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.

The end of the web? Goodbye HTML, hello AIDI!

People are already turning to AI to answer questions, compare products, and make decisions in seconds.  That shift exposes a fundamental problem: the web’s underlying structure was never built for machines.  As AI agents mature, the way information is delivered…

Is Google About To Go Full AI Mode? via @sejournal, @wburton27

Google’s upcoming shift to default AI Mode marks a turning point for SEO, forcing brands to optimize for AI citations, brand authority, and multi-platform presence. The post Is Google About To Go Full AI Mode? appeared first on Search Engine…

“You need to be an event business”

“It’s not enough to be a hospitality business anymore,” small-business owner Shelley Pippin says. “You need to be an event business.” Here’s why Brewnuts has been so successful at using events to carve out a niche for themselves, and what…

3 Common mistakes to avoid when investing in AI search

SEO is at an inflection point due to the rise of LLMs as search platforms. This has led to a lot of contradictory information about how we should approach LLMs and whether we should even continue to call their optimization…

Google’s new “Ads Advisor” AI is put to the test

Google Ads coach Jyll Saskin Gales spent 24 hours testing Google’s new “agentic” Ads Advisor — an experimental AI assistant designed to help advertisers optimize campaigns. Her verdict: promising, but far from perfect. Why we care. The Ads Advisor represents…

Google Ads boosts accuracy in advertiser account suspensions

Google says it’s dramatically cut down on mistaken advertiser suspensions — a long-standing frustration for many legitimate marketers using its platform. By the numbers: Incorrect account suspensions are down over 80%. Suspension appeals are being processed 70% faster. 99% of…

AI sends 1% of website traffic – and most of it is from ChatGPT

AI referral traffic accounts for just over 1% of all website visits across 10 major industries, according to a new Conductor AI search benchmark report. AI referral traffic. 1.08% of all web traffic came from AI referrals. Digging deeper: ChatGPT…