I work in and around SEO on a daily basis. And although I’m on the content creation side of things, I can tell you with certainty that SEO budgets impact every part of the process. It’s obvious to me when companies have a clear SEO budget and when they don’t. The ones that do have…

I received 107 replies and had the opportunity to explore where people draw the line between basic and advanced skills in our industry. Here’s everything people considered advanced, ranked based on the frequency of mentions. If you’re wondering how to… Read more ›

Is SEO dead and should you panic? Or is everything a big hoo-ha and there’s nothing to worry about? Here’s everything we know about Google’s AI Overviews to date: Google’s AI Overviews are AI-generated summaries for search queries. Google aims… Read more ›

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 ›

Most marketers know the power of storytelling. Nearly all know the value of data. But here’s what many don’t: How to apply the two to persuade and motivate executives and other departments to support your mission.

It might only cost $2 in the vending machine, but that can of soda is a complicated battery. It stores the energy of the machines that were used to mine the bauxite, the ship that brought the ore to Iceland, the astonishing temperatures used to create the aluminum, then more shipping, more processing, more handling,…

A poignant definition of civilization is all the conveniences, courtesies, standards, insulation and tools that we hardly notice now but that we would miss if they were gone.

In the pre-AI world, that was true. Accurate, relevant information was rare. Curating the web’s content into more accessible formats was a real value-add. Education was the engine that fuelled growth. But today, information has become impossibly cheap. Any brand… Read more ›

As search marketers, that’s often what we think happens. But here’s what actually happened: The branch of SEO that cares about journeys like this is search experience optimization (SXO). It focuses on making a brand discoverable along all touchpoints in… Read more ›

…and those that work the worst. In this article, we’re looking at the companies that lost the greatest amount of estimated organic traffic, year over year. This is a list of the SaaS companies that had the greatest estimated monthly… Read more ›