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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 […]
BrightEdge research comparing citations in ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews suggests that AI search engines are doing more than retrieving information. They are assigning different roles to the same sources, treating platforms like Reddit and LinkedIn as authoritative references in some contexts and as social commentary in others. For SEOs, publishers, and business owners, the […]
Busy week in search-land. So Google finally rolled out some kind of AI reporting (if you can call that reporting), and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced some new measures Google must take to restore some level of parity with publishers and search results. Where’s the blue line fellas? (Image Credit: Harry Clarkson-Bennett) “Conduct […]
An SE Ranking analysis of 100,000 keywords found Reddit grew its top 3 presence in all 20 niches tracked after the May core update. For transparency, SE Ranking sells rank-tracking and AI visibility tools, and the data comes from its own keyword-monitoring platform. Data suggests Reddit grew most in niches where people look for personal […]
SEO has been given different names in the past couple of years, usually based on whatever it’s trying to optimize for at the time: LEO (LLM engine optimization), AEO, GEO, and so on. That is, before Google came out with new AI search guidance and said the quiet part out loud: It’s all still just […]