Google Announces Web Guide: The Next Step Toward AI-Powered Search

Google just announced Web Guide, and it’s happening faster than anyone expected. This experimental feature represents phase two of Google’s plan to replace traditional search results with AI-powered answers. For business owners and anyone with a website, this changes everything about how people will find your content online. Web Guide shows search results that fall […]
What Can ChatGPT Agent Do? A Complete Business Guide for 2025

ChatGPT Agent is OpenAI’s new autonomous assistant that can “think and act” using built-in tools like web browsers, spreadsheets, and coding terminals. Released in July 2025, it can handle multi-step tasks end-to-end with minimal user input. The agent excels at spreadsheet automation, data analysis, and document creation, but it’s still experimental with reliability limitations that […]
What Each LLM is Best At: A Complete Guide to Choosing the Right AI Model

Choosing the right AI model can save you hours of work and dramatically improve your results. After using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok daily for my digital marketing agency, I’ve discovered each has distinct strengths that make them better suited for specific tasks. If you’re wondering which AI subscription is worth your money, or why […]
How to Add a Video to Your Homepage: The Complete Guide for Small Businesses

You should have a video on the homepage of your website. As a small business, nothing else allows you to immediately connect with visitors and gain their trust more effectively than a homepage video. Here’s what this guide covers: the three-part structure that works (origin story, testimonials, call to action), why authenticity beats production value, […]
How to Track Website Visits from ChatGPT and AI Tools in 2025
You should be tracking your brand’s presence in ChatGPT and other large language models. At the very least, you should have filters set up in Google Analytics to catch traffic from these AI platforms. But tracking goes beyond just website visits—you also need to monitor how often your brand is mentioned in AI responses. If […]
Industry Experience: The Most Underrated Quality When Choosing a Digital Marketing Agency

When choosing between digital marketing agencies, most business owners focus on price, promises, or portfolio size. But there’s one quality that often gets overlooked—and it might be the most important factor of all: industry-specific experience. A marketing agency that specializes in your business vertical will already “know the lay of the land.” They understand your […]
When Will AI Ranking Matter More Than SEO?

The short answer: AI ranking already matters more for many businesses, and you should have started optimizing six months ago. If you’ve been seeing comments online claiming “no one uses Google anymore,” you might think ChatGPT has already won. Not quite. Google still gets more traffic than ChatGPT, but the gap is closing fast. Google’s […]
The Only Remaining SEO Hack in 2025

There’s really only one remaining SEO hack in 2025. When I say hack, I mean something you can do easily that isn’t obvious and gives you a big advantage. Back when I started SEO in 2009, the entire game was nothing but hacks. Over time, Google has gotten smarter, and now almost all those hacks […]
The Slow Death of SEO Consultants: How AI is Reshaping the Industry in 2025

The SEO consulting industry is experiencing a fundamental transformation that many practitioners refuse to acknowledge. After 16 years in the field, I’ve witnessed a dramatic shift in how clients seek and receive SEO advice. AI is dramatically changing SEO, transforming the industry rather than making human consultants disappear, but it’s reshaping the value proposition entirely. […]
The Problem with Perplexity: Why I Canceled Enterprise After One Day

Yesterday, I signed up for Perplexity Enterprise for my entire team. Today I canceled it. After spending 24 hours testing Perplexity’s features against our actual workflow needs, I discovered critical limitations that make it unsuitable for professional content creation and marketing teams. While Perplexity markets itself as a comprehensive AI research assistant that can replace […]