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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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Latest blog posts
SEO Marketing, Industry News, Educative Content
Discover Update Hit Your Site Hard? Here’s How to Rebound
Google's latest update to its Discover algorithm features sweeping changes. As with any update, you may have seen your mentions in users' feeds drop. Don't worry, this guide is all about recovering from it.
Jonas Trinidad
Mar 6, 2026 • 5 min read
SEO, Guides, SEO Marketing
What Does a SEO Firm Actually Do?
Businesses look to SEO firms to help improve their search visibility, especially when they can't do it in-house. But even if what they do is all too clear, some tend to expect too much of them. This post aims to clear up misconceptions and then some.
Jonas Trinidad
Mar 6, 2026 • 7 min read
SEO, Content Marketing, Educative Content
Want Your Content to Rank? Think Like a Journalist
The term "quality content" gets thrown around, but few actually know what it exactly means. But as a journalism major myself, I can say that thinking and writing like a journalist comes pretty close. To that end, here are a few ways on how to do it yourself.
Jonas Trinidad
Mar 6, 2026 • 9 min read
Marketing, Platform, Industry News
OpenClaw, OpenAI, and the Real Race for "Personal Agents"
OpenAI’s decision to bring OpenClaw’s creator in-house isn’t just a talent acquisition. It’s a signal about where software is heading. As personal AI agents move from experimental projects to platform-level integrations, the interface is shifting from clicks to outcomes. Here’s what that means for product design, security, distribution, and how marketers prepare for agent-mediated decisions.
Rasit
Mar 5, 2026 • 7 min read
SEO, SEO Marketing, Industry News
Ahrefs: Only About 38% of AI Overview Citations Come From the Top 10
If your page ranks in the top 10, does that guarantee a citation in AI Overviews? New data from Ahrefs suggests otherwise. After analyzing 863,000 keywords and 4 million cited URLs, the study reveals that most AI Overview citations come from beyond page one. Here’s what this shift means for rankings, content depth, and YouTube’s growing role in AI visibility.
Rasit
Mar 5, 2026 • 6 min read
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