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Senior Living SEO Expert Paula French Takes on the AI Traffic Plateau at SMASH 2026
Search Influence is a digital marketing agency specializing in AI and organic search engine optimization (SEO), digital advertising, and analytics for higher education, hospitality, and healthcare, including senior living. Paula French, Director of Sales and Marketing at Search Influence, will present Your AI Traffic Will Plateau. Then What? at the …
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Enterprise AI Visibility Platforms Compared: Scrunch AI vs Profound vs XFunnel
TL;DR This post compares three enterprise AI visibility platforms. Scrunch AI tracks brand presence across nine AI engines and includes an optimization layer that helps AI systems read and cite your content. Profound is the only fully independent option of the three, with daily updates across 18+ countries and an …
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13 Winning Higher Education Marketing Strategies for 2026
Note: This post was updated by Will Scott on September 02, 2026 to reflect current best practices. It was originally published on August 14th, 2023. TL;DR: Winning higher education marketing strategies work in sequence, not isolation: get found, get believed, get engaged, prove results, then measure and improve. Skipping a …
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New AI SEO Tools to Watch in 2026
TL;DR The AI SEO tool market is moving fast enough that new platforms are solving problems the first wave didn’t address. These four, KIME, LLMrefs, ZeroChannel.ai, and Promptwatch, haven’t made it into our main comparison yet, but they’re each doing something meaningfully different from the established players. If you’re watching …
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The August Influencer: SEO and Ads Only Work If Your Website Does
Stay ahead in digital marketing with The Influencer, Search Influence’s monthly newsletter covering SEO, digital advertising, and content strategy. Get top tips to fuel your online growth, expert insights from the Search Influence team, and our latest company news. Don’t miss out! Website Readiness for AI Search: Seven Foundations Every …
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Why “AI Keeps Changing” Is the Wrong Reason to Skip AI Search Optimization
TL;DR “AI keeps changing” is true, and it’s also not a reason to skip content structure and entity work. Retrieval, semantic matching, and passage-level ranking, the mechanics that decide whether AI answers cite you, were built into production search between 2011 and 2021, a decade before ChatGPT existed. Betting on …
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Skimmers, Swimmers, and Divers: Content Chunking Strategy for Higher Ed AI Search
This post was updated by Collin Guedon on August 12th, 2026, to reflect recent trends and refreshed statistics. It was originally published on July 30th, 2021. TL;DR Higher education websites have always needed to serve three kinds of readers: skimmers who scan, swimmers who explore, and divers who read every …
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The Future of Search: SEO and AI Impacts Explained
Note: This post was updated by August 7th, 2026 by Cory Agular to reflect current best practices. It was originally published on March 21st, 2025. Key Insights AI has fundamentally changed how people search, not just how results are displayed: AI Mode is now Google’s default global search experience, and …
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The AI SEO Guide: From Concepts to Application
Note: This post was updated by Will Scott on July 28th, 2026 to reflect current best practices. It was originally published on May 8th, 2025. TL;DR: AI SEO is the practice of optimizing content so it performs well with both human readers and AI systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s …
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Website Readiness for AI Search: Seven Foundations Every University Needs
TL;DR: AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews answer prospective students directly, and they pull those answers from websites that are crawlable, structured, and accurate. Universities don’t need new technology to compete. They need seven specific foundations in place, and most can be checked in an afternoon. Key …
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