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This week’s Ask an SEO question is a bit different. The person wants to know how they can keep relevant and feel secure in their jobs with AI replacing people. In addition to this question, someone at the Digital Marketing EU conference in Lisbon asked, “How do we pay affiliates so we can use them […]
Search engines were designed to do several things at once: Rank a field of options, route the user to one of them, and keep the human inside the decision so the engine never owned the choice. That last part was not an accident. It was the liability architecture. Large language models were built without any […]
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about whether Google’s Preferred Sources feature can override standard ranking signals in Top Stories. His answer offers some clarity about how user preference can influence visibility without giving preferred sites a free pass around Google’s quality systems. Google’s Preferred Sources Google Preferred Sources is a Search feature that enables […]
Paid search has always been a moving target. In 2026, with platforms dominated by AI and Performance Max, Google has continuously pushed the industry toward automation. Yet, the myth of “set it and forget it” remains an illusion. Even the best-performing bid strategies eventually plateau. To scale, ad managers must periodically test new strategies to […]
Google’s own advice on surviving AI search is not a technical roadmap. It is closer to a mindset shift, and it came from an unusually candid conversation between Google Search Advocate Martin Splitt and Nikola Todorovic, Director of Software Engineering at Google Search, on the company’s Search Off The Record podcast. Splitt put the question […]
Ask.com, the search engine that started life as Ask Jeeves, shut down. Parent company IAC discontinued its search business as part of an ongoing effort to refocus its operations. A farewell message posted on the Ask.com homepage, reads: “Every great search must come to an end. As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have […]
Google updated its Search Central documentation to reflect that the Preferred Sources feature is now available in all languages supported by Google Search. The change clarifies global availability and introduces updated guidance for publishers looking to grow their audience through Top Stories. Preferred Sources Google’s Preferred Sources feature gives users a way to choose specific […]
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 […]
Treat Asia-Pacific as a single Google market and you will misread the region before you have even launched a campaign. Google leads in most APAC countries, but “leads” is not the same as “owns.” In Japan, Bing still carries 31.63% of search share against Google’s 59.58%. In South Korea, Google (46.81%) and Naver (43.96%) are […]
Last year, I taught a module on content marketing around the PESO model (Paid, Earned, Shared, and Owned media). Matt Bailey asked me to include more content about influencers in this year’s module; I joked that it might take me all morning to come up with a new acronym. He shot back, “Can you adapt […]