When you're set up for success, being a mentor can be a rewarding experience for you and your mentee. Miracle’s in-depth framework presented in this week’s Whiteboard Friday covers considerations like building trust, setting boundaries,...
ChatGPT Pulse is OpenAI's latest personalized search experience that delivers curated feeds for users. With such a high level of personalization, it begs the question — could ChatGPT Pulse ads be in the near future? The post Will ChatGPT...
ChatGPT Pulse is the latest search experience launched by OpenAI. Discover what it is, how it works, and what you can expect from the Pulse experience. The post An Exploration Into the Newest ChatGPT Experience: ChatGPT Pulse appeared...
Your step-by-step guide for using vector embeddings to identify internal linking opportunities at scale so you can confidently apply these techniques to your SEO strategy.
What do Amazon, Netflix, and ChatGPT have in common? (And no, it’s not AI). It’s advertising. Like the most popular platforms on the web, from Instagram to Google, OpenAI plans to monetize its AI chat platform through paid ads. The post...
Learn how to analyze behavioral data to improve your search performance. Discover the three levels of diagnostic tools — from basic GSC data to advanced neuromarketing metrics — and how to use them to optimize the entire search journey.
Don't waste time subscribing to a bunch of SEO newsletters that you'll just delete. Check out this curated list of the top SEO newsletters worth your time! The post Time to Hit Subscribe — These Are the Best SEO Newsletters to Keep Your...
What's changed in AI and Search since 2020? Well, just about everything. Join Jo and Britney as they talk about AI hype, accessibility, picking the right models, and more in this Whiteboard Friday Revisited.
Traffic dropping and not sure why? Discover how AI-powered SEO diagnostics and predictive models can uncover issues, fix them, and drive lasting growth.
Is your traffic strategy too reliant on Google SERPs? Learn how digital PR and brand-led content can diversify your traffic and build lasting visibility beyond search.
Struggling to convert with BoFu content? Learn how to align teams, leverage AI, and use internal insights to boost conversions with proven workflows and templates.
AI is changing the way people search and interact with content online. Features like AI Overviews might help with visibility, but they also mean fewer clicks—leaving many sites with less traffic even when rankings look...
Join Purna in this week’s episode of Whiteboard Friday as she reveals how to create high-impact content using backward design, a strategic approach that prioritizes measurement to achieve better marketing results.
Struggling to manage dozens of Google Business Profiles? Learn how to claim, verify, and manage Google Business Profiles at scale. This guide provides everything you need to know to start using business groups, avoiding common pitfalls,...
In a previous post, I explained how important it is to connect ad platforms to your CRM and leverage AI-driven smart bidding strategies. Most of the technologies that power this process rely on first-party cookies. But with privacy...
TL;DR SEO isn’t dead it is expanding. Google holds 86% U.S. share. AI Overviews/AI Mode shift attention from links to answers. Clicks fall with AI summaries to 8% vs 15% for those without. Win by being cited inside summaries, not just...
Clicks are down—now what? Learn how to shift focus from traffic to conversions and prove SEO value with revenue-led strategies your stakeholders will love.
Digital PR builds brand visibility and credibility through online channels like SEO, content, and influencer partnerships. Learn how to create a strategy that drives measurable, long-term growth The post What is Digital PR? Key...
Visit any blog or scroll through LinkedIn, and you can spot it. The tone is smooth. The grammar is perfect. The structure is solid. But after a few paragraphs, you realize something is missing. It all sounds right, but says nothing. This...
Richer SERPs, Fewer Clicks Search engine results pages (SERPs) are richer than ever. With the rise of AI-generated sections, the traditional “10 blue links” are often reduced to seven or fewer, and they’re capturing far fewer clicks. In...
Landing Pages Are Crucial for Paid and Organic Traffic When it comes to digital marketing, your landing page is just as important as your traffic source. Whether you're investing in Google Ads, Meta Ads, Microsoft Ads, or building your...
20 years in SEO taught me one thing: Most people quit too soon. Here’s why the long game always wins (and how to play it).My relationship with SEO started with curiosity, a desire to understand how people search, how search engines...
The SEO industry is facing new challenges (story of my life). One of them is an old issue: Google continues to push organic results further down the page by adding more SERP features that compete with the traditional 10 blue links. It...
I recently had a conversation with a managing partner at a mortgage company that stuck with me. When I asked about her website, she said, with calm confidence: “Oh, we don’t really use the website for leads. Our business is all...
For as broad and difficult of a problem running a search engine is and how many competing interests are involved, when Matt Cutts was at Google they ran a pretty clean show. Some of what they did before the algorithms could catch up was...
On February 18, 2025 Google's Hyung-Jin Kim was interviewed about Google's ranking signals . Below are notes from that interview. "Hand Crafting" of Signals Almost every signal, aside from RankBrain and DeepRank (which are LLM-based) are...
User interaction signals Create relevancy signals out of user read, clicks, scrolls, and mouse hovers. Not how search works Search does not work by delivering results which match a query that ends at the user. This view of search is...
Google's mission statement is "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." That mission is so profound & so important the associated court documents in their antitrust cases must be withheld from...
I just dusted off the login here to realize I hadn't posted in about a half-year. Some of Yandex's old source code was leaked , and few cared about the ranking factors shared in the leak. Mike King made a series of Tweets on the leak....
Google Search performance data is the most widely used data in Search Console. This post explains in detail the data available and how Google processes it, including privacy filtering and other limitations related to serving latency,...
TechCrunch recently highlighted how Google is changing their ad labeling on mobile devices. A few big changes include: ad label removed from individual ad units where the unit-level label was instead becomes a favicon a "Sponsored" label...
Today, Search is introducing site names on mobile search results to make it easier to identify the website that's associated with each result, and we're sharing how you can indicate your preferred site name with structured data.
In 2002 we launched a page with a set of guidelines for site owners that gave an overview of best practices when it came to building a site. We called this page "Webmaster Guidelines" and it's been with us ever since. Since then we added...
The first of the Search Central Live events is going to happen in-person in Singapore on November 24, 2022. Registrations are now open until November 15 and we welcome you to fill out the form for a chance to secure your spot at the...
Google Search Console has a new report called HTTPS, which provides more information regarding the HTTPS status of the site and make it easier to understand which pages are not served over HTTPS, and why not. Use this report to get...