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Modern marketing is full of good intentions that quietly sabotage themselves. Nowhere is this clearer than in what I call the Protection Paradox, where smart companies spend enormous energy and money “protecting” their content or intellectual property, only to pay even more to get the same content in front of the same audiences through intermediaries. […]
By the time a B2B buyer books a call with your sales team, they have already made most of the decision without you. Research consistently shows buyers complete roughly 61% of their evaluation before ever reaching out to a vendor — comparing options, ruling out contenders, and forming a shortlist entirely out of sight of […]
BrightEdge published new data showing the different kinds of sites five AI search surfaces tend to show in generated answers. The data makes it possible to see how those differences shape which types of sites each AI engine shows, with strong implications for how to promote to each one. The research focused on five AI […]
OpenAI’s automated crawl activity is estimated to have roughly tripled after the launch of GPT-5, according to a new analysis from Botify and guest author Chris Long. In Botify’s dataset, OpenAI’s search crawler is now generating more log events than its training crawler. That’s a reversal from the period before GPT-5. Long, co-founder of the […]
The standard technical SEO audit checks crawlability, indexability, website speed, mobile-friendliness, and structured data. That checklist was designed for one consumer: Googlebot. This is how it’s always been. In 2026, your website has, at least, a dozen additional non-human consumers. AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot train models and power AI search results. User-triggered […]
Cost-per-click (CPC) remains one of the most closely scrutinized metrics in digital advertising for both business owners and expert practitioners. This is understandable; it’s a tangible, easy-to-track metric that offers immediate gratification when it drops and immediate anxiety when it rises. After all, if your average CPC increases from $2 to $5, it’s natural to […]
A randomized field experiment finds Google’s AI Overviews reduce organic clicks to external websites by 38% on queries where they appear, while self-reported search satisfaction stays nearly unchanged when the summaries are removed. The working paper by researchers at the Indian School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University was posted to SSRN this month. Authors […]
GoDaddy is alleged to have transferred a domain name without authorization from it’s longtime registrant, transferring the domain name without the proper authorization and the required documentation. The victim spent nearly ten hours with customer service only to receive the response that there is nothing GoDaddy could do to fix the problem. Domain Transfer Happened […]
Microsoft previewed four new AI reporting features for Bing Webmaster Tools: citation share, grounding query-intent labels, grounding query topic labels, and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)-focused recommendations. Krishna Madhavan, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft AI and Bing, previewed the features during a presentation at SEO Week in New York City. Slides shared by attendees on X […]
YouTube is testing “Ask YouTube,” a conversational search experience that returns AI-generated text summaries alongside cited videos and supports follow-up questions in a persistent thread. YouTube describes the feature on its Premium Early Access page as “a new way to search on YouTube that feels more like a conversation.” Users can ask complex questions, receive […]