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.

Best Practices for Writing SEO Title Tags

Key Takeaways Google rewrites 76 percent of title tags as of Q1 2025, often when titles are too long, keyword-stuffed, or misaligned with the page’s H1. Title tags remain the second most important ranking factor in Google’s algorithm, and the…

Why you should opt out of Google Search Partners

Watch this video on YouTube If you’re running Google Ads in 2026, you’ve probably heard of “Search Partners.” It’s often checked by default in your campaign settings, promising to extend your reach beyond Google Search. Sounds like an easy way…

Why most original data never gets cited

Part 1 tackled those all-important third-party citation signals, while Part 2 made the case for publishing original data: It is the strongest single predictor of page originality, and the bar to earning visibility/authority via this play is low. This memo…

5 questions to ask AI vendors before buying a tool

There are many ways to use AI in marketing, and it feels like for every smart initiative, 10 AI vendors have cropped up with a tool to address it. At the beginning of this wave, I took more calls and…

How to make your SEO strategy more commercially aware

The SEO industry has become extraordinarily good at improving its technical craft, making strides in crawl architecture, Core Web Vitals, content frameworks, entity optimization, and link acquisition at scale, to name a few. What has lagged behind is its ability…

How to build an AI-powered content gap analysis workflow

You can publish consistently, follow SEO best practices, and still watch competitors outrank you. More often than not, the problem isn’t content quality. It’s content coverage. Your competitors are answering questions your audience is asking, and you’re not in the…