Marketing & SEO

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YouTube SEO Guide

When you think of SEO, your brain probably jumps to Google. But there’s another major search engine people often overlook, YouTube. With over 2.7 billion monthly users and more than 500 hours of content uploaded every minute, YouTube is the…

YouTube locks sidebar on mobile ads, removing close option

YouTube has removed the “close” button on sidebar panels in some horizontal video ads on mobile, making the ad’s sidebar — often used for shoppable products or sitelinks — permanently visible during playback. Why we care. The change means users…

Google AI Overviews drive 61% drop in organic CTR, 68% in paid

Organic click-through rates (CTR) for informational queries featuring Google AI Overviews fell 61% since mid-2024, while paid CTRs on those same queries plunged 68%, according to the latest study by marketing agency Seer Interactive. Even on queries without AI Overviews,…

GEO startup Lorelight shuts down: ‘The problem didn’t need solving’

Generative engine optimization (GEO) platform Lorelight, is shutting it down – not because it failed, but because the problem it solved didn’t need solving, according to its founder Benjamin Houy. “Customers were churning because the product didn’t change what they…

Aja Frost on AI search, content strategy, and AEO success metrics

Google’s AI Overviews and AI-driven search are reshaping content creation, SEO, and user behavior. As we watch this fascinating evolution of search – and continue to debate what we call this new marketing discipline (HubSpot is opting for AEO, or…

LLM Traffic Is Shrinking via @sejournal, @Kevin_Indig

Despite strong early growth, LLM referral traffic is fading fast as model changes and AI Overviews make clicks obsolete. The post LLM Traffic Is Shrinking appeared first on Search Engine Journal.