SEO & SAIO Visibility Hacks (And When They May Not Work For You)
You may be here because the last “get backlinks quick” blog you read felt a little… off. Many SEO “hacks” for gaining domain authority or inbound links for your website are increasingly getting punished by Google Core/Spam Updates, especially ...
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. ...
Measuring Search Marketing Success in the AI Age
Two questions on digital marketers’ minds these days are: “What is the impact of AI platforms on my organic search and paid search success metrics?” “What metrics should I be focused on to show digital marketing success moving forward?” Let’s ...
Ch-ch-chAInges… As AI Search Rapidly Evolves in 2025
Can you believe we’ve reached the end of the 3rd Quarter 2025? January seems both long ago and yesterday at the same time, especially in the ever-changing world of SEO/SAIO. Here’s a month-by-month recap of some of the industry’s key ...
Google’s PPC and SEO Data Double Whammies
Google’s been changing its Google Ads Serving Policy and how the company is capturing/counting AI Overviews and AI Mode data in Google Search Console. Here’s our double take on what it all means. Let’s start with the change in ...
