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Are we chasing AI visibility at the expense of business results?
Every AI visibility gap looks like a content opportunity. Which ones are worth pursuing? Prioritize customer insights and business goals.
After the lift test: Make incrementality part of weekly PPC reporting
Don't let lift test findings sit in a slide deck. Use incremental CPA, lift estimates, and budget decision rules to improve PPC performance.
How to measure the full value of paid media beyond ROAS
Account for overlooked revenue, improve bidding with weighted conversions, and measure brand lift to strengthen the case for your ad spend.
SEO can’t fix a broken sales process
Before blaming lead quality or investing in more traffic, trace what happens after a visitor lands on your website and makes an inquiry.
3 in 4 homepages lost organic clicks: An analysis of 110 sites
A drop in homepage clicks isn't necessarily a brand problem. See how to explain the decline to clients and better measure organic performance.
Microsoft Clarity gains agentic analytics, brand agents and Ask Clarity
Microsoft Clarity starts analyzing and processing agentic activity.
Is Google poisoning more than just search results?
Scrapers are running three to five times as many searches to bypass Google's defenses, potentially distorting the SEO metrics you rely on.
How to calculate share of voice (+ Why it matters for SEO)
Learn how to measure share of voice in organic and AI search—and turn that data into decisions that actually grow your brand's visibility.
walkerOS: A data collection alternative to gtag.js
Take control of your tracking data with an open source platform supporting server-side collection and integrations with GA4 and Google Ads.
How to do realistic SEO forecasting step-by-step (+ template)
Forecast your SEO traffic like a pro. This guide shows you how to model growth, predict ROI, and get buy-in. FREE templates included.
Seven top Google Analytics alternatives (Free and paid)
Explore top Google Analytics alternatives, including free and paid options. Compare features to find the best tool for your website.
What are pageviews? (How to track and improve them)
Learn what pageviews really mean, how they compare to sessions and users, and why they’re not the most important metric to focus on in your analytics.
The collapse of attribution
AI search is breaking click-based attribution. Here’s how to measure visibility, demand and business impact.
Your 2027 guide to SEO reporting and tracking
Go beyond rankings and clicks with data connecting SEO performance to revenue, conversions, AI visibility, citations, and business impact.
SEO attribution is still broken. Stop trying to make it perfect.
You don’t need to reconstruct every touchpoint. You need enough evidence to understand what’s contributing to the outcome.
Measuring AEO: A 3-layer attribution framework
LLM referrals capture only part of AEO’s impact. Connect AI search visibility to the traffic, demand, and revenue signals beyond the click.
Smarter ways to visualize search marketing data in 2027
Better data storytelling puts performance changes in context, surfaces hidden patterns, and gives stakeholders a clearer path forward.
SEO report template: Show results, save time, get buy-in
Simple, free monthly SEO report template to demonstrate the true value of your SEO efforts. (Not just your keyword rankings.)
How to use Claude to run a stronger CRO audit
Claude can sort CRO data, surface patterns, and organize findings, but human judgment is still needed to validate conversion problems.
How to use multiple MMMs to make better paid media decisions
Compare MMM outputs to expose hidden assumptions, surface uncertainty, and identify which budget decisions need further testing.
The 11x ROAS account that lost money on every order
High ROAS can mask negative contribution, weak incrementality, and costly inventory decisions. Here's how to measure what really matters.
The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year
ChatGPT surged 48% while Bing fell 50% in U.S. traffic. See which sites gained, which lost, and what the latest data means for SEO.
The SEO warning signs before organic traffic falls
A healthy traffic graph can mask lost commercial visibility. Find the signals hiding in your rankings, queries, landing pages, and leads.
10 important SEO metrics to track
Learn exactly how to track your SEO efforts. Includes actionable info and lots of real-world insights.
Stripe revenue and growth statistics
Important stats about Stripe. Includes key statistics on country-by-country availability, valuation, investments and more.
Building an AI agent for ad management: The hard part isn’t the AI
Confident mistakes, noisy alerts, and conversion lag reveal what it takes to build an AI agent you can trust with paid media.
Google analytics 4 (GA4): Ultimate guide and tutorial
Master Google Analytics 4 for your marketing campaigns. Learn how to get set up and navigate around the platform.
Your paid media ROAS isn’t 5x. Or 2x.
Your platform claims the sale, your backend gives credit elsewhere, and neither can tell you if the ad caused it. Incrementality does.
Microsoft Clarity AI Scrape-to-Referral insights report
This report shows you the AI scrape activity against referral traffic as a metric to help you determine of that bot activity returns value.
How to use MCP to get more data from the tools you already use
Your SEO tools already contain the answers. MCP makes it easier to ask questions your dashboards weren't built to handle.
A 5-layer framework for measuring AI search performance
Traditional attribution misses part of the AI buyer journey. Measure access, visibility, demand, referrals, pipeline, and revenue.
Microsoft Clarity adds branded and non-branded AI queries
You can now see numerous AI analytics reports broken down by branded and non-branded queries.
Attribution vs. incrementality: Why you need both
Attributed conversions don’t always equal incremental growth. Knowing the difference can lead to better campaign and budget decisions.
How SEO reduces blended customer acquisition costs
SEO’s value extends beyond organic conversions. See how it supports other channels and improves acquisition efficiency over time.
How to report PPC performance without lying to yourself (or your boss)
The way you present PPC data shapes business decisions. Avoid misleading metrics, outdated benchmarks, and reporting that lacks context.
How to report SEO results executives actually care about
If your reports still lead with rankings and traffic, you may be proving SEO performance while failing to prove business value.
How ad platforms count and report conversions differently
Your ad platforms don't have to agree to be useful. Learn what different attribution methods are actually telling you.
How to justify GEO investment without perfect attribution
You don’t need perfect attribution to prove GEO’s value. Track the metrics that connect it to business growth and measure what matters.
Why marketing mix modeling is still hard to get right
Open-source tools have made MMM more accessible, but reliable results still depend on clean data, thoughtful modeling, and human expertise.
Bad data used to mean bad reports, now it means poor ad delivery
Your conversion data doesn't just power reporting. It shapes who Google targets, how much it bids, and where your budget goes.