Jonathan Bentz
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I typically cover news around marketing and internet technology. Additionally, I love learning about new, innovative startups and companies making big changes in industries like B2B and higher ed.
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I used to do a lot of sports blogging and writing, but not really today. However, if you have sports tech or sports biz news, that would be a good fit.
Father 3x. Husband. Follower of The Son. Marketing Strategist making leads, sales, and traffic @directom. Contributor: @businessdotcom, @b2community, @g2dotcom.
Articles by Jonathan Bentz
CUDA Toolkit 13.4 Adds Windows on Arm Support and Greater Control over Shared GPUs
Every NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit release adds functionality and performance improvements that help developers get more from NVIDIA GPUs and the broader NVIDIA software platform. CUDA Toolkit 13.4 adds support for Windows on Arm. CUDA applications have long been supported on Arm platforms through Linux; this release extends that capability to the Windows on Arm platform.
Someone Is Threatening To Sue You Over CIPA. Here’s What It Means.
Skip to content CIPA By Jonathan Bentz| 8 Min Read | July 2, 2026 It usually shows up by email, and it’s built to ruin your afternoon. Someone you’ve never heard of says your website broke the law by tracking them without permission. There’s a statute cited, a dollar figure hinted at, and a not-so-subtle suggestion that the whole thing disappears if you just settle.
How Construction Companies Can Optimize for ChatGPT and Google to Grow Search-Driven Leads
Introduction Google SEO Basics for Construction Companies Content That Works for Both Google and ChatGPT Common Mistakes Construction Companies Make Online Get Found Before the Phone Ever Rings Frequently Asked Questions Key Takeaways Construction companies know how to build things. Detailed blueprints, precise execution, projects that stand for decades — that’s the job, and most do it well.
Develop High-Performance GPU Kernels in C++ with NVIDIA CUDA Tile
Developers can now use NVIDIA CUDA Tile programming within large existing C++ GPU codebases to develop highly optimized GPU kernels using tile-based abstractions.
NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 Enhances GPU Development with Tile Programming in C++, Compiler Autotuning, and Python Updates
NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 brings new capabilities and performance optimizations to developers across the CUDA ecosystem. The launch of NVIDIA CUDA Tile programming in C++, enables high-level, tile-based kernel development that automatically manages complex low-level GPU details for optimal performance and portability. Additionally, CUDA Tile programming is now supported on Compute Capability 9.0 (NVIDIA Hopper) GPUs in addition to all other supported GPU architectures.
As GEO Evolves, Will Your Revenue From SEO Get Left Behind?
Skip to content GEO By Jonathan Bentz| 8 Min Read | April 30, 2026 In my 10-plus years creating campaign strategies for clients at DOM, the SEO “noise” has always caused friction for me. We’ve all experienced the obsession our leadership has for high-volume, low-intent keywords. For most healthcare providers, B2B companies, and service providers, focusing on these broad short-tail terms feels pointless. It can seem like you are just trying to look busy.
CUDA 13.2 Introduces Enhanced CUDA Tile Support and New Python Features
CUDA 13.2 arrives with a major update: NVIDIA CUDA Tile is now supported on devices of compute capability 8.X architectures (NVIDIA Ampere and NVIDIA Ada), as well as 10.X and 12.X architectures (NVIDIA Blackwell). In an upcoming release of the CUDA Toolkit, all GPU architectures starting with Ampere will be fully supported. If you’re using Ampere, Ada, or Blackwell GPU architectures, check out the cuTile Python Quickstart guide to get started with CUDA Tile.
Boardroom Ready: A CMO’s Guide to GEO
Search Has a New Front Door, So Your Budget Story Needs a Rewrite. Learn all about it in an upcoming DOM webinar. A procurement lead opens ChatGPT at 8:07 a.m. They type “best agency sourcing firms for mid-market SaaS” or “top GEO partners for B2B demand gen.” They skim the answer, grab a few names, then jump to Google to sanity-check the list. Your website shows up late in that sequence, sometimes after the shortlist already exists. That pattern changes how brands earn attention.
NVIDIA CUDA 13.1 Powers Next-Gen GPU Programming with NVIDIA CUDA Tile and Performance Gains
NVIDIA CUDA 13.1 introduces the largest and most comprehensive update to the CUDA platform since it was invented two decades ago. In this release, you’ll find new features and updates for improving performance and driving accelerated computing, including: The launch of NVIDIA CUDA Tile, our tile-based programming model for abstracting away specialized hardware, including tensor cores. Runtime API exposure of green contexts. Emulation for double and single precisions in NVIDIA cuBLAS.
Simplify GPU Programming with NVIDIA CUDA Tile in Python
The release of NVIDIA CUDA 13.1 introduces tile-based programming for GPUs, making it one of the most fundamental additions to GPU programming since CUDA was invented. Writing GPU tile kernels enables you to write your algorithm at a higher level than a single-instruction multiple-thread (SIMT) model, while the compiler and runtime handle the partitioning of work onto threads under the covers.
Focus on Your Algorithm—NVIDIA CUDA Tile Handles the Hardware | NVIDIA Technical Blog
With its largest advancement since the NVIDIA CUDA platform was invented in 2006, CUDA 13.1 is launching NVIDIA CUDA Tile. This exciting innovation introduces a virtual instruction set for tile-based parallel programming, focusing on the ability to write algorithms at a higher level and abstract away the details of specialized hardware, such as tensor cores. CUDA exposes a single-instruction, multiple-thread (SIMT) hardware and programming model for developers.
Why Companies in New York, Dallas, and London Choose DOM
Skip to content Exporting By Jonathan Bentz| 6 Min Read | December 4, 2025 Introduction Who’s Hiring a Pittsburgh Agency and Why? Clients Want Results, Not a Resume Strategic Efficiency Is the New Luxury Time Zones Aren’t Walls Anymore Global Doesn’t Have to Mean Generic Ego Takes a Backseat to Actual Partnership Pittsburgh Is Built Different — And That’s the Advantage Want Strategy Without the Show? Start in Pittsburgh It throws some people off.
Developers Can Now Get CUDA Directly from Their Favorite Third-Party Platforms
Building and deploying applications can be challenging for developers, requiring them to navigate the complex relationship between hardware and software capabilities and compatibility. Ensuring that each underlying software component is not only installed correctly but also matches the required versions to avoid conflicts can be a time-consuming task, and often leads to deployment delays and operational inefficiencies in application workflows.
How to Manage Backlinks in an SEO Site Migration Plan
This article was updated 08/18/2025. Editor’s Note (2025 Update): Since this article was first published, the importance of backlink management during a site migration has only grown. Backlinks remain one of the most influential SEO signals, but search engines have become more discerning about how those links pass value.
What’s New and Important in CUDA Toolkit 13.0
The newest update to the CUDA Toolkit, version 13.0, features advancements to accelerate computing on the latest NVIDIA CPUs and GPUs. As a major release, it lays the foundation for all future developments coming to the full CUDA 13.X software lineup. You can access these new features now.
Navigating GPU Architecture Support: A Guide for NVIDIA CUDA Developers
If you’ve used the NVIDIA CUDA Compiler (NVCC) for your NVIDIA GPU application recently, you may have encountered a warning message like the following: nvcc warning : Support for offline compilation for architectures prior to '<compute/sm/lto>_75' will be removed in a future release (Use -Wno-deprecated-gpu-targets to suppress warning). What does this mean exactly, and what actions should you take?
Advanced NVIDIA CUDA Kernel Optimization Techniques: Handwritten PTX
As accelerated computing continues to drive application performance in all areas of AI and scientific computing, there’s a renewed interest in GPU optimization techniques to ensure applications obtain the best possible performance. As an application developer, there are many ways to program GPUs, up and down the software stack. In this post, we introduce some of the different levels of the stack and dive into the very lowest: handwriting Parallel Thread Execution (PTX) code.
Learn About SEO Site Migration Processes
As businesses grow, technology advances and user behaviors shift, website owners and marketers alike will eventually experience the challenges that come with an SEO-friendly migration. What may seem like a straightforward project is like a crack in a glass window — small at first, but soon spreading, and spidering into a chaotic mess. In the SEO world, website migrations can be a stressful component of any campaign, and they are often carried out badly.
NVIDIA Blackwell and NVIDIA CUDA 12.9 Introduce Family-Specific Architecture Features
One of the earliest architectural design decisions that went into the CUDA platform for NVIDIA GPUs was support for backward compatibility of GPU code. This design means that new GPUs should be able to run programs written for previous GPUs without modification.
Understanding PTX, the Assembly Language of CUDA GPU Computing
Parallel thread execution (PTX) is a virtual machine instruction set architecture that has been part of CUDA from its beginning. You can think of PTX as the assembly language of the NVIDIA CUDA GPU computing platform. In this post, we’ll explain what that means, what PTX is for, and what you need to know about it to make the most of CUDA for your applications. We’ll start by walking through how CUDA generates, stores, and loads the code which ultimately runs on the GPU.
Optimizing Compile Times for CUDA C++
In modern software development, time is an incredibly valuable resource, especially during the compilation process. For developers working with CUDA C++ on large-scale GPU-accelerated applications, optimizing compile times can significantly enhance productivity and streamline the entire development cycle. When using the nvcc compiler for offline compilation, efficient compilation times enable you to quickly build code and maintain momentum.
CUDA Toolkit 12.8 Delivers NVIDIA Blackwell Support
The latest release of the CUDA Toolkit, version 12.8, continues to push accelerated computing performance in data sciences, AI, scientific computing, and computer graphics and simulation, using the latest NVIDIA CPUs and GPUs. This post highlights some of the new features and enhancements included with this release: NVIDIA Blackwell support CUDA Graphs conditional nodes enhancements cudaStreamGetDevice NVIDIA Nsight Developer Tools updates Math libraries updates Compiler updates Accelerated...
What To Do With a Website Post-M&A — Direct Online Marketing
A business merger or acquisition brings with it a mountain of change. People, policies, offices, operations—numerous areas may be shifting. The same goes for the website (or more commonly websites) involved. You can set yourself up for success post-M&A by employing SEO best practices to create a modified site that represents the best of all the merging entities. Table of Contents You may have ended up here because you’re wondering what to do with websites after an acquisition.
DOM Named an Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Company
We’ve once again been named to the Inc. 5000 list as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the nation. This honor is a testament to the success we drive for our clients with internet marketing services. Our digital marketing agency has more than doubled in size since 2020. We were first recognized by Inc. in 2022 for our growth since 2019. Inc. recognized us again this year for growth over 2021 – 2023. Inc. has been putting out its annual list recognizing business growth since 1982.
What Is Wrong With My Website? - Holiday Edition
No one is Too Big to fail, especially when it comes to Search Engine Optimization. Some of the largest companies on earth make simple SEO mistakes that dramatically impact their leads, conversions, and their bottom line – constantly. What you may see as a beacon of eCommerce may be suffering from one of the worst buyer experiences possible on the Internet, or they may have accidentally hidden their most important product pages from search, cutting their traffic in half.
Here’s How Google’s Cookie Crisis Is Impacting Advertising and Martech
Necessity breeds innovation, but what happens when forced innovation feeds frustration? After a two-year delay, when Google finally started phasing out third party cookies, it is now being asked to “unroll” the cookie deprecation by Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Labs and The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). How does this impact the industry? What does this mean for marketing attribution software?
How Guestographics Increase Odds of Winning Backlinks
Backlinking is a tried and tested way of boosting your SEO rankings. However, if your regular guest post pitches aren’t getting much traction, you might want to switch things up and try your hand at guestographics. The guestographic method is a link-building technique that uses infographics in a new way. Entering into the world of link building might be daunting, as other brands might have gone far.
SaaS Customer Onboarding: Best Practices for the Road Ahead
Smooth customer onboarding lays the foundation for a smooth customer journey. This is the beginning of a customer's experience with your software-as-as-service (SaaS) product, affecting their satisfaction and likelihood of continued use. When customers see the value in your product faster, they’re more engaged and motivated to do business with you.
DOM + Semrush Team Up to Reveal the Advantages of AI in Digital Marketing
Join us along with our friends at Semrush for our next webinar on June 7, 2023. Inc. 5000 Digital Marketing Agency and Leading Online Visibility SaaS Partner to Help Marketers Overwhelmed by the AI Revolution This year, AI has gone from ‘having a moment’ to dominating the headlines daily in digital marketing.
How to Intelligently Use Generative AI in Customer Service
Generative AI, the advanced technology behind ChatGPT, Google's Bard, DALL-E, MidJourney, and an ever-growing list of AI-powered tools, has taken the world by storm. And quite literally. With its ability to replicate human-like responses, gen AI is the next big thing for companies looking to improve the customer experience. Gen AI-based customer service tools can quickly respond to customer inquiries, provide personalized recommendations, and even generate content for social media.
Direct Online Marketing Says A "Better" Google Analytics 4 Is 'All About The Implementation' In Next Webinar
Join Our Sr. Digital Analysts For Our Next GA4 Webinar On 12/15/2022 Direct Online Marketing - An Inc. 5000 Online Marketing Agency Register For Our Next GA4 Webinar On 12/15/2022 Want Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to be better for your company? Inc. 5000 digital marketing agency says it’s "all about the implementation," hosts webinar Dec. 15. Any company using Universal Analytics doesn’t have a choice - they’re going to have to implement GA4.
Grow Your SaaS Confidently With These 10 Lead Gen Ideas
Are you finding it difficult to tap into multiple, successful sources of lead generation for your SaaS? Yes? Trust me, I can relate to what you’re going through. We live in a data-heavy, research-driven, overcrowded online marketplace. And too often, we come up with some good lead generation ideas that get traction and bear fruit… but then we get turned away from the “old reliable” strategy that works to tap into the next new pipeline. Why do we get turned away?
5 Low Cost Ways To Approach Amazon Keyword Research
This just in . . . your future customers are researching the products they want to buy online. And when they do those searches, they do them by typing keywords into Amazon. So why aren’t you doing Amazon keyword research? In fact, according to research done in the past by Jumpshot (prior to the company ceasing operations in early 2020), your future customers have been searching for products on Amazon MORE than they have searched for them in Google since 2015. Need more proof?
What to Do After a Redesign When Your Traffic Takes a Nosedive
Redesigning the website was near the top of the to-do list when you accepted the offer to take over marketing for your company earlier this year. Since accepting the offer, you and your team have put in months of hard work to get it done. Launch day came and went; all of your hard work was finally about to pay off! But as the weeks following the site redesign go by, the exact opposite of what you expected to happen, happens. Sales dwindled. Phones that constantly rang eventually came in drips.
What Is Google Search Console? (+How To Use It For SEO)
Google Search Console is a treasure trove of SEO gold for successful digital marketing campaigns. If you are being intentional about leveraging the world’s number one search engine to acquire more site traffic, there might not be a free tool more important to the success of your campaign. “But what about Google Analytics?” Sure, Google Analytics is important, and you’re certainly going to need to pair Analytics with Search Console for the best performance data.
How to Reduce Customer Service Response Times
Is there a more difficult challenge for businesses to provide in today’s marketplace than efficient customer service? Unless you operate in a niche where you truly are the “only game in town,” the quality and speed with which you provide customer service will often be the cause of your business swimming or sinking. Think about it. When’s the last time you had a customer service issue of any kind with any type of service provider or solution. How did they handle it?
8 SEO and Search Engine Marketing Ideas
Beginning in February 2018, Google began slowly rolling out a significant change to how it presents search results in the United States when users query for services and information related to substance abuse and mental health issues — which will soon cause a shift in how many will approach their addiction treatment marketing strategies. That change?
Google Search Console Tips For Global SEO
Does your business operate in different countries? Hoping to find new customers in new markets with international targeting SEO strategies on a new site? If you answered yes to either of these questions, your organization should take advantage of one of the most underutilized features in Google Search Console. International Targeting.
20 Ideas To Promote Programs
Skip to content Blogging By Jonathan Bentz| 17 Min Read | April 14, 2025 This article was updated 04/14/2025. You may have heard the old adage, “Those that can’t do, teach.” Well, if you have been challenged with the task of promoting training courses online, then you know that statement is almost totally false. There are plenty of things to “do” when you are trying to support a training course with promotion online.
Does Quora Help SEO? Learn Our Strategies For Using Quora For SEO
Over the past 12 to 18 months, one of the most frequently found sites on the first page of Google search engine results pages (SERPS) has been Quora.com. But does Quora help with SEO?
Competitor Benchmarking: How To Stop Competitors From Eating Your Lunch
A quick Google search defines competition as “the person or people with whom one is competing, especially in a commercial or sporting arena.” No matter what arena of the business world you participate in, you have competitors. They might not be doing the same thing you do, but they all want the same hard-earned dollars you want for your business.
How to Preserve SEO & Increase Site Traffic
Redesigning the website was near the top of the to-do list when you accepted the offer to take over marketing for your company earlier this year. Since accepting the offer, you and your team have put in months of hard work to get it done. Launch day came and went; all of your hard work was finally about to pay off! But as the weeks following the site redesign go by, the exact opposite of what you expected to happen, happens. Sales dwindled. Phones that constantly rang eventually came in drips.
15 Software Marketing Ideas To Do Right Now
In today’s data-heavy, research-driven, overcrowded online marketplace, it can be really difficult for marketing professionals to find multiple lead generation sources that are successful. Too often, good software marketing ideas will get started, prove to be a successful lead generation channel, and then get turned away from once that strategy has produced a reliable pipeline. Why do they turn away?
How to Gauge Digital Marketing Efforts
A quick Google search defines competition as “the person or people with whom one is competing, especially in a commercial or sporting arena.” No matter what arena of the business world you participate in, you have competitors. And if you have competitors, you need to do competitor benchmarking. They might not be doing the same thing you do, but they all want the same hard-earned dollars you want for your business.
The 5 Best Communication Tools for Businesses
Communicating with your team doesn't have to be hard. Here are five of the best communication tech tools to use for your business. Upon first waking up in the morning, most Americans – and the rest of the world for that matter – typically reach for the same thing while squinting through drooping eyelids. If you guessed their smartphones, you're absolutely right. These addicting gadgets have become synonymous with everyday living, and we're more attached to them than we'd like to let on.
How brick-and-mortar retailers can survive
Retailers face increasing struggles every day, but here are a few tips on how any brick and mortar business can survive and thrive in this digital age. Thinking about the future can be scary when you're unsure of your place in it. It seems things are getting worse for the retail industry as big companies like Macy's, Sears, and JC Penney close more stores every day.
Retailers Surviving in a Digital World
It’s an uphill battle, but there a few ways brick and mortar retailers can thrive in a world where most customers prefer online shopping. Here's how. Thinking about the future can be scary when you’re unsure about your place in it. It seems things are getting worse for the retail industry as big staple stores like Macy’s, Sears, and even JC Penney are closing more stores every day.
11 tips for restaurant owners
It takes a lot to run a successful restaurant. With these 11 tips, restaurant owners can take their business to the next level and bring customers back time and time again. Among the industries one could jump into to make their mark in the world, few are tougher than the restaurant business. Conventional wisdom focuses on the supposed failure rate of new restaurants, but more recent studies suggest that restaurants fail about as often as other service-driven businesses.
Using social media to market your business
Social media marketing and communications are a must for companies of every size, but it can be hard to stand out in today's marketplace. There's a lot of stale advice out there for mastering these platforms, but here are a few unique ideas to help you stand out and market your business. If you own a business and want to stay even remotely competitive, having a presence online is a must nowadays.
Aligning your sales and marketing teams
A marriage takes work, understanding and communication. The same applies for teams in any organization. Before you take another step, consider if your sales and marketing teams are a match made in heaven or a couple who are doomed to break up. In some cases, isolation can be great. When teams are separated, they can be left to focus on goals and objectives where they know they can influence the outcome. And when teams feel united in their work, they feel like they can accomplish great things.
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