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September 17, 2025

5 Holiday Shopping Trends to Define Thanksgiving and Christmas 2025

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September 17, 2025

5 Holiday Shopping Trends to Define Thanksgiving and Christmas 2025

It’s a critical time of year for the retail industry. With just 28 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the holiday shopping season is more compressed than usual, but that w...

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September 15, 2025

The AI Bubble Is (Sort Of) Real. Does It Really Matter?

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September 15, 2025

The AI Bubble Is (Sort Of) Real. Does It Really Matter?

Sam Altman recently acknowledged that AI could be in a bubble. He’s the CEO of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. Talks over a potential employee stock sale value his company at $500...

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September 12, 2025

20 UK Trending Products to Sell (2025)

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September 12, 2025

20 UK Trending Products to Sell (2025)

This is a list of products to sell online that are genuinely trending in the UK right now. Using the Exploding Topics trend-spotting technology, we can find products that are ex...

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September 10, 2025

8 Ways to Adapt Your SEO Strategy for LLM-Powered Search

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September 10, 2025

8 Ways to Adapt Your SEO Strategy for LLM-Powered Search

If you haven’t started modifying your SEO strategy for LLM-powered search yet, now’s the time. Because all of those SEO tactics you’ve relied on for years? Unfortunately, those...

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September 08, 2025

Exploding Topics Pro vs. Free Plans: Which Is Right For You?

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September 08, 2025

Exploding Topics Pro vs. Free Plans: Which Is Right For You?

Whether you're a marketer, business leader, investor, researcher, or someone who's always coming up with new product ideas, it's helpful to know what your audience wants. A tren...

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September 07, 2025

Semrush AI SEO Toolkit vs SE Ranking AI Search Toolkit: My Honest Review

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September 07, 2025

Semrush AI SEO Toolkit vs SE Ranking AI Search Toolkit: My Honest Review

Semrush AI SEO Toolkit gives you a consolidated analysis of your AI search visibility compared to SE Ranking. It’s my preferred choice for LLM optimization. The main difference...

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September 05, 2025

AI in Customer Service: How it’s Used and What’s Next (2025-2026)

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September 05, 2025

AI in Customer Service: How it’s Used and What’s Next (2025-2026)

The natural language processing (NLP) power of generative artificial intelligence (AI) means that the tech can directly interface with humans—through text, voice, and even video...

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September 04, 2025

AI for Human Resources: Trends and Top Tools (2025-2026)

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September 04, 2025

AI for Human Resources: Trends and Top Tools (2025-2026)

Human resources teams, like so many others, are interested in using artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline their work and reduce time-consuming, repetitive processes. HR pro...

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September 03, 2025

Context Engineering Rises as Million-Token Context Windows Show Diminishing Returns

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September 03, 2025

Context Engineering Rises as Million-Token Context Windows Show Diminishing Returns

Context engineering is the practice of systematically providing AI models with relevant background information and data sources to improve the contextual accuracy of the respons...

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September 01, 2025

The 14 Best AI Optimization Tools (Mentions & Citations)

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September 01, 2025

The 14 Best AI Optimization Tools (Mentions & Citations)

Generative AI is fundamentally changing how people discover brands. When someone asks ChatGPT about the “best project management software for small businesses,” for example, the...

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September 01, 2025

Top 100 Google Searches (September 2025)

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September 01, 2025

Top 100 Google Searches (September 2025)

This is our comprehensive list of the most popular Google searches in September 2025. Google receives over 100 billion visits per month, and we've analyzed the top searches.  Sp...

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August 29, 2025

What Is Google Trends? Guide for Marketers & Entrepreneurs

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August 29, 2025

What Is Google Trends? Guide for Marketers & Entrepreneurs

First launched in May 2006, Google Trends has since established itself as one of the top search-tracking databases. Millions visit the website every month to view and analyze th...

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