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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...

The Universal Cart from Google and Gemini takes agentic shopping to the next level! The Universal Cart is a Gemini-powered shopping tool by Google that consolidates products from different retailers across various Google surfaces (like Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail) into a single, intelligent cart. * Background Tracking: It monitors your saved items, tracks price drops, notifies you of restoc...

Gemini Spark is Google’s new AI that is the real competitor to Clawbot! Gemini Spark is Google’s 24/7 autonomous AI agent built to work quietly in the background and handle multi-step tasks across your digital workspace. Unlike normal chatbots that only respond when you prompt them, Spark can monitor your apps, manage schedules, organise emails, and automate repetitive workflows, even when your de...

Google Just Rebuilt Search and It Changes Everything Google has redesigned Search in the biggest way we have seen in over 25 years. This is bigger than AI Overviews. Search is moving away from short keyword phrases and toward conversations. The search box is now larger, AI powered, and supports text, images, videos, PDFs, files, and even Chrome tabs as inputs. Users can describe exactly what they...

Why Is My Content Not Getting Engagement or My Page Not Growing? Most people post generic content, pitch constantly, and give people no reason to follow them. Start educating. Start helping. Start entertaining. Create content that solves problems, teaches something, or gives value. People do not follow pages because they sell. They follow pages because they are useful. Give people a reason to come...

Don’t Use an Agency That Charges You a Percentage of Ad Spend The amount you spend on ads should not determine the quality of the work. Percentage based pricing can create the wrong incentive, where increasing spend benefits the agency more than improving performance. Google Ads management should be based on expertise, strategy, optimisation, and results, not how much budget is pushed through the...