The question I get asked most in 2026 is: How do we measure this? How do we measure whether our brand is showing up in ChatGPT?  How do we measure [...]

Link building has to evolve. For years, SEOs measured visibility through keywords, rankings, links, and click-through traffic. Those things still matter.  But the return signal has weakened, especially at the [...]

Advertisers are starting to push back on gaps in AI Max capabilities — particularly around landing page control — as Google continues its shift away from legacy Dynamic Search Ads [...]

Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired’s Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GuYwme6pg0 Generating high-quality leads from Google Ads often comes down to one unexpected factor: speed. If potential customers have to jump through hoops to reach you, you’ll lose business [...]

Paid search platforms are getting better at deciding who should see your ads, often without relying on the keywords you choose.  As that shift accelerates, optimization is moving away from [...]

Supermetrics Powerful connector enabling seamless integration of multiple marketing platforms, offering automation, scalability, and reliable data pipelines for agencies and enterprises globallyFunnel.io Enterprise-grade data aggregation platform that centralizes marketing data, [...]

The industry has been building top-down for 30 years. Start with awareness, get in front of as many people as possible, and work them down through the acquisition funnel. The [...]

Claude Design works through . A user can ask for a pitch deck, a landing page, or a campaign visual, and the system produces a ready layout with headings, sections, [...]

Google search traffic is dropping. If you’ve spent years building organic strategies, watching it happen in real time is uncomfortable. But it’s also clarifying. I started seeing the shift across [...]

As noise levels rise, whales reduce their diving activity—effectively entering a forced fasting period that weakens them over time.From Disruption to DamageIn the narrow, 21-mile-wide funnel of the strait, military [...]

Two Alphabet-owned businesses are teaming up to find potholes and share it with cities. Waymo and Waze announced Thursday a data-sharing pilot program that will funnel pothole data collected [...]

For years, digital advertisers have followed a pattern that looks something like this: launch a campaign, wait for data to build up, look at performance metrics, and make changes accordingly. [...]

In long sales cycles, a lot of what happens after lead submission involves people. When you optimize campaigns to final sales, you’re teaching the ad platform to respond to how [...]

We’ve all seen the charts going viral on LinkedIn. They’re everywhere at this point. Multiple industry studies, even this research from Semrush, confirm that Wikipedia and Reddit are the top-cited [...]

Start with a clear yardstick; without one, promises blur and you may settle for the first slick landing page.First, verify the price is truly zero. Some builders say “free” yet [...]

Most SEO discussions today center on AI — from AI Overviews to ChatGPT and other LLMs — and the concern that they’re taking traffic from business websites, forcing a shift [...]

The biggest bottleneck on your landing page is your own opinion. Humans write copy like it’s a debate to be won. We get attached to clever lines, defend pet phrases [...]

The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned six individuals and two entities linked to a North Korean government scheme, which it alleged used fraudulent IT workers to infiltrate American companies [...]

Australian productivity software company Atlassian held layoffs as the company looks to funnel more money into AI. Atlassian announced it’s cutting 10% of its workforce, around 1,600 people, on March [...]

AI recommendations are inconsistent for some brands and reliable for others because of cascading confidence: entity trust that accumulates or decays at every stage of an algorithmic pipeline. Addressing that [...]

SEO is transitioning from rank, click, and convert to get scraped, summarized, and recommended.  We’ve entered the era of invisible attribution known as the dark SEO funnel — where traditional [...]

What is the difference between reach and impressions?Reach shows how many unique people saw your ad. Impressions show the total number of times your ad was displayed. One person can [...]

Sponsored Products remain effective for capturing high-intent shoppers. They sit directly in search results and convert well. But relying only on bottom-of-funnel traffic limits growth.If every brand competes exclusively for [...]

HubSpot can be called a fully integrated CRM. It comes with tools for automated marketing, email campaigns, landing page building, and lead tracking. Companies use the platform to capture leads [...]

Google Ads is now displaying examples of how “Landing Page Images” can be used inside Performance Max (PMax) campaigns — offering clearer visibility into how website visuals may automatically become [...]

In brief WhatsApp said Russia attempted a full block of its service on Thursday, calling the move an effort to funnel over 100 million users toward a state-owned app without [...]

There’s a dangerous misconception in B2B marketing that video is just a “brand awareness” play. We tend to bucket video into two extremes: The “viral” top-of-funnel asset that gets views [...]

Gold prices have continued to climb after breaching the symbolic $5,000 milestone earlier this week, as investors increasingly funnel their capital into safe haven assets. Rising roughly 4% on the [...]

Google is pushing more Demand Gen features (boosting shoppable and travel ads) into general availability, expanding its role as a full-funnel performance channel that blends discovery, video, and commerce across [...]

The impact is already visible in healthcare, legal services, finance, software and education. The old funnel, a linear user-driven journey where discovery happened via search engines, followed by comparison across [...]

Earning some praise from outside experts, including the American Medical Association, the new guidelines are the first iteration to directly address highly processed foods. While emphasizing “whole, nutrient-dense foods,” it [...]

The rules of search have changed. Marketing funnels aren’t meant to stall. You pour hours into creating content, refining workflows, optimizing landing pages, and protecting brand consistency. How can all [...]

Universities and research labs have long been Europe’s deep tech treasure trove. Now, academic spinouts have consolidated into a solid startup funnel worth $398 billion — and VC money is [...]

After a surge of VC investments from the 2021 bubble failed to yield strong returns from many venture firms, limited partners, such as endowments, pension plans, and sovereign wealth funds, [...]

We’ve established the AI resume as the new C-suite-level asset that defines your brand at the bottom of the funnel, and we’ve mapped the strategic landscape that shows how it [...]

I expected the dark-themed landing page to lose.  Everything I knew about conversion optimization said the light background should win.  Light themes are standard for B2B lead generation pages because [...]

LinkedIn is introducing new ad innovations designed to help B2B marketers strengthen brand awareness, personalize messaging, and accelerate creative workflows — all aimed at reaching potential buyers earlier in the [...]

For years, marketers measured digital success through impressions, backlinks and clicks. If you ranked high in search results and won the click, you had visibility and control of the funnel. [...]

On episode 331 of PPC Live The Podcast, I speak to Dale Olorenshaw, Head of Paid Media and Search at StrategiQ, who shares a painful but valuable experience involving a [...]

Google’s AI Overviews are for research, not buying. A new BrightEdge analysis of thousands of ecommerce keywords (Sept. 1-Oct. 15) found that AI results appear for research and evaluation, while [...]

In brief Assembly Bill 9138, introduced Friday in the New York State Assembly, would tax proof-of-work miners based on electricity consumption, with rates ranging from 2 to 5 cents per [...]

For years, marketers measured digital success through impressions, backlinks and clicks. If you ranked high in search results and won the click, you had visibility and control of the funnel. [...]