I’ve been excited about ChatGPT, its API, and its SEO applications – everything from local SEO to title tags and content editing. And like many (including OpenAI’s founder), I’ve also seen its limitations. While ChatGPT is remarkable, once you’ve used it long enough, you likely know the following: It frequently “hallucinates” answers, acting as if […]
As new ad solutions with in-depth data tracking emerge, the chasm between brand and performance marketing has narrowed. Connected TV, for example, creates high-impact brand awareness and can be used as a performance tool, moving viewers down the funnel. Even SEO whizzes may be surprised to find the symbiotic relationship between their current strategy and […]
The race toward AI-powered search is heating up. Microsoft has Bing Chat while Google has Bard. Yet, many are concerned about what all these developments mean for content creators and the larger publishing industry. Embracing AI in search is inevitable. But the issues causing some SEOs to grumble must also be addressed. In this article, […]
Whether they’re buying online or in a store, more shoppers rely on review content to help them make smart decisions on almost any purchase. Shopping for a new car? Face cream? Yoga mat? Rechargeable battery? Diapers? Pajamas? Peanut butter? Do a quick Google search and you’ll find a wealth of reviews, comparisons, best-of lists, worst-of […]
Google has prioritized rating chatbot prompt responses above rating the quality of search results, at least for some of its contract workers, since January, Insider reports. Why we care. Google is clearly committing a lot of resources to Bard and other AI initiatives right now. Search remains its core product – and chief money-maker – so […]
Lost in the non-story about Bing adding ads to Chat (ads were already there) was a blog post by Microsoft attempting to assure content creators that the goal of new Bing is to “drive more traffic and revenue to publishers.” “The Internet works because of an important ecosystem which starts with publishers creating great content […]
Large language models (LLMs) will eventually be part of the Google search experience. We still don’t know when conversational AI will appear in Search, but Google CEO Sundar Pichai promises it’s coming. Why we care. The new BingGPT search with integrated AI chat generated a lot of excitement, but so far has only resulted in […]
Google will soon retire four rules-based attribution models in Google Ads and Google Analytics: First-click. Linear. Time decay. Position-based. Why we care. This will impact anyone who still uses these models in Google Ads. Anything that isn’t last-click will be much harder to track because the data-driven attribution formula is different for each advertiser – […]
Google first turned to artificial intelligence and machine learning to power its search engine algorithm back in 2016. With ChatGPT‘s launch in late 2022, however, artificial intelligence truly became mainstream and significantly impacted the SEO industry. While some believe these changes have been for the better, others have argued that they have made things worse. […]
This article was co-authored by Andrew Ansley. Things, not strings. If you haven’t heard this before, it comes from a famous Google blog post that announced the Knowledge Graph. The announcement’s 11th anniversary is only a month away, yet many still struggle to understand what “things, not strings” really means for SEO. The quote is […]
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