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What Is an SEO Consultant & What Services Do They Offer?

Need a little help improving your rankings? An SEO consultant could be the answer. Chances are you already know the basics…

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The Ultimate  Content Marketing Guide in 2026

Many people feel like AI means the end of content marketing as we know it.   That couldn’t be further from the truth.  …

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Best Backlink Analysis Tools: Compare Free and Paid Options

What comes to mind when you think about creating a “good” link profile?  Search “What are backlinks,” and Google returns plenty of…

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What Is an AI Citation Audit & What Can It Tell You About Your Content

If you’ve been tracking your brand in AI tools and wondering why the data isn’t telling you anything useful, the…

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How We Rebuilt AI Visibility Measurement From The Ground Up

The first post in this series made the case that most AI visibility tracking is built on the wrong foundation:…

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ChatGPT Opens Ads for All: How to React to This Shift

For the past several months, advertising on ChatGPT meant getting an invitation. A small group of brands had access. Everyone…

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Why TikTok Is Expanding Its Premium Ads Push and What That Means for You

TikTok-native creative authenticity remains essential, even within premium placements TikTok’s 2026 IAB NewFronts presentation made one thing clear: the platform…

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Using AI to Support and Defend Your Brand

Brand management has a new problem. Everything you have built, your positioning, your messaging, your reputation, can now be summarized…

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Google Is Testing Sponsored Shops in SERPs: What This Means for Advertisers

Google is running a Shopping test that could change how brands compete for visibility in product search. If it scales,…

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Referral Traffic Is Declining for Smaller Publishers: What This Means and How to React

  Referral traffic is down, and smaller publishers are absorbing the sharpest declines. Some have seen traffic drop by as…

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How to Create and Optimize Your Robots.txt File

Think of your robots.txt file as your site’s GPS.   It tells web crawlers for search engines like Google or Bing (and now AI) where to look and what to index. That’s significant in today’s search world.…

Neil Patel

May 26

How to Create and Optimize Your Robots.txt File

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AI-Powered Lead Gen: The New Way Multi-Location, Franchises, and Global Companies Scale

Multi-location brands are generating more leads than ever. And yet, many are still struggling to turn that activity into consistent…

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Key Updates from Google I/O and Marketing Live 2026

Each year, Google hosts two major events that influence how people use the internet and how brands reach them.  The…

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12 Best Google Analytics Reports Used by Expert Marketers

If you’ve ever opened Google Analytics 4 and felt overwhelmed, you’re not alone.  GA4 replaced Universal Analytics in July 2023 and introduced…

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How to Create an AI Visibility Report with Writesonic

Here’s something that should keep marketers up at night: your buyers are researching purchases in ChatGPT and Perplexity, and most…

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Ubersuggest Keyword Ideas: What the Data Actually Tells You

Search is no longer a single-channel game. For a long time, SEO meant one thing: get found on Google. But…

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Google Search Algorithm Changes: 2026 Update

Have you noticed rankings shift after a recent update?  Keeping pace with Google’s ranking algorithm can feel like chasing a moving target. Google may tweak its algorithm thousands of times…

Neil Patel

May 6

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