How to Optimize Your Google Business Profile for Local SEO
A Google Business Profile ranks on relevance, distance and prominence, and the categories, reviews, replies and posts an owner writes...
Brent W Peterson
Strategist and Author
Brent W. Peterson is the CEO of Content Cucumber. He is the founder of RequestDesk, and Talk Commerce, and writes The Agentic Commerce Guy newsletter on agentic commerce, AI agents, and autonomous ecommerce systems. A 5x Magento Master and regular speaker at commerce industry events, he hosts the Talk Commerce podcast and writes the Tuesdays with Claude series on Medium. Outside of commerce work, he has finished 33 marathons and volunteers as a run mentor and marathon pacer with Mile in My Shoes Minnesota.
Articles by Brent W Peterson
Where Your Talk Commerce Interview Video and Audio Will Appear
When a brand books a conference interview or a hosted interview with Talk Commerce, the brand team or their PR...
Optimizing Content for Conversational Search
Voice search was the preview. Conversational AI is the main event. Your content needs to answer questions naturally, concisely, and...
Core Web Vitals in 2026
Google’s Core Web Vitals still come down to three numbers, how fast the largest piece of a page shows up,...
The 10 Best Content Ideas for a Specialty Running Store
A specialty running store already makes content on Instagram, on Strava, and in the fitting room. Fourteen types of recurring...
Mastering Blog Post Conclusions
Your blog post conclusion is the last thing readers see and the most likely place they decide whether to take...
Are Blogs Overrated for Shopify Success?
Not every Shopify store needs a blog to rank. Product page optimization, technical SEO, and structured data can deliver better...
What Healthcare Content Writing Has to Get Right
Google grades health pages as Your Money or Your Life topics, and HIPAA, the FTC, and the reading level of...
How to Structure a Page So AI Search Answers Quote It
The featured snippet has evolved. AI search tools now pull answers from content that is structured, authoritative, and concise. Here...
Whether AI Content Ranks in Google, Measured on Our Own Posts
Google says AI content can rank, and Search Console says Content Cucumber's own 2023 post on the question sits at...
What Hundreds of People Said About Companies Using AI to Create Content
Content Cucumber asked hundreds of people one question, in person at eTail Boston and by LinkedIn message, should companies use...
What a Content Writing Company Does for an Accounting Firm
What a content writing company does for a CPA or bookkeeping firm month to month, the topics that pull clients,...
