Will Google’s AI in Search Affect Small Businesses?
After ChatGPT was released in November of 2022, it was an arm’s race for all the competitors to publicly launch their AI chatbot. While Google’s Bard became a public access resource shortly later, it is important to understand that Google has been using AI for almost a decade. It has not been a major part […]
Is Google Trends Always Accurate?
Over the last 15 years many marketing experts have touted the value of using Google Trends. There are thousands of ways in which Google Trends can be used. The most common way is to simply see if a specific keyword phrase is getting search more or less than in the past. There is also a […]
ChatGPT – What We Know After One (1) Year
On November 30th, 2022 ChatGPT was released to the public for the first time. For non-paying customers, it was ChatGPT 3.5 and for paying customers, ChatGPT 4 was available on March 14th, 2023. Many business owners were not aware of the implications of AI and ChatGPT because there were much bigger concerns including inflation, a […]
The Most Important SEO Factor – Consistency
There are hundreds of different factors and metrics involved in SEO. Anyone with an analytical mind has gone down rabbit holes trying to figure out why a specific page on Website A ranks highly but a different page on Website A ranks very poorly. Is it a domain level issue? Is it an issue with […]
Is Search Traffic Down Due to ChatGPT?
UPDATE: After several months of almost every search term seeing a downtrend in the summer and fall of 2023, we are seeing stabilization in search queries. As expected, ChatGPT was the new and “hot” product when it comes to Internet apps and services and that newness has worn off a little bit. Note that as […]
Are TikTok and Google Working Together on Search?
There have been many rumors floating around that Google and TikTok are working together on a separate search bar for the TikTok app. We all know that more and more people are searching on TikTok as it has become the DIY and How To app for anyone under the age of 50. If you are […]
Is There SEO for ChatGPT?
UPDATE: ChatGPT 4.0 is available for $20 a month and includes everything free ChatGPT offers including: Access to GPT-4, our most capable model Faster response speed Access to beta features like browsing, plugins, and advanced data analysis There are options to pay to have a ChatGPT image created for a cost as well. As […]
Do WordPress Websites Rank Higher in Google Search?
While WordPress has been around since May 2003, it only started being a true website builder software in 2008 and 2009. Technically speaking, it wasn’t a fully capable website design software option until after 2011. That said, since the very beginnings, WordPress was built with discovery in mind. In the early days of WordPress, users […]
Is Google Search Traffic Even More Valuable in 2023?
As we come into the final quarter of 2023 many business and website owners are reporting a drop in overall Google Search traffic. We have hypothesized that many longer search phrases are now being put into AI chatbots such as ChatGPT. While overall Google Search traffic may be down, leads, new patients and/or customers remain […]
Does Every New Blog Post Show Up in Google Search?
There has been much confusion when it comes to blog posts versus pages on a WordPress website. In 2006 and 2007 many of the message boards and rumor mills hypothesized that Google ranked blog posts faster than pages. The reason this was often the case was WordPress built in pingomatic into the backend meaning that […]