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Google Warns French Brands to Rebuild for a Post-Click World
Google's message to French marketers was blunt: the click is dying, and the websites built to win it need rebuilding.
6 days ago4 min read


The Zero-Click Web: Getting Found When Search Stops Sending Traffic
Search engines increasingly answer questions in place instead of sending clicks. Here is how to be the brand that gets quoted, not just the one that ranks.
6 days ago4 min read


How to Get Your Business Recommended by AI Assistants
More customers are asking AI assistants what to buy and where to go. Here's how to make sure your business is the one they recommend.
Oct 203 min read


Why Your Small Business Website Isn’t Winning Customers — and How to Fix It
Four fixable reasons sites lose customers — and why fixing beats rebuilding.
Oct 143 min read


How Merx Marketing Became a Go-To Website Partner for Growing Businesses
The London agency quietly building dozens of websites — and the Wix + Google Ads playbook behind them.
Oct 144 min read


Rise at Seven Raids Jellyfish for Two Leaders in an Aggressive International Push
Manchester-based search agency Rise at Seven has hired two senior leaders from Jellyfish to spearhead an aggressive international and organic-growth expansion.
Oct 53 min read


Michael Kassan Invests in GEO Startup OptimizeGEO at an $80M Valuation
Ad-industry dealmaker Michael Kassan has backed OptimizeGEO, a generative-engine-optimization platform valued at around $80M, as money flows into AI-era brand discovery.
Oct 22 min read


US Publishers' Paid-Search Spend Jumps 274% as AI Craters Organic Traffic
US news publishers are spending hundreds of millions a month buying search traffic to offset AI-driven organic declines, with paid-search budgets up 274% in three years.
Sep 103 min read


Dishoom Hires Brainlabs to Get Found in AI Search — a Sign of the GEO Era
When a brand as word-of-mouth-rich as Dishoom pays to be found by ChatGPT, AI discovery has crossed from experiment to necessity. Inside the shift from SEO to GEO.
Sep 13 min read


AI Search Optimisation for UK Businesses: How to Get Found in ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews
AI search optimisation — often called generative engine optimisation, or GEO — is the practice of making your website easy for AI assistants like ChatGPT, Google’s AI Overviews, Gemini and Perplexity to understand, trust and quote. The winning tactics are not exotic: answer real customer questions clearly, back your claims with statistics and sources, earn mentions on sites the AI already trusts, and keep your business details consistent everywhere. Do that and you can appear
Aug 275 min read


Syzygy Bundles Huk-Coburg's Search Account — But Loses Its Boss
WPP performance agency Syzygy wins insurer Huk-Coburg's search advertising in a pitch, uniting SEO and SEA under one roof — even as its chief heads for the exit.
Aug 273 min read


Local SEO for UK Small Businesses: A Google Business Profile Guide
TL;DR: Local SEO is how your business shows up in Google's map results and ‘near me’ searches — the moment a nearby customer is ready to act. For most UK small businesses the single highest-return move is a complete, active Google Business Profile: accurate details, the right categories, a steady flow of reviews and fresh photos. Google ranks local results on three things — relevance, distance and prominence — and your profile is where you influence all three. Here’s how to d
Aug 116 min read


How to get more Google reviews (without being annoying)
A simple, repeatable system for UK small businesses to earn more Google reviews — the single highest-leverage local marketing move there is.
Aug 11 min read


Google’s new Search Console and Ads tools: your brand beyond your own site
Google has made Search Console ‘platform properties’ global and shipped new Ads controls. The theme: measuring and managing a brand that now lives across other people’s platforms.
Jul 313 min read


Bing adds AI Visibility Insights as brands scramble to track AI search
Microsoft's Bing has added AI Visibility Insights to Webmaster Tools, helping brands understand how their content appears in AI-powered search — a sign of a new SEO frontier.
Jul 202 min read


Fewer than a third of Google searches now end in a click
New data shows most Google searches now end without a click to any website, as AI answers keep users on the results page — a profound shift for search-reliant brands.
Jul 202 min read


CMA forces Google to let publishers opt out of AI Overviews
UK regulators hand website owners a way to keep their content out of Google's AI summaries — without a search ranking penalty.
Jul 203 min read


The New Marketing Battlefield: Can AI Find Your Brand?
For years, brands have focused on improving their visibility on Google. Today, the way people search for information is changing.
Jul 162 min read


TikTok Launches Search Ads to Challenge Google
One Minute Summary TikTok has launched Search Ads, allowing brands to target users directly within the app’s search results.
Sep 24, 20252 min read
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