Tag: Marketing and SEO

rankingCoach Lands Default Placement on WordPress via Extendify Partnership

Cologne-based rankingCoach has struck a deal to install its BeyondSEO plugin by default through Extendify, the onboarding platform hosting providers use to set up WordPress sites. The plugin currently has just over 3,000 active installations, and arrives as AI Overviews cut click-through rates on top-ranking pages by 58%. A German marketing software company has bought […]

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Semrush launches a framework for measuring brand visibility in AI search as the old SEO playbook breaks down

Summary: Semrush launched a Brand Visibility Framework at Adobe Summit introducing “Agentic Search Optimisation” as a new discipline for measuring brand presence across AI-generated answers, traditional search, and autonomous AI agents, drawing on 213 million LLM prompts. The framework arrives as organic click-through rates have dropped 61% on queries with AI Overviews, 62% of brands […]

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Google classifies back button hijacking as spam, enforcement starts June 2026

In short: Google is classifying “back button hijacking” as spam, targeting sites that abuse the browser History API to trap users when they try to navigate away. Enforcement begins 15 June 2026, with penalties ranging from manual spam actions to algorithmic ranking demotions. Site owners are liable even when the offending code comes from third-party […]

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BlueConic joins Databricks Marketplace to bring real-time marketing decisions to the lakehouse

Enterprises have spent years and considerable fortunes building data lakehouses, training models, and unifying customer records inside platforms like Databricks. The harder problem, it turns out, is not building the intelligence but deploying it, getting a prediction out of a data warehouse and into a marketing decision before the moment passes. BlueConic, the Boston-based customer […]

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How AI is changing SEO tools: Citation tracking, GEO & AI visibility

If you’ve been feeling like the ground is shifting under your feet in search right now, you’re not imagining it. Twelve months ago, AI in SEO meant one thing: content generation. Every platform rushed to add a “write with AI” button, and the industry spent its collective energy arguing about whether Google would penalize AI-written […]

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