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Google Ads adds a second set of eyes for high-risk account changes

Google Ads adds a second set of eyes for high-risk account changes

Google Ads has quietly rolled out multi-party approval, a security feature that requires a second administrator to approve certain high-risk account actions. These include adding or removing users and changing user roles. Why we care. As ad accounts grow larger — and more valuable — access control has become a bigger risk. A single unauthorized, […]

How To Get Into Model Training Data

How To Get Into Model Training Data

There has never been a more important time in your career to spend time learning and understanding. Not because AI search differs drastically from traditional search. But because everyone else thinks it does. Every C-suite in the country is desperate to get this right. Decision-makers need to feel confident that you and I are the […]

The Real SEO Skill No One Teaches: Problem Deduction

The Real SEO Skill No One Teaches: Problem Deduction

Most SEO failures are not optimization failures. They are reasoning failures that occur before optimization even begins. In enterprise SEO escalations, the pattern is remarkably consistent. Teams jump straight to causes, debate theories, and assign blame before anyone clearly articulates the actual problem they are trying to understand. Once blame enters the conversation, problem definition […]

What higher ed data shows about SEO visibility and AI search

What higher ed data shows about SEO visibility and AI search

AI search hasn’t killed SEO. Now you have to win twice: the ranking and the citation. Google searches for almost anything today, and there’s a good chance you’ll see an AI Overview before the organic results, sometimes even before the ads.  That summary frames the query, shortlists sources, and shapes which brands get considered. AI […]

The PPC Skills That Won’t Be Replaced By Automation

The PPC Skills That Won’t Be Replaced By Automation

The best PPC specialists aren’t just campaign managers. They’re business consultants who happen to use paid advertising as their primary tool. As automation handles more tactical optimization, the value of a PPC professional increasingly lies in their ability to solve business problems, not just reduce cost-per-click. Specialists who command premium rates and drive real growth […]

Using AI For SEO Can Fail Without Real Data (& How Ahrefs Fixes It)

Using AI For SEO Can Fail Without Real Data (& How Ahrefs Fixes It)

This post was sponsored by Ahrefs. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. If you’ve ever run into the limits of solo AI or manual SEO tools, this article is for you. What You’ll Learn 1. Why AI + Real SEO Data Together Beats Guessing Or Generic Prompts 2. Level 1: Quick […]

Why most SEO failures are organizational, not technical

Why most SEO failures are organizational, not technical

I’ve spent over 20 years in companies where SEO sat in different corners of the organization – sometimes as a full-time role, other times as a consultant called in to “find what’s wrong.” Across those roles, the same pattern kept showing up. The technical fix was rarely what unlocked performance. It revealed symptoms, but it […]

Microsoft rolls out multi-turn search in Bing

Microsoft rolls out multi-turn search in Bing

Microsoft today rolled out multi-turn search globally in Bing. As you scroll down the search results page, a Copilot search box now dynamically appears at the bottom. About multi-turn search. This type of search experience lets a user continue the conversation from the Bing search results page. Instead of starting over, the searcher types a […]

75% of crawling issues come from two common URL mistakes

75% of crawling issues come from two common URL mistakes

Google discussed its 2025 year-end report on crawling and indexing challenges for Google Search. The biggest issues were faceted navigation and action parameters, which accounted for about 75% of the problems, according to Google’s Gary Illyes. He shared this on the latest Search Off the Record podcast, published this morning. What is the issue. Crawling […]

7 digital PR secrets behind strong SEO performance

7 digital PR secrets behind strong SEO performance

Digital PR is about to matter more than ever. Not because it’s fashionable, or because agencies have rebranded link building with a shinier label, but because the mechanics of search and discovery are changing.  Brand mentions, earned media, and the wider PR ecosystem are now shaping how both search engines and large language models understand […]