AI‑spam Sites Surge, Then Crash Under Google Penalties
Yet another example of "Mt. AI". Site surged like mad, only to crash once Google's webspam team caught on. All AI-generated content. 1.6M urls of it... Now, the dreaded '10 urls site query' indicating a manual action. 100% probability of AI-generated content when testing content. It's what I like to call the 10/100 death spiral. BEWARE.
Ahrefs Adds Free AI Prompt Tracking to Paid Plans
Now that tracking your AI visibility is becoming table stakes, we decided to include it in @Ahrefs at no extra cost. Every paid plan (except Starter) now includes custom prompt tracking in Brand Radar: - Lite: 150 checks/mo - Standard: 300 checks/mo - Advanced:...
AI Maps Reveal Easy, High-Value Keywords Instantly
I like checking the quality of the topical map generated for customers. It's crazy how many good, easy-to-rank-for commercially valuable keywords it finds. This used to take me hours to do manually for clients 😭 https://t.co/Y8Lggv3dk8
Google Ads Tests Animated Clips in Performance Max
Focus on Google Ads? -> Animated Clips Now Appearing in Performance Max Asset Creation "Google Ads is testing a new feature that lets advertisers turn uploaded images into animated clips within Performance Max campaigns using Veo 3." https://t.co/Im0TnVVNWY https://t.co/fXGyBF9eUi
OpenAI to Introduce Ads for All ChatGPT Users
Like I shared the other day, OpenAI now confirms they will roll out ads to ALL users in the coming weeks (for free and Go plans): "OpenAI will begin showing ads to all users of the free and Go versions of...
Perplexity Launches AI‑driven Market Research Tool
Perplexity tests Market Research agent for Perplexity Computer "These are the kind of strategic tools that consultants and analysts typically assemble manually using expensive subscription databases." "Perplexity is developing a dedicated Market Research section, which would sit alongside its existing navigation categories...
Google Experiments with AI-Generated Search Result Titles
Google confirms testing using AI to create title links in the search results https://t.co/oJwRTZ3Jjw via @MordyOberstein
Video‑warmed Leads 1.6× More Likely to Convert
🎥 #B2B “video‑warmed members are 1.6X more likely to open a lead-gen form within a 30‑day nurture window. That’s buyability in action —marketing that builds momentum toward revenue, not just awareness.” #Newfronts LinkedIn for Marketing
AI‑first Workflow Builds $10k/Mo E‑com Brand
How To Build A $10,000/mo AI Ecom Brand in 2026 (Full Guide) WATCH HERE 👉 https://t.co/VuFsAF4ETI The "Old Way" of E-commerce is dead. In 2026, if your store looks like "dropshipping," it won't convert. I’m showing you the exact AI-first workflow...
Organic Traffic Demands Years of Daily Content Creation
Everyone wants to own a business built on organic traffic (rather than paid ads). The problem is, no one wants to write organic content every single day for 3 years.
Deliver Real Value First, Then Pitch—VC Gold
possibly the sharpest VC marketing move I've seen... @garrytan ships 15 claude code skills, the repo hits 37k stars and 4.6k forks, then -- only after delivering real value - drops the pitch, bravo 👏: https://t.co/5Vz4Or0r6T
Fewer Startup Ad Budgets Lower Auction Prices
yall realize if startups start spending less on paid marketing, the auction numbers get less competitive and anyone who actually does paid marketing can do it more cheaply if there are less players, right? no one says what they actually...
Market Cares About Solutions, Not Packaging.
I lost $11k on a beauty product with 'perfect' packaging. Market said meh. I tested a product with basic packaging but solved a real problem. Scaled to $60k/month. The market doesn't care about pretty. It cares about solutions. Test everything.
5 Steps to Simplify Marketing and Build Effective Systems
On 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤, I spoke with 𝐄𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐉𝐨𝐚𝐧𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐬 (Marketing Metal) about her 5-step framework to cut through marketing chaos and build systems that actually work. Stream now: 🔗https://t.co/TIFl59UnOx 📽️https://t.co/fdD7eVGmxF https://t.co/j71JwFmaPT
50 Free AI Prompts for Strategic Thinking, Not Writing
Most AI prompt lists are useless for content marketers + full of "write me a blog post about X" templates🥱 I made something different: 50 prompts built for strategists who use AI to think better, not write for them. Grab...
AI Lab Boosts Content Speed and Research Depth
Tyler Bloom needed his content to be sharper, faster, and more research-backed—without hiring a bigger team. The AI Business Lab® Mastermind showed him how. His newsletter is now developed 1–2x faster with deeper research and greater impact. The Slack community and...
Organic Growth Beats Paid Ads for Sustainable Startup Success
There's a vast marketing industrial complex of agencies/consultants/advisors/whatever that promotes tech startups spending billions of dollars of unaccountable marketing budget. They're triggered by my anti-paid stance but here's the reality: - paid marketing is much, much worse than organic on every metric...
Great Ideas Fail without Post‑publish Amplification
I built https://t.co/M8688t4CuW because I kept watching brilliant marketers drown in execution.... Great ideas. Zero amplification. The creation was never the bottleneck. It was always what happened after publish.
Specialize or Fail: Outbound Success Requires Niche Expertise
I showed more, there was no more. Here’s why all people selling outbound sound like this… 1. They sell to everyone 2. Because of 1 their services are undifferentiated 3. They try to solve this problem with attention hacks and...
Boost Rankings Instantly by Optimizing CTR Elements
The most simple SEO in the world: increase the CTR of the pages/keywords that are already showing up on Google. How? Update your meta descriptions/titles + and improve internal linking and/or refresh/expand your content. [images: results one week after automating this work with...
Claude's 12 Prompts Turn Zero to $20K YouTube
Claude can now build your YouTube channel like MrBeast's strategy team for free. Here are 12 Claude prompts that take your channel from zero to $20,000👇 (Save before your competitors do) https://t.co/929BvScXCE
Set Clear KPIs First to Track Influencer ROI
#25Tips to Help You Select a B2B #SocialMedia Influencer Number 19. Define clear KPIs upfront to measure campaign success. Performance metrics are essential for tracking ROI. 📊📈 #MeasureSuccess https://t.co/CeFLuMSwYi
Specific, Data‑driven Prompts Outperform Vague Marketing Requests
Bad AI prompt: Give me marketing ideas. Good AI prompt: I run a SaaS for fitness coaches doing $2M/yr. My goal is to double leads in 6 months. Give me 10 strategies used by similar companies. Context = quality.
YouTube Expands Thumbnails to 50 MB, Boosting TV‑grade Quality
YouTube creators can now upload thumbnails up to 50MB (up from 2MB), enabling higher-resolution images with less compression. 🎨 As the first impression of a video, higher-quality thumbnails can drive more clicks and improve overall performance. This is especially important for...
Write for Free, Charge for Implementation, Scale to Millions
How I generated my first $5,000,000 on the internet: Selling digital products. But it took me 4 long years. This 5-step roadmap would have got me there faster: 1. Write for free. You want to start by writing for free. • Write on social platforms for...
ChatGPT Ads Lack Data, ROI Remains Unproven
Low tech, no performance data, and limited targeting. Wow, sounds amazing :) -> Advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked "Two executives at...
NIL Investment Pays Multiples, High Point Gains Visibility
Whatever they spent on NIL they are getting back in multiples. My guess is very few had heard of High Point prior to now…
Build Community, Not Price Wars, to Double Revenue
Outdoor Voices doubled revenue from $40M to $90M by building a community around 'Doing Things'. They sold movement, not performance. Meanwhile you're competing on price in a saturated market with no identity. That's the gap.
Even Rivals Praise Brilliant Ferrari Advertising
Even a McLaren fan Can respect a 🔥 Ferrari ad
Google Trims Headlines, Pushes Clickbait Style
Google is getting aggressive on headline rewrites and they seem to ratchet up the clickbait. Look at the change in headline from @verge "I used the ‘cheat on everything’ AI tool and it didn’t help me cheat on anything to "Cheat on...
Authenticity Outperforms Volume in B2B Social Selling
The Signal in the Noise: Why Authenticity Beats Volume in a B2B World by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/R9Dh5IspY2 @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Salesforce #Leadership #PublicRelations #PR #Marketing #MarketingSuccess #MarketingStrategy #MarketingTips
Earn $30k for Outperforming Our Top Funnel
Well @jforjacob offered $15k, so I’ll offer double. $30k to whoever can beat our top compression sock funnel for https://t.co/zHkvUa6ERS. If your page can hit 100k sessions at a higher Northbeam 1DCROAS, the money is yours. Could be as simple as a lander...
Paid Ads Tax Defensibility; Build Cheaper Scalable Growth Channels
lots of AI cos starting to experiment with paid marketing so here’s my take: Paid acquisition is a tax on your product's defensibility. the moment you can't out-spend the incumbents and competitors, you die. build channels that get cheaper as you...
Surgical Copy Edits Sharpen Your Marketing Instantly
I built a skill for Claude Code that edits your marketing copy like a senior copywriter reviewing your work. You paste in existing copy and it comes back with specific, line-by-line edits — cutting vague language, tightening wordy sentences, strengthening weak...
Combine Sales and Marketing to Scale GTM Profitably
I think something weird has happened in 2026 for Founder-led GTM. Founders forgot that Sales + Marketing builds a scalable Go-To-Market machine. Sales is 1on1. Outbound Cold Emails? 1on1 (yes, even if you're spraying and praying to 15,000 prospects that don't know you). Marketing...
Ad Agencies Must Fill Data Gaps in Early ChatGPT Ads
Two thoughts on reporting from @theinformation that early ChatGPT ad campaigns lacked performance data: - this is to be expected. Any early offering will feature limited functionality. Early adopters should be prepared to fill measurement gaps themselves. - Measuring and credibly asserting...
Google Penalizes Spammer Who Topped Discover Update
The biggest (and unexpected) winner of the Google Discover Core Update (via @GrowOnDiscover) has since been manual action’d The site was doing all types of spammy stuff so it was surprising they came out on top. Until Google took notice....
Assess Your Website’s Real Impact on Business
What is your website really doing for you? @TBorreson11 https://t.co/n6vluLJNmX #personalbranding #networking #community #digitaltransformation #digitalmarketing #digitalselling #socialselling #belonging #culture #customerexperience #businessintelligence https://t.co/h9vK3iKPoQ
Stop Cold Emailing: Target Site Visitors for 10% Conversions
COLD EMAIL IS DEAD. People doing outbound right now are only sending more emails to fix the exact problems that sending more emails caused. We went the other direction. Our campaign is dead simple: Someone lands on RB2B(.)com We identify them And we send an...
Generic Claims Reveal Positioning Debt and Slow Sales
Ask a company what they do—and you’ll know in 10 seconds if their positioning is weak. Marketing answers first. Usually something like: “We provide an AI-powered platform that helps companies unlock operational efficiency and drive innovation.” Fine. Then I ask:...
SEOs Still Unfamiliar with JSON‑LD
Ah yes, JSON-LD! SEOs had clearly never heard of or used it before GEO. 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ https://t.co/GSNcGB23GV
Build Brands on Enemy, Problem, Transformation, Not Followers
If I had to rebuild a founder-led brand from zero in 2026, I wouldn’t start with followers. I’d start with: - a clear enemy - a clear problem - a clear transformation clarity first.
One Audit Can Unlock Hidden Traffic Surge
Most founders are one audit away from a traffic spike. Not a new strategy, not content, no new backlinks. Just fixing embarrassing stuff that's been broken for months. These are the fixes that move the needle:
Create Worthwhile Content, Not Just Subscriber Numbers
The point isn’t to “generate subscribers.” The point is to write things worth subscribing to.
Create SEO Plans in Under Ten Minutes
The SEO tool I'm building lets you build SEO plans in five minutes. Awesome to send to your partners or clients on what you'll be doing for them next. This one took less than 10 minutes to build. https://t.co/75xu3fyDN4
SaaS Brands Overlook Reddit's SERP Dominance
In SaaS: Reddit dominates the SERP... But most brands are still sleeping on it. More here: https://t.co/PlWF0NStQS https://t.co/yxrJFMJ7Al
ChatGPT Ad Pilot Surges 600% Yet Rollout Lags
Interested in ChatGPT ads? Seems that ad ramp-up we saw might have been since the pilot is ending at the end of March -> ChatGPT’s ad pilot has the industry excited, but some insiders are frustrated with the slow rollout "With...
Meta AI Streamlines Facebook Marketplace Listings
Facebook has rolled out new Meta AI–powered features on Marketplace. 📦 Sellers can now upload images and have Meta AI generate draft listings with recommended descriptions, as well as draft automatic replies to initial messages. These tools simplify the listing process,...
AI Agents Soon Run Entire Websites via Plain Language
Oh boy, what could go wrong? "With these new capabilities, websites could be almost entirely created and run via AI agents controlled by humans." -> https://t.co/XIx37k7Nu2 says it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content on...
Claude Code Uncovers SEO Opportunities in Minutes
I've spent THOUSANDS of hours in Ahrefs and Google Search Console doing keyword research and SEO audits Within 5 minutes of connecting Claude Code to the Ahrefs API and Google Search Console service account, it found a bunch of new opportunities...