Marketing & SEO

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Googlebot dominates web crawling in 2025 as AI bots surge: Report

Googlebot once again generated more traffic than any other crawler in 2025, according to a new Cloudflare report. It outpaced every search and AI bot as Google continued crawling the web for search indexing and AI training. By the numbers.…

What Is an Influencer? A Guide to Influencer Marketing

People trust the creators they follow every day. That’s why influencer marketing has become such a big part of how brands grow.  The numbers back it up. A staggering 92 percent of consumers trust recommendations from influencers more than traditional…

Proxies for prompts: Emulate how your audience may be looking for you

In this new era of generative AI technology, searchers have begun to swap keywords with prompts. Shorter and long-tail queries are being replaced by more conversational prompts, which tend to be longer and more in-depth. These days, searchers are expecting…

Google Search adds read more links to search result snippets

Google recently rolled out “read more” links in Google search results, which appear at the end of the snippet’s description. When you click on the read more link, you are anchored down to a specific portion of the web page…

Google rolls out Gemini 3 Flash to AI Mode in Search globally

Google today began rolling out Gemini 3 Flash as the default model powering AI Mode in Search worldwide. The upgrade brings faster performance and stronger reasoning to AI-generated search responses, Google said. Why we care. With AI Mode, Google continues…

Google’s Danny Sullivan: SEO for AI is still SEO

Google Search’s Danny Sullivan and John Mueller pushed back – yet again – on the idea that brands need a separate AI SEO strategy, during the latest Search Off the Record episode. Sullivan’s take is simple: the acronyms keep multiplying (GEO, AEO,…