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This post was sponsored by Uberall. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Local consumers have stopped searching the way we built our marketing around. This significant change in buyer habits has been quietly happening in the last 18 to 24 months. According to recent Uberall research into AI search behavior, an […]

Every technical SEO has a version of this meeting. The migration shipped on Friday. The redirects went in. Someone on Monday noticed organic traffic had fallen off a cliff, and someone else remembered there was, in fact, an SEO on the team somewhere, and perhaps they should take a look. This isn’t the meeting anyone […]

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 […]

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 […]

A few weeks ago, we sat down with marketers running webinar programs at agencies and in-house teams, all B2B. We asked them what was working, what wasn’t, and where they felt stuck. Three pain points came up in nearly every conversation: “Webinars are a heavy lift with little proven ROI.”“We’re not generating enough qualified leads.”“Without […]

Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! I normally write about strategy and search behavior, not labor markets. But the SEO job market is the clearest leading indicator I’ve seen of how companies are actually valuing AI skills, so I followed the data off the usual map. 946 SEO job […]

Google announced three updates to Search and AI Mode this week, which Roger Montti reported for SEJ. Reading his article motivated me to examine these updates, the broader pattern, and their implications for search this year. Looking at this in detail, it appears the updates push more of what used to be a results-page experience into […]

Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how deep links appear in your snippets, how your robots.txt gets parsed, how agentic features work in Search, and how the EU’s data-sharing rules apply to AI chatbots. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Lists Best Practices For Read More Deep Links Google updated its […]

Google may expand the list of unsupported robots.txt rules in its documentation based on analysis of real-world robots.txt data collected through HTTP Archive. Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt described the project on the latest episode of Search Off the Record. The work started after a community member submitted a pull request to Google’s robots.txt repository […]

Google Ads has enabled call recording by default for eligible call flows associated with AI-qualified call leads, with exceptions for prior opt-outs and certain sensitive verticals. A new Google support page describes the feature, which uses AI to evaluate phone conversations instead of relying on call duration alone to count conversions. What Changed Google Ads […]