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Google Confirms That Structured Data Won’t Make A Site Rank Better

Google Confirms That Structured Data Won’t Make A Site Rank Better

Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Bluesky about whether structured data helps with SEO, which may change how some people think about it. Schema.org Structured Data When SEOs talk about structured data they’re talking about Schema.org structured data. There are many kinds of structured data but for SEO purposes only Schema.org structured data matters. […]

AI Overviews & SEO-Driven Content Marketing: How To Find ROI

AI Overviews & SEO-Driven Content Marketing: How To Find ROI

This post was sponsored by Heeet. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. How do you calculate the true cost of SEO content production? Are you overspending or underspending on SEO compared to performance? Can you connect SEO-driven awareness to pipeline and revenue? How do you make SEO efforts more visible to […]

LinkedIn Launches New Creator Hub With Content Strategy Tips

LinkedIn Launches New Creator Hub With Content Strategy Tips

LinkedIn has launched a new “Create on LinkedIn” hub that helps professionals create better content, understand their stats, and use different post types. The new hub is organized into three main sections: Create, Optimize, and Grow. It also includes a Creator Tools section with specific advice for each post format. This resource offers helpful tips […]

Make 2025 the year you take home the highest honor in search

Make 2025 the year you take home the highest honor in search

Winning an industry award can seriously impact how customers, clients, and colleagues regard your brand. Showcase your achievements and celebrate your professional excellence by entering the Search Engine Land Awards – the highest honor in search marketing! For the past 10 years, the Search Engine Land Awards have honored some of the best in the […]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Confirms Planning Open Source AI Model

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Confirms Planning Open Source AI Model

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said the company plans to release an open source model more capable than any currently available. While he acknowledged the likelihood of it being used in ways some may not approve of, he emphasized that highly capable open systems have an important role to play. He described the shift as […]

Google AI Overview-organic ranking overlap drops after core update

Google AI Overview-organic ranking overlap drops after core update

AI Overviews are now less likely to cite pages that rank in Google’s top 10 organic positions, according to new BrightEdge data. This change was observed following Google’s March 2025 core update. By the numbers. The overlap between AI Overview citations and Google’s top 10 organic positions dropped from 16% to 15% following the March […]

Product Content Makes Up 70% Of Citations

Product Content Makes Up 70% Of Citations

A new study tracking 768,000 citations across AI search engines shows that product-related content tops AI citations. It makes up 46% to 70% of all sources referenced. This finding offers guidance on how marketers should approach content creation amid the growth of AI search. The research, conducted over 12 weeks by XFunnel, looked at which […]

Google’s anti-privacy bill push sparks outrage among advertisers

Google’s anti-privacy bill push sparks outrage among advertisers

Google is being criticized for sending emails to small business owners urging them to oppose California Assembly Bill 566, legislation that would strengthen consumer privacy protections in digital advertising. The outreach campaign, which asks recipients to sign a Connected Commerce Council letter opposing the bill, has prompted marketing professionals to publicly rebuke the tech giant’s […]

Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

Temu completely shut off Google Shopping ads in the U.S. on April 9, with its App Store ranking subsequently plummeting from a typical third or fourth position to 58th in just three days. The company’s impression share, which measures how often their ads appear compared to eligibility, dropped sharply before disappearing completely from advertiser auction […]

How to track visibility across AI platforms

How to track visibility across AI platforms

AI has changed how people search – and what it means to be “visible” in results.  Links and rankings still matter, but they’re no longer the full picture. Now, it’s about mentions, citations, and whether your brand even shows up in the conversation. Most SEO tools haven’t caught up. This makes tracking that kind of […]