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Matt McGee on the Wild West days of SEO
Matt McGee was the former Editor-in-Chief at Search Engine Land, technically my boss at this site, for a period of time. I had the honor of interviewing Matt McGee, where we spoke about the early days of SEO, something he called the “Wild…
3 SEO Mistakes That Are Making Small Businesses Invisible in AI Search
For most of the last decade, SEO meant one thing. Rank on Google, get the click and pray the visitor converts. That model is breaking in public, and small business owners are among the last to notice. A Pew Research Center study of real browsing…
AI Content Alone Won't Fix Your SEO Rankings (Here's What Will)
Most in-house SEO teams and agencies have adopted AI for content briefs, drafts, on-page recommendations, and technical audits. The output is up, but two things are happening at once, and SEO teams have to solve both: How people search has changed.
Impossible Expectations: How To Reset When Clients Seek Miracles
Every agency relationship works best when expectations are clear, realistic and grounded in strategy. But in fast-moving industries like marketing, PR and SEO, clients will sometimes expect instant growth, viral visibility and other dramatic…
Google's algorithm now penalizes the exact content strategy most brands just finished building
Tension: Brands invested heavily in scalable content production only to discover Google now devalues the very output those systems were designed to create. Noise: The SEO industry keeps recycling tactical fixes while ignoring the structural…
The Measurement Gap That's Costing Brands Their AI Visibility
Tessar Napitupulu is the founder and CEO of Arfadia, Indonesia's pioneer in generative engine optimization since 2023. Here is something that should bother every CMO reading this: According to McKinsey, only 16% of brands systematically track their…
10 AI Tools That Will Replace Your Entire Marketing Team in 2026 (and What They Can Do)
Marketing teams don't disappear overnight—but the way work gets done is changing fast. By 2026, more than a few companies will find that one AI-powered stack can cover strategy, content, SEO, design, email, ads, analytics, and even…
Everyone Is Talking About AEO, But Most Are Missing The Point
Lee Salisbury, Founder of UnitOneNine, writes about brand-building, AI, design thinking and the art of standing out. A client recently asked me to review an answer engine optimization (AEO) proposal she'd received. It was thorough, confident and…
Strategies For Turning B2B Data Into Better Decisions
B2B companies today have access to more customer and operational data than ever, from sales activity and product usage to service interactions and market signals. But collecting data is only the first step; the bigger challenge is turning that…
Korea's growth fund sells out in 4 days. Here's why markets care
Retail rush comes as W150tr growth fund channels policy money into AI chips, biotech, growth stocks South Korea's National Growth Fund is drawing attention from two corners of the market: retail investors rushing into a new state-backed product and…
How To Update B2B Prices Without Losing Long-Term Clients
Between rising costs, supply chain disruptions and market volatility, many B2B companies are being forced to rethink their pricing strategies. Raising prices may help protect margins, but it can also strain client relationships at a time when…
Video: Google May Core Update Status, Buying AI Brand Mentions, Preferred Sources In AI Responses, Google Ads, Local, Legal & More
May 29, 2026 - 8:01 am 0 — by Barry Schwartz Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
The CMO's Strategic Command Model: Engineering The Unified Agentic Growth Architecture
For decades, enterprise growth was shaped by a stable equation: Scale created leverage, brand created preference, distribution created reach and operational discipline converted market access into sustained performance. That model is now…
Google SERP Layout Shift: Position 1 Now Appears Halfway Down The Page
Ranking #1 doesn't mean what it used to. In fact, 57% of organic position-one results sit above the fold on desktop, and only about 40% do on smartphone. The takeaway from a guy who works at a rank-tracking company: rank alone is no longer enough.
Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines Not A Guide For Search Rankings
John Mueller from Google said that the Google Search Quality Raters guidelines are not a guide for search rankings. Meaning, the content in those guidelines is not a blueprint on how to rank your website in Google Search. He said this on Bluesky…
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