SEO & Search News July 29, 2026
For two years the advice was “get on Reddit.” This summer that bet lost almost half its value. Here’s what the shake-up really means, and why it doesn’t change the fundamentals.
Read more → Local SEO July 22, 2026
Whitespark's local update, with a leader running ~700 locations, on how AI is reshaping local search right now.
Read more → Local SEO July 21, 2026
Whitespark on a real shift: AI now reads your reviews as evidence, which changes how you should ask for them.
Read more → AI Search July 6, 2026
Rand Fishkin cuts through the 'GEO' hype: it's not a new field, it's brand-first SEO applied to a new surface.
Read more → Local SEO July 5, 2026
Google quietly put its Gemini AI inside Google Business Profile. Useful, but convenience isn't the same as strategy.
Read more → SEO & Search News July 4, 2026
Irwin How reviewed 70,000 websites and found the same gap over and over: plenty of traffic, not enough conversion.
Read more → AI Search July 3, 2026
Whitespark's blunt reminder: low-effort AI content, 'slop,' isn't fooling Google or the people who land on it.
Read more → SEO & Search News July 2, 2026
Edward Sturm exposes an ugly, growing attack: fake copyright takedowns that quietly remove real pages from Google.
Read more → AI Search July 1, 2026
Whitespark showed something every owner should test: three AI assistants, one business, three different, sometimes wrong, answers.
Read more → SEO & Search News June 7, 2026
Edward Sturm makes the case that image SEO, the boring stuff most sites skip, is quietly a real traffic channel.
Read more → Local SEO June 6, 2026
A change every local business owner should hear: Google is now asking reviewers whether a business offered a reward for their review.
Read more → Measurement June 3, 2026
For the first time, Google will show you how your site performs inside AI Overviews and AI Mode. That's a big deal.
Read more → AI Search June 3, 2026
Whitespark on the next shift: AI agents that don't just answer questions, they take action, on your customer's behalf.
Read more → AI Search June 2, 2026
Every few months a headline declares Google Search dead. Edward Sturm cut through the latest round with the nuance nobody's saying.
Read more → Local SEO May 6, 2026
A Google Maps change in Europe is a useful signal for the rest of us about where review moderation is heading.
Read more → AI Search May 5, 2026
Edward Sturm on the AI-SEO trap: it looks like a rocket for a few months, then Google's spam policies catch up.
Read more → Measurement May 3, 2026
GA4 has a reputation for being painful. Its new native AI quietly fixes a lot of that, Edward Sturm says.
Read more → AI Search May 2, 2026
Edward Sturm showed that ChatGPT quietly runs web searches before it answers, and you can see them. That changes the game.
Read more → SEO & Search News May 1, 2026
Seer Interactive's Wil Reynolds said the quiet part loud: most SEOs are “loopholeists,” not marketers, and it's why they get wrecked.
Read more → SEO & Search News April 8, 2026
Edward Sturm dug into the March core update and found a lot of the 'growth' everyone celebrated was a tool glitch.
Read more → AI Search April 2, 2026
Edward Sturm highlighted a shift a lot of businesses will be glad to hear: in AI answers, your money pages are winning the citation.
Read more → SEO & Search News April 1, 2026
Edward Sturm resurfaced a piece of SEO history that's still costing agencies today, and why the honest version of guest writing still has a place.
Read more → SEO & Search News March 18, 2026
In a long talk with Edward Sturm, Lily Ray laid out where search is heading. It lines up with how we've always worked.
Read more → AI Search March 16, 2026
The ChatGPT ads everyone dreaded arrived, and they're less invasive than the rumors. Here's what actually matters.
Read more → Local SEO March 14, 2026
Google released official, industry-specific guides for getting the most out of your Business Profile. Here's what changed, and what still takes a human.
Read more → SEO & Search News March 13, 2026
Edward Sturm broke down how a company ranked #1 with barely any backlinks. The lesson holds for any business.
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