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How To Create Demand You Can Actually Convert (And Prove)
Discover effective strategies to generate demand and measure results for your B2B marketing campaigns successfully.
NY Times Accuses Brave Of Scraping And Exploiting Content
New York Times lawsuit accuses Brave of selling access to paywalled content to AI companies and depriving publishers of ad income.
TikTok Search Ads Adds Brand And Category Keyword Packs
TikTok is highlighting two impression share metrics for Search Ads and adding curated keyword packs. Here’s what each does.
AI Shopping: Get Your Products Found In Google & ChatGPT
Chris Sachs & Aris Vrakas outlined 4 moves for AI shopping: make product pages retrievable, use shopper language, connect feeds with pages, test the results.
How The Athletic Gets More Clicks With One Simple Trick
Clickability isn’t just headlines and images. Showing readers which articles other readers are talking about is a distribution lever most publishers ignore.
Google Says No AI Click Reporting News Yet, Ahead Of UK Deadline
Google says it has nothing to announce on adding more AI search data to Search Console, ahead of a UK compliance date.
How To Run A Full-Funnel Ecommerce Account Through BFCM Week
Build demand before BFCM, give Google room to capture peak sales, and turn holiday visitors into December buyers with a phased ad strategy.
Google Search Ad Visits Out-Earned ChatGPT Ads In U.S.
Data finds ChatGPT ad visits brought advertisers a fraction of paid search’s revenue per visit in U.S. traffic, and most saw no sales from them.
NY Times Accuses Brave Of Scraping And Exploiting Content
New York Times lawsuit accuses Brave of selling access to paywalled content to AI companies and depriving publishers of ad income.
TikTok Search Ads Adds Brand And Category Keyword Packs
TikTok is highlighting two impression share metrics for Search Ads and adding curated keyword packs. Here’s what each does.
Google Says No AI Click Reporting News Yet, Ahead Of UK Deadline
Google says it has nothing to announce on adding more AI search data to Search Console, ahead of a UK compliance date.
Google Search Ad Visits Out-Earned ChatGPT Ads In U.S.
Data finds ChatGPT ad visits brought advertisers a fraction of paid search’s revenue per visit in U.S. traffic, and most saw no sales from them.
Google Says Technical SEO Remains Key For AI SEO
Google’s John Mueller cautioned against relying on short-term AI SEO tactics and explained why traditional technical SEO remains relevant.
Google, Microsoft & OpenAI Plan To Honor Shared AI Training Opt-Out
A shared robots.txt line could let sites opt out of AI training with several providers at once, but companies involved are handling it differently.
How The Athletic Gets More Clicks With One Simple Trick
Clickability isn’t just headlines and images. Showing readers which articles other readers are talking about is a distribution lever most publishers ignore.
Google Says Technical SEO Remains Key For AI SEO
Google’s John Mueller cautioned against relying on short-term AI SEO tactics and explained why traditional technical SEO remains relevant.
Hackers Hijacked DebugBear’s DNS To Serve Malicious JavaScript
DebugBear told customers to remove its Core Web Vitals monitoring script. Site owners should also check exposed accounts and unauthorized changes.
Spam Guide Update, Restaurant Controls & AI Mode Revenue – SEO Pulse
Google’s spam guide adds indexing advice for pages made for sharing. Other updates cover restaurant ordering controls, report dates and AI Mode revenue.
Big Brands Dominate AI Search But Leave Openings For Smaller Sites
New research identifies a potential weakness in big-brand visibility that smaller publishers may be able to exploit.
AI Knows Your Brand – It Rarely Puts You On The Shortlist
Measure whether AI recommends your brand to buyers, fix outdated sources, and turn shortlist visibility into customer relationships your CFO can value.
How To Create Demand You Can Actually Convert (And Prove)
Discover effective strategies to generate demand and measure results for your B2B marketing campaigns successfully.
TikTok Search Ads Adds Brand And Category Keyword Packs
TikTok is highlighting two impression share metrics for Search Ads and adding curated keyword packs. Here’s what each does.
How To Run A Full-Funnel Ecommerce Account Through BFCM Week
Build demand before BFCM, give Google room to capture peak sales, and turn holiday visitors into December buyers with a phased ad strategy.
Google Search Ad Visits Out-Earned ChatGPT Ads In U.S.
Data finds ChatGPT ad visits brought advertisers a fraction of paid search’s revenue per visit in U.S. traffic, and most saw no sales from them.
ChatGPT Ads Turns On Automatic Ad Changes By Default
Creative enhancements are now on by default in ChatGPT Ads. Here’s what they can change, how to opt out, and the tracking questions still open.
Google Says Changing tCPA & Budgets Won’t Reset Learning – 6 BFCM Takeaways
Six Google Ads details on Smart Bidding, seasonality adjustments, channel controls and budgeting that PPC teams should check before BFCM.
HubSpot Lost 80% Of Its Traffic – CMO Kipp Bodnar Explains Why Revenue Kept Growing
HubSpot’s traffic collapse shows why SEOs need to measure revenue per visit, track AI referral conversions, and build audiences beyond Google.
Do Comparison Posts, Roundups & Listicles Still Have Any Value? – Ask An SEO
Roundups and comparison posts can still win customers, build trust, and grow audiences when you create them for readers instead of rankings.
Your Audience Uses AI But Doesn’t Trust It – Build Content For The Gap
Build an SEO and content strategy for audiences who use AI but distrust it, with clearer sourcing, audience segmentation, and honest product limits.
A New Place To Look: Where Your Next AI Citations & Clicks Come From
CTM’s Lisa Salvatore and Brian Barranger show how to mine customer conversations for useful content, qualified-lead criteria, conversion feedback, and product-demand signals.
Why The New York Times Puts Free Content First
The New York Times gives prime homepage space to free articles and tells readers they’re free. Here’s why that works.
96.8% Chance Of A Panda-Style Update Within A Month According To Prediction Model Signals
Prepare for a potential Panda-style Google update by addressing scaled AI content and fake authors that could threaten rankings across your site.
Partner Resource from CallRail
AI Search Tracking Checklist: How to Attribute Calls From ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity
This checklist is based on CallRail's analysis of nearly 30 million inbound calls since November 2025. It gives you six steps to track AI search as its own call source and the H1 2026 data to report on it.
- Add AI search as a distinct call source so calls from ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity stop getting filed under direct or other in your call report.
- See H1 2026 call data, including 58% growth in AI-driven calls and the share of calls by AI platform.
- Keep your name, address, phone, and hours consistent across the directories AI platforms pull from.
- Report AI-driven leads alongside paid search, organic, and social so you can prove and defend your AI visibility work.
Reddit CEO Ties Search Referral Drop To Google AI Mode
By Matt G. Southern
Reddit says search referrals are falling and its CEO points to Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode. Here’s what its login test means.
Discord Member Messages May Start Showing Up In Google In December
By Matt G. Southern
Discord’s most public servers will each have a web page that may carry AI summaries and some messages search engines can show.
79% Of Consumers Quit Social Links That Land On A Homepage – Bitly Data
By Greg Jarboe
Bitly’s survey shows why SEOs should look beyond short links to fix mismatched landing pages and rethink what click-through rates reveal.
Meta Pushes Its Updated Business Terms Back To Nov. 20
By Matt G. Southern
Meta delayed its updated business terms amid complaints to EU and UK regulators. The permission to crawl sites tied to its business users hasn’t changed.
At Mod World, Reddit’s CEO Just Gave Brands More Reasons To Build Their Own Communities
By Brent Csutoras
Reddit’s community-first plans strengthen the case for brand subreddits built around useful answers and relationships that bring people back.
Why Reddit Belongs In Your PR Strategy
By Brent Csutoras
Reddit conversations can become news stories. Brands that listen and respond gain a chance to address problems before coverage follows.