Google’s AI-First Announcement: Considerations & Premonitions
The big question on SEO-ers and SAIO-ers minds: What does Google's search bar expansion and AI-first announcement mean for organic search traffic? Short answer: it’s too soon to tell, especially given Google also announced a May 2026 core update of ...
Google’s Linking Enhancements in AI Search Results
It appears Google is trying to drink its own E-E-A-T Kool-Aid with respect to the 5 AI search linking enhancements being rolled into AI Overviews and AI Mode: “Explore new angles.” Here Google is anticipating potential fan-out queries and is ...
The 4 Elements of AI Search Optimization: A 2026 Framework for AI Brand Visibility & Citations
It’s hard to believe it’s only been 3 years since DBE was one of the first agencies to recognize the marketing opportunities inherent in Search AI Optimization (SAIO) and publish a framework for brands to leverage them. There have ...
Perplexity’s Answers to Marketing AI Questions
Recently, I’ve been questioning the role and capabilities of AI in various marketing- and content-related situations. So, I asked Perplexity those questions and am sharing the answers: AI & Departmental Silo Mentality In a post about the still ongoing issue ...
SEO Analytics Treasure Hunt: Tracking The Hidden Value of Your Organic Search Traffic
How’s this for a click-bait headline? “Google Analytics is lying about your organic traffic and it’s been doing it for ages.” We bit and clicked as, after all, it is germane to our core business. The reported lie is ...
What’s in a Name? That Which We Call SAIO by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet Success.
When we launched our AI optimization strategy over 2½ years ago, the search engine industry was struggling with what to call this newfangled thing. It didn’t help that the new AI platforms kept changing how they referred to themselves. ...
