What 10 years of PPC testing reveals about breaking best practices
Stop chasing ‘best practice’ gains. These tested tactics show where real performance lifts actually come from in modern PPC.
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Why Your New SEO Vendor Can’t Build on a Broken Foundation via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW
Why inherited technical debt, content quality, and link history limit early SEO gains despite new expertise.
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When server-side tagging makes sense for your brand
As data loss grows, brands are rethinking tracking. Explore when a server-based setup delivers cleaner data and stronger ad optimization.
Google’s CEO Predicts Search Will Become An AI Agent Manager via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google’s CEO says that informational queries will become agentic search and that search itself will be an agent manager.
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Attention and effort
The door-to-door salesperson had no leverage. If he was at your door, he wasn’t at anyone else’s door. Every minute you spent with him was a minute he had to spend with you. While it was a tough gig, no one doubted that something was motivating this person enough to put at least as much
Breaking Content & SEO Silos To Build Entity Authority in AI Search
Discover the importance of AI search in modern marketing. Learn how to close the gap between content and SEO teams for success.
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OpenAI, Meta, ByteDance Lead AI Bot Traffic In Publishing via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Akamai breaks down which AI bots are hitting publishing, who operates them, and why fetcher bots may pose a more immediate risk.
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The ecard virus
Three of my friends got hacked this week. You get an ecard and click. It asks you to log in to your email. Boom, done. It hacks your email account, steals all of your contacts and then sends itself to the whole address book. And while they’re at it, they could be scraping and misusing
HubSpot rebrands its flagship conference from Inbound to Unbound
After declaring inbound dead last year, HubSpot is renaming its annual conference to something less limiting.
AI bot traffic surged 300%, hitting publishers hardest: Report
AI fetcher bots siphon traffic and revenue from publishers, delivering real-time answers that bypass your site and cut referral visits.