AI Search Is Nothing Without SEO & It Knows It
Technical SEO now sits at the center of AI search readiness, giving LLMs the structure and signals they need to retrieve and cite content.
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Microsoft Just Proved A Point About Search Today
Bing’s latest AI reporting confirms that rankings and citations measure different outcomes, requiring new visibility strategies across AI search.
Google’s DMCA Crisis Is Disrupting The Web. It Will Only Get Worse.
Google’s DMCA Crisis is turning a copyright protection system into a tool that bad actors can use against publishers.
Google Data Shows AI Search Users Moved Past Keywords, Your Content Hasn’t
Google’s AI Mode data puts hard numbers on a behavioral shift that has already made most 2025 keyword strategies obsolete.
Should I Block AI Crawlers Or Measure Their Value First? – Ask An SEO
AI bots drain server resources and scrape IP, but blocking them risks invisibility in LLM answers. Here is how to decide.
Google AI Overviews Study Finds Lost Clicks Weren’t Lower Quality
An updated AI Overviews experiment finds no measurable difference in bounce rates, time on site, or returns to search between clicks with and without summaries.
OpenAI Hiring Points To Image & Video Ads Coming To ChatGPT
OpenAI job listings and its advertising plans point to image, video, native and conversational ad formats for ChatGPT.
Habitual Publisher Traffic Is Collapsing
Examine the decline of traditional publisher traffic as AI gains prominence. What does this mean for the future of content creators?
Fabrice Canel, Longtime Bing Search Leader, Retires From Microsoft
Fabrice Canel, the Principal Product Manager who led Bing’s crawling and indexing team and championed IndexNow, has announced his retirement from Microsoft.
Google’s DMCA Crisis Is Disrupting The Web. It Will Only Get Worse.
Google’s DMCA Crisis is turning a copyright protection system into a tool that bad actors can use against publishers.
Google AI Overviews Study Finds Lost Clicks Weren’t Lower Quality
An updated AI Overviews experiment finds no measurable difference in bounce rates, time on site, or returns to search between clicks with and without summaries.
OpenAI Hiring Points To Image & Video Ads Coming To ChatGPT
OpenAI job listings and its advertising plans point to image, video, native and conversational ad formats for ChatGPT.
Fabrice Canel, Longtime Bing Search Leader, Retires From Microsoft
Fabrice Canel, the Principal Product Manager who led Bing’s crawling and indexing team and championed IndexNow, has announced his retirement from Microsoft.
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 Is Back With New Usage Limits And Safeguards
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 returns with 50% usage limits and a new classifier that may result in false positives.
New WordPress Plugin Safely And Easily Connects AI To Your Website
WPVibe WordPress plugin makes it easy to connect virtually any AI to your WordPress site and safely edit virtually anything.
Microsoft Just Proved A Point About Search Today
Bing’s latest AI reporting confirms that rankings and citations measure different outcomes, requiring new visibility strategies across AI search.
Google’s DMCA Crisis Is Disrupting The Web. It Will Only Get Worse.
Google’s DMCA Crisis is turning a copyright protection system into a tool that bad actors can use against publishers.
Should I Block AI Crawlers Or Measure Their Value First? – Ask An SEO
AI bots drain server resources and scrape IP, but blocking them risks invisibility in LLM answers. Here is how to decide.
Fabrice Canel, Longtime Bing Search Leader, Retires From Microsoft
Fabrice Canel, the Principal Product Manager who led Bing’s crawling and indexing team and championed IndexNow, has announced his retirement from Microsoft.
New WordPress Plugin Safely And Easily Connects AI To Your Website
WPVibe WordPress plugin makes it easy to connect virtually any AI to your WordPress site and safely edit virtually anything.
Chrome Auto-Browse Acts On Your Website, Apple’s Siri AI Only Reads It
Website owners: Apple and Google both shipped phone agents this month. Only Google’s visits your site to act. Here’s what that demands.
OpenAI Hiring Points To Image & Video Ads Coming To ChatGPT
OpenAI job listings and its advertising plans point to image, video, native and conversational ad formats for ChatGPT.
Why a Sky-High CTR Does Not Mean Your Ads Are Actually Working
High click-through rates no longer guarantee advertising success due to automated bidding and AI optimization changing traditional metrics.
How Do I Effectively Measure Campaign Success Across Multiple Platforms? – Ask A PPC
Running ads on every platform? Here’s how to build a measurement framework that compares performance fairly across Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon.
Google Tests ‘Strongest Match’ Labels On Search Ads
Google is testing “Strongest Match” labels on Search ads. Here’s what advertisers know so far and the questions Google hasn’t answered.
Google’s Limited Ad Serving Update Raises Questions About Advertiser Qualification
Google expands its Limited Ad Serving policy, introducing new advertiser qualification signals tied to user reports, identity, and Search ad eligibility.
Google Launches Ask Ad Manager, Its First AI Agent For Publishers
Google’s conversational agent now troubleshoots delivery and builds reports inside Ad Manager, bringing prompt-driven workflows to publisher ad ops.
Google Data Shows AI Search Users Moved Past Keywords, Your Content Hasn’t
Google’s AI Mode data puts hard numbers on a behavioral shift that has already made most 2025 keyword strategies obsolete.
Habitual Publisher Traffic Is Collapsing
Examine the decline of traditional publisher traffic as AI gains prominence. What does this mean for the future of content creators?
Your Brand Message Is Costing You Half Your Views – What 2 Reports Can Tell Us
New data from IAB and Billion Dollar Boy explains the performance gap between creator content and brand-led ads, with specific fixes for both.
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What 2 Content Strategists Say AI Should Never Write For You [Webinar]
Explore the limitations of AI in content creation. Uncover why AI-generated work often lacks originality and uniqueness.
The Content Framework That Worked In 2019 Is Now Working Against You
Why the best content frameworks become outdated and how to stay ahead by embracing new data instead of defending old models.
Why Publishing More Content Is Making Your SEO Worse
AI retrieval systems reward semantic precision over content volume, making excessive publishing counterproductive for modern SEO visibility.
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6 Ways To Prepare Your Business For AI In 2026
This checklist, created from CallRail’s October 2025 survey of 600 small-to-midsize businesses, walks you through six areas to implement AI that can:
- Personalize prospect experience.
- Deliver more targeted ads and identify top performing channels.
- Turn that data into stronger, more accurate campaigns that generate more qualified leads.
Buying Reddit To Win AI Citations Is The New Link Farm
By Slobodan Manic
Bought Reddit citations will be filtered the way Penguin filtered bought links. The only strategy that compounds on the agentic web is being real.
The Content Framework That Worked In 2019 Is Now Working Against You
By Greg Jarboe
Why the best content frameworks become outdated and how to stay ahead by embracing new data instead of defending old models.
TikTok Shows 3x More AI Slop Than YouTube, Report Finds
By Matt G. Southern
In a fresh-account test, Kapwing found 59% of TikTok For You videos were AI slop, roughly three times the rate on YouTube.
YouTube Brings In-App Sharing & Messaging To The U.S.
By Matt G. Southern
YouTube is expanding in-app video sharing and messaging to eligible adults in more markets, reviving a version of its messaging feature removed in 2019.
YouTube Adds Auto-Detection For AI-Generated Content
By Matt G. Southern
YouTube is moving AI disclosure labels to more visible spots and adding automatic detection for undisclosed photorealistic AI content on videos.
Why LLMs Cite Reddit Instead Of Your Brand: A Practical AI Visibility Audit [Webinar]
By Loren Baker
Understand the role Reddit plays in AI answers and how brands can capitalize on community signals to enhance visibility.