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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

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Google Says Authentic Coverage Wins in AI Search

Google’s new guide confirms that AI features draw on what’s being said about products and services across the web, but warns that seeking inauthentic mentions does not help, because quality and spam systems filter them out. The coverage that counts for AI visibility is earned, not manufactured.

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Rasit Cakir

Jun 12, 20265 min read

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Blogs, SEO, Content, Educative Content

Keywords are Dead—and the New Gemini Nailed the Final Nail

Google revealed a lot at the recent annual I/O conference, including the latest and most advanced version of its Gemini AI. Its debut also sealed the fate of a well-known measure of SEO success.

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Jonas Trinidad

Jun 12, 20266 min read

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Blogs, SEO, SEO Marketing, Platform, Educative Content

Google’s Greatest Rival Might Just Be…A Duck

Google has remained the undisputed king of search engines for decades. But that may change with one unfamiliar search engine's challenge to the AI-powered status quo.

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Jonas Trinidad

Jun 12, 20266 min read

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Google Names the AI SEO Hacks That Don’t Work

Google’s new guide on generative AI features includes a list of popular AI optimization tactics that do not work, including llms.txt files, chunking content into tiny pieces, rewriting copy for AI systems, and overfocusing on structured data. Google points back to content quality and technical fundamentals instead.

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Rasit Cakir

Jun 11, 20266 min read

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Google Confirms SEO Still Powers AI Search

Google published a new guide on optimizing for generative AI features, and its first answer is that SEO still matters. AI Overviews and AI Mode rely on core Search ranking through retrieval-augmented generation and query fan-out, which means AI visibility is built on the same foundation as Search ranking.

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Rasit Cakir

Jun 10, 20266 min read

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SEO

Google Analytics Now Shows Your Business Profile Data

Google now lets you link your Google Business Profile to Google Analytics, bringing local engagement metrics like calls, directions, and website clicks into your reports alongside website and app data. The integration gives a fuller view of how local presence drives results, with a few limits to understand.

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Rasit Cakir

Jun 9, 20267 min read

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Blogs, SEO, Content Marketing, Content, Educative Content

Take Note: Google Users Can Now Prefer Sources

Google introduced Preferred Sources, a feature that lets users choose where they want their information to come from. It may seem like just another feature, but its debut has implications for who's checking the websites.

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Jonas Trinidad

Jun 8, 20265 min read

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AI

Google Adds AEO and GEO to Its Official SEO Guidance

Google updated its “Do you need an SEO?” page to list optimizing for generative AI as legitimate SEO work, and published a new page on evaluating third-party SEO tools and advice. The guidance recognizes AEO and GEO while warning against tools that claim Google approval or guaranteed rankings.

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Rasit Cakir

Jun 8, 20267 min read

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Google Now Shows How Often You Appear in AI Search

Google launched Generative AI performance reports in Search Console on June 3, 2026, currently rolling out to a subset of sites. The reports show how often a site’s pages appear in AI Overviews and AI Mode, broken down by page, country, and device. First-party AI visibility data has arrived.

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Rasit Cakir

Jun 3, 20266 min read

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Blogs, SEO, Link Building, Content, Educative Content

Authoritative Websites and Where to Find Them

In search, users spend a lot of time determining whether the content they're reading is reliable. As a publisher or site owner, the best way to prove that you are is by getting your information from authoritative sources. But it begs the question: "What makes a source authoritative?"

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Jonas Trinidad

Jun 2, 20266 min read