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How to Connect Google Search Console to Google Analytics and Import Search Queries Connecting Google Search Console to Google Analytics gives you access to valuable organic search data directly inside GA4. Once connected, you can view the search queries people are using to find your website, analyse organic landing pages, monitor clicks and impressions, and better understand your SEO performance....

My Lead Fox Helps You Find E-Commerce Stores Worldwide and Their Data My Lead Fox is a powerful tool that helps you discover e-commerce stores from around the world and access valuable data about their businesses. It can be used for lead generation, competitor research, market analysis, and even content and website inspiration. Want to see what other stores in your niche are doing? Need inspiratio...

How to Connect Your Google Business Profile Directly to Google Analytics 4 Connecting your Google Business Profile (GBP) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) allows you to track local engagement metrics alongside your website traffic. This gives you better visibility into how users are finding and interacting with your business from Google Search and Google Maps. By connecting GBP and GA4, you can measure...

Google Preferred Sources and How to Get Your Readers to Select You Google Preferred Sources is a search feature that lets people personalise their web results by prioritising content from their favourite publishers and websites. When someone selects you as a preferred source, your articles can appear more often in their Top Stories, AI Mode, and AI Overviews. This means your readers and clients ca...

Google Ads Keyword Planner Restrictions and the Need for Paid Alternatives Google Ads Keyword Planner no longer shows search volume data for many health-related keywords and industries. In some cases, keywords simply return no volume data at all, making it difficult for advertisers and SEO professionals to understand actual search demand. This is one of the reasons many marketers rely on paid keyw...

Digital PR Is the Best Way to Build Quality Backlinks for SEO and Improve AI Citations If you want high quality backlinks, stop chasing spammy link building tactics. Digital PR remains one of the most effective ways to earn authoritative backlinks from trusted websites, news publications, and industry sources. Not only do these links help strengthen your SEO performance, but they can also increase...

What is Zero-Click Searches in Google. (Vital for 2026) A zero-click search happens when a user gets the answer they need directly on Google without clicking through to a website. This can happen through AI Mode, AI Overviews, featured snippets, knowledge panels, maps, calculators, weather results, and other Google features. As AI continues to transform Search, zero-click searches are becoming mor...

Scrape Google Maps and Import the Data into Meta Audiences Extract business data from Google Maps, collect the phone numbers, and upload them into Meta as a custom audience. Meta will then attempt to match those phone numbers with user profiles on its platform. Only phone numbers that Meta can successfully connect to an account will become part of the audience. This can be a powerful way to build...

Google Expands Limited Ad Serving Policy – Protecting Brands from Competitor Bidding Google is expanding its Limited Ad Serving policy, giving itself more power to restrict advertisers it believes could create a poor user experience or cause confusion for searchers. One of the biggest implications is around competitor brand bidding. If advertisers use generic messaging, unclear branding, or make i...

Anthropic has had to disable Claude Fable due to security concerns Just days after Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, the U.S. government ordered the company to disable access to the models over national security concerns. Think about that for a second. We have reached a point where AI models are considered powerful enough that governments are willing to intervene and restrict access...

Anthropic has had to disable Claude Fable due to security concerns Just days after Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, the U.S. government ordered the company to disable access to the models over national security concerns. Think about that for a second. We have reached a point where AI models are considered powerful enough that governments are willing to intervene and restrict access...

Will AI Take My Job? - See What Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says This is probably the most common question being asked in the world right now. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently gave what I think is the best answer: “You’re not going to lose your job to AI. You’re going to lose your job to somebody who learned AI better than you.” AI is not something to fear. It is something to learn, understand, and em...

Sync the World Cup Fixtures to Your Google Calendar with Claude ⚽️📆 Simply open Claude Desktop, go to Customize → Connectors, connect your Google Calendar account, and then use the prompt below: “The World Cup is happening very soon. Your job is to go and find all the matches that are happening, and I want you to add them to my Google Calendar. I want you to add the countries’ names and I want y...

Here Is Another Atrocious Google Ads Audit. This Account Has No Chance. This account is set up to fail. The conversion tracking is wrong, the bidding strategy is using Maximise Conversions, broad match keywords are everywhere, and there are virtually no negative keywords controlling traffic quality. When Google is fed bad conversion data, it optimises towards the wrong outcomes. Combine that with...

Ranking Number 1 on Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Grok I recently got a client ranking at the top across Google and major AI platforms including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Grok. There were no special tricks. No magic AEO hack. No secret AI optimisation strategy. It took around 18 months of consistent work across technical SEO, on-page SEO, content creation, blogging...

How I Get the Perfect Lighting for My Social Media Videos People often ask about my video setup, but the secret is actually pretty simple. I use blackout curtains to eliminate unwanted natural light, turn off the room lights completely, and control the entire scene with dedicated lighting. My main light is a Godox SL60IIBi LED video light, which gives me consistent, professional lighting on my fac...

The Winner of the South Africa World Cup Soccer Shirt Is... 🇿🇦⚽ A huge thank you to everyone who entered, followed, commented, and supported the giveaway. After reviewing all the entries, the winner is: 🏆 Jason Snaka jasonsnaka Congratulations! Please send me a direct message so we can arrange delivery of your Bafana Bafana shirt. To everyone else, thank you for participating. There will be more...

Google is launching AI performance reports in Search Console. (This is huge) Google Search Console will soon have dedicated Search Generative AI performance reports that allow you to track how often your website’s pages appear as cited sources in AI-generated search results. This data was previously folded into aggregate organic search metrics, but it is now split into two specialized reports: one...

Claude Is Hiring an SEO Lead. And You Want It to Run Your SEO? The irony is hard to ignore. People keep claiming that AI tools like Claude will replace SEO professionals and SEO agencies. Yet Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is hiring an SEO Lead to improve its own organic search performance. If AI could completely replace experienced SEOs, surely one of the world’s leading AI companies would...

Can You Buy Backlinks for Your Website for SEO? (Read Here) Google’s official position is clear. Buying backlinks violates its guidelines and can result in penalties if detected. But the reality is far more complicated. Survey after survey shows that many SEO professionals buy backlinks, and most believe their competitors are doing the same. In competitive industries, it is extremely common. The r...

Connect Microsoft Clarity and Claude via MCP to Get Amazing Website Insights Microsoft Clarity now has an official MCP server that can connect directly to Claude. This allows you to ask questions about your website in plain English and get instant answers from your Clarity data. You can analyse pages, devices, scroll depth, countries, engagement metrics, session recordings, heatmaps, and user beha...

Here Is Another Example of a Bad Google Ads Audit. This account has almost everything wrong. Performance Max being used for lead generation search campaigns, broad match keywords everywhere, no negative keywords, poor campaign structure, little research, and no real discipline. Google Ads is not something you can throw together and hope for the best. Without proper keyword research, campaign segme...

South Africa Bafana Bafana World Cup Shirt Giveaway! 🇿🇦⚽ I’m giving away a South African Bafana Bafana football shirt to one lucky winner. How to Enter: 1. Follow me on one or more of the platforms below. 2. Comment BAFANA on the giveaway post. Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/topclickmediasa/ TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@joshuamaraney YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/@topclickmedia Fac...

Should Schools Ban AI or Encourage and Embrace It? Watch this video! I recently found a newspaper clipping from the 1980s of teachers protesting against calculators in schools. Replace the word “calculator” with “AI” and it sounds exactly like the debate happening today. The reality is that AI is here to stay. The question is not whether students should use AI. The question is whether they should...

Create Product Video Animations Using ChatGPT and AI Video Generators You can now create professional product video animations using ChatGPT and image-to-video AI tools in just a few minutes. Simply upload a product image into ChatGPT and ask it to place the product into a professional photoshoot environment. Then ask ChatGPT to generate an image-to-video animation prompt with music. Copy the prom...