Search Engine Marketing

Why your brand isn’t making the AI recommendation set

We’ve been flooded with generative engine optimization (GEO) advice over the last couple of years – from checklists for AI citations to signal frameworks and technical guides explaining how to structure content for large language models. Most GEO advice converges around the same idea: If you want to be visible in AI-generated answers, you need to

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Why good content still loses in Google Search

Create helpful, high-quality content, and you’ll rank. That’s been the prevailing wisdom in search for over a decade. But “create great content” was always an incomplete recommendation. It treated one input in a multi-layer ranking system as the entire strategy.  Content can be well researched, technically accurate, and aligned with search intent, and still struggle

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How to eliminate the skepticism tax in marketing data

Marketing teams often operate with a hidden skepticism tax. Because they don’t fully trust their data, they spend enormous amounts of time cleaning spreadsheets, reconciling conflicting reports, and second-guessing both attribution models and AI outputs. The result is slower execution, weaker alignment across teams, and decisions built on uncertain foundations. Take branded search. It often

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The next era of link building is citation optimization by Citation Labs

Link building has to evolve. For years, SEOs measured visibility through keywords, rankings, links, and click-through traffic. Those things still matter.  But the return signal has weakened, especially at the top of the funnel. The bigger shift is how your prospective customers solve problems. Buyers* no longer have to compress a question, constraint, fear, or

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Data Shows AI Overviews Exposing Negative Reviews Without User Intent. What To Do Next via @sejournal, @EraseDotCom

Discover the importance of AI in reviews and brand visibility. Learn how AI tools affect perceptions in our latest review. The post Data Shows AI Overviews Exposing Negative Reviews Without User Intent. What To Do Next appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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HubSpot Stock Crashed 19% – What It Means For Partner Agencies via @sejournal, @gregjarboe

The difference between durable expertise and replaceable tactics has never mattered more for HubSpot partner agencies. Here’s how to tell which one you’re selling. The post HubSpot Stock Crashed 19% – What It Means For Partner Agencies appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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