Search Engine Journal
Two Annotation Layers: Why Engineering-Driven Updates Like the Killer Whale Update Reward Brands With Systematic Operational Practice
Status: Original concept, first publication. Strategy Sandbox, jasonbarnard.com. Date: May 2026. In July 2023, the Knowledge Graph went through an update that tripled the number of person entities…
Three Recruitment Logics: Why Annotation Has to Speak Differently to Knowledge Graphs, LLMs, and Search Engines
Status: Original concept, first publication. Strategy Sandbox, jasonbarnard.com. Date: May 2026. The annotation gate has been the focus of the AI Engine Pipeline conversation for over a year,…
Annotation Is the Gate Between Having Your Content and Winning With It
The industry spent twenty years building playbooks for the infrastructure phase, and those playbooks are genuinely good: crawl budgets, server response time, rendering pipelines, semantic HTML, structured data,…
What I Learned by Talking to Algorithms for Twenty-Eight Years
By Jason Barnard | February 2026 | Category: Proprietary Frameworks My colleague Bernadeth Brusola recently wrote a piece tracing the evolution of my work from a provocative conference…
Darwinism in Search and AI: How Algorithms Judge and Choose
Part 3 of the “How AI Finds You” trilogy. This article covers gate 7 of the 10-gate AI Engine Pipeline (part of the 15-gate Kalicube Framework): how algorithms…
From Darwinism in Search to Darwinism in AI: The Evolution of Evolution
Read Bernadeth Brusola’s analysis of Darwinism in Search and AI By Jason Barnard In 2019, I asked Gary Illyes from Google a question at the SMS Sydney conference:…
Third Party Websites: What You Need To Know
What is a Third Party Website? Third party websites are websites over which you have no direct control. These are the websites where someone has written an article…
Article Boxes (Article Carousels) in SEO: What You Need To Know
What are Article Boxes (Article Carousels) in SEO? Simple Definition of Article Boxes (Article Carousels) Article Boxes (Article Carousels) in Google SERPs (Search Engine Results Page) contain articles…
darwinism & google serps as product: revisiting how search works
originally published on search engine journal august 18, 2021 (jason barnard) new insights on how google search ranking works plus the concept of the serp as a product and how…
How to trigger a Personal Knowledge Panel in Google
Published on Search Engine Journal June 28, 2021 (Jason Barnard) How can you get a Knowledge Panel result for yourself, a client, or another person? Learn how to…
What is a Google Knowledge Panel and how to get one
Originally Published on SEMrush March 29, 2021 (Jason Barnard). Have you ever watched a movie and quickly searched an actor’s name for more information about them? You see…
Brand SERP: Google Your Brand Name And Discover The Power of Your New Digital Business Card
Published on Wordlift November 13, 2020 (Jason Barnard) Your most important business card is on Google and it is generated tens, hundreds or even thousands of times every…
About
Who Is Jason Barnard, and What Is He Working On Now? Jason Barnard is the world’s leading authority on Digital Brand Engineering, Assistive Agent Optimisation and AI-Era Business…
Jason Barnard’s Entrepreneurial Journey: A Cornerstone of Success
Jason Barnard, entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker and CEO of Kalicube has carved a unique path in the entrepreneurial world. His journey from a musician to a digital marketing…
Jason Barnard Livestreams
Jason Barnard regularly appears on livestreams online. Every Tuesday he hosts his own show, Kalicube® Tuesdays. He also appears regularly on other shows including livestreams by SEMrush, Duda…
Jason Barnard’s Professions
Jason Barnard is a serial entrepreneur Jason Barnard is an established serial entrepreneur and business leader with over 66 years cumulative experience building and expanding businesses. Founder &…
Jason Barnard Videos
A few of my favourite videos from the past 30 years. Including but not limited to: music, singing, double bass, punk, Boowa and Kwala, Brand SERPs, Knowledge Panels,…
Alumni of Liverpool John Moores University
I’m an alumni of Liverpool John Moores University. And I always thought it was a fairly insignificant university. That may or may not be true. But the list…
About 12 Sing Along Songs… (music for children)
12 Sing Along Songs… Music Album by Boowa and Kwala 12 Sing Along Songs is a music album by the music group Boowa & Kwala. It was recorded…
About Mawa
Mawa is a fictional character who appears in the Boowa & Kwala web series and TV series. She is a female blue dog. Her family name is Wawa,…
About Dawa
Dawa is a fictional character who appears in the Boowa & Kwala web series and TV series.
Jason Barnard’s Career
Digital Marketer Since 2008 - Currently CEO at Kalicube® Author Consultant Podcast host Conference Speaker Event MC / Presenter Webinars Musician(part time now, full time until 1996) Pascal Brothers (2017…
Jason Barnard, entrepreneur and writer
Jason Barnard is a digital marketing consultant who specialises in Brand SERPs and knowledge panels – The Brand SERP Guy. Company: He is founder and CEO at Kalicube…