Dave Davies on LLM content SEO shortcuts, attribution loss, and agentic AI

Dave Davies on LLM content SEO shortcuts, attribution loss, and agentic AI

Agentic AI is reshaping search and generative engines – and soon could transform your SEO strategy. This was just one hot topic discussed in my interview with SMX Advanced keynote speaker Dave Davies, Head of SEO at Weights & Biases. Other topics covered in our conversation included: Why shortcuts with LLMs are hurting your content […]

Google Expands Video Ads Across Search, Shopping, and Image Tabs

Google Expands Video Ads Across Search, Shopping, and Image Tabs

Google quietly dropped a new help document titled About Video ads across Google surfaces, offering a detailed look at its next evolution of shoppable video ad formats, following teasers at Google Marketing Live and months of experimental rollouts. Details: These new video ads are part of Performance Max campaigns, allowing brands to include high-quality video […]

LinkedIn’s new playbook taps creators as the future of B2B marketing

LinkedIn’s new playbook taps creators as the future of B2B marketing

B2B buyers are turning to creator content at every stage of the purchasing process, from discovering new products to justifying pricing. New research shows that this type of content plays a key role in building trust and accelerating decision-making. Brands looking to stay relevant are investing in creator strategies that combine authenticity with scalable distribution, […]

Revisiting ‘useful content’ in the age of AI-dominated search

Revisiting ‘useful content’ in the age of AI-dominated search

AI has quietly redefined what “useful content” means. Where brands once built trust and traffic through long-form explainers and glossary-driven SEO, that kind of content now feels increasingly redundant – to users and Google.  If your site still leans on basic informational articles to demonstrate expertise, it’s time to reconsider what actually builds authority, trust, […]

12 new KPIs for the generative AI search era

12 new KPIs for the generative AI search era

SEO teams have built dashboards around a shared set of familiar metrics for over two decades: clicks, rankings, impressions, bounce rate, link volume, etc. These KPIs powered strategies, reports, and… promotions. But what happens when the interface between your audience and your brand no longer involves a search result page? As search fragments into AI […]

Testing AI Max in Google Ads: When to try it and when to wait

Testing AI Max in Google Ads: When to try it and when to wait

AI Max, Google’s latest AI-powered search campaign feature promises big performance improvements.  Still, the decision between AI Max and traditional Search campaigns isn’t as straightforward as the marketing materials suggest. Advertisers using AI Max see 14% more conversions at similar costs, with some seeing up to 27% improvements, according to Google.  But these gains come […]

Will Google’s AI Overviews kill the click?

Will Google’s AI Overviews kill the click?

AI Overviews don’t just steal clicks. They dominate screens. Google’s AI-generated summaries now stretch across the top of search results like they own the place. And let’s be real, they do.  With links, carousels, citations (sometimes), and full how-to answers, they often push organic listings entirely below the fold. You can’t miss them – which […]

How Can I Improve The Visibility Of My Category Pages?

How Can I Improve The Visibility Of My Category Pages?

This week’s Ask an SEO question comes from a medium-sized ecommerce site manager who’s run up against a common problem: “Our product pages rank well, but our category pages rarely appear in search results. What specific optimization strategies would you recommend for category pages to improve their visibility?” Thanks for the question! It’s a common […]

Becoming an AI-First Company: From Chaos to Clarity

Becoming an AI-First Company: From Chaos to Clarity

Struggling to integrate AI across your organization without adding more confusion and complexity? Wondering how successful businesses are aligning teams and workflows to truly embrace AI-first operations? In this article, you’ll discover a practical framework for transforming your company into an AI-first organization—so you can cut through the chaos, unlock clarity, and lead with confidence […]

New AI-Assisted Managed WordPress Hosting For Ecommerce

New AI-Assisted Managed WordPress Hosting For Ecommerce

Bluehost announced two competitively priced managed WordPress ecommerce hosting solutions that make it easy for content creators and ecommerce stores to get online with WordPress and start accepting orders. Both plans feature AI site migration tools that help users switch web hosting providers, free content delivery networks to speed up web page downloads, AI-assisted site […]