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Is Google About To Bury Your Website?

Is Google About To Bury Your Website?

The new AI Mode is rewriting the rules of search. Are you ready? Google’s AI-generated answers are starting to dominate the SERPs, pushing traditional results further down the page. If your business relies on organic traffic, you can’t afford to ignore this shift. Join us on June 25, 2025, for an expert-led webinar sponsored by […]

Google comments on Reddit’s use of AI to translate its pages

Google comments on Reddit’s use of AI to translate its pages

There are a number of sites using AI tools to translate its content, some are even auto-translating millions of pages and pieces of content across their websites. Reddit was one of the most notable, but we’ve covered others. Glenn Gabe, an SEO consultant, asked Is it safe to do this and wrote an excellent deep […]

Chunks, passages and micro-answer engine optimization wins in Google AI Mode

Chunks, passages and micro-answer engine optimization wins in Google AI Mode

The best CRM article on Page 1 might lose to a single paragraph buried on Page 3.  That’s how AI search works now, and it’s why traditional SEO strategies are failing businesses that should be winning. AI Mode: Synthesizing answers from multiple background queries When you use Google’s AI Mode (the new tab next to […]

Google Display Network explained: Your quick guide to GDN

Google Display Network explained: Your quick guide to GDN

You’d be hard pressed to find a Google Ads practitioner who loves the Google Display Network (GDN). Some may be indifferent to display ads, some (like me) may hate them, but I have yet to encounter anyone who is passionate about success with the GDN. That being said, GDN is either an optional or required […]

Paid Media Reporting For Ecommerce: Navigating Attribution Across Paid

Paid Media Reporting For Ecommerce: Navigating Attribution Across Paid

Global advertising expenditure has surpassed the $1 trillion mark for the first time. Digital advertising continues to dominate this growth, with digital channels encompassing search and social media forecast to account for 72.9% of total ad revenue by the end of the year. From a platform perspective, Google, Meta, Amazon, and Alibaba are expected to […]

Kelsey Libert on AI reshaping SEO, scalable knowledge, and building authority

Kelsey Libert on AI reshaping SEO, scalable knowledge, and building authority

AI is fundamentally reshaping SEO, digital PR, and brand visibility – and how users discover and engage with brands.  To help make sense of some of the ongoing changes, I interviewed Kelsey Libert, co-founder of Fractl. Some of the topics covered in our interview: How to get ahead in a time of exponential AI change. How […]

How multimodal discovery is redefining SEO in the AI era

How multimodal discovery is redefining SEO in the AI era

The SEO industry is undergoing a seismic shift – one shaped not just by algorithms but also by evolving user expectations.  At the heart of it is a radical transformation in how people search, and Google is adapting in real time. Between the 2025 Google I/O Keynote and meetings with search experts and engineers, it’s […]

Google Offers Voluntary Buyouts To Core U.S. Teams Amid AI Push

Google Offers Voluntary Buyouts To Core U.S. Teams Amid AI Push

Google is offering voluntary buyouts to employees across several of its core U.S.-based teams, including Search, Ads, engineering, marketing, and research. The offer provides eligible employees with at least 14 weeks of severance and is available through July 1, according to reporting from The Verge and The Information. The buyouts are limited to employees in […]

How Google Ads’ AI tools fix creative bottlenecks, streamline asset creation

How Google Ads’ AI tools fix creative bottlenecks, streamline asset creation

Advertisers are facing mounting pressure to produce high-quality images and videos at scale.  Google Ads’ new AI-powered tools aim to ease that burden, streamlining asset creation and addressing the creative bottlenecks that slow campaign performance. From creative fatigue to AI fix: Google’s plan for scalable visual content We’re constantly told that video and lifestyle imagery […]