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Last week, I argued that habitual publisher traffic – direct and branded – has been eroding for years, and that the under-35s are leading the charge. Not directly provable, but a theory. Now that I am no longer part of that cohort, it’s easier to pin the blame on them. Which is entirely what I […]
AI has been public enemy No. 1 for at least two years. As the early wave of excitement wore off, people realized the content we, as SEOs and publishers, had spent years flooding the internet with was being used to make the richest even richer. We cannot deny the open web is changing – AI […]
I keep getting the same question from clients and SEOs (GEOs?). “How do we show up in ChatGPT?” The answer is always the same. Write good content, do listicles, comment on Reddit. The usual. But, how do we actually know any of that works? Most of it gets repeated on faith, one expert quoting the […]
Over 15 years ago, it was widely accepted that the benchmark click-through rate on a non-brand campaign was 2%. In fact, that number was so deeply embedded into paid search that it is unclear if anyone ever stopped to recalibrate and define a new metric to reference across all accounts. This is why, in 2026, […]
Barry Adams argued recently that Google is creating an audience loyalty ecosystem. His view on the mechanics is that Preferred Sources, Search Profiles, and Subscription Linking provide publishers with new tools to remain visible to trusted readers. His piece tells businesses with loyal audiences how to keep them. The more difficult question is what happens […]
Taylor Borden, an editor at LinkedIn, emailed me last week with a question she’s putting to a handful of writers for a special edition of her newsletter, The Work Shift. The premise was backed by data that shows entrepreneurship on LinkedIn is up nearly 70% year over year, more than six in 10 of those […]
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 […]
About 59% of TikTok videos served to a new account’s For You feed are AI slop, according to a report from Kapwing, the video creation tool company. That’s roughly three times the rate Kapwing found on YouTube. The company manually reviewed over 10,000 TikTok videos across 20 categories and ran a separate fresh-account test, counting […]
YouTube is expanding its in-app video sharing and messaging feature to the U.S., U.K., Brazil, Singapore, and several U.S. territories, per the availability list on its help page. The rollout, announced in a blog post, lets users 18 and older share videos and chat about them without leaving the YouTube app. It brings back a […]
For every 1,000 U.S. Google searches, 232 clicks reach what SparkToro calls the open web, according to new data drawn from Similarweb’s clickstream panel. The report, published by SparkToro co-founder Rand Fishkin, found 68% of U.S. searches ended without any click from January through April. Its 2024 report, based on Datos data, separately reported 360 […]