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What we’re seeing across search, ads, social, branding and web, and what it means for you.

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Your Customer Persona Is The Wrong Document. Ring Your Last Five Customers Instead.

Your customer persona says who buys, not why. Five calls to recent customers show what changed for them, and their answers can rewrite your ads and website.

Jack Headford Oct 08, 2026
BrandingMarketing
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We checked which of our pages AI cites and why they were chosen

Ryan Wilson Oct 08, 2026
GEOSEO
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Your Google Ads are getting clicks but no enquiries. That might be normal.

Zac Fitzpatrick Oct 04, 2026
MarketingPPC
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What a WA Challenger Brand Can Learn From How Budget Direct Took On the Big Two

Jack Headford Oct 03, 2026
BrandingMarketing
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AI has big fat blind spots.

Jack Headford Oct 02, 2026
MarketingPPC
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The Strongest Brand Positioning Is Something You Refuse To Do

David Metcalf Sep 15, 2026
Branding
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Google Shopping Feed Optimisation Is Now An SEO Job Too

Rob Sharif Sep 15, 2026
GEOMarketingPPCSEO
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Your Location Pages Are Named In Google’s Spam Policy

Cam Dobie Sep 11, 2026
MarketingSEO
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What Organic Social Media Costs You, And When Paid Does The Job Better

Ryan Wilson Sep 08, 2026
MarketingSocial
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Becca Humphrey, Paid Media Service Lead at Distl, reviewing campaign performance at her desk

The Facebook Ads Learning Phase Is A Budget Threshold

Becca Humphrey Sep 08, 2026
MarketingSocial
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Can You Pay to Be Included in AI Answers?

Cam Dobie Sep 02, 2026
GEOMarketingSEO
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What We Learnt After Running ChatGPT Ads for a Month

Zac Fitzpatrick Aug 06, 2026
GEOMarketingPPCSEO
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We went looking for AI traffic across 100+ of our websites. Most was invisible, but converting better than anything else.

Jack Headford Aug 03, 2026
GEOWebMarketingSEO
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AI is sending you your best-converting visitors. Is your website built to catch them?

Tom Porter Aug 03, 2026
GEOWebMarketing
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How You Can Turn the Search Console AI Performance Report Into Customers

Rob Sharif Jul 30, 2026
GEOMarketingSEO
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Ryan WIlson, digital marketing lead, reviewing the results of a client campaign.

When Two of Your Own Pages Compete: How We Fixed Keyword Cannibalisation for Gesha Coffee Co

Ryan Wilson Jul 29, 2026
GEOMarketingSEO
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How to Increase Website Traffic From YouTube With Social Media SEO

Ryan Wilson Jul 28, 2026
GEOMarketingSEOSocial
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Should you use fake Reddit accounts to help your SEO?

Cam Dobie Jul 20, 2026
GEOMarketingSEO
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Boosting Posts Isn’t a Paid Strategy, Here’s How to Leverage Your Best Performers

Becca Humphrey Jul 15, 2026
MarketingSocial
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