AI systems are now answering questions about your business. The problem is that they are often getting it wrong. Consider the typical situation. A brand’s products, services, expertise, locations, leadership, and relationships are distributed across dozens of pages. An AI model retrieves fragments from those pages, stitches them together probabilistically, and generates an answer. The…
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The latest statistics from W3Techs make it clear that WordPress is losing market share while other platforms are stable or experiencing strong interest. Yet, there is reason to believe that WordPress may turn around. Quarterly Declines Since January 2025 W3Techs’ quarterly statistics show WordPress usage holding steady at about 43.0% in 2022, followed by a…
A few years ago, I was working on a large-scale global digital transformation initiative. After weeks of analysis, stakeholder interviews, audits, and performance reviews, I assembled the first draft of the executive readout presentation. The findings were direct and intentionally candid. I had sections labeled “Challenges,” “Problems,” “Risks,” and “Organizational Gaps.” To me, those labels…
Google is officially getting rid of the Display Network campaign type. The update means advertisers will eventually manage Google Display Network inventory through the Demand Gen campaign workflow instead of the traditional standalone Display campaign setup. While Google says Display inventory itself is not going away, the migration represents another major consolidation move inside Google…
The New York Knicks are headed back to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999, and that sentence still doesn’t feel real. Think about the timeline: A kid born the last time the Knicks played for a championship is now 27 years old. An entire generation of Knicks fans, including Oscar nominee Timothée…
If a user types your brand name into Google or Chrome, you might reasonably assume they are about to visit your website. Google has always been a place people pass through on the way to somewhere else, but AI Overviews are changing how long that passage takes, and what happens during it. To assess these…
Agent-readiness crossed from concept to measurable infrastructure this week. On April 17, as Cloudflare Agents Week extended into its sixth day, the company shipped isitagentready.com, a public scanner that scores any website on how prepared it is for AI agents. Paste a URL, get a score, see which checks passed and which failed, read AI-generated…
When Microsoft Clarity made AI citations available to all users, it opened up a new playground for SEOs to harvest AI visibility data. Finally, we can see the exact “grounding queries” an AI engine uses to pull our content. It raises a massive question because this is a Microsoft tool: Are the insights useless if…
Google announced two new ad formats for AI Mode during Google Marketing Live: Conversational Discovery ads and Highlighted Answers. Both formats are powered by Gemini and designed to place ads more directly inside AI-generated responses and recommendation flows. According to Google, the formats will include an independent AI explainer that synthesizes information about a product…