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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
Blogs, SEO, Content Marketing, Educative Content, AI
How to Convince Your Leaders to Go Agentic AI for SEO
Picture this: you're in a meeting with the company's top brass, and you want to propose adding agentic AI to evolve its SEO strategy. They have reservations about adopting relatively new technology, not to mention they also want it to be worth the investment. How do you go about this while still being realistic?
Jonas Trinidad
Apr 24, 2026 • 6 min read
Blogs, SEO, Link Building, Educative Content
One Man’s Broken Link is Another Man’s Opportunity
Jonas Trinidad
Apr 23, 2026 • 7 min read
SEO
90 Zero-Day Exploits in One Year: Why Cybersecurity Is Now an SEO Problem
Rasit Cakir
Apr 8, 2026 • 12 min read
Blogs, SEO, Link Building, Educative Content
Benefits of Link Building You Probably Don’t Know: A Revisit
Jonas Trinidad
Apr 8, 2026 • 6 min read
Latest blog posts
Blogs, SEO, Content Marketing, Educative Content, AI
How to Convince Your Leaders to Go Agentic AI for SEO
Picture this: you're in a meeting with the company's top brass, and you want to propose adding agentic AI to evolve its SEO strategy. They have reservations about adopting relatively new technology, not to mention they also want it to be worth the investment. How do you go about this while still being realistic?
Jonas Trinidad
Apr 24, 2026 • 6 min read
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ChatGPT Learns From Reddit but Cites Someone Else
67.8% of non-cited URLs in a 1.4M prompt study came from Reddit. ChatGPT uses Reddit to build context, then cites authoritative pages.
Rasit Cakir
Apr 24, 2026 • 9 min read
Blogs, SEO, Link Building, Educative Content
One Man’s Broken Link is Another Man’s Opportunity
Broken links are a dime a dozen on the Internet. They're a hassle for users looking for information, but they can also be an opportunity for businesses to fill the gap. Discover how broken link building can be valuable in a brand's SEO efforts.
Jonas Trinidad
Apr 23, 2026 • 7 min read
Category
ChatGPT Only Cites Half the Pages It Retrieves
A study of 1.4 million ChatGPT prompts found the model cites only about half the URLs it retrieves. Title relevance to ChatGPT's internal sub-questions and URL readability are the strongest predictors of which pages earn a citation.
Rasit Cakir
Apr 22, 2026 • 9 min read
SEO, AI
35% of Brand Discovery Now Happens Before a Single Search Query Gets Typed
Similarweb data shows 35% of US consumers now use AI tools at the discovery stage versus 13.6% for search engines. AI holds a 2:1 advantage through every funnel stage except the final purchase, where search nearly catches up.
Rasit Cakir
Apr 20, 2026 • 11 min read
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Chrome Skills Moves AI Visibility Into the Browser
Google launched Skills in Chrome on April 14, letting users save Gemini prompts and run them across multiple tabs with one click. The browser becomes a new surface for AI visibility, with implications for link building, digital PR, and how content gets cited by AI.
Rasit Cakir
Apr 16, 2026 • 13 min read
Blogs, SEO, Link Building, Educative Content
Black Hat Link Building Will STILL Destroy Your SEO
Despite having rules in place, some websites continue to rely on prohibited SEO techniques. This approach, known as black-hat link building, undermines the quality of search and leads to penalties as serious as getting removed from search results. Learn how black hat link building is done and why you should avoid doing it at all costs.
Jonas Trinidad
Apr 15, 2026 • 10 min read
SEO
Canonicalization Best Practices
Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Reddit that duplicate URLs don’t trigger penalties but make it harder to control which version Google indexes. A full guide to canonicalization covering methods, common mistakes, and how to audit your setup.
Rasit Cakir
Apr 15, 2026 • 11 min read
Category
Why Optimizing for Google Results Page Isn't Enough Anymore
Google CEO Sundar Pichai described Search and Gemini as products that will overlap in some ways and profoundly diverge in others. AI Mode serves as the testing ground, with successful features migrating to the main experience. SEO strategies built for a single search surface are already incomplete.
Rasit Cakir
Apr 14, 2026 • 8 min read
SEO, AI
Why Google Is Spending $185 Billion on AI Infrastructure
Google is spending up to $185 billion in capital expenditure this year on AI infrastructure. The bottlenecks are physical: memory chips, wafer capacity, power, electricians. For SEO, the signal is clear. AI Overviews and AI Mode are permanent features, not experiments to wait out.
Rasit Cakir
Apr 13, 2026 • 9 min read