Someone posted on social media about their experience writing deep and insightful articles last year and was pleasantly surprised to see that AI was leaning on their articles and even referencing them. Their secret was to choose highly specific topics, which is a good idea. SEO And Natural Language AI SEOs like to write articles ..
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As you may already know, Google recently updated Search Console to let brands track how their social media and video posts perform in search results. Most marketers view this update as a helpful gift. They believe Google wants to reward brands that build strong footprints across TikTok, YouTube, and X. And not wanting to be ..
Thanks to Rand’s excellent research and Barry’s expletive-laden ranting, we know that Google processes over 5 trillion searches each year. Trillion. Per day, that’s 13.7 billion. Per second, 158,000. There are some sizeable and growing caveats here: That still means Google processes 2.92 billion clicks to the open web every day. It’s still a figure ..
Google’s John Mueller recently answered a question about A/B testing web pages for long durations, warning that an unintended consequence is that enabling variations to be indexed can result in uncertainty as to which will be visible in the search results. A/B Testing Traffic From Live Search Results A/B testing is when one or more ..
That is not a moral claim, and it is not a warning about getting caught. It is a description of a mechanism that several groups of researchers have now documented from different angles, and once you see how the pieces fit together, a good deal of confusing behavior in AI search stops being confusing. I ..
Google made a major change to their Merchant Listing structured data requirements in addition to adding clarification on how to use structured data to indicate how long a sale prices will last. In total, there are three new additions but the biggest change by far is the addition of a new Category property. While it’s ..
Nick Fox, Google’s senior vice president of Knowledge & Information, said that Google Search reached its highest usage ever on July 7, coinciding with Argentina’s comeback victory over Egypt at the World Cup. In the post, Fox wrote: “Google Search broke all prior usage records and saw its highest usage in history right after Argentina ..
Tom Critchlow, a longtime search marketer with deep experience, recently shared his opinions of where the SEO industry is today, saying that AI Search is changing business priorities in a way that exposes the weaknesses inherent in SEO today. This transformation means that search marketing professionals need to evaluate the services they offer in order ..
For more than two decades, digital strategy has revolved around a deceptively simple objective: Drive people to webpages. Search engines rewarded documents. Analytics rewarded pageviews. Marketing rewarded engagement. As organizations matured, they invested heavily in designing increasingly sophisticated digital experiences that guided customers through carefully orchestrated buying journeys. Information was intentionally distributed across dozens, sometimes ..
I had a conversation with an old friend from my WebmasterWorld Forum days about PR marketing for AI search. The friend had contacted me to hear my thoughts about it. The discussion seemed useful, so I rewrote it into an article. Digital PR Outreach Because Links Matter Less The friend I had this conversation with ..
