perplexity,” according to Perplexity CEO…

Microsoft Advertising simplifies automated bidding setup

Microsoft is changing how advertisers configure automated bidding, aiming to reduce complexity while keeping performance outcomes the same. What’s happening. The platform is streamlining its bidding options by folding familiar targets like Target CPA and Target ROAS into broader automated…

What patents reveal about the foundations of AI search

Every time a new large language model (LLM) drops or Google tweaks an AI Overview, the SEO industry loses its mind. We develop this weird collective amnesia, scrambling to optimize for features that were actually mapped out in patent offices…

Multi-location SEO strategy: Stop competing with your own content

Multi-location brands are investing heavily in content. But more content doesn’t automatically mean more growth. I keep seeing the same issue. Each individual location has a blog, and they all cover the same topics. Same keywords. Same structure. Same search…