I uploaded my first YouTube video in August 2006. It was 42 seconds long, promoted an 11-part Christian Science Monitor series about a kidnapped journalist named Jill Carroll, and picked up a grand total of 1,908 views. My client at the time wasn’t impressed by that number, and honestly, neither was I. Then, the story ..
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Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect the legal footing of the SERP tools you rely on, what it’s worth to keep your content in Google’s index, and where the revenue behind Search is heading. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Search Revenue Grows 17%; Pichai Points To Gemini 4 Alphabet reported Q2 ..
Adding FAQ sections to a set of test pages lifted AI citations. Removing them dropped citations back down. That reversion is the difference between correlation and causation, and almost no team measuring AI search today can produce it. That standard of proof anchored the latest SEJ webinar with seoClarity’s Mark Traphagen, VP of Product Marketing ..
An AI agent does not need the visual layer of your website, and it should never have needed it. That one idea is why the whole category of AI browsers is backward. We spent years building websites design-first and lost the web’s semantics, its accessibility, and the fundamentals underneath them along the way. So when ..
YouTube outlines three content categories that could disqualify a channel from the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). These categories are detailed on YouTube’s channel monetization policy page and were explained by Matt Halprin, Vice President of Trust and Safety at YouTube, in a Creator Insider video. The Three Categories 1. Generic/Repetitive When content looks templated or barely changes from ..
The race to monetize AI visibility services, claiming new acronyms and extending existing fields of practice as whole new trenches of engineering, is something we’ve witnessed a lot over the past couple of years. We’re seeing new entrants to the market because they see a gap, but no one is really stopping to ask the ..
Alphabet’s second quarter earnings results show that Google is earning massive amounts of money but is also spending so much that it reported a negative free cash flow due to infrastructure spending. Massive Earnings Q2 2026 revenue is $119.8 billion, which is up 24% year over year. Where The Money Comes From The earnings release ..
The attribution you are waiting for from ChatGPT is coming, and it is not coming to you. I ran a survey this month (it’s still open; please take it) asking whether dedicated AI visibility platforms are worth paying for, and I deliberately never asked about attribution. It showed up anyway. One consultant wrote that the ..
In most cases, Google Analytics 4 projects start as a technical request. A marketing team, client, or stakeholder asks for tracking to be set up. Someone gets access to the property and assumes the data will eventually tell a story worth listening to. Maybe sometimes it does. But most of the time, it produces a ..
AI SEO tools for small businesses are essential to keep up with marketing trends and stay competitive. Yet most small businesses are trying to figure out which AI tools are actually worth their time and which ones are necessary, especially when there is an abundance of tools promising to solve every problem imaginable. The good ..
