Notes on search, AI & content from around the web.

A weekly read for technical marketers, founders and the agency-curious covering how-tos and breaking AI and SEO news.

The engine room

12 Jun 2026

An agentic company should make its agents check their own homework. So ours do.

Industrialising reporting

11 Jun 2026

A report used to be a hand-built page. Now it is data plus a library of modules, produced, updated and published automatically, for every industry our clients are in.

The Audit Engine

11 Jun 2026

We turned the industry-level visibility study into a client-level one: point it at a URL, get back an audit deck of changes the client can make today.

An operating system for the agency

10 Jun 2026

We have always been framework-forward. That is exactly why becoming an agentic business is an evolution for us, not a reinvention.

Digital PR, productised

2 Jun 2026

Data journalism lets you send 500 journalists 500 different stories, each about the single data point only they care about. Scale without spam or slop.

One platform to run the agency

29 May 2026

A single place that holds the plan, and a single way for the team to talk to it in plain language.

Expert Line

27 May 2026

A client's real knowledge often lives in the heads of people who will never sit at a laptop and annotate a document because they are busy actually running the business instead of making marketing decisions. So we met them where they were: a text, then a phone call.

Self-healing client knowledge

27 May 2026

Building a compounding client knowledge base that grows organically as we interact with the client across communication surfaces.

Rebuilding our own website on an agentic stack

18 May 2026

We moved typeamedia.net off WordPress and onto EmDash, an agentic CMS, as part of a dogfooding exercise to make our own marketing stack agentic.

The agent learns to edit live pages, and link with confidence

13 May 2026

Good writing is actually good editing. So we built an agent to help us get there faster.

Keyword Universe: the research foundation

7 May 2026

Keyword research is at the core of SEO and GEO as the outputs dictate the direction of the entire campaign.

The content agent: from brief-writer to writing engine

7 May 2026

AI content is synonymous with slop. And SEO people are the purveyors of said slop. So we engineered away the tedious bits of content production whilst keeping a human in the loop so the content remained creative, interesting, readable and slop proof.

The first AI Visibility Index

26 Apr 2026

Measuring who AI names when people ask about a whole industry. We started with property.

Google Search Liaison Reveals the Future of Search

11 Oct 2024

Why is Reddit everywhere in the SERPs and why aren't AI overviews in search console?

Wordpress Turns off the Taps on WPengine

30 Sept 2024

This week Wordpress has banned WPengine from accessing it's repositories.

Google's new AI Update could be a Gamechanger...just not for SEOs

24 Sept 2024

Learn about the new AI overviews that are taking over the search results.

Google Drops the Spam Hammer

13 Sept 2024

Google issues a spam warning for people abusing the indexing API

August 2024 Google Core Update - News, Opinion and Analysis

10 Sept 2024

An agency POV on the August 2024 core update.

What Are Title Tags And Meta Descriptions?

10 Sept 2024

SEO 101: What's the difference been the title and the header?

Automate your SEO tasks with custom extraction | BrightonSEO

10 Sept 2024

Which Game of Thrones character has received the most screen time? A animated bar chart race.

10 Sept 2024

Episode 17 - Did Google just kill travel brands?

10 Sept 2024

Episode 16 - changes to Domain Authority, Google rolling out Shoppable image ads and more

10 Sept 2024

Episode 14 - Google confirms EAT is used in Core Algorithm

10 Sept 2024

Episode 13 - Google Engineer Reveals all in Reddit AMA

10 Sept 2024

Episode 12 - Bug Fixes in Google Ads, Accessibility and Voice Search

10 Sept 2024

Episode 11 - Is SEO really dead? Will Amazon and Google go head to head?

10 Sept 2024

Episode 10 - Google Blog, Google My Business Hacks, and new-ish features in Search Console...

10 Sept 2024

2019 SEO Predictions from Industry Experts

10 Sept 2024

Episode 8 - New Google Featured snippets

10 Sept 2024