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.
Topic: Google
DuckDuckGo usage stats
Interesting DuckDuckGo usage stats. Includes data on searches, market share, employees and more.
3 SEO priorities to win organic traffic in 2027
Prioritize commercial content, make your best answers easy to extract, and build authority signals for organic and AI search visibility.
What your Google Ads hour-of-day report doesn’t tell you
Smart Bidding sees the auction-level signals your hourly report can’t. Know what you’re giving up when you cut an hour.
Microsoft Bing usage and revenue stats (new data)
Interesting Bing user stats. Includes data on visits, revenue, market share and more.
Video SEO: The complete playbook
Video SEO is critical to standout among video content. Check out this ultimate guide to ranking your videos in YouTube (and in Google).
Gemini 3.8 Flash rolling out in Google Search
This too is first rolling out AI Mode for Google AI Pro & Ultra subscribers in English, like we saw with 3.7.
Google avoids AdX breakup in ad tech antitrust case
Judge keeps the monopoly finding intact, but chooses behavioral remedies over a forced AdX sale, preserving Google's ad exchange.
Lily Ray on why shortcuts rarely win in SEO or AI search
From buying links to AI search, Lily Ray shares why lasting visibility comes from E-E-A-T, real expertise and earning recommendations.
25 creative ways to find new content ideas
25 easy ways to find LOTS of new content topic ideas, including tools and strategies.
10 important SEO metrics to track
Learn exactly how to track your SEO efforts. Includes actionable info and lots of real-world insights.
SEO strategy template
Free SEO strategy template to help you create a long-term approach for increasing search engine traffic to your site.
Evolving SEO for 2027: What still needs to change
Search visibility now extends from Google results to AI citations and community conversations. Here’s where to focus your SEO effort in 2027.
Google Trends adds category filters
You can now filter Google Trends by pre-defined categories, without having to enter a query.
What makes a good listicle?
New research into 3,000 listicles reveals the signals associated with higher rankings — from freshness to explicit item counts.
Google Analytics showing zero traffic on Sept. 1
This seems like a widespread bug impacting a lot of GA4 accounts.
Google AdSense to change how it counts impressions: Begin-to-Render
This change is happening on February 17, 2027 and will result in a change in total impressions.
10 technical SEO audit mistakes that lead to bad recommendations
Your crawler can find the symptom. Your audit needs to explain the cause, why it matters, and what should happen next.
Google vs. Microsoft AI Max: What’s the same and what’s different
Learn where the platforms align, where controls and reporting differ, and how to test AI features without disrupting campaign performance.
Anthropic AI watermarking: What it means for content and SEO
Confused by the AI watermark debate? Cut through the noise with a clear look at what Claude changed, why it matters, and what's being missed.
Calls and clicks keep falling as Google Maps becomes the destination
New findings show rankings remain stable while customer behavior changes, making profile quality and reviews critical for local visibility.
Google Search Console AI performance reports and Search generative AI control rolling out globally
After a few months of slowing rolling out these features, everyone should soon have access to them.
5 steps to building Reddit authority for Google and ChatGPT visibility
Reddit can reveal why people choose, reject, or question a brand. Turn those insights into better content for organic and AI search.
Google is dynamically expanding AI Overviews for some queries
This behavior pushes down the core search results and gives you an AI Mode type of experience within the main Google Search interface.
Greg Finn on 20 years of PPC: From exact match to AI Mode
Greg Finn reflects on 20 years of PPC, from exact match and Smart Bidding to automation, AI Mode and why authenticity will matter more than ever.
Top 100 most visited websites in the world (June 2026)
Discover the web's top 100 destinations by monthly visits. Use it for digital marketing insights or to satisfy your curiosity.
Google says better YouTube creative can more than double ROI
Google’s new YouTube creative guidance highlights the ad elements associated with stronger conversions and ROI.
Google announces October changes to Display & Video 360 API
Google’s DV360 changes remove targeting exclusions and add new business identity requirements for YouTube responsive ads.
More leads or better leads? Optimize for what your business needs
Form fills don't tell ad platforms what makes a lead valuable. Deeper-funnel signals can improve lead quality and campaign performance.
Use Claude for SEO. Don’t let Claude do SEO.
Claude can accelerate research, analysis, and drafting, but SEO execution still needs human judgment to avoid costly mistakes.
7 ways to use AI for the SEO work that matters
Find higher-value SEO tasks where AI can give you an edge, from experiments and gap analysis to tools and digital PR.
Link building in 2027: 13 ways to win or fail
Link volume tells only part of the story. See what separates earned authority from spam, recycled ideas, and pitches destined for the trash.
Google won’t respect manual actions for site reputation abuse in European Economic Area
Searchers outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), the manual action will apply but not within the EEA.
YouTube stats: How many people use YouTube?
In-depth analysis of how many users YouTube currently has. And up-to-date demographic info on the video platform's massive user base.
Listicle: An essential guide to writing list-based content
Everything you need to know about writing Listicles that get traffic and social shares.
Google expands Demand Gen with messaging ads, travel tools and AI video creation
Google's Demand Gen tools aim to shorten the path from discovery to conversion while making it easier to scale creative across campaigns.
Google’s August 2026 spam update hit rankings harder than normal
Google's spam update caused exceptional search disruption, with dramatic ranking losses across 20 industries, according to SE Ranking data.
Moving from Google Display to Demand Gen: What you’ll lose and gain
New inventory and AI-powered creative come with trade-offs. See which controls and capabilities change in Demand Gen.
Reddit is the keyword research tool you’re probably not using
Use Semrush to mine Reddit's rankings for content gaps, unanswered questions, and opportunities to strengthen your search visibility.
Your images have a new job in AI search
AI doesn't see your images the way a human does. See what it detects, what it misses, and whether the page confirms the right story.