Picture this: someone lounging on the beach, casually glancing at their computer and shooting off a few emails. Well, that’s far from the daily grind of an SEO pro at Rock Content, or anywhere else for that matter! I’d love to spill all the beans about my job, but that’d be a whole ebook! So, […]
A couple of weeks ago Google released a new robots.txt directive to tell Google not to use your content for Bard or other AI Google projects – Google-Extended. The Google Search Generative Experience does not currently use Google-Extended, Google told me. That means SGE’s AI-generated answers can and will continue to show unless you block […]
I asked ChatGPT to write this article for me so I could take a nap. Sound familiar — and a bit scary? That seems to be the theme of every AI content creation “hack” on social media right now. But AI isn’t coming for our jobs quite yet. Fellow writers, artists, marketers: don’t worry, we’re here […]
In general, the top three digital marketing niches are health, wealth, and relationships. While these niches are pretty broad, it’s easy to narrow them down into subgroups. For the “wealth” niche, personal finance is a bit easier to discuss. So, if you’re interested in personal finance and want to start a blog or website about […]
When it comes to marketing, content is king. It’s easy to understand this mantra when branded content is literally around every virtual corner online. However, when you break down content marketing by the numbers, the results are pretty substantial. On average, a company that invests in content marketing can see a 67 percent increase in […]
Google is having issues with indexing and serving new content within Google Search. The issues started around 2 p.m. ET and have been sporadically happening since then. I personally have been seeing new content come up randomly, but most of my queries do not show new content. Google has confirmed the issue at 7:49 pm […]
As a marketer or sales rep trying to nurture and quality leads at scale, time is of the essence– ActiveCampaign’s AI email generator is here to revolutionize your workflow. In addition to using AI to generate email content for your marketing campaigns, you can now generate content for your automated 1:1 prospecting emails, standard saved […]
Google has announced a new Googlebot, a new Google crawler, named Google-Extended that you can use to control if your content can help improve Bard and Vertex AI generative APIs or future Google AI products. So if you want to disallow Bard from using your content, you specify so in your robots.txt with the user […]
This week in search, Google finished rolling out the September 2023 helpful content update, which seemed to target SEO-first, search engine-first content in a big way. Google won’t be rolling back that update, if you were wondering. Google SGE got an update, too, with new, improved responses, safer responses, and also the “about this result” […]
Working as a content manager requires you to not only be strategic but also to ensure that the gears keep turning. Within the content team, we need to manage multiple projects, track various KPIs, and support multiple teams, all while staying within budget. Fortunately, there are several tools available that you can rely on to […]