Digital Marketing
SEO, social, content, email, and the channels that drive online demand.
Google has started running the Top Stories carousel inside AI Overviews instead of below them, and the new AI opt-out setting in Search Console may determine who gets left out.
A new survey of 125 brand and agency professionals shows creator marketing has moved past awareness plays into seasonal campaigns, product launches and, in some cases, actual product co-development.
Anthropic's shared Claude chats turned up in Google search results this weekend, exposing a textbook conflict between robots.txt and noindex that any marketing team could replicate by accident.
Google quietly expanded its review snippet documentation with three new prohibitions on fake and undisclosed incentivized reviews, and it's spelling out manual action as the penalty.
Yes, you can change your Google Business Profile name. But Google treats a rename less like an edit and more like a confession, and the review that follows can cost you your listing.
A screenshot circulating in r/SEO shows Google hitting WindowsForum.com with a manual action for thin content, a reminder that legacy forum pages are squarely in the crosshairs.
John Mueller diagnosed a robots.txt formatting error that let Googlebot disregard a disallow rule, indexing search-spam pages a Shopify client thought were blocked.
In a CMO Mag reader poll of 30 marketing leaders, SEO and AI search edged out paid social as the channel getting the biggest budget bump for 2026, but the margin is closer than the headlines suggest.
CMO Mag asked 30 marketing leaders which channel is getting their biggest 2026 budget bump. SEO and AI search won, but the real story is what each rank actually signals.
