Google Results Issue Affects SEO Tool Makers
Rank trackers describe how they check suspect Google results, what customers see during checks, and what they say about reprocessing and past results.
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Google Ads Drops SHA-256 Hashing Requirement
Google's notice changes the future default, while current API instructions still require hashes.
AI Search
HubSpot Identifies Content Gaps For AI Visibility
Learning how to identify content gaps for AI visibility starts with a question that traditional content gap analysis doesn’t always answer: where could a brand contribute something useful to an AI-generated answer, but isn’t being mentioned or cited?
AI Search
Shoppers Rely On AI For Product Discovery But Trust Reviews
ChatGPT is where 16% of shoppers start looking for products. However, only 9% go there to actually buy something.
SEO
Ahrefs Blog Reports On Headless Content Marketing Strategy
Today, your content pages are grist for the AI mill, their contents scraped from the page, blended together with competing pages, and shown to the user—if you’re lucky—in a context and format controlled entirely by a third party. Forgotten is … Read more ›
SEO
MarTech Reports ChatGPT Sends Less Traffic Than Google
ChatGPT visitors converted at a higher rate, but Google organic still drove 27 times as many conversions as all LLMs combined.
Content Strategy
Banana Republic debuts TikTok content series in bid for younger shoppers
The effort spotlights various styles and arrives as parent Gap Inc. continues to emphasize entertainment marketing.
