What the Taboola-Dianomi acquisition actually means for publishers
Taboola is paying £19 million for Dianomi, potentially rising to £27 million. The interesting part is what the extra £8 million depends on: keeping valuable publisher relationships locked in.
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The Telegraph is building a YouTube newsroom as search traffic fades
Its podcast audience has grown 161% as the publisher builds around YouTube, video, events and paid memberships.
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USA Today cuts staff as ‘more content’ is no longer enough
The publisher is rebuilding its audience team as search platforms send fewer users back to news sites.
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Easy & Simple way to use AI for generating amazing and relevant images for blog content
Take all of your blog post content and paste it in Gemini chat bot with this at the start “If following is content of a blog post then suggest me some prompts which I can use in Gemini to do some featured images generations for this blog post” then enter title and whole content of […]
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Positive SurferSEO review: 7,000 words later, here’s what it does best
Here we are on the verge of my 3rd review! I’ve already reviewed SerpStat and SE Ranking, and have decided to review SurferSEO (or is it Positive Surfer?) next. After being acquired by the French company Positive Group they are now referring to themselves as ” AI visibility platform for maximum organic growth”. And yes, […]
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What is AI slop? How to spot it, why it spreads and how to avoid making it
AI slop is low-value content made wholly or substantially with generative AI and released with too little human judgment, verification, craft, or accountability. It is commonly produced because speed, scale, traffic, engagement, or cost reduction matters more to the publisher than usefulness to the person receiving it. That definition includes the disposable articles clogging search […]
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Clickbait Titles Exploit Attention Through Latent Entities
Every clickbait title works the same way: it removes exactly one critical variable: the subject, the reason, the process, or the outcome, and charges you a click to fill the blank. This missing variable, which we call a latent entity, is so pervasive it has become normalized and nobody questions it anymore. You should! That […]
Most People Don’t Read
This is a qualitative study on a small number of anonymized users while collecting a very large number of datapoints from each one. In December 2025, we published an article asking a simple question: Do you read or skim? We tracked 269 visitors using mouse movements, scroll patterns, and time-on-page data, then asked them to […]
How Long Are Web Pages?
A Token Count Analysis of 45,000 Real-World URLs We recently analyzed 44,684 web pages and measured their content length using Gemini’s token counter. The results reveal fascinating insights about the true scale of web content—and why it matters for AI applications. Metric Value Total Pages Analyzed 44,684 Page Content Tokens 464,854,727 Total Tokens (all) 541,062,817 The median […]
How much of your content survives the AI Search filter?
But how much if your page content actually makes it to the model? About one third on average. Metric Value Total Characters Across All Pages 21,198 Total Characters Cited 6,818 Total Characters Not Cited 14,380 Overall Citation Coverage 32.16% Citation Analysis: owayo.com Source: owayo.com Citation Snippet Custom Running Shirts – owayo: owayo manufactures custom running […]
CAPS: A Content Attribution Payment Scheme for the AI Era
The Problem: A Broken Content Ecosystem We’re watching the collapse of the web’s economic model in real-time, and everyone knows it. AI assistants have fundamentally changed how people consume information. Why wade through ten articles when Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini can synthesize an answer in seconds? Why maintain 100 browser tabs for research when AI […]
Using GPT-5 Structured Output Markers to Detect AI-Generated Content Online
When you populate your website with language model–generated text, you inherit a subtle but real risk: AI-specific artifacts may leak into the published content. These markers aren’t always obvious to human readers, but they can be highly visible to search engines, researchers, and competitors. One such artifact is the structured output marker that GPT-5 (and […]
The Road to Accessibility
Why accessibility compliance matters While you should advocate for creating a digital experience that’s inclusive and welcoming to everyone because it’s the right thing to do, failing to comply could soon leave you facing a fine. To comply,…
2025 SEO Predictions: Are We Heading into an AI Winter?
What We’re Seeing Despite the initial excitement surrounding AI-generated content, AI written content by default lacks EEAT (Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) compliance. Audiences are pushing back on low-quality outputs in search re…
What your competitors don’t want you to know about accessibility
The EAA and marketing Before we dive into the business cases, here’s a quick summary of how the EAA provides a marketable opportunity. Enhanced SEO: Search engines prioritise user-friendly websites, and accessibility improvements go h…
Building Inclusive Brands: The European Accessibility Act and Marketing Best Practices
The EAA: A Quick Summary The primary goal of the European Accessibility Act is to remove more barriers for the (largely underserved) market of around 101 million people with disabilities in the EU. From a digital perspective, core areas of impact inclu…
Visual content and SEO: How to use images and videos in 2025
Discover top trends, challenges and a step-by-step process to optimize and futureproof your images and videos for search.
The art of AI-enhanced content: 8 ways to keep human creativity front and center
Reimagine content creation by using AI without losing your creative flair, guiding it to inject personality into every piece of content.
Content length, depth and SEO: Everything you need to know in 2025
Here’s why you should focus on creating valuable, unique content that answers users’ questions effectively, regardless of word count.
The truth behind AI checkers: A cautionary tale
Is your human-written content being flagged as AI-generated? Learn the limitations of AI checkers and how to craft content that stands out.