Mark your calendar—State of Search 2025 is back! Join us October 27–28, 2025 at the Grapevine Convention Center in Texas for two days packed with insights, innovation, and connections. Expert speakers Interactive live sessions Unparalleled networking opportunities Virtual passes

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Join us tomorrow for a live podcast on the topic of Reddit SEO!

Have you ever seen a BRAND get a featured snippet for their brand name? Not a knowledge panel, but a featured snippet?

I’m surprised that so many still use a free email like Gmail or Yahoo for their main email address. Just learned of someone who lost everything because of some odd “violation” and they can’t get into their Gmail account. Gmail is good, I get it. I have one but it’s not my

Great read: Bias in Search: Visibility, Perception, and Control You can’t eliminate bias in search, but you can manage its impact on your brand and reputation. duaneforresterdecodes.substack.com/p/bias-in-sear…

Google to blur maps of certain sensitive areas in South Korea billhartzer.com/google/google-…

Wild observation: traffic from ChatGPT is converting way better than traffic from Google. 👀 Anyone else seeing this, or is it just me?

Warning - GoDaddy is failing to report the "Registrant Organization" field in registration data Godaddy provides in response to UDRP filings. If you have corporate/llc -owned domain names with a role account, then a UDRP panel may perceive the role account as "false data".

I've been seeing Googlebot request URLs on my site where it appends "?gtm_latency=1" at the end of the URL. Has anyone else seen this? Apparently (according to ChatGPT), it's some sort of way Google's testing to see if Google Tag Manager is slowing down the site? That

If you steal domain names, even if you steal them from your former employer, you can get arrested. #domains

Dominating in the Age of Automation at State of Search: This will be my first conference talk since October 2019 (Pubcon Las Vegas) and you do not want to miss this. I'm going to mix marketing theory, futurology, and actionable insights including things no one has publicly

Now's the time to take control of your personal brand. Especially if you haven't even thought of it for a while. Your Boss, Your Neighbor, and ChatGPT Already Know Your Personal Brand—Do You? billhartzer.com/branding/boss-…

Google's now putting AI mode in the footer or the search engine results pages. "Ask anything in AI Mode".

ICYMI: Now's the time to take control of your personal brand. Especially if you haven't even thought of it for a while.

Effective February 14, 2025, the price for Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions will increase from USD 99.99* per year to USD 129.99* per year.

Want ChatGPT to remember your site? I just shared a guide on how to add a “Summarize this with ChatGPT” link to your pages. When visitors click it, they can instantly summarize your article in ChatGPT — and more importantly, tell ChatGPT to remember your domain + URL. - Helps

Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image. bitbytebit.substack.com/p/everything-t…

The State of Search conference is October 27-28, 2025 this year in Dallas. I'll be there. stateofsearch.org You can use the discount code 'billhartzer' for 40 percent off the price of a ticket.

Is it just me? I think the "Summarize this on ChatGPT" is the new "social media sharing".