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Welcome to the NO-BS Marketplace SEO blog.
Here we’ll cover the latest SEO industry news, link building tips and tricks, as well as other SEO related updates.
SEO and AIO is an ever-changing world. Now more than ever, at an increasing pace. We, as a business, not only need to stay on top of trends and changes, but also anticipate what might change in the coming months. We strive to share the knowledge we gain openly with our users, our community and colleagues to help brands and businesses gain visibility through value
Peter Beukering
CEO
Featured blog posts
SEO
France Got the AI Opt-Out Everyone Else Wants
Google launched AI Overviews and AI Mode in France on July 22 after years of regulatory deadlock, agreeing to an opt-out that leaves classic Search rankings intact, separate AI reporting, and compensation for press publishers. The separation works, though only the press gets paid.
Rasit Cakir
Aug 3, 2026 • 5 min read
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Google Has 60 Days to Redesign Search in Europe
Rasit Cakir
Jul 29, 2026 • 5 min read
Blogs, SEO, Content Marketing, Educative Content, AI
Step One in Achieving AI Visibility: Brand Mentions
Jonas Trinidad
Jul 28, 2026 • 8 min read
Blogs, SEO, Content, Educative Content, AI
Remembering the Father of SEO and His Lessons
Jonas Trinidad
Jul 24, 2026 • 7 min read
Latest blog posts
SEO
France Got the AI Opt-Out Everyone Else Wants
Google launched AI Overviews and AI Mode in France on July 22 after years of regulatory deadlock, agreeing to an opt-out that leaves classic Search rankings intact, separate AI reporting, and compensation for press publishers. The separation works, though only the press gets paid.
Rasit Cakir
Aug 3, 2026 • 5 min read
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Google Has 60 Days to Redesign Search in Europe
The European Commission fined Google 890 million euros, its first Digital Markets Act penalty, for favouring its own shopping, hotel and transport services in Search. Google has 60 days to comply. The layout may change in Europe, but who fills the open slots still comes down to earned authority.
Rasit Cakir
Jul 29, 2026 • 5 min read
Blogs, SEO, Content Marketing, Educative Content, AI
Step One in Achieving AI Visibility: Brand Mentions
NO-BS Marketplace's approach to improving your brand's AI visibility consists of three key steps. In this first of a three-part series on the topic, we discuss the importance of getting AI to mention your brand in its answers.
Jonas Trinidad
Jul 28, 2026 • 8 min read
SEO
Publishers Are Threatening to Block Google
Major publishers are considering blocking Google’s crawler after steep AI-driven traffic losses. Google bundles search indexing and AI answers into one crawl, which is what makes the threat so drastic. Meanwhile a fifth of top sites are already blocking AI crawlers by accident.
Rasit Cakir
Jul 27, 2026 • 5 min read
Blogs, SEO, Content, Educative Content, AI
Remembering the Father of SEO and His Lessons
Bruce Clay was an important figure in establishing the SEO doctrine we use today. In memory of his passing last June, let's take a look at his lessons that still bear weight in today's search.
Jonas Trinidad
Jul 24, 2026 • 7 min read
SEO
Google Put a Number on AI Clicks. You Can’t Check It.
Google’s head of Search says AI features now send billions of clicks to websites weekly, the first number Google has named. It has no denominator and no site-level data to verify, while a study found AI Overviews cut clicks 38%. Both can be true, so measure your own traffic.
Rasit Cakir
Jul 22, 2026 • 5 min read
Blogs, SEO, Industry News, AI
Is Opting Out of Google Search a Good Idea?
Major publishers have recently announced plans to opt out of Google Search, citing the search engine's scraping of their content without compensation. While it may seem like the beginning of the end for Google, the harsh reality is that it isn't.
Jonas Trinidad
Jul 22, 2026 • 6 min read
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When an AI Agent Can’t Read Your Price, It Quotes G2
A Siteline study found AI shopping agents fail to read B2B pricing on a third of runs, and then pull 58% of their answer from third-party sites like G2 instead of your page. Fixing the page is half the job. Your standing on those sources is the other half.
Rasit Cakir
Jul 20, 2026 • 5 min read
Blogs, Digital Marketing, Content Marketing, Educative Content
The Smartest AI Marketing Strategy is Made of Stupid
Businesses are under pressure to make their marketing today better than yesterday, prompting them to ask technology for help. But sometimes, the best campaigns are hiding in the worst ideas.
Jonas Trinidad
Jul 16, 2026 • 8 min read
SEO
Google Now Measures Your Social Posts in Search
Google added platform properties to Search Console, letting you connect Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube accounts and see the search queries behind your posts. The reports cover Google Search performance only, and only for accounts you own, which leaves the mentions that earn AI citations invisible.
Rasit Cakir
Jul 16, 2026 • 5 min read