Content Marketing and SEO

Kevin Indig reflects on his 2025 predictions, scoring the wins, misses, and lessons from AI’s first year of true deployment. The post Scoring My 2025 Predictions appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Establish trust early in the buying journey to secure placement on shortlists. Uncover a trust framework for credibility across technical, peer, and continuous value layers. The post Addressing The B2B Trust Deficit: How To Win Buyers In 2026 appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Psychological patterns behind negativity bias reveal why clickbait hooks win attention but damage long-term brand credibility. The post Negativity Bias: Why Customers Don’t Want Anything To Do With You (And What To Do About It) appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google faces an EU investigation into whether its AI practices and use of publisher content reflect an abuse of dominance. The post Google Hit By EU Probe Into Unfair Use Of Online Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Modern performance tracking requires KPIs that reflect margin, lifetime value, and pipeline contribution instead of inflated platform numbers. The post The 8 Most Important PPC KPIs You Should Be Tracking appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

YouTube launched its first annual Recap feature showing viewing stats, top channels, and personality types. North America first, global rollout this week. The post YouTube Launches First Annual Recap Feature For All Users appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Turn your landing pages into revenue drivers that enhance conversion efficiency and campaign scalability. The post How To Maximize Paid Ads Profitability With A Strategic Landing Page Audit appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Bill Hunt outlines how leading brands close the search equity gap by linking discoverability, governance, and measurable financial impact. The post The Search Equity Gap: Quantifying Lost Organic Market Share (And Winning It Back) appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Kevin Indig’s 2026 predictions reveal the end of AI dashboards, the rise of agentic SEO, and a web divided between bots and verified humans. The post 7 SEO, Marketing, And Tech Predictions For 2026 appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Learn how to track visibility with Google AIO using easy-to-follow steps for improved online presence and site performance. The post Google AI Overviews: How To Measure Impressions & Track Visibility appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's Year in Search shows AI tools led trending queries globally. Gemini ranked first worldwide, with DeepSeek appearing in both US and global lists. The post Google Year In Search 2025: Gemini, DeepSeek Top Trending Lists appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

The Internet Archive's new WordPress plugin provides an easy way to bring the Archive into the SEO workflow The post 5 Reasons To Use The Internet Archive’s New WordPress Plugin appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

CMOs must design 2026 SEO budgets that balance defensive stability with offensive growth across AI and GEO channels. The post How CMOs Should Prioritize SEO Budgets In 2026 Q1 And H1 appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

When GenAI engines rank chunks instead of pages, your long-term visibility depends on how well you balance foundational SEO with new retrieval and trust signals. The post The New Structure Of AI Era SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google Search Console is rolling out an experimental AI feature that lets you configure Search results Performance reports using natural language prompts. The post Google Adds AI-Powered Configuration To Search Console appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google Maps now lets users leave business reviews under a custom nickname instead of their real name. The setting is rolling out globally. The post Google Maps Lets Users Post Reviews With Nicknames appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

PPC Managers: Get the 2026 marketing forecast and discover how to optimize budgets and channels for effective campaigns before the new year! The post 2026 Marketing Forecast for PPC Leaders [Webinar] appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

YouTube expands title A/B testing globally to all creators with advanced features. Test up to three titles or title-thumbnail combinations per video. The post YouTube Title A/B Testing Rolls Out Globally To Creators appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Breaking news: Cloudflare is experiencing another major service disruption, causing widespread 5xx errors and connectivity issues for websites and services globally. The post Cloudflare Outage Returns, Triggering Fresh Wave Of 5xx Errors appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

This week’s SEO Pulse examines new data what drives AI citations, plus ChatGPT launches shopping research. Your quick catch-up on what practitioners need to know. The post SEO Pulse: Google Updates Console, Maps & AI Mode Flow appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Control AI visibility and server strain with a log-validated index of bots, complete with user-agent strings, official IP ranges, crawl rates, and allowlist/block best practices. The post Complete Crawler List For AI User-Agents [Dec 2025] appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google disputes a report claiming ads will arrive in the Gemini app in 2026, saying there are no current plans to add them. The post Google Disputes Report Claiming Ads Are Coming To Gemini In 2026 appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

In this Ask an SEO, Adam Riemer examines why digital PR delivers a stronger business case than link-driven tactics built for ranking manipulation. The post Ask An SEO: Digital PR Or Traditional Link Building, Which Is Better? appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

A strategic framework for diagnosing organic traffic drops by separating tracking, brand, and SEO issues through smart data segmentation. The post Why Is Organic Traffic Down? Here’s How To Segment The Data appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

A practical look at Google Ads’ 2025 releases, key takeaways for PPC managers, and what’s likely to shape strategy in 2026. The post What Google’s 2025 Year in Review Tells Us About the Future of PPC appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article