For years, the SEO playbook was straightforward: earn backlinks, climb rankings, capture clicks. But as AI reshapes how traditional SEO works, a different mechanism is determining which content gets seen — and it’s not backlinks. It’s citations. The role of...
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Introducing the HubSpot Agent CLI
A few weeks ago, I wrote about our vision for the agent era: agents should be able to run on HubSpot, and to run HubSpot. I want to go a level deeper on what “run HubSpot” actually means, and our...
A master class in persuasion from an unlikely place
Walk down a suburban street, and you might stumble across a following sign. It’s probably messy with poor formatting and inconsistent font size. Here’s one that I saw in Houston. Source One line stuck out to me. It reads, “Window...
What AI Overviews mean for SEO & website traffic
If you’re worried about what AI Overviews mean for SEO, let me remind you of the panic over featured snippets circa 2017. Remember how that turned out? At first, bloggers and SEOs bristled over these quick-glance summaries at the top...
How to optimize for AI overviews (AIOs): A complete 2026 playbook
Google AI Overviews appear in Google Search results for a growing share of queries, and if your content isn’t structured to earn a citation, you’re losing visibility to competitors who’ve already adapted. Unfortunately, the challenge isn’t awareness. Most SEO leaders...
How to rank in AI Overviews on Google and beyond
Growing up, the only “top 10” I cared about was MTV’s Total Request Live (TRL). When I started working, that became the top 10 results in the Google SERP. Now, my eyes are set even higher as we marketers explore...
How B2B Buyers Are Using AI Search And What It Means for Your Pipeline
By Brittany Lieu, Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing In our recent posts on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), we covered what makes content citable to AI and the practical steps marketers can take to get their websites GEO-ready. Those articles focused...
AI citation tracking tools to monitor and increase visibility
The brand tracking dashboard says awareness is up. Social listening tools show steady mention volume. The PR platform logged a dozen media hits last quarter. But, none of those tools show how a brand shows up when a buyer asks...
Best AI search analytics tools for marketing teams
I’ve spent the last year watching marketing teams scramble to understand why their organic traffic reports tell one story while their pipeline tells another. The missing link is almost always a need for AI search analytics tools. When a prospect...
When Data Becomes Surveillance: What Meta’s Instagram DM Change Means for Marketers
By Payal Parikh, VP of Client Services at Heinz Marketing A quick note before we dive in: Heinz Marketing is a B2B marketing firm. We spend most of our time thinking about pipeline, sales cycles, and enterprise buying behavior. But...


