Google Ads Liaison Ginny Marvin recently published an extensive piece outlining more than 40 new innovations across Google Ads, Analytics, creative tooling, AI, lead generation, and measurement. While the updates span everything from conversational AI to predictive attribution, the bigger story underneath the announcements is much more significant. Google is steadily reshaping advertising around intent […]
Content must go beyond surface-level answers to stand out as AI summaries take over more basic search queries. That’s according to Nick Fox, Google’s senior vice president of Knowledge & Information, who was interviewed at Google Marketing Live 2026 by Semafor editor-in-chief Ben Smith. What hasn’t changed. Fox said the way to rank in AI […]
Most content meets users exactly where they are. Someone searches “best MBA programs” and gets a roundup of MBA programs. But sometimes the highest-value content challenges the query’s premise. This introduces the concept of surfacing alternatives that users didn’t know to ask about. Intentionally expanding a user’s awareness beyond their assumed path doesn’t always take […]
On Thursday, the Google Search Console link report broke. For many it showed no links at all, and for others, it showed a drop of almost 90% of the links that Google reported they had a week prior. Google confirmed the issue and decided to show old link data, while it works on fixing the […]
Across large enterprise websites, dozens of stakeholders can push live changes at any time: SEO teams, developers, content editors, product managers, PR teams, UX designers, and more. One of the biggest frustrations is discovering those changes after they’ve already impacted performance. Maybe a CMS template update quietly removes a core content component from hundreds of […]
AI has become part of nearly every industry, integrated into apps, company processes, and everyday life. As someone who’s been doing local SEO since it became a thing, I’m seeing a major shift in how people search and the answers they get. In the good old days, the average local business could rank well by […]
Google Ads reports and PPC competitor analysis can show declining performance, but not what caused it. In fast-evolving paid search, reacting to performance drops after they happen isn’t enough. You need to identify the signals behind those changes before they impact results. A competitor might increase bids on your core keywords. A new advertiser could […]
Yoast SEO Premium 27.6.1 is out now. This release contains a security fix affecting the Redirect Manager in Yoast SEO Premium. The good news: the vast majority of users are not impacted. If you’re a customer of Yoast SEO Premium, Yoast WooCommerce SEO, or Yoast SEO AI+, please read on. Are you affected? The vast majority of customers are not impacted. Your site is only potentially […]
Key Takeaways AI lead generation works best as a system, not a collection of separate tools. The three core layers are data, activation, and optimization. Traditional lead gen breaks at scale because teams fragment strategy across locations, operate in silos, and rely on manual budget decisions. Local search carries the highest purchase intent in digital […]
Each month, we host an SEO update covering the latest in search and AI. In this edition, Carolyn Shelby and Alex Moss discussed Google’s latest AI-driven changes, the impact of AI on content creation, and why simply publishing more content is no longer enough, and could even backfire. Read this recap for the highlights or […]
