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.

Shopify launches AI-powered marketing automation tool

Shopify is introducing Campaign Autopilot, a new AI-powered marketing tool that automatically creates, manages and optimizes campaigns across multiple channels, reducing the need for merchants to manually manage advertising and email marketing. The feature is launching in early access and…

YouTube rolls out new Gemini-powered insights tools

YouTube is expanding its suite of creator marketing and campaign intelligence tools with new Gemini-powered features designed to help brands identify trends, understand creator audiences and improve campaign performance. What’s happening. Google is introducing several new insights and optimization tools…

How to make Performance Max focus on net new customers

There’s a trap door waiting for DTC brands that invest in Google Ads that makes your dashboards look amazing, but absolutely wrecks your P&L. It’s the danger of recycling traffic from Meta. Thanks to the overlap between paid search and…

How to approach build-versus-buy decisions for SEO

AI has made SEO teams ambitious about what they can automate. Tasks that previously required engineering support can now be solved with the help of Claude or ChatGPT. That’s exciting, but it also creates a new problem: thinking you can…

ChatGPT Is Secretly Googling Things: This Tool Shows You Exactly What

Optimizing for AI search means optimizing for queries your customers never typed. QueryFan surfaces exactly what ChatGPT and Gemini searched when answering their questions. The post ChatGPT Is Secretly Googling Things: This Tool Shows You Exactly What appeared first on…

Why some channels reward breadth and others require commitment

Many budget allocation strategies assume that every channel follows the same pattern: the first dollar is the most productive, and each additional dollar yields a slightly lower return. The charts below show what that pattern looks like. The log shape…

Amazon launches Alexa+ Agentic Ads

Amazon is bringing transactions directly into advertising with a new format that allows consumers to discover products, ask questions and complete purchases entirely through a conversation with Alexa+, potentially shortening the path from ad impression to conversion. What’s happening. Amazon…

An open letter to everyone hiring a search leader

Anthropic’s latest job posting has the SEO industry abuzz. They may as well have titled it Search Gawd. The truth is, it’s everywhere. To be transparent, I’ve written this job description a few times and interviewed for it. I’ve yet…