Category Archives: Social Signals

If you’ve been managing PPC accounts for any length of time, you don’t need a research report to tell you something has changed.  You see it in the day-to-day work:  GCLIDs missing from URLs. Conversions arriving later than expected. Reports that take longer to explain while still feeling less definitive than they used to. When […]

B2B advertising faces a distinct challenge: most automation tools weren’t built for lead generation. Ecommerce campaigns benefit from hundreds of conversions that fuel machine learning. B2B marketers don’t have that luxury. They deal with lower conversion volume, longer sales cycles, and no clear cart value to guide optimization. The good news? Automation can still work. […]

Yes, yes we all know customer behavior is changing and Reddit conversations showing up in AI search is a big part of that shift. What are you doing about it? If your Reddit marketing strategy hasn’t evolved since 2024 (or you don’t have one to start with), you’re not just behind. You might be actively […]

Microsoft today launched AI Performance in Bing Webmaster Tools in beta. AI Performance lets you see where, and how often, your content is cited in AI-generated answers across Microsoft Copilot, Bing’s AI summaries, and select partner integrations, the company said. AI Performance in Bing Webmaster Tools shows which URLs are cited, which queries trigger those […]

Google is now advertising its own AI features inside Google Ads — a rare move that puts promotion directly into advertisers’ workflow. What’s happening. Users are seeing promotional messages for AI Max for Search campaigns when they access campaign settings panels. The notifications appear during routine account audits and updates It functions essentially as an […]

Google’s “Results about you” tool now lets you find and request removal of search results containing government-issued IDs. This includes IDs like passports, driver’s licenses, and Social Security numbers. The expansion is rolling out in the U.S. over the coming days, with additional regions planned. Google’s Results about you tool now monitors Search results […]

Let me guess: you just spent three months building a perfectly optimized product taxonomy, complete with schema markup, internal linking, and killer metadata.  Then, the product team decided to launch a site redesign without telling you. Now half your URLs are broken, the new templates strip out your structured data, and your boss is asking […]

Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! We all know prompt tracking is directional. The most effective way to reduce noise is to track prompts based on personas. This week, I’m covering: Why AI personalization makes traditional “track the SERP” models incomplete, and how synthetic personas fill the gap. The […]

This week’s Ask an SEO question is from an anonymous reader who asks: “Should I be optimizing content differently for LinkedIn, Reddit, and traditional search engines? I’m seeing these platforms rank highly in Google results, but I’m not sure how to create a cohesive multi-platform SEO approach.” Yes, you should absolutely be optimizing your content […]

We know AI responses are probabilistic – if you ask an AI the same question 10 times, you’ll get 10 different responses. But how different are the responses? That’s the question Rand Fishkin explored in some interesting research. And it has big implications for how we should think about tracking AI visibility for brands. In […]