Are You Human? Please Prove It. Before you can read this post, we need you to complete a few quick tasks: Click every blurry square that contains a crosswalk. Choose all the images with palm trees (even the sad, pixelated ones). Type out a CAPTCHA code that looks like it was generated by a fax […]
What Is a Churn and Burn Agency In the marketing world, not all agencies are playing the long game. Some are just playing you. Welcome to the world of churn and burn agencies — the fast-talking, shortcut-loving, fly-by-night firms that are more interested in filling their client roster than fulfilling their promises. If you’ve ever
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SEO Is Dead. Welcome to the Age of Search Brand Optimization (SBO) There’s been a quiet shift in search—and it’s killing traditional SEO as we knew it. If you’ve been watching your rankings flatline, traffic nosedive from Google SGE previews, or branded queries start outperforming longtail efforts… you’re not imagining things. SEO is no longer
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Semantic SEO for Lead Generation: What’s Actually Working in 2025 After 25+ years of running an SEO agency, testing strategies across industries, and watching Google evolve (and stumble), I’ve come to one clear realization: Most SEO advice is outdated, oversimplified, or flat-out wrong. You’ve probably seen it, too—people still preach keyword density, AI content volume,
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The Viral KGB Fear Experiment Meme: Why It’s Fiction (But Still Worth Talking About) A widely shared meme claims that the KGB ran psychological experiments in the 1960s where they learned you could brainwash people with fear in just two months. According to the post, once people were overwhelmed with fear-based messaging, they’d accept falsehoods
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The Osborne Effect: When Announcing Too Early Sinks the Ship In the early 1980s, the personal computing industry exploded with innovation and competition. It was an era of titans-in-the-making: Apple, IBM, Commodore. But among the frontrunners was a now mostly forgotten player, Osborne Computer Corporation, whose spectacular rise and fall gave business strategists one of
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