New Research: Search Happens Everywhere; an Analysis of 41 Websites with Significant Search Activity
For 25 years, web search meant Google (and a little bit of Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo). But in the past 2.5 years, it’s often…
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How to Overcome the “Link in Comments” Problem on LinkedIn and Other Social Platforms
Those pesky, anti-link, pro-native-content social platforms are at it again, muzzling the visibility of links anywhere and everywhere they can. Sure, they occasionally let…
The 5 Big Trends that Will Dominate Marketing in 2026
I find most end-of-year prediction and crystal ball-gazing listicles to be trash. They don’t prove their assertions, use anecdotes rather than data at scale…
The 7 Marketing Problems Pinball-Shaped Buyer Journeys Create
Last week, I showed you how Internet buyer journeys have transformed from the cleaner, more predictable funnel model of the 2000-2015 web into something…
The Pinball Customer Journey Has Replaced the Marketing Funnel
I like the marketing funnel. It’s a great analogy, and has served me well for years. I *STILL* think it works reasonably well as…
The Case for Zero-Click Content in a Zero-Trust Ecosystem
There’s a reason zero-click content has taken over your feed, your marketing strategy, and increasingly, your job description. It’s not just because it performs…
Exactly What to Measure with Lift Based Marketing Investments
How do you earn budget if attribution is dead and traffic is vanity metric? Lift-based experimentation. That’s when, rather than try to assign a…
Zero Clicks Does Not Mean Zero Sales
Look, I get it. The new world of a zero-click web, where search engines, AI tools, and social networks hoard traffic and send fewer…
Traffic Is Down; Revenue Is… Up?
It’s weird times in the digital marketing universe. For decades, traffic and sales went together like peanut butter and jelly, cacio and pepe, palak…
Why Do We Need Zero Click Marketing?
Zero Click Marketing is now a book! You can preorder it today, and you’ll get it in the fall. You’ve heard of zero click…