Creating separate Markdown-only versions of your website for AI crawlers is unlikely to deliver the results you’re hoping for. You will get far better results by improving your main HTML pages, their structure, and their data signals, rather than trying to serve special bot only content. The appeal of markdown for AI crawlers The idea […]
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The minute you cut off an affiliate that’s bringing you customers and traffic you cannot reach without them, you burn that relationship and they put your competitors there instead. That’s the stark warning from Adam Riemer, marketing strategist, keynote speaker, and columnist, in a recent discussion with Reza Moaiandin on the Flipping the Playbook podcast. It’s a reality check that will have […]
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Content teams are always busy. When they’re not writing blogs, scheduling social posts, or sending out newsletters, they’re researching topics for their next projects. On paper, everything your content team is doing looks and feels productive. But when your leadership team asks what that work is achieving, the answer is sometimes unclear. Traffic and engagement […]
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For over a decade, agencies have trained their clients and stakeholders to equate traffic and rankings with SEO success. But AI search has fundamentally changed how discovery works. The nature of this shift is a big reminder to CMOs, marketers and SEOs that higher rankings and increased traffic are just tactics. While they contribute to a genuine business outcome, they’re not outcomes in themselves. The real objective is brand visibility; ensuring your brand is in front of the right audience with the […]
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SEO strategies don’t usually fail because of poor insight. They fail because fixes don’t get implemented. Every unimplemented SEO fix is a compounding tax on your marketing budget. Regular SEO audits can highlight critical issues and provide you with a list of actions and fixes to improve search performance and address problems with your site, but improving performance relies on being able to […]
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The em dash has emerged as an unlikely villain in marketing circles. According to a growing chorus of voices on Reddit and LinkedIn, this humble punctuation mark is a telltale sign of AI-generated content, prompting writers to debate whether to use the em dash at all. But is it though? Here at SALT, we’ve had internal discussions around whether we should abandon the em dash, lest our […]
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Hugo has quietly become one of the most trusted platforms for fast, lightweight websites. It is especially popular with developers and teams who care about speed, control, and clean builds. At the time of publishing, it is estimated that 14,435 websites use Hugo, which makes it a meaningful part of the modern web stack. This […]
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The future of demand generation is small, highly skilled teams using AI to achieve what once required thirty people. That’s according to Thomas Cyr, Head of Global Pipeline Generation at Shopify, who told SALT’s Reza Moaiandin on Flipping the Playbook that the discipline has transformed beyond recognition in just three years. The Flipping the Playbook […]
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Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) is widely used by enterprise eCommerce teams who need scale, flexibility, and integrations. It is often chosen for large catalogues, complex merchandising, and multi-market operations, which makes technical SEO consistency even more important. This benchmarking study, by SALT, looks at how Salesforce Commerce Cloud sites perform from a technical SEO point […]
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What do the Guinness World Records and the Michelin guide have in common? They both started life as marketing ventures – some of the very first, and most successful examples of what we call today ‘content brands’. What is a content brand? A content brand is a content initiative that supports the main brand but […]
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There is a new moment most travellers will recognise. You open an AI tool, type in a question like “Where should I go for a week in October?” or “Best places for a luxury break”, and within seconds you are given a tidy answer. A shortlist. A plan. A sense that the hard part of […]
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The role of marketing isn’t to get people to do what they don’t want to do – it’s to make it easy for prospects to buy when they’re ready. That’s the message from fractional CMO Alun Davies, who told SALT’s Reza Moaiandin on the debut episode of Flipping the Playbook that many marketers have lost […]
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