“How’s our deliverability doing? Oh, it’s really strong—we’ve seen a delivery rate of 98% for the last few email campaigns, with only a small handful of bounces.” If you’ve ever heard someone say this sentence, you’ve witnessed someone fall for the often-confused difference between email delivery rate and email deliverability. Deliverability is not the same … Read more
Trying to get your startup off the ground can be tricky, especially when you have a unique, one of a kind idea. After all, you need to pay for product creation, testing, website costs, and marketing, all before you’ve likely made a single sale! Needless to say, things can start getting expensive and fast. That’s … Read more
Google has updated its guidance on core algorithm updates, providing more detailed recommendations for impacted websites. The revised document, published alongside the August core update rollout, includes several additions and removals. New Sections Added The most significant change includes two new sections: “Check if there’s a traffic drop in Search Console” and “Assessing a large … Read more
Getty Images announced an updated AI model for their image generator that generates images faster and with a higher quality. The changes benefit users of Generative AI by Getty Images and also Generative AI by iStock. Fully Licensed High Quality Images The Getty AI generated images are trained on their own content which means that … Read more
I know, we can’t go two minutes without hearing “AI” – much like in the early days (years) of “mobile” and “social media.” In these early days of the generative AI era, creatives is an area where we’re seeing rapid development for advertisers. We saw this at Google Marketing Live this year, too, with new … Read more
Whether there’s an ideal blog post length for SEO has been the subject of debate for as long as search engines have been on the web. If I may borrow a phrase from Google itself, the answer to that question is “it depends.” The two main variables to consider when deciding how long your posts … Read more
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Google’s Danny Sullivan disputed the assertions made in a Reddit discussion that Google is showing a preference for Reddit in the search results. But a Redditor’s example proves that it’s possible for a Reddit post to rank in the top ten of the search results within minutes and to actually improve rankings to position #2 … Read more
I don’t see ranking factors anymore. All I see is user satisfaction. A series of tweets from Danny Sullivan, search liaison at Google, about doing things for Google vs. users set the SEO scene on fire. The main point: Focus on users, not Google. Screenshot from X (Twitter), March 2024 (Image Credit: Kevin Indig) Every … Read more
Vetted.ai is one of many AI chatbots that are gaining traction in Google search. It’s not much, maybe 10,000 monthly visits, but Google found the site to be the best result for ~100 keywords. Trend: growing. Organic traffic and top 3 keywords for vetted.ai (Image Credit: Kevin Indig) A click on one of Vetted AI’s … Read more
Which vs. Shopify: Wix is the right website for you to start your ecommerce journey? Wait, let me try that again. Wix vs. Shopify: Which is the right website for you to start your ecommerce journey? You’ve crafted your perfect product. You’ve taken all the advice from Greta and the Start & Scale course, meticulously … Read more
Google Search Generative Experience (SGE) was set to expire as a Google Labs experiment at the end of 2023 but its time as an experiment was quietly extended, making it clear that SGE is not coming to search in the near future. Surprisingly, letting Microsoft take the lead may have been the best perhaps unintended … Read more
One thing that is true about any business, regardless of the industry, is that there is a ton of jargon to get your head around. I mean, even the term jargon can be quite confusing! A common terminology confusion you will come across early in your journey is revenue vs profit. The two terms are … Read more
Strategy vs. tactics—what’s the difference? Many people might roll their eyes and wonder, “Does it even matter?” Yes, yes it does. Strategies and tactics play an important part in business goal-setting and getting things done. Use them correctly to create a bullet-proof business plan that guides your team to success rather than getting smooshed in … Read more
The alleged existence of a Google Sandbox is one of the more debated topics amongst web and SEO experts. The presiding theory is that the sandbox effect is when “Google temporarily reduces the page rank of new domains, placing them into what is referred to as its sandbox, in an effort to counter the ways … Read more
The world of content creation and online influencing is rapidly changing. Gone are the days when we all turned our noses up at so-called “influencers,” often promoting pyramid schemes, dodgy deals, and fast-fashion copycats. Now, these very same influencers and creators are working with market-leading brands, and the numbers don’t lie. I mean, sure, you … Read more
Last month Elon Musk announced that Twitter’s new name is X. The name change is supposed to mark the platform’s evolution from a social media tool to an “everything app” that includes banking, e-commerce, and expanded social features. According to author Walter Isaacson, Musk has been on a mission to make fetch X.com happen since … Read more
When IOS 14 came out in December of 2021, it felt like the beginning of the end of Facebook ads. But instead, the updates ushered in a new frontier to reach your ideal customers. Facebook ads aren’t dead. They just take a different approach. In a recent foundr+ live event, we invited Nick Shackelford, the … Read more
