Tips Tuesday – Bing WMT Tutorials, Videos of Posts, Ecomm in 2026

Tips this week include:

• New Bing Webmaster tutorials
• Google cites YouTube for health questions
• Why to make videos of posts
• Will all Ais have to pay to crawl soon?
• Where e-comm is headed in 2026 – and why it matters to bloggers
• Are you leaving money on the table?

SEO Tips

New Bing Webmaster Tutorials

AI SEO is super important for 2026.

And Bing WMT is playing an important part.

That’s why we need to get cozy again with Bing WMT, and not just pay attention to Google Search Console.

This week, folks in the DIY SEO course are having a look at 4 new tutorials I made for Bing WMT.

And then next week, we’ll be doing a live workshop to go deeper into checking any issues reported as well as checking the metrics and comparing to GA4 data as well.

Knowing what’s going on with Bing WMT helps you understand how your content is showing up in ChatGPT and other AI search engines and chatbots too.

It’s always a good time to join us in the course!!

Google Cites YouTube for Health Questions

Google’s Health AI Overviews has cited information in YouTube videos in 82% of health-related queries.

This is way more than all other available sources of that info combined, including hospitals and doctors.

Keep in mind that YouTube provides text transcripts that any AI bot can summarize – and that’s exactly what they are doing.

Know why?

Because it’s plain text.

There is zero markup of any kind, like what you find to control layout and style on a website.

This is just one more reason why presenting content in videos, especially on YouTube,  is going to be critically important to AI SEO success.

Make Videos of Posts

Can you find a way – any way – to turn your blog posts into a video?

There are all kinds of video editors that can do fantastic things with still shots.

Even the free version of Canva has wonderful templates for such things.

Then just do a voice over – or get AI to do a voiceover for you.

There is zero excuse for not making videos now.

Will All AIs Have to Pay to Crawl Soon?

For a decade I lamented how much I hated working for Google for free – especially when they started taking my content and presenting it as a direct answer without citing the source.

And now AI Search and Chatbots do that ALL the time. It’s like we’re treated as free staff writers.

But, the idea of paywalls for AI crawlers is gaining traction.

It is not just about gatekeeping on AI bot crawls – making them pay to access the content.

This is also about how much they already shell out to blindly crawl the whole internet.

Google spends a fortune on crawling the internet. There is no other search engine that can come close to the depth and breadth of what Google has eyes on because they can’t afford to do it.

And there is no AI company that has that depth of ranking metrics either.

But, this whole, expensive way of crawling the internet may be turning a corner.

Cloudflare has just acquired Human Native, which is a company that specializes in helping AI devs gather better, licensed data.

“Their technology helps publishers and developers turn messy, unstructured content into something that can be understood, licensed and ultimately valued. They have approached data not as something to be scraped, but as an asset class that deserves structure, transparency and respect.”

That means two things for us.

We can participate in being a source of that info, and we can control how our info is used by AIs.

We may even be able to get fairly compensated for those AI crawls and data usage.

I’ve already been keeping my eye on Cloudflare’s gatekeeping for AI crawlers where they have to pay to crawl. That works best for news agency type sites, not us bloggers.

And I will most certainly keep my eye on how Human Native enlarges the scope of this type of service, and whether it will become something advantageous for us to participate in.

Monetization Tips

Where Ecomm is Headed in 2026

Bloggers, don’t skip this!!

The folks at DreamHost have put together an impressive look into the Future of Ecommerce in 2026.

It includes a look at:

• AI Shopping
• Social Selling
• And why your website still matters

These are all of the trends I’ve been telling you about since mid 2025.

$33.2 billion.

That’s how much revenue the TikTok Shop generated for folks in 2024 and it is still growing.

$114.7 billion.

That’s how much the social commerce market gained in 2025, just in the U.S. market.

Social commerce and AI agents are literally rewriting the sales funnel path now.

While folks may first see you on social media, it’s your website that gives them trust, and where they do the most purchases.

Y’all, the numbers are just going to keep growing for using social and video to sell online.

Are you leaving money on the table?

I’ve helped several of my clients make the switch from ad revenue to product/membership revenue, and they have never looked back.

I’m moving to videos being a bigger income stream, and not just from ads either. I get affiliate sales and I’m looking hard into YouTube Premium revenue sharing later this year too.

I’ve got another client who I’ve helped go big on YouTube to the point that they will likely be moving off WordPress this year and to an all-in-one brochure type site with zero maintenance. 

ALL of their sales are coming via their videos now.

I have another client who hit the 300k subscriber mark last year on her YouTube channel by just sharing her Appalachian life. She quit her day job and so did her husband.

When I say there’s plenty of money to be made with products, and especially video, I’m not kidding!!!!!

And my money is where my mouth is. I’m busy doing exactly what I’m telling you to do, and it’s working!!