Back in 2022, a family-owned furniture store in North York was struggling to grow. After decades of relying on traditional clientele and referrals, their sales were drying up. Big-box competitors...
Earlier this week, Modern Retail reported that Shopify made a subtle but significant move: it added a developer comment to the robots.txt file of every Shopify storefront. On the surface,...
On July 1, 2025, Cloudflare announced Pay Per Crawl, a new system that allows websites to charge AI models for crawling their content. At first glance, it sounds like a huge...
Whether you run a local shop or manage an e-commerce brand, chances are you've seen sponsored links at the top of a Google search. When you search for the "best gyms...
You may already know that websites compete fiercely to appear on top of search results. When you search for just about anything, who shows up first isn’t random. It is...
Walk into any small business meeting in Toronto and you’ll hear the same worry: "We just can't compete with the big guys. Their ad budget alone is bigger than our annual...
