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Robots.txt and SEO: What you need to know in 2026
The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), commonly known as robots.txt, has been a web standard since 1994 and remains a key tool for website optimization today. This simple yet powerful file helps control how search engines and other bots interact with…
AI Poisoning: Black Hat SEO Is Back
For as long as online search has existed, there has been a subset of marketers, webmasters, and SEOs eager to cheat the system to gain an unfair and undeserved advantage. Black Hat SEO is only less common these days because Google spent two-plus…
Top GEO tips for AI search from Google, Microsoft, Perplexity
Artificial intelligence is transforming online search. Rather than peruse the list of long links on a search engine results page, users are increasingly being served AI overviews — snippets of content that aim to immediately answer their…
5 Growth Trends To Pay Attention To In 2026
Business team meeting and reviewing upcoming trends to plan for Recently, I was able to spend some time at the EY Strategic Growth Forum. It's been one of the top business and entrepreneurship conferences I've been to. Years ago I was fortunate to…
TikTok SEO: Why Your Videos Aren't Being Found (And How to Fix It)
TikTok processes over 140 billion video views every month. But here's what most creators miss: nearly 40% of Gen Z now uses TikTok as their primary search engine, not Google. While everyone's obsessing over the For You Page algorithm, there's an…
DataViz Kit Weekly Update: Testing New SEO Strategies
As promised in my previous post about the 3-month journey of DataViz Kit, I'm back with another post. If you remember, I mentioned having a few 'techniques up my sleeves' to try and crack the SEO code, especially since Google has been a tough nut…
AI Companions, YOLO Spend, And The Consumer Reboot Will Impact 2026
Consumer behavior is shifting again—but this time, the forces driving the change are more paradoxical, more emotional, and more culturally revealing than anything we saw in the last decade. After digging into Forrester's Predictions 2026:…
Pragmatic Approach To AI Search Visibility
Bing published a blog post about how clicks from AI Search are improving conversion rates, explaining that the entire research part of the consumer journey has moved into conversational AI search, which means that content must follow that shift in…
Retail Media Is An Afterthought For Most CPG Brands. That's Why Good Peeps Exists.
Oats Overnight storefront on walmart.com Online retailers this holiday season are trying to monetize in new ways, but the companies behind the products they sell need to pull their weight too. Many of them are still figuring out exactly how to do…
The 2026 Hotel Marketing Playbook: Trust-led Multichannel Growth (TMG) | By Chris Zhao
In 2026, here's the ultimate digital marketing playbook that I think hotels should adopt: The Trust-led Multichannel Growth (TMG) approach. Here's the breakdown: Over the past decade, hotels have mastered the mechanics of digital channels, from…
How to Build a Self-Sustaining Client Network and Turn a Real Profit
Providing ongoing services like retainers, package deals and strategic follow-ups can position freelancers for repeat business, supporting a self-sustaining network of clients. Effective communication, onboarding processes and handling mistakes…
Korean Indie 'The World of Love' Lands French Distribution Deal With The Jokers Films (EXCLUSIVE)
The Jokers Films has acquired French distribution rights to Barunson E&A's “ The World of Love,” the top-grossing independent Korean film at the 2025 local box office. The acquisition deal was negotiated between Manuel Chiche, founder…
How to Use AI to Write Better Blogs Faster in 2025
If you write online for a living (or even just for fun), you already know the pain: the research takes ages, outlines eat up your focus, and by the time you've finished editing, the topic has almost gone cold. In 2025, AI tools are less about…
South Korea pushes for draft stablecoin bill by Dec. 10 deadline
South Korean lawmakers are pressing financial regulators to deliver a draft stablecoin bill by a deadline set for later this month, as disagreements over the role of banks continue to stall progress. According to a Monday report by a local news…
The 7 Marketing Problems Pinball-Shaped Buyer Journeys Create
Last week, I showed you how Internet buyer journeys have transformed from the cleaner, more predictable funnel model of the 2000-2015 web into something shaped like a ball bouncing around a pinball-machine. These modern buyer journeys bounce back…
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