2024 SEO and Content Trends: Top Predictions from 27 Industry Experts

If I told you about a local business that’s seen 239% growth since the pandemic, what channel would you guess they were leading with? Paid ads? TikTok? Blood magic? If I said “print mail,” you’d probably think blood magic was more likely. But last year, 84% of marketers said direct mail had the highest ROI…

It’s time to drop the baggage around the word “influencer.” If you’re a maw-and-paw restaurant, and a local foodie with 300 followers agrees to rave about how bangin’ your pot pie is? Mazel tov! You’re doing influencer marketing. “‘Influencer’ is just a general category for anyone that is able to get an audience to take…

Friendly doesn’t mean saying ‘yes’ all the time, or changing every policy, or giving up our principles. Friendly is how it feels, not what it does. Post Views: 311

AI agents are going to overhaul the way we think about buying and selling. Uber already did this in a small way. They organized the drivers, and now they organize the riders. Hailing a cab was already sort of anonymous, but with competition and structure, AI will continue to get better at finding the right…

Here’s the thing: We previously ran the exact same study for Wix and it did well. So we decided to replicate it for Squarespace. Quite innocuous, right? Turns out it wasn’t. Someone shared the takeaways from that post on Reddit… Read more › Post Views: 247

“Just GPT it” is all the rage right now. (Okay, okay. It hasn’t caught on just yet. But my Uber driver said it, and I hope it sticks.)  But our marketing leader this week isn’t sweating it. She doesn’t think SEO is going anywhere. “I remember when people were saying up to 50% of queries…