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Signal, not noise.
Plain-English perspective on SEO, analytics, and AI-era visibility. I've been writing through every big shift in how people find things, and I share what's actually holding up, not the hype.
Search Optimization & Marketing
July 28, 2025 · 10 min read
Search is becoming conversational. Google’s AI Overviews, Bing’s Deep Search, and answer engines like Perplexity are changing how people discover information. Pages that rank first organically are no longer guaranteed the spotlight. SE Ranking’s AI Mode research found that only 14% of…
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Search Optimization & Marketing
July 25, 2025
There’s been a lot of buzz lately about AI-powered search and how it’s impacting organic traffic. Headlines tell you that you’re losing clicks, impressions…
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Search Optimization & Marketing
July 25, 2025
If you’ve just inherited a website — whether through an agency handoff, internal team transfer, or acquisition — you’re likely asking the same first…
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Search Optimization & Marketing
May 18, 2015
If you have been involved in search engine optimization over the past few years, you have likely come across Search Engine Land’s Periodic Table…
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Search Optimization & Marketing
May 20, 2009
Late last week I found myself watching a documentary on organized crime in New York City. Focused on the Gambino crime family, this documentary…
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Search Optimization & Marketing
October 16, 2008
Google Sitelinks is an automated program that displays between three and eight indented links for the top ranking website shown for particular search query. …
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Search Optimization & Marketing
September 10, 2008
If you’ve seen Tynt, you may think it’s cool. That is of course if you’re a 10th grader and your parents are hip enough…
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The archive runs back to 2013, through Panda, Mobilegeddon, and every shift since. Browse all posts →
Why I still write
The tools change every year. The fundamentals barely budge.
Most of what gets breathlessly announced is a remix of something that already worked. I write to separate the genuinely new from the repackaged, so you can spend your attention on what lasts.