Content audits, content gap analysis, thought leadership, blogging strategies, content optimization, keyword research strategies (TOFU/MOFU/BOFU)
You’ve worked your behind off to get your website to the top of Google’s rankings. But while 96% of AI citations come from sources with strong E-E-A-T signals, most top-ranking pages lack the structural architecture AI systems need to extract and cite them. Your rankings dashboard might look pristine, but in the world of AI-powered search:…
Here's the thing nobody's talking about: ChatGPT just got a lot more comfortable for the average user, and that should terrify anyone who's been relying on traditional search traffic. OpenAI recently rolled out Top Stories and visual knowledge panels inside ChatGPT, making the interface look less like a blank conversation window and more like… well,…
Here's the thing about service pages in 2026: they're no longer being read primarily by humans making buying decisions. They're being evaluated by AI agents determining whether you're worth surfacing to those humans in the first place. Google's SAGE (Search-Augmented Generation Engine) project has fundamentally changed how search works. Instead of matching keywords and ranking…
The digital marketing landscape has fundamentally shifted, and here’s the data that proves it: 65% of AI chatbot conversations have absolutely nothing to do with buying anything. This isn’t speculation: it’s the hard reality uncovered by Dan Petrovic’s comprehensive December 2025 analysis of 3.9 million AI conversation turns. For SEO professionals and content marketers, this…
Here’s the thing: the way AI search engines find and deliver information has fundamentally changed, and most content creators have no idea it’s happening. When you type a query into Google’s AI Mode, ChatGPT, or Perplexity, you’re not just triggering a single search. You’re launching an entire fleet of searches. Behind the scenes, artificial intelligence…
Traditional SERP visibility is no longer the only measure of SEO success. In 2026, winning organic search requires tracking brand mentions in AI overviews, measuring entity performance, and monitoring trust signals across multiple platforms where your audience discovers content.
Traditional SEO is fundamentally broken for 2026. When AI overviews dominate search results, users click through to traditional websites only 8% of the time. The game has changed from optimizing for clicks to optimizing for citations: and most businesses are completely unprepared. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: AI systems now summarize and cite content rather than…
Google just fundamentally changed how content gets discovered: and 87% of SEO professionals are still operating under outdated assumptions. At Google Search Central Live in Zurich, Google’s Trust and Safety team dropped a bombshell that’s reshaping the entire digital marketing landscape: Google Discover now operates with “minimal alignment to search ranking.” This isn’t a minor…
Google's December 2025 core update has fundamentally changed the search landscape, delivering a decisive blow to thin content across the web. Starting December 4th and completing its rollout over approximately 12 days, this algorithm update has sent shockwaves through the SEO community: particularly for e-commerce sites that relied on minimal-value pages to capture search traffic.…
That blog post you published two years ago? The one that used to rank on page one and drive hundreds of visitors every month? It’s probably dying a slow death right now. Welcome to content decay—the silent killer of organic traffic. What Is Content Decay? Content decay happens when previously high-performing content gradually loses its…