Wunderlandmedia Blog
Thoughts on web development, SEO, and running a one-person agency.
September 11, 2026
ChatGPT Ads Are Live in Europe. Here's What Actually Changes for Your SEO.
ChatGPT ads are live across Europe. An honest look at what changes for SEO, and why the answer is mostly nothing yet.
SEO
September 9, 2026
The August 2026 Spam Update Knocked 82% More Sites Out of the Top 100. Here's How to Tell If You Were One.
A step-by-step Search Console diagnostic for telling whether the August 2026 Google spam update actually hit you, or something else did.
SEO
September 7, 2026
OpenAI Burned $3.7 Billion in One Quarter. That's Why There Are Ads in ChatGPT.
OpenAI burned $3.7 billion in Q1 2026 against $5.7 billion in revenue. The ads in ChatGPT are not a product decision. They are an arithmetic one.
Artificial Intelligence
September 4, 2026
Local Models Caught Up. Here's What Actually Runs on Your Desk.
Open models are four months behind the frontier, and a 27B Apache 2.0 model fits on a 32GB Mac. Here is what caught up and what still breaks.
Artificial Intelligence
September 4, 2026
Google Preferred Sources: The One AI Search Lever You Can Actually Pull
Readers can tell Google to show your site more. Over 600,000 sources are already picked. Here is what it does, who qualifies, and how to add it.
SEO
September 4, 2026
WordPress Got 773 Security Reports in One Month. Nobody Can Read That Many.
WordPress got 773 vulnerability reports in August, up from a decade-long baseline of 20. Here is what actually changed, and what it means for your site.
Insights & Ideas
September 1, 2026
Your Favorite Tool Is Getting Worse. That's Not Bad Product Management, That's Panic.
Your tools keep shipping AI you did not ask for and moving the buttons you rely on. It is not incompetence. It is panic, and here is the math behind it.
Insights & Ideas
August 27, 2026
The Free Work Trap: 7 Things Freelancers Give Away Without Noticing
Spec work isn't the problem. The free work that leaks out sideways is. Seven giveaways most freelancers never notice, and what each one costs you.
Insights & Ideas
August 25, 2026
Fully Booked and Still Broke? 7 Signs It's Time to Raise Your Rates
A full calendar at the wrong rate is a slow way to go broke. Seven behavioral signs it's time to raise your freelance rates, plus one sign it isn't.
Behind the Business
August 25, 2026
AI Visibility Tools Charge $399 a Month for Three API Calls. Here's the Prompt to Build Your Own.
Profound charges $399 a month. I built the same thing into my client dashboard for about $8. Here's the teardown, the build prompt, and the honest catch.
Artificial Intelligence