Brand mentions aren’t a new concept, but answer engine optimization (AEO) is giving them a different weight. Brand mentions are any online reference to your brand, product, spokesperson, or company name; right now, they’re happening in more places than most...
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6 generative engine optimization benefits every marketer should know
You’ve seen it with your own eyes, reader. The way buyers discover brands is changing faster than most marketing teams realize. But the audience isn’t quite disappearing. It is, however, moving to a channel where your brand is either...
10 Best Strategies to Increase Marketing ROI
Digital marketing optimization plays a major role in whether a marketing program grows or remains stagnant. Most teams are running campaigns, tracking metrics, and still scratching their heads, wondering why the pipeline isn’t moving. Honestly? The problem usually comes down...
How to Increase It in the Era of AI
Brand visibility determines whether your business gets found or gets passed over — in search results, on social feeds, and increasingly, in AI-generated answers. It’s one of the highest-leverage investments a marketing team can make, and also one of the...
5 science-backed pricing tips from the U.K.’s top marketing podcast
In 2007, Coulter and Coulter showed two advertisements to two random groups of customers. Each advertised £10 discounts on flights to Turkey. One listed the tickets at £188. The other showed a higher price: £233. Customers found that the cheaper...
8 Strategies That Drive Demand for B2B & SaaS
Product SEO is one of the highest-leveraged — and most overlooked — strategies in B2B and SaaS marketing. While most teams pour resources into top-of-funnel content, the pages that actually drive pipeline decisions, such as feature pages, comparison pages, and...
If AI Can’t See You, Buyers Won’t Either: Is Your Inbound Strategy Ready?
By Maria Geokezas,Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing Last month, we talked about why AI visibility matters—and how buyers are increasingly discovering, evaluating, and shortlisting vendors inside AI-driven environments. Since then, the most common question we’ve been hearing is this: “Is...
How to create a strategy for topic authority in 2026
As a content writer with over 7 years of SEO experience, I can confidently say that keyword clustering is a critical technique—even in a world where the SEO landscape has changed significantly. Keyword clustering builds authority, boosts your business’s web...
Our Vision for Building an Open Ecosystem for the Agent Era
For years, HubSpot invested in making our platform the best place for marketing, sales, and service teams to do their work. With AI, we’ve been building it to do the work for them – through agents that qualify leads, resolve...
AEO prompt tracking for marketing teams
You already track and analyze your SEO strategy — keyword rankings, organic traffic, SERP positions. But when a prospect asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews a buying question and your brand doesn’t appear in the answer, traditional rank tracking...


