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.

Your SEO maturity score doesn’t measure what you think it does

The Visibility Governance Maturity Model (VGMM) is about something most SEO programs lack: clear ownership, documented processes, and decision rights that keep your work from being undone by teams who don’t understand it. So how do you actually score that?…

How to Use TikTok’s Verified Business Account Features and Local Feed

Are you struggling to reach local customers on TikTok? Wondering whether switching to a business account is worth the effort? In this article, you’ll discover how TikTok’s new verified business account unlocks powerful features for marketers, how the platform’s new…

Google AI Overviews now appear on 14% of shopping queries: Report

Google’s AI Overviews now appear on 14% of shopping queries, up 5.6x from 2.1% in November 2025, according to new Visibility Labs analysis. Ecommerce brands have been mostly unaffected by AI-driven click loss in Search. That seems to be changing.…

Small publisher search traffic fell 60% over two years: Data

Small publishers are seeing sharp traffic declines from AI search experiences, according to new data from thousands of global sites using Chartbeat analytics. The details. Publishers with 1,000 to 10,000 daily pageviews lost 60% of search referral traffic over two…

Google retires several legacy ad format policies

Google is cleaning up outdated requirements in Google Ads, reflecting how legacy ad formats have evolved into newer, more automated products. What’s happening. As of March 17th, Google discontinued multiple ad format policies, including those related to form ads, image…

SMX Now: Learn how brands must adapt for AI-driven search

Visibility is no longer just about ranking. It depends on whether your content is discovered, evaluated, and selected in AI-driven search experiences. We’re kicking off our new monthly SMX Now webinar series on April 1 at 1 p.m. ET with…