Category: business

The EU proposes EU-INC: register a company in any member state within 48 hours, fully digitally, for under 100 euros with no minimum capital.

Google is inserting more AI layers between queries and websites. AI Mode self-citations tripled to 21%, and Ask Maps launched conversational search.

AI search engines spend compute resolving ambiguous data. Structured entity markup makes your brand cheaper to cite and more likely to appear.

AI agents making purchase decisions favor brands with verifiable evidence trails. Trust, not ranking, determines which brands get recommended.

Ecommerce organic strategy must shift from publishing more to proving more. Seven investment areas prioritize money pages and machine-readable data.

Google Search Console now auto-classifies branded vs non-branded queries using AI, catching misspellings, abbreviations, and product names.

A practical framework for auditing how AI models perceive your brand versus competitors, with copy-paste prompts for competitive analysis.

The first number in a negotiation sets the reference frame for everything after. Going first with a bold but credible anchor gives you control.

Google released official optimization playbooks for Google Business Profile, segmented by business type. Direct ranking guidance from the source.

Google Search Console's AI-powered feature surfaces pages with high impressions but low clicks, highlighting quick keyword optimization wins.

Google's Liz Reid signals agents will dominate web interaction, personalization will reshape ranking, and micropayments may finally happen.

SaaStr tested AI SDRs for a year. The highest-ROI use case is reactivating leads human reps ignore, with 11-40x volume increases over human SDRs.

73% of B2B buyers trust peer recommendations above all other sources. Only 18% use AI chatbots during research, and 41% cite inaccuracy concerns.

Defensive SEO shapes how AI systems describe your brand. If you don't control the narrative, competitors and outdated content will.

Google's new branded queries filter in Search Console auto-classifies brand vs non-brand search performance. No manual customization planned.

LinkedIn is the #2 most cited domain in AI search. Original educational content in the 500-2,000 word range gets cited regardless of follower count.

Google product grids appear on 96% of ecommerce SERPs and cut organic CTR in half. Feed optimization now matters more than traditional SEO.

Prompt research is the AI-era evolution of keyword research, mapping the natural-language prompts users ask AI systems instead of short queries.

AI crawlers ignore robots.txt and feed on AI-generated content in a self-reinforcing loop. A defensive playbook for protecting your brand.

Webflow acquired Vidoso to integrate brand-specific AI content generation, positioning itself as an agentic marketing platform.