GEO myths: This article may contain lies
Why AI search advice spreads without proof, how to evaluate GEO claims, and which recommendations actually stand up to scrutiny.
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How Much Of Your Paid Media Budget Should Be Allocated To Upper Funnel?
Learn how to balance upper and lower-funnel budgets across paid search and social, backed by research, frameworks, and practical strategies to drive long-term growth.
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10 salary negotiation tips for search marketers
Marketing roles lack clear salary standards. These tips help you assess your value, benchmark pay, and negotiate with confidence.
Head Of WordPress AI Team Explains SEO For AI Agents via @sejournal, @martinibuster
James LePage, co-lead of the WordPress AI team, explains how SEO applies to AI agent content consumption.
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On the wall
We are story-processing creatures, and the most effective stories are often embodied in people. Living examples of the lesson we’re trying to learn and the posture we hope to model. Heroes, mentors, martyrs, examples, icons, avatars, archetypes, and even villains. Sometimes those people are fictional, living in an anecdote and refined to form a legend.
10 Ways to Use AI for SEO (+Benefits, Challenges & Costs)
Learn how to use AI for SEO, from keyword research to content optimization. Plus: benefits, common challenges, pricing, and the best AI SEO tools.
What Is Digital Marketing? Types, Examples, & Strategy
Learn what digital marketing is, explore 9 key types, and get a simple strategy checklist to grow your business online.
Google’s Mueller: Free Subdomain Hosting Makes SEO Harder via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google’s John Mueller explains why free subdomain hosting services attract spam and make it harder for legitimate sites to gain search visibility.
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Fake news and trust
Celebrity gossip, fortune-telling and superstitions are the original forms of fake news, but now it’s increasingly widespread. In every field from science to world affairs, it’s troubling to see. People who are familiar with reality can’t understand why it’s popular–in a low-trust world, why would people engage with made-up noise disguised as information? The irony
Google On Phantom Noindex Errors In Search Console via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google’s John Mueller acknowledges phantom noindex errors in Search Console reflect hidden indexing signals surfaced during Googlebot access.
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