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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
Latest blog posts
Digital Marketing, Marketing
Jumping on Viral Trends is a Double-Edged Sword
Brands will do anything to stay relevant, such as ride viral trends. However, in most cases, their efforts only succeed in earning the ire of their customer base. Should businesses be like the cool kids and appeal to viral culture or save themselves the trouble of being cringe?
Jonas Trinidad
Feb 27, 2026 • 5 min read
SEO, SEO Marketing, Industry News, Educative Content
Is SEO Harder Now Than Ever Before?
SEO has come a long way from its pre-Google origins. Yet, all that innovation may have come at a price: SEO may have become harder than it was decades ago. We explore the technologies that revolutionized this practice and their impact on the SEO profession.
Jonas Trinidad
Feb 27, 2026 • 7 min read
Digital Marketing, SEO, Content Marketing, SEO Marketing
AI Shows You Aren’t Just Ranking for One Keyword Anymore
Traditional search involved searching for keywords that are the best match for the content. The introduction of AI-powered search changed the game: now, publishers need to rank for more than one specific keyword. Here's a look at how one feature revolutionized search as we know it.
Jonas Trinidad
Feb 27, 2026 • 6 min read
Digital Marketing, Content Marketing, Marketing, Industry News
Start Planning Your Marketing Around Gen Beta
Gen Beta is the newest social cohort to enter the world, and it's bringing changes to the way businesses market themselves. Learn how this new wave of youths will influence marketing strategies of the next several years.
Jonas Trinidad
Feb 25, 2026 • 6 min read
Digital Marketing, SEO, SEO Marketing, Educative Content
Why Doesn't Google Make Its Algorithm Public?
Doing SEO would be much easier if Google revealed what it puts in their search engine algorithm. But as much as we demand the company to be more transparent, especially with its overly frequent updates, it has good reasons to keep the algorithm a secret. And as explained in this piece, they're also good reasons for everyone else.
Jonas Trinidad
Feb 18, 2026 • 5 min read
Educative Content
Parasite SEO: A Reliable Ally or Another Black Hat?
Google prohibits parasite SEO, also called site reputation abuse, under its guidelines. However, industry professionals believe it can be a reliable tool when it isn't used to game the algorithm. Learn about parasite SEO and whether it's worth doing for your content.
Jonas Trinidad
Feb 13, 2026 • 6 min read
Blogs, Digital Marketing, Content
Ads on Chatbots: What Would They Look Like?
AI tech companies are busy experimenting with adding ads to chatbot results, with OpenAI being perhaps the most proactive. While still not a thing yet, it begs the question: "What would they look like once it starts?" We took a look at the beta programs of some of the most prominent chatbots and their current status.
Jonas Trinidad
Feb 9, 2026 • 6 min read
Blogs, Digital Marketing, SEO
A Guide on How to Avoid Your Agency Being Branded a Scam
Between misunderstandings and black hats, marketing agencies that do SEO struggle to convince people that it isn't a scam. But that's all the more reason for them to prove that they're clean.
Jonas Trinidad
Feb 4, 2026 • 7 min read
Blogs, SEO
The Career-Challenged’s Guide to Becoming an SEO Specialist
A career in SEO is unlike anything that you often know about pursuing a career in general. That said, if you think this is the right path to take, let this guide educate you in what the job entails.
Jonas Trinidad
Jan 29, 2026 • 7 min read
Blogs
What Google DOJ Filing Reveals About How Search Really Works
This post explores what Google appears to treat as most valuable inside Search, based on signals it actively protects, including user behavior data, page classification systems, and freshness control. It explains how those signals shape which pages stay visible over time, and what that means for SEO and AI visibility going into 2026.
Rasit
Jan 26, 2026 • 8 min read