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Every day we handpick the top 20 marketing tips, insights, case studies, methods, workflows, and free trials we've spotted on Twitter (X) and YouTube. It's completely free and lands in your inbox 6 days a week. No fluff, just the good stuff that's actually working right now. Creator of NicheBlasta, LeadBlasta, Viral Content Pilot, and many more innovative marketing automation tools. I build and release new tools every week built with no code platforms and run a WhatsApp group and the 'Unshackled' product creation bootcamp.

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The "Zero Click" future is here (and backlinks are dying)

Brand citations are replacing backlinks in 2026. Here's how to pivot before it's too late... If having trouble with any links, you can read the online version here Hey Guys, Everything we know about traffic is changing. For the last decade, the game was simple: create content, rank on search, get the click. But what happens when the search engine becomes the destination? What happens when the AI answers the user's question without them ever visiting your site? We're moving into an era where...

The internet marketing game just hit reset. If you're still using 2023 SEO tactics, AI models are penalizing you right now. Here are 15 strategies that actually work in 2026. If having trouble with any links, you can read the online version here Hey Guys, The internet marketing game just hit the reset button, and most people are still playing by the old rules. While everyone's arguing about keyword density and backlink counts, a small group of marketers figured out something incredible: how...

Stop optimizing for Google alone - here's how to dominate the entire discovery pie If having trouble with any links, you can read the online version here Hey Guys, It's happening again. The "easy" buttons are disappearing, but the "smart" buttons are multiplying. From Google's AI Overviews stealing clicks to YouTube shifting its algorithm for TV screens, the landscape has completely shifted for 2026. If you're still doing what worked in 2024, you're already behind. I've curated 18 critical...

AI-powered directories are printing money again—here's how to build, fill, and monetize yours before your competitors catch on If having trouble with any links, you can read the online version here Hey Guys, What if I told you the most profitable business model right now isn't launching a new SaaS, but simply organizing the mess that is the internet? There's a massive resurgence happening with Directory Sites—but not the old-school kind. We're talking about AI-built, automated, hyper-niche...

SEO changed overnight. Backlinks died. Brand authority won. Here are 15 strategies to exploit the shift right now. If having trouble with any links, you can read the online version here Hey Guys, There's a massive shift happening in marketing right now, and most people are too busy looking at their 2015 playbooks to notice. We used to think that the person with the most backlinks won. We thought ranking was just about keywords. But there's a new "gatekeeper" in town—one that doesn't care how...

Plus: The AI that takes over your browser and does the work for you If having trouble with any links, you can read the online version here Hey Guys, Everyone knows the "golden rule" of SEO page titles, right? Keep it under 60 characters or Google cuts you off. But what if I told you that breaking this rule—and I mean really breaking it, pushing 200+ characters—is actually exploding rankings for some SEOs right now? And that's not even the wildest shift happening today. I've curated a massive...

Plus: The $27M strategy hiding in plain sight If having trouble with any links, you can read the online version here Hey Guys, There's a shift happening right now that most people are ignoring. The "old ways" of ranking on Google, building websites, and driving traffic are breaking down—but a new, faster (and frankly, weirder) path is opening up. We're seeing AI builders that code full apps in seconds, "mad scientist" hacks to manipulate ChatGPT into recommending your brand, and data proving...

Google just dropped free AI tools that replace your entire marketing stack If having trouble with any links, you can read the online version here Hey Guys, Imagine firing your expensive SEO tools, your graphic designer, and your web developer... all before lunch. It sounds like pure hype, but after analyzing the latest feature drops from Google's new AI stack (Gemini 3, NotebookLM, and the oddly named "Nano Banana Pro"), the barrier to entry for internet marketers just dissolved. There's a...

The complete playbook: 15 proven strategies for building, ranking, and monetizing directory websites that generate consistent passive income If having trouble with any links, you can read the online version here Hey Guys, Everyone's chasing the "next big thing" in AI, but while they're fighting over complex prompts and dealing with saturation, a quiet group of marketers is going back to the roots of the internet—and making a killing. We're not talking about starting a traditional blog (Google...

15 proven strategies (with implementation checklists for each one) If having trouble with any links, you can read the online version here Hey Guys, Everyone's shouting about AI automation, but here's something you need to see: the people actually banking serious money are doing something completely different. There's a massive divide happening right now. One side? People flooding the internet with average AI content. The other side? Smart marketers building "boring" directory sites that...