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The reasoning seems to be that, based on information like prior leaks, that AMD has already been working on custom APUs for both the living room version and the handheld model of the PlayStation 6, and that AMD would not continue validation of those APUs if it thought there were supply constraints that would lead to a delay ahead of the console family's expected launch date. It's also possible that AMD and Sony signed the supply contracts for the Canis and Orion APUs before the current DRAM crisis was in full swing, effectively making a launch delay impossible or at least less likely. However, this would mean that the console makers would have a batch of hardware ready for launch followed by intermittent or delayed supply—at least as long as the DRAM shortage holds. There have also been rumors that Sony will be drastically increasing the price of the PS6 consoles compared to the PS5 generation, although this appears to be at least somewhat contingent on Microsoft's Xbox Helix pricing strategy.

Stormgate, a free-to-play, StarCraft-style RTS developed by Frost Giant Studios, relies on a third-party "game server orchestration partner" to run its online modes. Frost Giant told players on Discord that the provider had been acquired by an AI company, forcing a planned outage that will take Stormgate's multiplayer modes offline...

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If you rank your own product #1 in “best of” listicles, it’s not just a search-quality issue — it may violate FTC rules that took effect in October 2024.

Driving the news. As Lily Ray noted on LinkedIn, the FTC’s Consumer Review Rule (16 CFR Part 465) prohibits several deceptive practices tied to reviews and testimonials, including:

• Presenting company-controlled content as independent reviews.
• Publishing reviews of products or services never actually used.
• Attributing reviews to people who didn’t write them.

Penalties can reach up to $53,088 per violation, and each page may count separately. Ray also shared a reference table she generated with the help of Claude:

Why now. “Best X” and “Top 10 Y” listicles have surged as a GEO tactic over the past couple of years. These pages often perform well in search and increasingly influence AI-generated answers.

The backstory. Before the rule was formalized, Ray said at least one company faced legal action for publishing hundreds of “best of” pages that:

• Ranked its own services #1.
• Included fabricated competitor reviews.
• Used fake reviews on third-party platforms.

The Better Business Bureau later censured the company for unsubstantiated claims.

What’s happening. Many modern listicles follow a similar pattern:

• A brand publishes a “best tools” list.
• Includes competitors it hasn’t tested.
• Uses subjective or invented scoring systems.
• Ranks itself #1.

These listicles may imply independence or firsthand evaluation when neither exists.

The nuance. You can publish comparison content that includes your own product. However, based on FTC guidance, risk increases when:

• You imply objectivity, but promote your own product.
• You present reviews not based on real experience.
• You fail to clearly disclose material relationships.

What Google is saying. Google is aware of the low-quality listicle trend. In a statement to The Verge, a Google spokesperson said the company applies protections against manipulation in Search and Gemini, and reiterated its guidance: create content for people and ensure it’s understandable to search systems.

Why we care. What has worked as a visibility tactic may carry risk on two fronts — regulators and a potential Google Search algorithm change. That means this popular GEO tactic could decline quickly as its effectiveness drops.

Caveat. I’m not a lawyer. Consult your own legal counsel if you’re concerned about using this tactic.

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Microsoft has been addressing the recent wave of "Microslop" criticism that has emerged online in response to the forced integration of AI into its products. Specifically, Microsoft has been promoting its Copilot applications, products, and even Copilot-branded hardware like Copilot+ AI PCs to consumers. However, this is just the scratching the surface, as the actual number of Copilot variants is much higher than what the average PC enthusiast might consider. If you've ever wondered how many Copilot applications exist, the official count stands at 80 Copilot applications, products, services, and hardware that the Redmond giant has developed. Across every Microsoft vertical, there is a Copilot icon in some form, even present on Copilot+ PCs with its own dedicated Copilot key. This represents the biggest branding overhaul in Microsoft's history, as the company traditionally distinguished products with unique features and names.

However, the popularity of its ecosystem is at an all-time low, particularly within the PC community, which interacts most with the Windows 11 operating system and the Microsoft 365 suite of applications, formerly known as the Office package, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and others. Regular consumers are largely unaware of the extent of the Copilot branding, as Microsoft has extended its AI narrative to consumer and business chatbots, developer tools, desktop applications, Copilot applications within other applications, enterprise platforms, hardware, and business software serving the enterprise sector. At some point, the community narrative suggests that the branding is being pushed a bit too aggressively, as Windows 11 users, who interact daily with the world's most widely distributed operating system, have openly discussed the drawbacks of the forced Copilot integration.

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Human-written content dominates Google’s top rankings, appearing in the No. 1 position 80% of the time versus just 9% for purely AI-generated pages, based on a Semrush analysis of 42,000 blog posts.

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• Human-written pages outperformed AI and mixed content across all top 10 positions.
• The gap was widest at Position 1, where human content was 8x more likely to rank.
• AI content appeared more often lower on Page 1, nearly doubling from Positions 1 to 4.

Yes, but. AI detection tools are widely known to be inconsistent and can misclassify human and AI-written content, creating some possible “fuzziness” in these classifications.

Why we care. AI-generated content works, until it doesn’t. Yes, AI can help you rank, but this data suggests human insight still drives the best performance. For competitive queries, originality, expertise, and editorial judgment remain your unfair advantages.

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• 64% use a human-led, AI-assisted workflow.
• AI is most common in research, drafting, and optimization.
• Use drops sharply for multimedia, localization, and higher-judgment tasks.

What’s driving adoption. AI accelerates output, but doesn’t reliably improve it.

• 70% cite faster production as AI’s top benefit.
• Only 19% say it improves content quality.

About the data: The analysis examined 42,000 blog pages from 200,000 URLs tied to 20,000 keywords, using GPTZero to classify content. It also includes a survey of 224 SEO professionals working in content and search.

The study. Does AI content rank well in search? [Survey + Data study]

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In this case study, we went deep instead of broad. We focused on one question: why wasn’t a brand present in a single ChatGPT prompt across ~70 iterations?

We chose one prompt: “What are the best hotels in New York City?” 

We analyzed mentions, citations, fanouts, and SERPs in Google and Bing. We also planned to analyze GPT memory, but it made no discernible difference to mentions, citations, or fanouts.

What we did and what we found

We chose NYC hotels because it’s a crowded, mature market with juggernauts and up-and-comers. We also have no connection to the NYC luxury hotel space — we intentionally picked an area where we could stay objective and learn from scratch.

After running the prompt “what are the best hotels in New York City” 68 times, we identified which hotels appeared most consistently and which were nearly invisible.

We chose the Baccarat Hotel as our “client” because it appeared only once (1.5% of the time), despite strong reviews and clear alignment with the prompt’s intent. We wanted to know why — and whether it could change that.

Key findings:

• You can dominate query fanouts on Google SERPs and still underperform in ChatGPT brand mentions.
• Bing matters most. Ranking in Bing articles for fanouts aligns more directly with ChatGPT mentions — not just citations.
• In verticals dominated by third-party content, you face complex digital PR paths to increase visibility.

Note: A full methodology breakdown appears in the appendix.

Mentions of the Baccarat vs. the Fifth Avenue Hotel show just how wide the disparity in ChatGPT visibility can be

The Baccarat Hotel appeared once in 68 trials (1.5%).

Top performers were large luxury hotels like the Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown.

ChatGPT also identified boutique hotels as a subcategory, generating a secondary list in its answers. Boutique hotels like the Baccarat are typically smaller and not part of large chains.

Within this boutique subcategory, the Baccarat still underperformed. The Fifth Avenue Hotel, the top-performing boutique property, appeared 13 times, cited 20% of the time, versus the Baccarat’s 1.5%.

Reputation can’t explain visibility disparities

We first checked whether anything in the hotel’s history or reputation could explain the gap. As the chart below shows, nothing significant did:

	The Baccarat	The Fifth Avenue
Year Founded	2015	2023
Current Price	$930	$563
Number of Google Reviews	1.3k	213
Google Reviews Rating	4.6	4.6
Number of Expedia Reviews	531	201
Expedia Reviews Rating	9.4	9.6

Overall, the Baccarat has been around longer and has more reviews. On quality, the Fifth Avenue Hotel has no edge in Google reviews and only a slight edge in Expedia reviews. The only area where the Baccarat lags is price — but that’s unlikely the issue when The Ritz-Carlton, a consistent non-boutique winner, is listed at $1,100.

Further reinforcing the Fifth Avenue’s underdog status: one of its most prominent Google results (rank 2) was a Wikipedia page for a different Fifth Avenue Hotel that closed in 1908, creating potential entity confusion similar to the two Danny Goodwins.

If the Fifth Avenue Hotel had been the one missing, it would suggest a less established brand with entity confusion. But the opposite happened — it prevailed in ChatGPT.

So what was the problem for the Baccarat Hotel?

Winning Google SERPs for query fanouts doesn’t help, but winning Bing SERPs does 

When ChatGPT performs a web search, it sends a series of queries you can extract via Chrome DevTools. In this case study, examples included:

• [Best hotels in new york city]
• [Top rated luxury hotels in new york city recommendations]
• [Best hotels in nyc top luxury and boutique hotels new york]
• [Best luxury and boutique hotels in new york city recommendations reviews]
• [Best hotels in new york city nyc top hotels]
• [Top hotels in nyc luxury boutique best places to stay new york city]

In total, we extracted 25 unique query fanouts.

What we saw in the Google SERPs

If we only looked at the articles dominating fanout SERPs in Google, we’d expect the Baccarat to narrowly outperform the Fifth Avenue in ChatGPT. That didn’t happen.

In the table below, the Baccarat “wins” three of the top 10 most frequently appearing pages, while the Fifth Avenue Hotel “wins” two. The other five feature neither. A “win” means one of the following:

• Appearing when the other does not.
• Appearing higher on the page.
• Having more positive sentiment.

The data:

URL	Who Wins?	Notes
https://www.forbestravelguide.com/destinations/new-york-city-new-york	The Baccarat	The Baccarat Hotel is #4 on the list, the Fifth Avenue Hotel is #13 and sits far below the fold
https://www.mrandmrssmith.com/destinations/new-york-state/new-york/hotels	Neither	Neither Hotel appears on this list
https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/article/travel/the-best-hotels-in-new-york-all-the-michelin-key-hotels-in-the-city	The Fifth Avenue	The Baccarat is listed as a “one key” hotel, placing it at the bottom of the list. The Fifth Avenue Hotel  is listed as a “two key” hotel, placing it in the middle of the list.
https://youshouldgohere.com/2025/01/best-boutique-hotels-new-york-city/	Neither	Neither Hotel appears on this list
https://travel.usnews.com/hotels/new_york_ny/	The Baccarat	The Baccarat #11 on the list, the Fifth Avenue Hotel #16
https://luxlifelondon.com/best-hotels-manhattan-new-york-city/	Neither	Neither appears on this list
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g60763-New_York_City_New_York-Hotels.html	Neither	Neither Hotel appears on this list
https://www.lartisien.com/hotels/united-states/new-york	The Baccarat	The Baccarat is #5, the Fifth Avenue is #15
https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/readers-choice-awards-new-york-city-hotels	Neither	Neither Hotel appears on this list
https://www.reddit.com/r/chubbytravel/comments/1n7jro1/which_luxe_hotels_are_people_loving_in_new_york/	The Fifth Avenue	Both mentioned, but the Fifth Avenue much more positively

What we saw in the Bing SERPs

By contrast, looking only at the articles dominating fanout SERPs in Bing, we’d expect the Fifth Avenue to outperform the Baccarat in ChatGPT — and it did.

In the table below, the Fifth Avenue “wins” five of the eight most frequently appearing URLs.

Note: The table includes two fewer URLs because Bing SERPs were slightly less diverse for these fanouts.

The data:

URL	Who Wins?	Notes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/article/best-hotels-in-new-york-city/	Neither	Neither appears on this list
https://www.timeout.com/newyork/hotels/best-luxury-hotels-in-nyc	The Fifth Avenue	The Fifth Avenue is #1, The Baccarat is #16
https://robbreport.com/travel/hotels/lists/best-luxury-hotels-new-york-city-1237348563/	The Fifth Avenue	The Fifth Avenue is #5 (but also wins the hero image/caption), the Baccarat is #11
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/best-boutique-hotels-nyc	The Fifth Avenue	The Fifth Avenue appears, the Baccarat does not
https://www.travelandleisure.com/best-hotels-in-new-york-city-8612778	The Baccarat	The Baccarat appears, the Fifth Avenue does not
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g60763-zff12-New_York_City_New_York-Hotels.html	The Fifth Avenue	The Fifth Avenue appears, the Baccarat does not
https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/best-hotels-in-new-york-city	The Fifth Avenue	Both are listed, but the Fifth Avenue is listed under “Our Top Picks”
https://travel.usnews.com/hotels/new_york_ny/	The Baccarat	The Baccarat is #11 on the list, the Fifth Avenue is #16

The connection between Bing visibility and brand mentions

Bing rank strongly predicts ChatGPT citations — 87% align with Bing’s top results, Seer Interactive found. Our case study supports this and extends it.

We examined the relationship between fanouts (Seer focused on prompts) and brand mentions.

Example mention: “For a luxury boutique feel: listings like The Fifth Avenue Hotel or Crosby Street Hotel consistently make ‘top NYC’ lists from travel editors.”

Mentions are often more valuable than citations. Most people won’t follow citations but will remember the top recommendation.

There’s ongoing debate about whether fanouts shape ChatGPT’s answers and mentions, or simply support answers generated from training data. For example, Leigh McKenzie argued on LinkedIn:

• “The citations you see at the bottom? Those are surfaced after the answer is generated, not before. It’s post-hoc rationalization. The model didn’t choose your brand because it found your URL. It generated an answer based on what it already knows, then pointed to sources that support it.”

By contrast, our data aligns with Beehiiv’s research, which suggests citations do shape mentions.

Training data doesn’t appear to be the issue for the Baccarat. Compared to the Fifth Avenue, it’s older, has more reviews, and holds similarly high ratings across major platforms. What it lacks is strong presence in Bing results for fanouts and citations, which appears to lead to fewer mentions.

A simple flow might look like this:

• Brand ranks in Bing → ChatGPT fanouts pull in Bing pages → ChatGPT synthesizes training and Bing data to generate mentions

Coda: A tale of two Forbes articles, or why the details matter

In this vertical, third parties like Forbes and Condé Nast control the space. Visibility depends on who mentions you, so you need a strong outreach strategy — not just updates to your own content.

Our data shows that “targeting Forbes” isn’t specific enough.

The top result surfaced in both Bing and ChatGPT was the same Forbes article. In Google, the most frequent fanout result was also a Forbes article — but a different one.

• Google’s article: https://www.forbestravelguide.com/destinations/new-york-city-new-york
• ChatGPT/Bing’s article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/article/best-hotels-in-new-york-city

As we’ve seen, getting into Google’s Forbes article likely wouldn’t provide a meaningful boost. The Baccarat “won” in that piece.

Getting into Bing’s Forbes article, where the Baccarat wasn’t mentioned, could make all the difference. This requires a highly surgical approach grounded in Bing data.

Generalities won’t work; detail reigns supreme.

Appendix: Methodology

Model: We prompted GPT-5.2 Instant and manually extracted results. We didn’t use APIs within ChatGPT.

Number of iterations: We ran the same prompt 68 times.

Prompt: “What are the best hotels in New York City?”

Settings: We tested three memory states:

• Saved memories off
• Saved memories on, using unrelated real user memories
• Saved memories on, with one memory about needing gluten-free travel accommodations

For all trials, we turned off “reference chat history” to avoid interference across iterations.

We expected differences based on memory settings but found none, so we treated all trials as a single dataset.

What we extracted:

• All query fanouts.
• Full ChatGPT text output.
• Citations.
• Google SERPs for all fanouts.
• Bing SERPs for all fanouts.

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There have been multiple attempts to reach consensus on what works, predict what might be coming, and identify the factors that may play a role in “good” (or “bad”) SEO.

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2025 has been another year of increasingly higher SEO standards — which can only be a good thing:

• Near-universal adoption of HTTPS (now up to 91%+).
• Increased use of title tags at nearly 99% adoption, and even viewport meta tags at over 93% adoption.
• Canonical adoption rose from 65% in 2024 to 67%+ in 2025.
• HTML validity is slowly improving. For example, invalid <head> elements dropped to 10.1% on desktop and 10.3% on mobile from 10.6% and 10.9%, respectively, in the previous year.
• Robots.txt error rates fell404s declined to 13% from 14% the previous year, and 5xx responses fell to ~0.1%.
• Meta robots usage has crept up to 46.2% in 2025 from 45.5% the prior year.

Not all of these statistics represent rapid change, but they do show steady and consistent change, at the very least. The 2025 Web Almanac data presents the web as a more secure and easier-to-crawl place, which is certainly a positive. 

So, can SEOs take a victory lap right now? No, as there is more to do in 2026, even if the basics do feel like they’re stable or steadily improving.

The cementing of SEO ‘defaults’

Content management systems (CMSs) and SEO plugins play a huge role in developing SEO best practices and cementing the “default” or de facto standards.

As the CMS chapter in the 2025 Web Almanac shows, more and more websites are now powered by a CMS:

Of these, the top five most popular systems over the last four years likely aren’t surprising.

Frequently underpinning many SEO defaults are SEO tools typically utilized by WordPress sites:

That’s not to say that using these platforms or tools ensures a perfect website setup. That said, key elements or functions of these tools can become industry standard due to their ubiquity:

• Robots.txt.
• Sitemap.xml.
• Canonical tags.
• Semantic HTML.
• Structured data.

Not all of these are on by default. Sometimes they require inputting basic details or simple implementation. Regardless, their ease of access increases the likelihood that they will become an SEO best practice.

This is happening, and it’s proving effective. What this means for 2026 and beyond is that:

• Working with or lobbying major platform and tool makers is one of the key ways to shape SEO’s future direction.
• SEO tools and platforms will continue to enforce best practices on the front end, but they could also benefit from AI and assistive features behind the scenes. While it may be less visible in the data itself, these tools offer the opportunity to move quickly and gain deeper insight.
• Structured data usage was previously driven by what Google rewarded in the search engine results pages (SERPs). SEOs and plugin developers alike could be inspired to move beyond what’s beneficial for the SERPs and onto what contributes to a more predictable, structured, and retrievable data set.

Deprecated, but not forgotten

Defaults and best practices help, but they don’t finish the job. While attention often shifts to new features, old or forgotten standards still see widespread use.

There have been many different cases where deprecated settings or standards have prominently appeared in the data.

• For example, in meta robots bot declarations, “msnbot” is still in the top 5, even though it was replaced over 16 years ago. 
• AMP use has plummeted over the years, but it’s still found on over 38,000 homepages. While technically not deprecated, amp.dev has seen no recent activity for nearly four years now.
• The most common meta robots attributes are “index” and “follow,” which are implicit and largely ignored.

Web changes — no matter how small — are often neither quick nor easy to get done, and we’ll likely see traces of deprecated features and settings in the data for years to come.

More work is needed

The improvement in SEO standards doesn’t apply to all features and sites. There are some that aren’t moving in the same direction:

• The mobile performance gap stubbornly lingers — even as it continues to improve.
• Duplicate content management is still lagging, with nearly 33% of pages missing canonical implementation.
• Advanced configurations have barely moved from the previous year — nearly 67% of images don’t have loading attributes set, and over 91% of iframes don’t have set loading attributes.
• Many deprecated standards refuse to go away.

While CMS default settings or configurations can take credit for some of the larger changes, they also bear some of the responsibility for the issues above. For example, median Lighthouse scores for some of the major CMS platforms are still lagging, especially on mobile (while seeing increases over last year).

The long tail of the web is still messy, and this will probably always be the case. The Web Almanac dataset doesn’t exclude websites that are no longer relevant or abandoned.

Site metrics that meet the “top” standards from an SEO best practices point of view can likely be achieved with an out-of-the-box site built on any major CMS with a modern theme and 30 mins of carefully considered configuration. This is one of the most significant opportunities in technical SEO.

In 2026, we’ll likely:

• Continue to see performance gaps converge between desktop and mobile experiences — but slowly.
• Still be able to see echoes of past markup and decisions. Even if the collective focus is pulled to the “new world” of AI search, many SEOs won’t abandon proven tactics and approaches from past years. This dataset develops slowly.
• Observe something that’s mostly “business as usual.”

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Charting the impacts of AI

One of the more eagerly awaited elements of the Web Almanac data was whether we can chart the increasing presence and impact of AI search and crawlers in the decisions of SEOs and developers.

Within the data, we observed two major developments:

• Robots.txt is increasingly used more as a policy document rather than crawler control.
• Creation and adoption of llms.txt is one of the few signs of LLM-first decision-making.

Commenting on the state of SEO is challenging because the definition isn’t fixed. What’s good or bad practice is often hotly debated, and in the world of AI search, another (painful) metamorphosis is now taking place.

In the HTTP Archive data we can observe the influences working on SEO from a “nuts and bolts” point of view, report on what we see, and enable people to make up their own minds.

Specifically, one of the elements we added this year was the analysis of the llms.txt file. 

This is a highly controversial text file, but our inclusion was not an endorsement. It’s a recognition that changing trends may (or may not) shape the web. Whether it’s effective or accepted, its adoption says something, and we felt it was important to review that.

Robots.txt as a bouncer

It’s clear that robots.txt has a more important job now than ever. Until relatively recently, it was largely used for targeted control of crawlers, particularly Googlebot and Bingbot. 

For most SEOs, however, robots.txt was mostly an exercise in both ensuring we weren’t blocking anything by accident and resolving problem areas with Disallow rules. This has changed:

• Gptbot: 4.5% on desktop and 4.2% on mobile in 2025 is up from 2.9% on desktop and 2.7% on mobile in 2024, representing a ~55% increase.
• Ccbot: 3.5% on desktop and 3.2% on mobile in 2025 is up from 2.7% on desktop and 2.4% on mobile in 2024.
• Petalbot: 4.0% on desktop and 4.4% on mobile in 2025 (not separately tracked in 2024).
• Claudebot: 3.6% on desktop and 3.4% on mobile in 2025 is up from 1.9% on desktop and 1.6% on mobile in 2024, nearly doubling.

Robots.txt isn’t the only way to manage bots — and arguably isn’t the best — but it introduces a new decision that must be made: How should websites handle LLM crawlbots?

This will be one of the biggest areas we’ll see change in on the technical side of 2026:

• Businesses with existing bot strategies will need to evolve them.
• Businesses that don’t meaningfully manage crawlers will start feeling the pressure to do so.
• Robots.txt will still be the clearest and easiest way to handle crawlers. We will almost certainly see more good and bad bots alike.

In 2026, SEOs will be drawn into bot management conversations spanning marketing, technology, and security. “Which bots should we allow?” is a question with downstream effects on budgets, revenue, and users, and we’ll need to closely monitor what develops.

LLMs.txt

LLMs.txt is an aspiring web standard that aims to guide LLM crawlbot behavior and make it easier for them to retrieve content before generating an answer. It’s a highly controversial .txt file, and there’s a vigorous debate on whether it actually benefits LLMs, will gain widespread use, and is a possible vector for manipulation.

The rationale or efficacy of this file isn’t something we need to cover here. For this article, the true point of interest with llms.txt is the adoption of this file as a statement of intent. 

At the start of 2025, I crawled the Majestic Million, a regularly updated list of the top 1 million websites ranked by backlink authority, in search of llms.txt and found that adoption was extremely low (0.015% of sites, or just 15). 

While searching one million sites versus 16 million presents some logistical differences, I was expecting a very low level of adoption based on prior experience. I was surprised at how wrong I was.

According to the 2025 data, just over 2% of sites had a valid llms.txt file, and:

• 39.6% of llms.txt files are related to All in One SEO (AIOSEO)
• 3.6% of llms.txt files are related to Yoast SEO

This number is still relatively low, but it’s much higher than I thought it would be and potentially represents a huge acceleration.

The primary reason fueling adoption of llms.txt’s SEO plugins that make this easier to enable. 

We can see that llms.txt adoption has continued to rise ever since we started collecting data from across the web:

If, however, the implementation of this file is actually a default feature in some scenarios, it could be easy to overvalue its significance.

LLMs.txt will still be a barometer of AI search decision-making in 2026:

• More tools and plugins will offer this functionality if they don’t already.
• Yoast and Rank Math (which don’t default llms.txt to “on”) represent more growth opportunities for this file. Many SEOs may decide to switch it on even if there isn’t strong evidence of its efficacy.
• The rate of adoption will continue to climb, but whether it’ll reach a point where it becomes an accepted best practice is harder to forecast.

FAQ growth

Another interesting trend worth discussing is the increase in the use of the FAQPage schema. 

While this isn’t as explicit a trend as robots.txt or llms.txt usage, the increased adoption of this schema type is particularly interesting.

Since Google said it was limiting the appearance of FAQ snippets in search results, you’d be forgiven for thinking the implementation of this schema type might plateau — or even fall.

However, you can see from the last three publications of the Web Almanac that this isn’t the case:

The use of FAQPage schema is now an emerging trend as AI search heavily cites FAQ content in its outputs.

This could be correlation rather than causation, but the steady increase in FAQPage schema is a strong sign of AI search strategies changing the shape of the web.

To echo another conclusion from earlier, 2026 may well see continued growth of structured data types even if they don’t result in an obvious improvement. While the growth is unlikely to be explosive, making a case for their implementation is easier when we don’t just optimize for Google.

Not a rewrite: A new layer on top of SEO

Will AI search reshape the web in 2026? Unlikely. Will we continue to see signs of its importance? Almost certainly, but let’s not get carried away. 

SEO has a reputation for changing quickly. Sometimes that’s true. More often, it’s the conversation that moves quickly, while the web itself changes at a steadier pace.

The 2025 Web Almanac data clearly reflects that tension. Core SEO hygiene continues to improve year over year, but largely through default features and settings, tools, and platform behavior rather than deliberate optimization.

At the same time, long-deprecated standards linger, advanced configurations remain uneven, and the long tail of the web remains untidy. Progress is real, but it’s incremental — and sometimes accidental.

What has shifted meaningfully is intent.

• Robots.txt is no longer just crawl housekeeping. It’s becoming a policy surface.
• LLMs.txt, regardless of whether it proves useful, represents a new class of decision-making entirely.
• FAQ patterns are on the rise again, and not because of SERP features, but because structured, extractable answers have immense value elsewhere. 

2026 will not be remembered as the year SEO ended or was reborn. It may, however, be considered the year the AI search layer became more defined. A new patch applied — not a fundamental rewriting.

For a deeper dive into the data behind these trends, explore the 2025 Web Almanac SEO chapter.

Most guidance on optimizing for AI still focuses on how content is written. But AI systems don’t read content the way humans do. These systems extract information, break it into parts, and reuse it in new contexts. What matters is whether your content can be pulled into an AI-sourced answer cleanly.

Where traditional SEO has centered on ranking pages, AI systems prioritize retrievable units of meaning. That changes how content needs to be built:

• From pages → passages
• From narratives → modular blocks
• From keywords → structured intent 

The shift is structural: Content that performs well in this environment is designed to be extracted, recombined, and attributed.

How AI systems actually use your content

To design for AI usefulness and visibility, you need a basic model of how content is selected and used.

Retrieval favors structure

AI systems segment content into passages and retrieve those independently. That has a few implications:

• A single section can be selected without the rest of a page.
• Sections within the same article compete with each other.
• Clear boundaries (headings, sections) improve AI retrieval.

When structure is unclear, the signal becomes less reliable, even when the topic is relevant.

Generation favors clarity and completeness

After retrieval, content is used to generate an answer. AI systems tend to favor passages that:

• Answer the query directly.
• Require minimal rewriting.
• Can stand on their own.

This is where “low-edit distance” shows up in practice. Content that can be used as-is has an advantage.

Attribution favors distinct, ownable framing

AI systems also decide what to cite. Content is more likely to be attributed when it includes:

• Defined concepts.
• Clear frameworks.
• Language that isn’t interchangeable.

If a section reads like a generic summary, it’s easier to replace with another source.

The 5 core principles of AI-preferred content design

When content is retrieved in pieces, used in generated answers, and selectively attributed, structure becomes the lever. These principles show up consistently in content that gets surfaced by AI systems:

1. Modular by design

Content is more useful when it’s built in discrete units. Each section should:

• Address a specific question or subtopic.
• Be understandable without relying on surrounding text.

Long sections that depend on earlier context are harder to reuse in isolation. Modular structure also makes content easier to update, test, and repurpose across surfaces — without rewriting the entire page.

2. Hierarchically structured

A clear hierarchy helps systems understand what each section contains and how it relates to the rest of the page. H2 → H3 → H4 structure should signal:

• Topic: What the section is about.
• Intent: What question it answers.
• Scope: How narrow or specific it is.

Headings should make each section’s purpose immediately clear. When that signal is weak, it becomes harder to match the right section to the right query.

3. Explicit over implied

AI systems rely on what’s stated directly. Make relationships and conclusions clear by:

• Defining terms when they’re introduced.
• Stating outcomes or takeaways directly.
• Clarify cause-and-effect or comparisons, rather than implying them.

If something is important, it should be written plainly. Copy that requires inference is harder to interpret and more likely to be skipped in favor of clearer alternatives.

4. Answer-first formatting

Place the direct answer to the section’s core question at the top, then expand. 

AI systems prioritize passages that resolve a query immediately. When the answer is delayed or embedded within a longer explanation, the relevance of that passage becomes less obvious.

Answer-first formatting requires that the opening lines:

• Resolve the core question directly
• Use language that clearly maps to the query
• Avoid unnecessary setup or context

The rest of the section can then add deeper nuance, examples, or other details that further understanding without changing the core response.

5. Designed for passage-level extraction

Passages compete for selection, both within the same article and across the web.

When multiple sections address the same question in similar ways, they dilute each other. Clear, specific, and well-scoped content “chunks” are more likely to be selected.

You can audit a passage’s usefulness by asking:

• Is it understandable without additional context?
• Does it fully answer a single question?
• Can it be quoted as an answer without any editing?

If the passage needs context or cleanup, it’s less competitive.

Common content patterns that improve AI retrieval and use

These patterns show how structured, answer-first content is applied in practice — making it easier for AI systems to match, extract, and use.

The ‘definition + expansion’ block pattern

Start with a clear definition. Then add detail. This works best for:

• Concepts.
• Terminology.
• Processes.

The definition should establish what something is in a way that can be quoted independently. The expansion then adds context, nuance, or examples.

This pattern helps position your content as a reference point for core concepts — especially when AI systems need a clean, authoritative definition.

The ‘question → direct answer → context’ pattern

AI systems are designed to respond to queries. This pattern aligns your content to that structure.

Order your content as:

• Question.
• Immediate answer.
• Supporting detail.

The answer should resolve the query in one to two sentences, using the same language or phrasing as the question where possible. 

Remaining content can add depth through nuance and edge cases that extend beyond the core answer.

The ‘framed list’ pattern

Lists work best when they’re introduced by a clear framing sentence that tells the reader — and the retrieval system — what the items represent.

• Follow a consistent structure (e.g., all actions, all criteria, all features)
• Stay at the same level of detail
• Clearly map back to the framing sentence

This pattern works especially well for steps, criteria, features, and takeaways.

Well-structured lists are easier for systems to parse and reuse, especially when each item is clearly defined within the context of the list.

The ‘comparison’ pattern

Structure content to make differences explicit. This works well for alternatives (“X vs Y”), tradeoffs, and decision-making criteria. You can use:

• Side-by-side comparisons.
• Clear evaluation criteria (price, features, use case, limitations).
• Direct statements of when to choose each option.

Content that clearly outlines differences is easier for AI systems to extract and reuse in answers that involve evaluation or recommendations.

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Top content design mistakes that limit AI visibility

Most AI surfacing issues come back to content structure. When structure is weak, answers are harder to identify and extract. That tends to show up in the form of:

Overly narrative, under-structured content

Long paragraphs with key points buried inside make it harder to isolate a clear answer. Without strong subheadings to define what each section covers, systems have fewer signals to identify where that answer lives.

Ask:

• Does this section answer a clear question, or just explore a topic?
• Is the main point easy to identify in the first few lines?
• Do the subheadings clearly signal what each section contains?

Vague or non-descriptive headers

Headers like “Overview,” “Introduction,” or “Key Takeaways” don’t provide enough signal about what the section actually contains.

Headings help systems understand what a section covers and how it relates to a query. When they’re vague, the relationship between section and query becomes less explicit.

Ask:

• Would this header make sense out of context?
• Does it clearly reflect the question or topic being answered?
• Could multiple sections on the page use the same header? 

Answers buried mid-paragraph

When the answer appears halfway through a paragraph, it’s harder to isolate as a clean, reusable unit.

AI systems look for segments that clearly resolve a query. When the answer is embedded within surrounding context, it becomes less distinct and more likely to be overlooked or reassembled.

Ask:

• Is the answer clearly distinguishable from the neighboring text?
• Does contextual copy clarify or dilute the answer’s main point?

Redundant or repetitive sections

When sections overlap, they compete for the same query and weaken the overall signal. Instead of reinforcing the topic, similar sections can fragment it across multiple passages, making it less clear which one should be selected.

Ask:

• Do multiple sections answer the same question in slightly different ways?
• Is each section clearly scoped to a distinct angle or subtopic?

Clear separation improves both retrieval and selection.

How to evolve existing content for AI without starting over

Most teams don’t need to totally rebuild content from scratch. Updating existing content for today’s landscape just requires a few structural changes.

Break content into logical units

• Identify where natural sections exist and what question each one answers.
• Split broad or mixed sections so each one resolves a single idea or query.
• If a section covers multiple points, separate them into distinct sections.

Rewrite for answer-first clarity

• Move the clearest version of the answer to the top of each section.
• Remove lead-in language, qualifiers, or examples that appear before the answer.
• Ensure the opening lines can be understood without relying on the rest of the page.

Strengthen structural signals

• Make headings specific enough to reflect both the topic and the question being answered.
• Use formatting (lists, short paragraphs, summaries) to make key points easier to scan and isolate.
• Check that each section’s purpose is immediately clear from its heading and first sentence.

Introduce distinct framing

Turn generic sections into clearly defined units, like:

• Frameworks.
• Named concepts.
• Defined models.

Ensure each section covers a distinct angle and does not repeat or overlap with others. This helps consolidate signal and makes it easier for systems to select and attribute the right passage.

The future of content design in AI-mediated search

AI systems are already reshaping how content is surfaced, and that shift will continue as answers become more personalized and draw from multiple sources.

As a result, page-level ranking matters less on its own. Content value is shifting toward contribution — how clearly a piece of content can inform, support, or shape an answer.

The content that performs best will be:

• Structurally clear, with sections that are easy to identify and extract.
• Modular, so individual passages can be selected and reused independently.
• Distinct, with clearly defined ideas that don’t overlap or compete internally.
• Designed to be selected and used, not just indexed or ranked.

Content that meets these criteria is more likely to be surfaced, reused, and attributed as AI-mediated search continues to evolve.

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For a long time, links were the primary signal of authority in search. If you wanted visibility, you built backlinks. If you wanted credibility, you earned placements. That still matters — but it’s no longer enough.

In AI-driven search, authority is shaped by how often your brand is mentioned, cited, and clearly associated with a topic. Visibility comes from being referenced in AI-generated answers.

With that shift in mind, the goal is to create content that earns consistent brand mentions and citations — the signals that now drive AEO visibility.

The philosophy driving content that fuels AEO growth

In 2026 organic discovery, authority incorporates entity recognition.

On both Google and LLMs like ChatGPT and AI Overviews, authority is reinforced through:

• High-quality backlinks.
• Brand mentions (linked or unlinked).
• Consistent citations across trusted publications.
• Clear entity associations (who you are, what you’re known for, and what topics you “own”).

Since LLMs synthesize information instead of ranking pages, you need repeatable, credible mentions across the web to strengthen your brand’s likelihood of being cited or referenced in AI answers. Importantly, you also need to use your owned media to define your brand entity very clearly.

That makes building authority even more critical. Your content will now be battling with even more competition in the form of AI results in the SERP and AI-produced content from other publishers.

The TL;DR is that you need to establish a clear brand and, underneath that brand, create content that’s so valuable that other experts, journalists, creators, and AI systems repeatedly reference your brand when they’re discussing a topic core to your business.

Dig deeper: How to build an effective content strategy for 2026

The principles and formatting of AEO-friendly content

You’ll use many of the same SEO principles as a base for AEO-friendly content. Content aligned with Google’s helpful content guidelines — focused on value and user experience — appeals to the people (and LLMs) discussing these concepts and sourcing experts to validate their positions.

That said, to produce truly AEO-friendly content, you need to incorporate formatting that supports LLM extraction.

Key formatting principles include:

• Clear definitions: Have short, clean definitions high on the page:
  • “X is…”
  • “Y refers to…”
• Structured formatting:
  • Use descriptive H2s and H3s.
  • Employ bullet points.
  • Keep paragraphs short.
  • Include direct answers under question-based headers.
• Explicit context:
  • Avoid vague pronouns and implied references.
  • Remember that LLMs perform better when context is explicit and self-contained.
• Summary sections: 
  • TL;DR blocks.
  • Key takeaways.
  • FAQs.
• Entity reinforcement:
  • Brand name.
  • Author expertise and authority.
  • Brand and author credentials.

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The specific objectives for your AEO content to address

If you’re solely focused on AEO, I’d approach your content with these objectives in mind:

• Be highly citable: Include original data or perspectives a journalist or influencer would use in media like podcasts, expert roundups, contributor columns, or co-marketing content)
• Be highly quotable: Provide at least one clean, quotable insight.
• Be specific: Answer specific questions an AI system would try to answer. You can clearly articulate a question your content answers — and answer it verbatim with a section or paragraph in your content.
• Be clear: Define a topic in an easily extracted manner. 

To address these objectives, it can be helpful to think beyond blog posts to ideate “reference-grade” assets, including:

• Original research.
• Data studies.
• Industry benchmarks.
• Visual explainers.
• Definitive guides.
• Glossaries.

Dig deeper: How to create answer-first content that AI models actually cite

Practical steps to build AEO authority with content

Here’s how to turn those principles into a repeatable process for building AEO authority:

• Research keywords where bloggers and journalists are searching for references (these keywords often include “statistics” or “reports”). Use Reddit, Quora, X, Ahrefs (Matching terms report), and Exploding Topics among your references.
• From those keywords, build a list of topics around which your team has the expertise to share valuable insights and perspectives.
• Research a list of writers and journalists who cover those topics.
• Find expert resources (either internal or closely connected) and interview them to build a cache of content.
• Refine and develop that content into contemporary insights using Google Trends and social listening, using timing and a list of audience modifiers to heighten relevance.
  • Example: Get a list of tips from an expert targeted to help hay fever sufferers (niche audience/modifier) get a better night’s sleep (core topic/target) during a particularly bad high pollen count period (relevance).
• Pitch a group of writers and journalists who cover your theme and/or sub-theme on why this matters right now, and how it’s different from other content they might find to reference.
• If (or even before) those writers and journalists link to your content, follow them on their social channels to deepen your connection for future opportunities.

Dig deeper: Organizing content for AI search: A 3-level framework

Create content worth referencing

Writing for AEO isn’t at odds with writing for humans. Even from its early days, AEO shared many of the SEO fundamentals derived from appeal to actual users.

That said, there are enough differences with the way LLMs extract and digest content (and the way users ask LLMs for information) that you need to keep specific nuances in mind in your content approach. 

With a clearly defined brand on your owned media, and an understanding of the tenets of AEO and how to address them, you should have a good idea how to leverage your team’s expertise for greater visibility on the AI search landscape.

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Since 2021, I’ve worked on more than 350 published guest posts. In that time, I’ve refined a repeatable guest posting outreach process that consistently drives approvals without ever paying for a placement.

Although guest blogging is becoming more difficult, the basics of personalized guest posting outreach remain the same. If your mindset is to create mutual value, this process will work for you in 2026 and beyond.

Step 1: Build your outreach list

Your outreach list is a collection of the websites you’ll email to offer guest-written content. You can build your list in several ways.

The easiest way to find potential websites is by googling your niche alongside “write for us.”

Plenty of reputable websites openly accept guest posts and have an established approval process you can find online. That’s the exact approach I used to publish an article on G2’s Learning Hub.

Alternatively, search the name of a prominent person in your niche and add keywords such as “guest post,” “guest author,” or similar. Chances are that if a website has published guest posts from someone in your industry, they’ll be receptive to accepting guest posts from you as well.

Browse your competitors’ backlink profile with an SEO tool. In Semrush, Backlinks is one of the SEO tools under Link Building.

To refine your list, verify which websites have previously published content from guest authors. If, however, all articles on a blog are written in-house and you’re not the Beyoncé of your industry, chances are your guest posting pitch will go unnoticed.

Once you’ve gathered a list of sites that potentially accept guest posts, run them by your website quality criteria.

Consider the website niche, top pages, organic traffic over time, countries where the traffic is coming from, authority score, and outgoing backlinks. You can also automate this step with the API of your favorite SEO tool.

Step 2: Find the right contacts

Even the best guest post outreach will fail if you’re writing to the wrong person.

Most people ignore emails that aren’t relevant to them, nor do they forward them to the right colleague.

That’s why you need to do your homework. There’s likely a specific department or person you should be addressing.

Here’s how to find the right person through LinkedIn:

• Open the company LinkedIn profile and select the People tab.

• Type relevant keywords into the search bar to filter out profiles. You’re looking for a person who decides what content goes on the blog.

To do this, you can type “content” and browse the results for a content manager, content editor, or similar.

In smaller companies, you can search for “marketing” or “growth” to find who’s the one-person marketing team.

For micro companies, your best contact person might be the founder or co-founder.

• Use Apollo or Hunter to find the work email of the best contact you find.

Sometimes, you’ll come across companies that have no listed employees on LinkedIn, or their emails are not available. In this case, your only option might be a generic email such as contact@ or support@. For micro companies or in certain niches (typically B2C websites), these emails can still work.

• Verify all email addresses. Many outreach tools have built-in email verification features.

This step helps you protect your sender reputation and ensures your emails end up in the inbox, not the spam folder.

Step 3: Choose your outreach approach

There are two distinct ways to approach guest posting outreach.

Send out a generic email template with basic personalization

Ask whether the website accepts guest-written content. This way, you don’t invest a lot of time upfront into every pitch and your only focus is on building an outreach list.

As the emails aren’t highly personalized (they usually just include the names of the person and the company), they generate a moderate reply rate. 

To drive results with this approach, you need a large outreach list so you’ll still get enough opportunities to work with at a 3% to 5% reply rate.

Hyper-personalize your emails

The email you send to company A offers something completely different than the email you’re sending to company B. It takes a lot of time to research and tailor your pitch, but it also enjoys a higher reply rate (around 19%, from my experience).

This approach works best when you have a small outreach list or when you’re pitching to prominent websites.

Step 4: Research the right topics

No matter your outreach approach, you usually need to pitch guest post topics. With basic personalization, you suggest topics only to the websites that reply to you. But with the hyper-personalized email approach, you propose topics in the first email you send.

Top-tier websites typically only accept specific types of guest articles. Find the website’s editorial guidelines by googling “[company name] + guest post” and see their requirements.

Let’s look at HubSpot as an example. They’re only publishing marketing experiments, original data analyses, or super detailed tactical guides.

Similarly, writing a guest article for Zapier’s blog requires specific experience. Generic topics won’t make the cut.

Buffer takes things a step further by opening rounds for guest posting under specific themes.

Following each website’s requirements increases your chances of landing a successful pitch. But most websites are open to a broader range of suggestions.

Some editors have a list of keywords or topics they want to target. They may share it with you so you can choose a topic to write on based on your expertise.

Alternatively, you can bring your own guest post ideas. When that’s the case, you can use a keyword gap analysis to uncover relevant topic ideas.

How to do a keyword gap analysis with Semrush

Let’s say you want to pitch a guest article to monday.com. Here’s how to go about it:

• Go to Semrush’s SEO tools and select Keyword Gap. Add the URLs of Monday.com’s blog along with the blogs of leading competitor brands, then click on Compare.

• Next, filter out the keywords.

Look only at keywords where competitors are ranking in the top 100 results.

Limit the keyword search volume to 2,000. This filters out broad, highly competitive terms that typically require long-form, comprehensive guides to rank.

• In the keywords report, choose Missing to see keywords that competitors are ranking for but monday.com isn’t. This is their keyword gap.

• Look deeper into individual keywords that seem interesting and match your expertise. 

For example, “what is time boxing” has 49% keyword difficulty.

• In the search bar, add the domain URL to get a personalized keyword difficulty calculation. The goal is to find keywords for which your article has real potential to rank.

After selecting “monday.com,” you see the site has low topical authority for “what is time boxing,” and ranking for it would be very hard.

Looking at “cost management in project management,” the Personal Keyword Difficulty is 60%. While that’s still high, there’s more to consider.

• Check how your target domain compares against other websites ranking for this keyword. 

Monday.com’s Authority Score (AS) is 67, while the average in the top 10 is AS 52. Despite this being a competitive keyword, with the right content, monday.com has real ranking potential.

• Double-check the website isn’t targeting this keyword already. Sometimes, the website already has content on a similar topic — they’re just targeting a variation of your keyword.

To do this, use the “site:” search operator and add your keyword into Google search.

In this case, “task priority” came up in the keyword gap analysis. While monday.com doesn’t have an article with this keyword in the H1, it does have very similar content on how to create a priority list or prioritize tasks.

• Select three to four keywords that would make sense for the website to target. This ensures that the website editors will have enough options to choose from. If you put all of your eggs into one topic idea, it might not land. But three or four ideas increase your chances of success.

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Step 5: Create your extra value proposition

Adding extra value is about what else you can bring to the table besides guest content.

• Are you an established author in the site’s niche?
• Do you have a social media following that would be interested in this piece?
• Are you running a relevant newsletter?
• Or do you participate in a private community that cares about this topic?

Your extra value proposition is unique to your profile, and different value props can appeal to different websites.

For example, I have 11,000 followers on LinkedIn. When reaching out to a project management tool’s blog editor, I can mention that 54% of my followers are founders, executives, or senior-level professionals in small to mid-sized companies — the very people responsible for managing processes and tools within their organizations.

If I’m personalizing this pitch for a lead-generation blog, I can highlight that 35% of my audience works in the marketing or advertising industry.

Step 6: Prepare your emails

When it comes to your emails, you need to consider the subject line, the email body, and follow-ups.

In simple terms: 

• The subject line is what gets your email opened.
• The email body gets you replies.
• The follow-up gets you a second chance.

According to BuzzStream’s analysis of six million emails, the best-performing subject lines:

• Have 9-13 words and 71+ characters.
• Have emojis.
• Mention the website name (but not the person’s name).
• Use title case (vs. sentence case).

On to the email body: Keep your emails concise and skimmable. Editors rarely have time for long messages.

Finally: follow-ups. Statistically, the more you follow up, the higher your overall campaign reply rate. Some people reply after the first follow-up, others after the third.

My recommendation? Limit follow-ups to two. A third one feels too pushy.

Step 7: Send your outreach emails

You’ve done a lot of preparation work. It’s finally time to send your emails. Here’s what to consider:

Send days 

An analysis of 85,000 personalized emails showed the best day to send a cold email is Monday, closely followed by Tuesday and Wednesday. These are the days with the highest email open and reply rates.

Send times

The same study suggests you should be sending your emails between 6 to 9 a.m. PT (9 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET). But since most editors are based in different countries, aim to send your email before noon in their local time.

Unsubscribe option

Always give recipients a clear way to opt out of more emails. Without an unsubscribe option, recipients may mark your message as spam. This can damage your sender reputation and reduce future deliverability.

Step 8: Track and adjust

Most outreach tools allow you to track open, reply, and success rates. Let’s break down what each metric tells you.

• Open rate is the percentage of recipients who open your email. Your subject line, preview text, sender name, and domain reputation directly influence this number.
• Reply rate is the percentage of recipients who respond to your email. Exclude automatic replies (like out-of-office messages) to avoid inflated performance numbers. Your email body, topic relevance, and positioning drive this metric.
• Success rate is the percentage of sent emails that result in a published guest post. Your topic selection, communication with the editor, and adherence to editorial guidelines are some of the aspects that influence success rates.

Track these metrics to identify weak points in your outreach campaigns.

After you establish a baseline, run controlled A/B tests. Send different versions of your campaign to similarly sized groups and compare performance. Change only one variable at a time so you can clearly measure its impact.

Test ideas such as:

• Subject line with an emoji vs. without.
• First email with an extra value proposition vs. without.
• Three suggested topics vs. four.
• One follow-up vs. two follow-ups.

Small improvements across different elements of your campaign can compound into measurable gains in success rate.

Step 9: Build relationships with editors

I mentioned I’ve worked on more than 350 guest articles. But that doesn’t mean they were all published on different websites. When you provide quality, you’re very likely to build lasting relationships that result in ongoing work.

That’s one reason I use keyword gap analysis to choose topics. I target keywords that the website has real potential to rank for. When an article brings meaningful traffic, it becomes much easier to pitch the next one.

To establish lasting relationships with editors:

• Provide exceptional content: Structure the article around search intent. Create original value with custom visuals, expert quotes, and practical examples. Support the publisher’s internal linking by adding multiple links to other resources on their website. Ensure perfect grammar and spelling.
• Support the article after publication: Promote it through your social media, newsletter, or community. When appropriate, link to it from other relevant content you write.
• Be reliable and easy to work with: Communicate clearly, respect editorial guidelines, and meet every deadline.

My guest posting template with 18% success rate

Below is the guest post outreach template that has delivered the strongest results in my campaigns.

Between 2023 and 2025, I sent more than 300 pitches using variations of this template, primarily to content managers at B2B SaaS companies in the marketing and HR niches. It generated a 19% reply rate, and 18% of sent emails resulted in a published guest post.

Subject: Fresh content ideas for [Company Name]

Hi [First Name],

My name is [Your Name], and I’m the [Your Job Title] at [Your Company], a [short company description].

I’m reaching out to see if [Company Name] is open to guest contributions. I have extensive experience in [your expertise area], having worked on projects for brands such as [Brand 1] and [Brand 2].

Here are a few topic ideas I’d love to propose:

keyword: [primary keyword 1], US search volume: [search volume]

[Proposed Article Title 1]

keyword: [primary keyword 2], US search volume: [search volume]

[Proposed Article Title 2]

keyword: [primary keyword 3], US search volume: [search volume]

[Proposed Article Title 3]

To learn more about my background, you can view my [LinkedIn profile link] or review articles I’ve written for [Publication 1], [Publication 2], and [Publication 3].

If the article is a fit and gets published, I’d be happy to promote it to my community of [audience description or size].

Looking forward to your thoughts,

[Your Name]

Guest blogging caveat to consider

Your author profile directly influences your approval rate.

If you’re just starting out and don’t have a portfolio of published work, editors will hesitate to approve your topics. Start by reaching out to small or mid-sized industry blogs.

As you build your portfolio, pitching becomes easier. Publishing on recognized industry websites and creating content that drives measurable results strengthens your credibility and improves your success rate over time.

Bottom line: Invest in your author profile. That’s your biggest asset for successful guest blogging.

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You don't need to spend a fortune to get a great floor cleaning gadget — these are the best affordable options I've tested.

stackcost is a community-driven database of what it actually costs to run a startup. Founders publicly share their full stacks, monthly bills, and ROI so you can compare tools, spot overkill, and budget with real-world data. Browse verified receipts, leaderboards, and detailed stack pages, then create your profile to contribute your own stack and get discovered.

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IslaApp helps small businesses build and launch bilingual websites quickly. Use an AI-powered editor to rewrite text, swap images, and adjust layouts, then publish with one click. Choose from over 75 industry templates in English and Spanish, connect a custom domain, and enjoy SSL, hosting, and built-in analytics. Sell online with an integrated store and ATH Móvil card payments, manage forms and databases, and run AI email campaigns with responsive support.

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Story Generator helps you create full stories from simple prompts. Choose a genre and get structured narratives with chapters, character arcs, dialogue, and endings in seconds. The tool also builds outlines, plots, prompts, and titles and returns multiple versions per run so you can pick your favorite. Use it to overcome writer’s block, plan scenes, or produce ready-to-read drafts, and export your results. Start free without a credit card, with support for visual storytelling and children’s stories.

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OPT-IMG is an AI-powered image SEO platform that turns raw images into SEO-ready, faster-loading assets. It automatically generates SEO-friendly filenames and alt text and compresses images in a single workflow. Users can batch process images, create responsive outputs, and export optimized assets at scale. OPT-IMG helps improve image search visibility, page speed, and Core Web Vitals for eCommerce sites, blogs, and content teams.

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There will be gaps in enforcement until there is a definitive solution to ensure that the same standards apply to all platforms.

 

The data contracting firm works with all the major artificial intelligence providers, including Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta, and was hit by hackers last week, per Wired.

 

The enhanced protections will help musicians who use the app’s SoundOn service identify misused audio tracks and combat copyright violations.

Google, Meta, Microsoft and Snapchat said they would continue to take voluntary actions to protect their platforms following the expiration of the EU ePrivacy Directive. 

 

Musk told banks, law firms and other advisors they need to buy subscriptions to artificial intelligence chatbot Grok before the June initial public offering, per the New York Times. 

 

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Co.Actor helps you grow your personal brand on LinkedIn by learning your tone of voice from your posts and every edit. It surfaces daily, relevant post ideas from industry news and your network, then drafts content that sounds like you and lets you schedule directly to LinkedIn.

Use Co.Actor solo or with your team: each member keeps a unique voice, while shared dashboards, notifications, and analytics reveal what resonates and when to post. Track views, engagement, and follower growth, and get data-backed suggestions for what to publish next.

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SurveyJS is an open-source JavaScript form builder that lets you create a custom form platform within any web application. Unlike SaaS tools like Typeform or SurveyMonkey, it is not a hosted service and has no usage limits. You can create unlimited forms using a drag-and-drop interface and collect unlimited responses while keeping full ownership of your data. SurveyJS integrates directly into your application, giving you complete control over the UI and branding. Both the form builder and the forms can be fully white-labelled with no external logos or references.

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Salow.IO is an AI deal intelligence platform that analyzes B2B sales conversations and returns a deal health score across 9 dimensions, a confusion diagnostic isolating buyer noise, friction, and seller inconsistency, and three ready-to-send closing paths per deal. It detects signals like stakeholder silence or pricing objections and maps them against sales cycles and buyer profiles for 25+ verticals. The platform learns each rep's writing voice from their sent emails via a three-tier Voice DNA engine, so every response sounds like them, not a chatbot. Reps can upload sales playbooks as Strategic Doctrine, enforced across all outputs.

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Esseeoh helps creators turn long videos into SEO-optimized YouTube Shorts and auto-posts them with AI-written titles, keyword-rich descriptions, and niche hashtags. It streamlines discovery so your Shorts get recommended to new viewers without manual edits.

If you haven’t uploaded in three days, it finds a top-performing video, generates a fresh Short, and publishes it to keep your channel active and consistent with minimal setup.

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In a recent video, creator ETA Prime showcases Red Magic's phone running multiple Windows games directly on Android. The device is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC, paired with 24GB of LPDDR5T memory and 1TB of UFS 4.1 Pro storage.

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Drift has revealed that the April 1, 2026, attack that led to the theft of $285 million was the culmination of a months-long targeted and meticulously planned social engineering operation undertaken by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) that began in the fall of 2025. The Solana-based decentralized exchange described it as "an attack six months in the

Terra Industries is expanding drone deployments across Africa using in-house production and subscriptions.

Iran’s Charming Kitten group relies on deception, insider access, and low-tech methods to steal trade secrets and compromise systems.

A Democratic congressman had harsh criticism for Polymarket for allowing users to bet on the date the U.S. would confirm the rescue of Air Force service members shot down over Iran.

AI skeptics aren’t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models’ outputs — that’s what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service.

VitalStep provides guided fitness programs tailored to age, goals, and health conditions. Choose from 7-day, 21-session templates that build weight control, fat loss, and cardiovascular endurance with low to moderate intensity exercises safe for osteoporosis, diabetes, gout, and hypertension. Follow clear, gentle routines that improve circulation, support blood sugar and metabolism, and promote relaxation, so you can train confidently without aggravating sensitive joints.

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Light up your life with the Philips Hue Omniglow, the best Hue lightstrip yet, which appears simply seamless.

The Battlefield 6 audio director has discussed how the game's soundtrack captures a "gritty" tone.

We've compiled a list of friendship apps, from friend discovery platforms like BFF to event-focused ones like Timeleft.

Consider Nvidia's work on Neural Texture Compression (NTC). In its "Tuscan Wheels" demo, the company showed VRAM usage dropping from roughly 6.5GB with traditional BCN-compressed textures to 970MB using NTC, while keeping image quality close to the original.

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Listings for the 9950X3D2 have started to pop up at many different vendors, with some even listing preliminary prices. We found the CPU going for roughly $1,000 at two Canadian retailers, and just a smidge below that at a UK-based website. For context, the standard 9950X3D with 3D V-Cache on only one CCD launched at $699.

The UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the DragonFire high-energy laser weapon will be installed on Royal Navy Type 45 destroyers by 2027, five years ahead of the original schedule.

PPTXMailMerge lets you generate data-driven PowerPoint presentations by merging Excel, CSV, or JSON with a PPTX template. Upload a data file and a deck, add smart placeholders, and create personalized slides for each row in seconds. Replace text, images, QR codes, tables, and charts using Excel-like addressing and full JSON traversal, then export a single deck or one file per row. Start free for small jobs or choose short 3-day plans for larger batches with secure processing.

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We uncovered a sneaky way to watch MAFS Australia 2026 for free — without splashing all your cash.

The Battlefield 6 audio team have revealed some of the ways they

Returning to Gilead for the faint of heart. But when do The Testaments episodes 1-3 drop on Hulu and Disney+?

Gaze in awe and wonder at these shots being shared by NASA and the crew of the Artemis II.

Tokyo tests modular data centers under railway tracks to address land constraints and evaluate performance under vibration, heat, and noise conditions

The Razer Huntsman Signature Edition is a stylish and powerful gaming keyboard - but it's also extremely expensive.

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On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we debated Elon Musk's vision for data centers in space.

Developed by a consortium including Nextcloud, Ionos, and Proton, Euro-Office builds directly on the open-source OnlyOffice codebase. It offers a word processor, spreadsheet editor, presentation tool, and PDF editor, all supporting Microsoft formats (docx, pptx, xlsx) and open standards such as ODF. Its preview version is already available on GitHub,...

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On PlayStation Studios' official site, Sony has updated the main banner to prominently feature Ghost of Yotei and Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, while Demon's Souls Remake no longer appears in the lineup.

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The LG 27GS93QE-B is perfect for gaming, productivity, and media consumption, thanks to its versatile feature set. It's a 27-inch 1440p OLED monitor with an MLA+ panel so it's really bright at 1,300 nits (peak) and it has a 240 Hz refresh rate with support for both G-Sync and FreeSync, so it's really smooth, too.

IRGC spokesperson threatens the “complete and utter annihilation” of U.S. and Israeli facilities. Singles out the $30bn Stargate AI data center.

ClauseGuard analyzes contracts to reveal hidden risks, flag unfair clauses, and extract key terms in seconds. Upload a PDF, Word doc, or text file and get a report with a risk score, red flags, plain-English summaries, and ready-to-send counter-language.

It saves your analysis history for deal comparison while keeping files private by not storing uploads. Use it to review NDAs, freelance agreements, and service contracts before signing.

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Pelaris is an AI coach that knows your goals, fatigue, RPE, and progress. It builds and continuously evolves science-based, periodized training programs around your life, adapting in real time based on how you train. Not a static plan, but a coaching system that gets smarter every session.

Pelaris supports strength training, running, swimming, cycling, triathlon, CrossFit, and general fitness, using multiple science-based methods per sport. The AI coach remembers your injuries, preferences, and history, adjusting volume, intensity, and exercises as you progress. Built on Flutter, Firebase, and Vertex AI. Privacy-first by design.

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ReadThai.Fun is a free Thai script learning tool created by a 20-year Thailand expat. It uses spaced repetition and interleaving to teach all 44 consonants and 32 vowels through 19 tiers ordered by real-world frequency. Each tier requires a 100% gate test before advancing, ensuring genuine mastery. The app includes OCR camera scanning for Thai signs and menus, a 13-language translator, personal dictionary builder, 3-level writing practice, and a text decomposer that breaks Thai words into consonant and vowel components. It works on any device as a PWA and is completely free with full functionality.

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4K at 180Hz over DisplayPort, on top of the HDMI 2.1 connections? It's a rarity, but Hisense has done it with its next-gen RGB TV

The Samsung Galaxy S26 Plus doesn’t stop itself from being a great smartphone, but we should have had more.

Two new studies show that agentic AIs are very capable of ignoring human instructions to save themselves.

Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.

Discover the 7 best Windhawk mods to customize Windows 11, from Taskbar tweaks to Start menu styling and classic features restoration.

Your AI PC's Neural Processing Unit (NPU) is a useful piece of hardware, but are you making the most out of it? I dug up 7 apps that make good use of the NPU; which ones are you using?

Crimson Desert’s 4K output mode launched first on PlayStation 5, with Xbox Series X initially left out. Pearl Abyss declined to comment on the delay, though Xbox has now received a fixed 4K output option.

An injunction action brought by consumer group Movimento Consumatori against Netflix Italia's price increases has been upheld by the Court of Rome.

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Japanese researchers trained cultured rat cortical neurons to autonomously generate complex temporal signals using a real-time machine learning framework.

Watchmaker Nubeo has put its Torrent Automatic Atari Rainbow Limited Edition timepieces on sale, all at 20% off.

Wildcat Lake is Intel's upcoming family of low-budget and low-power CPUs intended for OEMs. We've already seen many leaks surrounding this family, but now a new product from Advantech has listed three SKUs in a datasheet for its MIO-5356 SBC. This confirms the specs from prior leaks and signals that a launch is due soon.

Receivly is an invoicing platform for small businesses and freelancers. Create professional invoices in seconds with auto-numbering and due dates, then see receivables organized as Sent, Overdue, or Paid on a clean dashboard. Automate payment reminders at 7, 14, 21, and 30 days, and keep customer details and default terms in one place for reuse. Mark invoices as paid in one click without bank connections. Your data stays in a secure, isolated workspace so you remain in control.

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This follows Xbox Vice President Jason Ronald's commitment at GDC 2026 in March to revive the company's backward compatibility program.

The latest Steam client update included an FPS data gathering component in Beta, allowing the platform to monitor your framerates and compare it with your hardware.

Nvidia delivered 'five architectural breakthroughs' with the launch of the Tesla P100 accelerator 10 years ago today.

The Autonomous EroChair Core is an entry-level office chair that offers a few comfort features but is limited by its overall dimensions.

BenQ’s DesignVue PD2770U is a flexible and capable professional monitor with a 27-inch IPS panel, 4K resolution, wide-gamut color, HDR10, a built-in calibrator, software control, and premium build quality.

New robotics and AI tools are helping agriculture address workforce shortages while improving safety, productivity, and long-term sustainability.

It's been a decade since Apple controversially nixed the 3.5mm jack, and wired headphones are still very much in demand.

Sapphire introduced two new China-specific graphics cards, the Radeon RX 9070 GRE Pulse Pro, and the Radeon RX 9060 XT Pulse S. The two feature a price-performance ratio that's highly optimized for the Chinese market, banking on the success of China-specific products from previous generations. The RX 9070 GRE Pulse Pro features a board design that's similar to that of the RX 9070 series Pure brand from the company, but colored black overall. The card appears high-end when installed, with a meaty triple-slot cooling solution, and a board length of 32 cm. It uses a pair of 8-pin PCIe power inputs. Sapphire has given this card a Game clock of 2920 MHz boost, and 2340 MHz Game clock. Display outputs include two each of HDMI 2.1b and DisplayPort 2.1a.

Carved out from the 4 nm "Navi 48" silicon, the RX 9070 GRE has 48 RDNA 4 compute units, for 3,072 stream processors. It gets 12 GB of 20 Gbps GDDR6 memory across a 192-bit wide memory bus. The RX 9070 GRE is hence positioned between the global RX 9070 and RX 9060 XT 16 GB. Next up, is the Sapphire Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB Pulse S. This is a compacted version of the global RX 9060 XT 8 GB Pulse. While the global card has a 24 cm board length with 12.4 cm height, the China-specific Pulse S card is just 20 cm in length, with 12.2 cm height. Both cards are 2 slots thick.

Computer scientist showcases their hardware multiplication ISA card accelerator for Intel 8086 and Intel 8088 PC systems.

A 42-core SKU from the upcoming Nova Lake-S CPU family has reportedly been upgraded to 44 cores by swapping the 6P+12E tile with an 8P+12E tile, allowing the chip to achieve symmetry across its dual-tile config. Those leftover 6P+12E tiles could now become locked variants with 144 MB of bLLC as a new 22-core SKU (6P+12E+4LPE).

The VC firm shared its founder's notes on Apple recognizing the company's potential while also doubting its management team.

Developers behind the open-source PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 claim that they’ve achieved a breakthrough in emulating the PS3's Cell Broadband Engine processor.

The Golden Saga Edition of the Redmagic 11 Pro is equipped with 24 GB of RAM and an even more robust liquid cooling system that can pull upwards of 45W while emulating Red Dead 2, delivering 50+ FPS. The phone costs around $1,700, but for that money, you're getting GTA V running at up to 100 FPS on a device that just happens to make calls, too.

The company behind the tiny box AI accelerator says that its macOS driver for Nvidia eGPUs has just been signed by Apple, making it a legitimate software for Macs and no longer needs workarounds to work with the device.

How Are You is a 24/7 safety app for families with aging parents. It runs on an Android phone, learns a person’s routine in seven days, and detects anomalies like long stillness, missed wake-up times, or leaving safe zones. When something seems wrong, it emails family with context and GPS coordinates—no app required for them. Data stays on the device, with secure, anonymous summaries used for AI analysis. Setup takes minutes, costs $49 with a 14-day guarantee, then $5/year.

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UK workers now rank reliable technology nearly equal to pay, as persistent meeting failures disrupt productivity, despite increased investment in AI tools

The biggest match in Sunday league history has been picked up by BBC. Here's how to watch Royal Oak v Nags Head live streams from anywhere.

Not everything Apple has made has turned to tech gold — here are the niche Apple curiosities from the last half-century that fell by the wayside.

Happy Easter to those of you that celebrate and for whatever reason, Wednesday this coming week is crammed full of new releases. We kick off the week with a Finnish hardcore post-apocalyptic survival game, which is unlikely to be everyone's cup of coffee. Monday kicks off with what might end up becoming a lawsuit with Nintendo, followed by a dark fantasy dungeon crawler and by Wednesday we take a hard left with an action adventure game that also includes racing. Thursday we veer right with a tree city builder and the week ends with trying to end humanity. We got a few more games that didn't quite make the list, of which most are early access games.

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Road to Vostok is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a post-apocalyptic border zone between Finland and Russia. Survive, loot, plan and prepare to cross the border into Vostok, a permadeath zone where one mistake can end it all. Steam link

Gamer and YouTuber ymfah spent a lot of time figuring out how to farm dung pies in Dark Souls II to defeat the game using just poop.

iMideo is an all-in-one AI platform that generates and edits videos from text, images, or existing footage. You can switch among 8+ leading models to compare results and quickly produce cinematic outputs. It supports text-to-video, image-to-video, video-to-video, and reference-to-video, and lets you enhance videos with effects, upscaling, background removal, and sound. Create talking avatars, face swaps, subtitles, and lipsync, and extend or animate shots with cloud processing and credit-based pricing.

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We tested three of the best screenless fitness trackers from Whoop, Polar and Amazfit

ClawSkills is an open registry for AI agent skills. Creators upload AgentSkills bundles, version them like npm, and publish searchable entries indexed with vectors. Browse curated highlights, explore the latest drops, and roll back to prior versions when needed. Install any skill in one shot with npx clawskills@latest install to keep your agent’s capabilities organized and up to date.

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Most domain name generators produce bad results. Plenty Domains uses various AI models and layered prompting to produce truly great names. Try it and see for yourself! It features multiple projects, shortlists, Google research, and 1-click registration.

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VeriRFP is an automation platform for enterprise security questionnaires and RFPs. When a buyer sends a 300-question security assessment, VeriRFP uses local AI models like Ollama to draft answers based on your approved SOC 2 reports and existing security policies. This ensures every answer is accurate and cited without sending sensitive company IP to shared cloud AI models.

VeriRFP also acts as a unified Trust Center. You can securely share compliance documents with buyers through an NDA-gated portal, route complex questions to your engineering team for review, and export the final audit-ready package with one click.

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Meal scan, macros & AI coach

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AI that finds your team’s workflows and hidden structures

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Refine UI in the browser, feed changes to your coding agent

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RevenueCat stats in your macOS menu bar.

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The screenshot editor for iPhone.

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AI marketing Agent for result-driven influencer campaign

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Local, open-weight AI designed for real-world languages

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All the ways to watch Tour of Flanders 2026 live streams online and from anywhere, including FREE options, as favorite Tadej Pogačar defends his crown.

Watch free streams from Monte-Carlo Masters 2026 in tennis' first big clay-court tournament of the year – TV channels, broadcasters and streams.

I spoke with Colin Han, CEO and product team lead at Vernal about what makes a modern standing desk really shine.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, and drop a persistent implant. "Every package contains three files (package.json, index.js, postinstall.js), has no description, repository,

Fortinet has released out-of-band patches for a critical security flaw impacting FortiClient EMS that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score: 9.1), has been described as a pre-authentication API access bypass leading to privilege escalation. "An improper access control vulnerability [CWE-284] in FortiClient EMS may allow an

Spin up a terminal-style CV in minutes. Add your projects and custom commands, and let recruiters explore your skills like they're in a real shell.

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Cheeky Cycle is a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling second-hand bikes with trust built in. Every verified listing checks the frame number against stolen bike registries, and payments stay protected until you confirm the bike matches the listing. Browse by type, size, location, and budget, message sellers, and arrange viewings in one place. When selling, snap photos and let AI identify your bike, auto-fill specs, and suggest market value, then manage offers and get paid with no hidden fees.

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Ratatosk analyzes your ERP, databases, and spreadsheets to identify how the same business concepts are defined differently across systems. It produces a canonical data model, highlights conflicts, and shows exactly where definitions break across finance, manufacturing, and operations.

Teams use Ratatosk before ERP migrations, integrations, or audits to eliminate ambiguity at the source. Instead of discovering data issues mid-project, you start with a clear, unified model that downstream systems can enforce.

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OriaFlow helps laid-off tech professionals and active job seekers find roles that truly fit and secure offers faster. It learns your background, goals, timeline, and constraints through chat, then builds a ranked shortlist and scores each opportunity on Fit, Chance, and Risk with clear reasons. You can generate ATS-friendly resumes and tailored cover letters, prepare with company-specific interviews, and track your pipeline. Visualize realistic next moves with a scored career tree, and use the Chrome extension for instant job detection and AI autofill across major job sites.

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StratBase.ai lets traders describe strategies in plain language and instantly backtest them on years of tick data. AI translates ideas into formal rules with 239 indicators, multi-timeframe logic, and risk parameters, then a Rust engine runs fast simulations with full analytics.

Use grid search and walk-forward optimization, review trade logs, equity curves, and statistical metrics. It supports crypto (1700+ pairs), Forex (27 pairs), and US stocks (130 symbols). Share strategies publicly or keep them private while building author reputation.

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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

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Casasplus lets you search for properties in Panama in English or Spanish. You can browse apartments, houses, land, and commercial spaces for sale or rent across the whole country. Filter by city, neighborhood, building name, or private community to find exactly what you're looking for without scrolling through noise. Property owners and agents can list their properties to get in front of both local buyers and people looking at Panama from abroad.

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Klyne is a workplace emotional intelligence app that helps you track how you feel at work, surface patterns, and respond with clarity. Quick check-ins feed NEDA, a patent-pending algorithm that measures intensity, frequency, and momentum to show how emotions build over time.

Get personalized insights, actionable strategies, and trend-based reports to manage stress, build resilience, and stay productive. Your data stays private and secure, with encryption and GDPR compliance.

Not therapy. Not a mood tracker. Just pattern awareness that’s private, personal, and built for you. No employer access. Ever.

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BlitzSupport is an AI helpdesk for small modern teams running support over email and website chat. When a customer writes in, AI agents detect the request type, collect missing details, search your knowledge base, and draft a reply. Your team opens a ticket that already has everything needed to act on. Approve, adjust, or escalate.

AI-native, not an AI bolt-on. Email and chat are unified into one ticket system. Human-in-the-loop at every step. Built in Germany and GDPR-ready. Currently in Early Access with guided onboarding for a limited number of teams.

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Why did Founders Fund invest $220 million in cattle management startup Halter?

The controversy around Delve appears to have cost the compliance startup its relationship with accelerator Y Combinator.

The research, presented at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco earlier this year, shows the receiver can continue operating after exposure to 500 kilograys of radiation. That level of endurance far exceeds what even space-grade electronics are designed to handle.

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HummingDeck lets teams share sales decks, proposals, and documents through trackable links and see engagement in real time. Measure opens, time per page, link clicks, downloads, and completion rates, and get instant alerts when prospects view your content. Upload PDFs, PowerPoint, Word, or interactive HTML to create dynamic proposals and see what resonates. View team-wide performance, identify hot prospects, and sync alerts and activity to your CRM and Slack to follow up at the right moment.

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Smiling Friends is among the must-watch shows coming to HBO Max in April.

Fujitsu launches AI service that automates COBOL analysis and documentation, reducing effort while supporting modernization of widely used legacy systems.

All the ways to watch the March Madness Final Four online – including for FREE – as the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament nears its conclusion.

The Jak and Daxter Trilogy are now natively playable on PC through OpenGOAL As much as I’d love to see it, Jak and Daxter isn’t getting remastered or remade for modern systems. Sony isn’t bringing this classic game collection to PC. While Sony has closed the door on Jak and Daxter fans, the community has […]

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Microsoft is now force-installing the latest version of Windows 11, the 25H2, for users of the older 24H2 version of the operating system. Through what Microsoft calls a "machine learning-based intelligent rollout," the company is automatically updating 24H2 users to Windows 11 25H2 when their devices are ready. This forced update is part of a staged update plan for Windows 11, where Microsoft is gradually updating systems worldwide to phase out the 24H2 version, as support for this operating system will officially end on October 13, 2026. It makes sense to upgrade users to an operating system with a longer support period. However, Windows 11 users might be frustrated with the constant forced upgrades that Microsoft is pushing, which seem to offer little real-world benefit beyond regular security maintenance.

Regarding Windows versions, the situation has been a bit confusing recently. Microsoft has dedicated the 26H1 update exclusively for Windows-on-Arm devices, supporting new silicon, including the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Plus platforms, as well as the potential launch of NVIDIA's N1/N1X laptop SoCs. The latest feature and security updates have been delivered through both the 24H2 and 25H2 versions, which have been the primary focus for x86-based PC systems. However, as support for 24H2 is coming to an end, the focus is gradually shifting to 25H2. There is still time before October of this year, and Microsoft is using AI for a staged rollout. Importantly, users cannot refuse this update. They can only schedule the restart for the update to be applied or postpone it slightly before it is finally installed.

The feature would represent a significant step toward bridging the gap between official system requirements and actual in-game performance. Even as studios release recommended hardware specs, the experience on diverse PC setups often differs sharply from expectations.

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Portifa helps artists create professional portfolios quickly and share a single link that shows who viewed it. Drop images, videos, and links, and AI organizes projects, tags work, and generates a polished bio. Choose from curated themes, add multiple pages, and track real-time viewer activity, including which projects they viewed and video watch time. Use your own domain, remove branding, and manage unlimited projects on the Pro plan to send tailored portfolios and get hired with confidence.

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