Organic search traffic is down 2.5% YoY, new data shows
Organic search traffic is down just 2.5% year over year — nowhere near the 25% to…
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Ubuntu's Snap Store is Under Siege from Scammers, and The Gates are Open
Malicious actors are doing everything at their disposal to undermine modern IT infrastructure. Some are motivated…
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News publishers expect search traffic to drop 43% by 2029: Report
News executives expect search referrals to drop by more than 40% over the next three years,…
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The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing
When writer Cory Doctorow introduced the term enshittification in 2023, he captured a pattern many users…
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Top 10 SEO expert columns of 2025 on Search Engine Land
The evolution of search continued to accelerate in 2025. Between GEO and AI-driven discovery, agents, and…
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The 2025 SEO wrap-up: What we learned about search, content, and trust
Perfect prompts: 10 tips for AI-driven SEO content creation From the start of the year, it…
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Thank You: 2025 Edition
If I had to choose one favorite thing about CSS-Tricks, much like the numerous hits by…
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Google to loosen pharma ad rules for AdMob authorized buyers
Google will update its Pharmaceutical policy for AdMob Authorized Buyers in January, allowing prescription drug and…
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The December 2025 edition of the SEO Update by Yoast: AI search, publisher deals & more
final SEO Update by Yoast of 2025? Our in-house principal SEOs, Carolyn Shelby and Alex Moss,…
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What are permalinks? How to optimize them for SEO
URLs instead of long, messy links filled with numbers and symbols. The idea quickly spread across…
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How industries are adapting to answer-driven search
Search performance is shifting across industries as AI systems increasingly answer first and link later, changing…
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Why ‘it’s just SEO’ misses the mark in the era of AI SEO
Most of what people are calling “AI SEO” right now is just legacy SEO with new…
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22 Linux Books for $25: This Humble Bundle Is Absurdly Good Value
Humble Bundle has a Linux collection (partner link) running right now that’s kind of hard to…
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FLUQs: Answer the hidden questions or vanish in AI search by Garrett French
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity: these are the new operating environments. Your content must be invokable inside them,…
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Google’s new AI tools automate ad reviews, reporting, and support for publishers
Google is launching a suite of updates across Ad Manager, AdSense, and AdMob to help publishers…
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14 Types of Websites You Can Build with WordPress
Do you have a great idea for an online business, but you are not actually sure…
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10 Best Free Niche WordPress SEO Plugins in 2025
WordPress is an effective platform for getting your website indexed by search engines. And, while there…
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Understanding digital marketing: explaining the basics
When you’re running an online store, digital marketing is at the center of nearly everything you…
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DOJ and Google wrap up ad tech monopoly hearing
The Justice Department and Google wrapped a two-week hearing over how to address Google’s illegal monopoly…
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Google Search serving issue in some locales
Google confirmed an ongoing issue with serving search results in Google Search. This is impacting some…
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Top Your Affiliate Marketing Game with TikTok Content
Video advertising is on the rise. But not just any video content. We’re talking “fun,” “thinking…
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Google sends 831x more visitors than AI systems: Report
Google sends publishers 831x more visitors than AI systems, according to TollBit’s State of the Bots…
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Go beyond CTR with 6 AI-powered SEO discoverability metrics
32% CTR drop after AI Overviews launched, plummeting from 28% to 19%. Position #2 fared even…
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Cloudflare offers way to block AI Overviews – will Google comply?
Cloudflare today announced a new feature that allows you signal via robots.txt whether your content can…
