Digital Marketing

HubSpot’s 2026 State of Marketing report revealed some good news: 65% of marketers are meeting or exceeding their performance benchmarks. But this success does not come by chance. Behind these results are clear priorities, rigorous testing and a clear focus on the right metrics.

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HubSpot’s latest State of Marketing data shows that 65% of companies exceeded their goals in the past year and 93.7% improved lead quality. Should the industry celebrate and prepare for a relaxed 2026? Barely.

Marketing funnels are no longer enough, and you’ve probably felt it in the form of declining traffic, scattered buyer journeys, and tactics that worked last year and are failing today. That’s why HubSpot introduced the Loop Marketing tactic, a four-step framework designed to help you adapt and grow in the AI ​​era. Unlike traditional funnels

At its core, an SEO audit is a step-by-step review of your website’s technical health, content quality, and visibility. An SEO audit identifies technical, on-page, content and link issues on a website. It helps SEO teams identify, prioritize, and fix the problems that are blocking traffic, rankings, and most importantly, conversions. Companies and SEO teams

If you are familiar with the world of SEO, I probably don’t need to tell you that there has been a major change in the SEO world. Marketers are no longer optimizing content just for Google’s traditional blue links. We are now optimizing for AI. The change is called Answer Engine Optimization or AEO. Some

Like your weird uncle, no one knows exactly how AI engines choose the sources they cite. But experiments are starting to reveal ways you can get on their radar.

If you’ve noticed your brand appearing less frequently in ChatGPT responses, you’re not alone. Savvy marketers use generative engine optimization tools to address this problem. These tools help ensure your content gets cited by AI platforms instead of being lost among the competition. Luckily, I spend way too much time monitoring content performance across different

I’ll say the hard thing that no one wants to admit: it’s not enough to create “great content”; it’s time for a change. And that change starts with distributing content across multiple channels.

AI search visibility refers to how a brand appears in AI-generated results from tools like ChatGPT and AI-powered search engines like Gemini or Perplexity. Unlike traditional SEO, which tracks ranking positions and blue links, AI visibility measures how often your brand is mentioned, how your own content is cited, and how those mentions are represented