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The AI Perception-Reality Gap




There’s a widening gap between what the market says about AI and what we actually hear from customers. The media, the VCs, the AI labs, and influencers have all talked about AI replacing humans, ripping out trusted software, and token-maxxing as ends worth pursuing. But the leaders running real businesses are increasingly asking the right questions. How do I make my people better with AI? Which systems can I trust? How can I measure the ROI of this spend? We hear these questions every day.
Artificial Intelligence

Hostinger heads to Kraków for WordCamp Europe 2026

Spring in Kraków, the open web in the spotlight, and the WordPress community converging on one of Central Europe’s most storied cities – that’s the setup for WordCamp Europe 2026,…
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The role of citations in AEO: Why citations matter more than backlinks for AI visibility




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 citations in AEO is fundamentally different from link-building: instead of other publishers vouching for your page, AI answer engines are selecting your content as the direct source behind their generated answers.
Digital Marketing

Introducing Write: A New Way to Post, Built for Writers

One page. A blinking cursor. The formatting you need and nothing you don't. That's Write, a new, focused writing surface built into WordPress.com. In last year's Creators survey, "simplify the editor" was the single most-requested improvement from the people already publishing on WordPress.com. So we built it.
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Meet WordCamp Agent: A Preview of the WordPress Memory Layer

If you've been to a WordCamp, you know how it goes. The schedule fills up fast, you lose track of who you wanted to meet, and
your notes from the best talks never make it anywhere useful. Message @wordcamp_agent_bot on Telegram and not only have a
better plan for WCEU 2026, see where agentic WordPress is going.
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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 of the Google SERPs, fearing they’d steal all our traffic. Eventually, however, we adapted and started optimizing content to get mentioned in them. I believe the same will be true of AI Overviews. I mean, it’s already happening: The internet is now filled with the latest advice on how to get cited in AI Overviews (including this article).
Digital Marketing

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 know AI Overviews exist. The challenge is execution: translating Google’s deliberately vague guidance into repeatable content workflows, measuring whether your AI website optimizations are actually earning citations, and proving business impact when traditional metrics like rank position and CTR no longer tell the full story. This playbook closes that gap.
Digital Marketing

May Patches for Azure DevOps Server

We are releasing new patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers stay up to date with the latest, most secure version of Azure DevOps Server. The most recent release, Azure DevOps Server, is available on the download page. The following versions have been patched. For more details on […]
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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 can’t tell you that. AEO prompt tracking helps you measure brand visibility within AI-generated answers by monitoring whether (and how) your brand gets cited when real AI prompts are run across the engines your audience is actually using. For marketing leaders, SEO managers, and demand gen teams, it’s the measurement layer that closes the gap between “we publish great content” and “we can prove AI search drives pipeline.”
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