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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
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Adding Schema Doesn’t Boost AI Citations
Ahrefs ran a difference-in-differences study on 1,885 pages that added JSON-LD schema between August 2025 and March 2026. Adding schema produced no meaningful boost in AI citations on Google AI Overview, AI Mode, or ChatGPT, despite schema being three times more common on AI-cited pages overall.
Rasit Cakir
May 13, 2026 • 8 min read
Blogs, SEO, Link Building, Educative Content
Even in AI Search, You Still Need Local Visibility
Jonas Trinidad
May 12, 2026 • 8 min read
SEO
Google Officially Kills FAQ Rich Results
Rasit Cakir
May 8, 2026 • 7 min read
Blogs, SEO, Link Building, Educative Content, AI
Yes, Links Still Matter—More Than Ever
Jonas Trinidad
May 6, 2026 • 10 min read
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Adding Schema Doesn’t Boost AI Citations
Ahrefs ran a difference-in-differences study on 1,885 pages that added JSON-LD schema between August 2025 and March 2026. Adding schema produced no meaningful boost in AI citations on Google AI Overview, AI Mode, or ChatGPT, despite schema being three times more common on AI-cited pages overall.
Rasit Cakir
May 13, 2026 • 8 min read
Blogs, SEO, Link Building, Educative Content
Even in AI Search, You Still Need Local Visibility
Amid the continued growth of AI search, where does local link building fit in? Surprisingly, it's still relevant in this day and age, including its tried-and-true techniques.
Jonas Trinidad
May 12, 2026 • 8 min read
SEO, AI
FAQ Schema May Matter More for AI Than for Search
Google retired FAQ rich results in May 2026. The schema markup itself remains useful, and may have more value for AI citation than it ever had for the SERP feature. Structured Q&A pages align with how AI retrieval systems search for and surface information.
Rasit Cakir
May 11, 2026 • 8 min read
SEO
Google Officially Kills FAQ Rich Results
On May 7, 2026, Google announced FAQ rich results are no longer appearing in Search. The full deprecation timeline removes Search Console reporting in June and API support in August. Google says the schema will continue to inform how it understands pages.
Rasit Cakir
May 8, 2026 • 7 min read
AI
ChatGPT Ads Go Self-Serve With CPC Bidding
OpenAI launched a self-serve ChatGPT Ads Manager with CPC bidding, conversion tracking, and expanded advertiser access. The company’s stated “answer independence” principle keeps organic citations and paid ads as two distinct channels inside the same product.
Rasit Cakir
May 7, 2026 • 8 min read
Blogs, SEO, Link Building, Educative Content, AI
Yes, Links Still Matter—More Than Ever
Links may have become less important in this day and age, but they're by no means obsolete. For all its advances through the years, AI still depends on quality links to generate accurate summaries. Here's why links aren't going anywhere anytime soon and what types of links you need the most.
Jonas Trinidad
May 6, 2026 • 10 min read
SEO
The Cloud Backlog Number Nobody Is Talking About
Google Cloud backlog nearly doubled quarter over quarter to over $460 billion in Q1 2026. Unlike revenue, backlog represents contractually committed future spending, making it the clearest leading indicator of how permanent AI infrastructure has become.
Rasit Cakir
May 6, 2026 • 7 min read
AI
16 Billion Tokens Per Minute and What It Means for Content
Alphabet’s Q1 2026 earnings revealed Gemini processing 16 billion tokens per minute via API, 350 million paid subscriptions across Google services, and 40% quarterly growth in Gemini Enterprise users. Consumer AI has reached streaming-service scale.
Rasit Cakir
May 5, 2026 • 8 min read
Blogs, SEO, Educative Content, AI
You Should Replace Your SEO Team with Agentic AI
Let it be known that AI, despite the ominous signs, is far from replacing humans in critical tasks. But when push comes to shove, namely in SEO, it may be more beneficial to have AI work on certain tasks than a whole team of human professionals.
Jonas Trinidad
May 4, 2026 • 5 min read
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Google Spent $35.7 Billion in 90 Days on AI Infrastructure
Alphabet’s Q1 2026 results show $35.7 billion in capital expenditures for the quarter, more than double the prior year. Google Cloud backlog nearly doubled to $460 billion. The infrastructure commitments make AI search permanent regardless of how the product evolves.
Rasit Cakir
May 1, 2026 • 10 min read