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How to Use AI to Audit Marketing Content
How to Use AI to Audit Marketing Content An effective content strategy starts with knowing exactly what you already have — and whether it’s helping or hurting your goals. A content audit helps you identify gaps, redundancies, and opportunities across all your marketing assets. AI can make this process faster, more consistent, and less tedious. This guide covers how to audit both CMS-managed content and…
SEO & PPC in 2025: Still Better Together—But the Playbook Has Changed
SEO & PPC in 2025: Still Better Together—But the Playbook Has Changed Why SEO & PPC Have Always Influenced Each Other Shared real estate = extra clicks. Google’s long running “Incremental Ad Clicks” research shows that, on average, 89 % of paid clicks are not replaced by organic clicks when ads are paused, confirming that simultaneous visibility delivers incremental traffic rather than cannibalization. Google Research Keyword & intent overlap. A…
Understanding How Large Language Models (LLMs) Work
Understanding How Large Language Models (LLMs) Work Large Language Models (LLMs), such as GPT-4 and Gemini, have revolutionized the way we interact with technology, transforming tasks from content creation to customer support. But how do these powerful AI tools really operate? How LLMs Process Prompts When you enter a prompt into an LLM, the model doesn’t actually “think” like a human. Instead, it processes…
How to Prevent AI from Being a “Yes-Man”
How to Prevent AI from Being a “Yes-Man” Generative Artificial Intelligence platforms, particularly large language models (LLMs), have rapidly become valuable partners in everyday decision making. However, new research indicates AI might be overly cooperative, often mirroring the ideas of users without offering essential critical feedback. This cooperative nature—dubbed the “yes-man” effect—can limit the value of AI as a tool for unbiased decision making…
AI Agents in Marketing for 2025
AI Agents in Marketing for 2025 You may have seen that atmospheric TV ad: a well-known actor, standing in a rain-soaked restaurant, pondering how one decisive interaction might alter the path of a customer relationship. The question that inevitably comes up is, “Wait, what exactly could these new AI-driven ‘agents’ be doing in such a dramatic setting?” It’s a fair question, and the ad…
Google AI Overviews and the New Search Reality: What Marketing Leaders Need to Know (2025)
Google AI Overviews and the New Search Reality: What Marketing Leaders Need to Know (2025) Why this matters now In just one year, Google’s AI Overviews (AIO)—the multi‑sentence, AI‑generated summaries that sit above the familiar “blue links”—have gone from limited pilot to a core element of mainstream Search. As AIOs roll out globally, many publishers report traffic declines, even as Google insists that “higher‑quality…
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Moz is a website with both free and paid analytical tools. They can help you to analyze your social media, web links, SEO, google rankings and much more.
Quirk has a great free tool that allows you to see how any website is performing. This search status tool provides extensive search-related information in a convenient toolbar.
SEO Book is a tool we use and recommend for keyword and competitive research. They have a variety of different SEO tools available: including an SEO toolbar, a rank checker, keyword suggestion and SEO training.
If your internet speed seems slow, Speakeasy provides a free tool to test the upload and download times to various locations to help you determine the problem.
Need to find your IP address? This website can help. They can also perform IP address and Whois lookups, and teach you how to anonymize your IP address from servers.
Website Speed Testing Tools
User experience on a website is an important part of ranking organically in Google, of which the loading time is a vital part. Fortunately, there are some free tools to determine the speed of a website load time. This will allow you to diagnose and correct any problems discovered during the test. The following are a couple we like:
Google Developers have provided this tool, Page Speed Insights, to evaluate the loading speed on both computers and mobile devices.
Pingdom will determine the website loading speed on a computer.
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