AI Overview’s Dangerous Fails + a Life Lesson

AI Overviews is meant to quickly deliver information to searchers, but it is delivering misinformation that ranges from plain bizarre to perilous to public health. Miriam rounds up some of the oddest AI overviews that have been spotted, explains why we’re being exposed to this feature and focuses on a famous reality-check anecdote.

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How to Strengthen Your Brand's Authority — Whiteboard Friday

Discover proven strategies for strengthening your brand's authority in 9 easy steps. From product excellence (featuring Tony's Chocolonely) to customer service mastery (like Amazon), learn how successful brands maintain their edge. This guide covers essential elements, including brand identity, omnichannel content strategy, customer advocacy, and adaptable marketing approaches. Perfect for marketing leaders looking to enhance their brand's presence and authority across digital channels.

Where Can You Go to Learn Local SEO?

Image credit: Fattoria la Maliosa In 2023, I’ll have been studying local SEO for 20 years, and I definitely still won’t know it all. If you’re just entering this fine and spacious field of local search marketing, welcome to what will be a habit of lifelong scholarship. In the next 20 years, you’ll see as many (or more) changes than we’ve witnessed in the nascent decades of this discipline. You’ll study how to lay a feast of options before the local businesses you market, regularly setting out new dishes as new promotional opportunities arise. Your education is what will keep this buffet fresh and hot while keeping you enthusiastic about your work. Here’s the view from my side of the table of what’s happened culturally over the past two decades in the industry: we started out from a real place – marketing quite actual local businesses – and have come to prize their qualities of realness more with each passing year as we’ve learned to prioritize owner expertise, their earned authori...

How to Identify and Refresh Outdated Content

When someone regularly adds new content to their sites, they face an inevitable question: What happens to my older articles? The way blogging works is really unfair to your past work: It gets buried in archives, losing traffic and relevance. Is there a way to keep your content always up-to-date? Yes, but first let’s discuss the why. Why update your content? Keeping your content fresh and updated is more than overcoming the unfairness of your past work fading away. It's actually a legit marketing tactic that saves money and makes your users’ on-site experience smoother. So let’s dive into why updating old content is so important: 1. User experience The most obvious reason is that you want each of your site pages to be an effective entry landing page: Outdated content and broken links will likely result in bounces. These are lost leads and clients. 2. Search engine optimization When it comes to SEO, content updates offer quite a few advantages: Maintaining more consisten...

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