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.

How to Build High Quality Backlinks (2025)

Wondering why your site’s not ranking or showing up in large language model (LLM) results, even though your content is solid? The answer might be backlinks. Specifically, the lack of high-quality ones. Tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews are…

OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a shopping tool with Instant Checkout

OpenAI is launching Instant Checkout inside ChatGPT to Plus, Pro, and Free users in the U.S. Users will be able to buy products from Etsy sellers. Purchases are powered by the new Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), co-developed with Stripe. How…

TikTok launches Travel Ads to capture trip planning moments

TikTok is introducing a new ad solution, Travel Ads powered by Smart+, designed to help brands connect with travelers during the discovery and booking phases. Why now. Travel is one of TikTok’s fastest-growing verticals. According to internal TikTok data: 66%…

Pinterest Ads cost data comes to Google Analytics

You can now pull Pinterest cost, click, and impression data directly into Google Analytics via Pinterest Ads Data Import. Why we care. Bringing Pinterest Ads data into Analytics gives advertisers a unified view of performance across channels. But mismanaging imports…

Google Search Labs gains Agentic capabilities in AI Mode

Google Search Labs has a new experiment you can opt into that turns on some Agentic capabilities within AI Mode. This allows Google to help you make a reservation at a restaurant and will soon give you the ability to…

How AI search responds when you make a site more crawlable

Crawl waste – basically, cluttering your crawlable content with tons of non-indexed pages – is one of the most insidious SEO pitfalls. We know (because we do it all the time for my agency’s clients) that reducing the number of…