A Google engineer has warned that AI agents and automated bots will soon flood the internet with traffic. Gary Illyes, who works on Google’s Search Relations team, said “everyone and my grandmother is launching a crawler” during a recent podcast. The warning comes from Google’s latest Search Off the Record podcast episode. AI Agents Will … Read more
Writing with clarity means making your content easy to read and understand. If your audience can’t grasp what you’re trying to say, what’s the point? Hi, I’m Alana, your friendly neighborhood blog editor. I spent most of my early marketing career in the public health field. We focused on one main writing principle: using plain … Read more
With the introduction of AI Overviews and ongoing Google updates, it’s been a challenging few years for news publishers, and the announcement that Google Discover will now appear on desktop was welcome. However, the latest announcement of AI Mode could mean that users move away from the traditional search tab, and so the salvation of Discover … Read more
The question for this edition of Ask An SEO comes from a reader who’s trying to make their rebrand stick in search: “Our company recently went through a rebrand with a new name. We’re seeing our old brand name still dominating search results, while our new brand barely registers. What’s the best approach to transition … Read more
A patent that Google filed in December 2024 presents a close match to the Query Fan-Out technique that Google’s AI Mode uses. The patent, called Thematic Search, offers an idea of how AI Mode answers are generated and suggests new ways to think about content strategy. The patent describes a system that organizes related search … Read more
There’s a lot to know about search intent, from using deep learning to infer search intent by classifying text and breaking down SERP titles using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, to clustering based on semantic relevance, with the benefits explained. Not only do we know the benefits of deciphering search intent, but we also have … Read more
Let‘s be honest: AI assistants aren’t just for executives anymore. They’re the secret weapon that can make you 10x more productive than everyone else in your company. I‘ve been testing AI assistants obsessively over the past few months. I’ve found that, with the right setup, they can transform how you work. During that process, I … Read more
Listen NEW! Listen to article Sign in or sign up to access this audio feature! No worries … it’s FREE! Marketing used to rely a lot more on gut feeling. Creative directors would dream up campaigns over long lunches, and my team and I would blast messages to anyone who’d listen. We called it brand-building. … Read more
Google has fixed a bug that caused AI Mode search traffic to be reported as “direct traffic” instead of “organic traffic” in Google Analytics. The problem started last week. Google was adding a special code (rel=”noopener noreferrer”) to links in its AI Mode search results. This code caused Google Analytics to incorrectly attribute traffic to … Read more
Video in ecommerce isn’t optional anymore — it’s the bare minimum. I don’t want to read novel-length product descriptions. I want to see it, feel it, trust it. And your customers want the same. A good video does what ten blocks of text can’t. It shows off your product and convinces people to buy fast. … Read more
New research analyzing 25,000 user searches found that websites ranked #1 on Google appear in AI search answers 25% of the time. This data demonstrates that traditional SEO remains relevant, despite claims that AI has rendered it obsolete. Tomasz Rudzki, co-founder of ZipTie, studied real searches across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews. His findings … Read more
Search is changing. I hate saying that (again) because it feels cliche at this point. But, cliche or not, it is true and it is seismic. With the rollout of AI Overviews, Bing Copilot, and conversational search interfaces like ChatGPT and Perplexity, SEO is no longer just about traditional rankings; it’s about representation and visibility. … Read more
Your website strategy should help drive business and marketing objectives. For your website to work, you need to keep up with what makes a good website today. Website trends and customer expectations change rapidly. It feels like yesterday when I worked in a leading website design agency. Back then, we encouraged clients to build a … Read more
Google’s Sundar Pichai said in an interview that AI Overviews sends more traffic to a wider set of websites, insisting that Google cares about the web ecosystem and that he expects AI Mode to continue to send more traffic to websites, a claim that the interviewer challenged. AI Agents Remove Customer Relationship Opportunities There is … Read more
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If your rankings are stable but your clicks are fading, AI Overviews could be the reason. These AI-powered summaries now show up on nearly half of Google searches. While they aim to help users, they may be shifting attention away from your site. The problem is not just visibility. It is visibility without engagement. And … Read more
It feels like not that long ago, companies were just starting to talk about AI in their operations. You had highly specific use cases or industry needs, but the sweeping proclamations of “artificial intelligence will upend business as we know it” are only now feeling especially urgent. I blinked, and everything was ChatGPT. Blink again, … Read more
Is informational content still worth it in the age of AI Overviews? Discover how to rethink informational content to drive value, trust, and product impact. Source link
If you’ve watched the news recently, the possibility of a recession has captured everyone’s attention. Most reputable sources say it’s too soon to say whether or not a recession will happen, but, regardless, savvy businesses are thinking ahead and considering how their potential customers might react. To give insight into how consumer behaviors are or … Read more
