by Braden Tobler | Aug 10, 2026 | Blog, Search Engine Optimization / SEO
Google says AI Search is growing. Publishers say clicks are declining. At first, those two statements sound like they contradict each other. But in reality, they can both be true. AI powered search can increase overall search activity while still reducing traffic to...
by Braden Tobler | Aug 5, 2026 | Blog, Search Engine Marketing / PPC
Paid ads performance changes in the second half of the year because competition, buyer behavior and platform costs all move at once. Campaigns that ran smoothly in spring often start slipping by fall, and businesses that keep the same settings usually watch their cost...
by Braden Tobler | Aug 2, 2026 | Blog, Search Engine Optimization / SEO
Organic traffic is changing. For years, website traffic was one of the easiest SEO metrics for clients to understand. If traffic was up, things felt good. If traffic was down, there was concern. That made sense in the old search environment. But as AI Overviews, zero...
by Braden Tobler | Jul 30, 2026 | Blog, Search Engine Optimization / SEO
Local SEO now stretches far beyond Google Maps, and the businesses treating it like a full search strategy are winning customers the ones stuck on map rankings alone keep missing. Your future customers are searching in more places than ever, and Google Maps is only...
by Braden Tobler | Jul 15, 2026 | Blog
Lead generation for service businesses that cannot afford to wait on organic traffic starts with one honest admission: search engine optimization takes months, and your bills do not. If you need leads this quarter, waiting for a blog to rank in six months is not a...
by Braden Tobler | Jul 14, 2026 | Blog, Search Engine Optimization / SEO
For a long time, blog content was treated like the engine of SEO. Find long tail keywords. Publish articles. Build traffic. Internally link to service pages. Grow topical authority. Repeat. That strategy worked for a long time, and to be clear, blogs still have a...
