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Everywhere I look, the most interesting work in publishing and search is not coming from the big publisher titles. It is coming from individuals. Do individuals now hold all the power, and is the future of content to be found on Substack? When I spoke with Harry Clarkson-Bennett recently about publishers surviving AI, I put […]
In May, I wrote that the new search user was the trend and that Google’s product announcements were the distraction. Google has now handed us a year’s worth of data that confirms the behavioral shift and puts specific numbers on it. In the report “How People Are Using AI Mode in the U.S.” (published May […]
Most meta descriptions get rewritten by Google because they were never written to describe the page. They were written to hold keywords, a call to action and a bit of brand messaging, which is exactly the material Google’s snippet algorithms are designed to discard. The fix is not a clever trick. It is a change […]
Google’s VP and Head of Search, Liz Reid, stated that personalized search and preferred sources can assist small publishers in gaining visibility, countering concerns that personalization makes them less accessible. Reid shared her perspective on the AI Inside podcast, during the same interview where she told publishers that the key to AI visibility lies in […]
Most of what gets written about AI and marketing this year reads like a warning label. Two new reports published this month make the opposite case: AI is unlocking inventory and content opportunities that were previously invisible or undervalued, and there’s now data to prove it. One comes from the video advertising side. The other […]
When your customers ask ChatGPT or Gemini something, the model quietly fires a set of traditional web searches in the background, retrieves the ranking pages, and synthesizes the answer from those. The sites that rank for those hidden queries get cited. The ones that don’t, don’t. QueryFan generates persona-specific prompts, runs them through both models, and […]
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about security headers in the context of client technical SEO audits. Although he singled out one of headers as having an SEO effect, many of the other security headers, if not used, can result in a negative SEO effect. What Are Security Headers? Security headers are instructions sent from […]
Search has always used basic personalization like location, language, and recent history. But now, Google does not just react to the words you type; the system builds a profile of your habits to change what you see before you search. This is a fundamental change in how search works. Google is building a system to […]
Ask a chatbot a question and watch what happens to the web behind it. It reads 30 or 40 pages to build your answer, strips out what it needs, and hands you a tidy paragraph. You never see the pages, never click them. The site that “won,” whatever winning means now, gets a citation in […]
For most of the history of modern SEO, publishing more content was considered almost universally beneficial. More pages meant more keywords, more long-tail visibility, more opportunities to rank, and more traffic. Entire agencies and publishing businesses were built around this premise. The logic was simple: If one page could rank, then a thousand pages could […]