68 Million AI Crawler Visits Show What Drives AI Search Visibility
A new analysis of 858,457 sites hosted on the Duda platform shows how AI crawlers are interacting with websites at scale. The data offers a clearer view of how crawling…
The Complete Guide To Agentic Commerce
For 30 years, checkout has been a page. A form with fields for name, address, credit card number. Whether it was Amazon’s one-click patent or Apple Pay’s fingerprint, the innovation…
Dive Into The Stanford Report Data
Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute published its 2026 AI Index Report. The report runs over 400 pages across nine chapters covering technical performance, investment, workforce effects, and public sentiment. The…
Google’s Product Feed Strategy Points To The Future Of Retail Discovery
For years, many advertisers treated product feeds as a channel task tied mainly to Shopping campaigns. If you were running Shopping ads, feed optimization likely got attention. If you weren’t,…
Google Bans Back Button Hijacking, Agentic Search Grows
Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect what Google considers spam, what happens when you report it, and what agentic search looks like in practice. Here’s what matters for you…
AI & Search Whiteboard Friday Rollup
I’m leaving you with one last resource, which was personally a delight to be part of, and I think provides a fantastic palate cleanser for all the workflows, strategies, and…
Should You Use Auto-Generated Creative? – Ask A PPC
It won’t surprise anyone that most advertisers are hesitant to use auto-generated creative from ad platforms. Auto-generated ads fall into the following categories: Customer-in-the-loop (CITL): Assets are generated based on…
Search Ad Growth Slows As Social & Video Gain Faster
Search advertising is one of the largest digital ad categories, but its growth is slowing as social media and video post faster gains, according to IAB’s annual report, conducted by…
Your AI Visibility Strategy Doesn’t Work Outside English
This series has been written in English, tested in English, and grounded in research conducted primarily in English. Every framework discussed here (vector index hygiene, cutoff-aware content calendaring, community signals,…
Google AI Mode in Chrome Gets Side-by-Side Browsing
Google is rolling out updates to AI Mode in Chrome. Clicking a link in AI Mode on Chrome desktop now opens the webpage in a side panel. The updates…
ChatGPT Often Retrieves But Rarely Cites Reddit Pages, Data Shows
An Ahrefs analysis of 1.4 million ChatGPT prompts found that pages from a dedicated Reddit source were rarely cited in ChatGPT responses, even though they were often retrieved. Ahrefs highlights…
Gen Z Workers Pick Human-Only Output Over AI-Assisted
Surveyed Gen Z workers leaned toward human-only output. AI-assisted work remained a secondary choice. Workplace attitudes toward AI look more skeptical than last year. Gen Z workers surveyed by…
AI Agents Are Here And Your Website Isn’t Ready, Says NoHacks Podcast Host
AI agents are already here. Not as a concept, not as a demo, but shipping inside browsers used by billions of people. Every major tech company has launched either a…
LLMs Are Not as Complex as You Think: Here Are 10 Strategies To Improve AI Visibility
Source: AI mode citation study by Moz Brands need to invest in video content, whether that’s working with creators, partnering with influencers, or publishing branded content on your channel. Video…
Google’s Patent On Autonomous Search Results
The United States Patent Office recently published Google’s continuation on a patent for a search system that detects when there is no satisfactory answer for a query and waits to…
Why Your Search Data Doesn’t Agree (And What To Do About It)
The quarterly business review is upon us. We pull reports from Google Analytics 4, Search Console, Google Ads, and customer relationship management, and we find that none of them match.…
How To Become An AI Search Authority In SEO [Webinar]
If you’re in an SEO role, there’s a good chance your job description quietly expanded over the last year. You’re now the de facto expert on how your company shows…
The Modern SEO Center Of Excellence: Governance, Not Guidelines
Most enterprise SEO Centers of Excellence (CoE) fail for a surprisingly simple reason. They were built to advise, not to govern. On paper, the idea of an SEO CoE is…
Why ChatGPT Cites One Page Over Another (Study of 1.4M Prompts)
We’ve all got used to the little numbered blue links in ChatGPT’s responses. They’re the citations that back up ChatGPT’s responses with external information. But, although ChatGPT crawls dozens of…
The AI Slop Loop
Last year, after spending a few days at a work summit in Austria, I asked Perplexity for the latest news related to SEO and AI search. It responded with details…
Google Is Replacing Dynamic Search Ads With AI Max
Google just announced the deprecation of Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) and is officially moving its legacy capabilities into AI Max. Starting in September, eligible campaigns using Dynamic Search Ads (DSA),…
Google Just Made It Easy For SEOs To Kick Out Spammy Sites
Google updated their report spam documentation to make it clear that they may use reported spam to initiate manual actions against websites that are found to be spamming. This is…
Google Lists 9 Scenarios That Explain How It Picks Canonical URLs
Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about why Google picks one web page over another when multiple pages have duplicate content, also explaining why Google sometimes appears to…
Why Your Webinar Program Isn’t Working (So, Copy Ours)
5 years ago, I stepped into the role of webinar ringmaster. I said yes to moderating, but it was all the background work that gave me butterflies. I’d second and…
New Google Search Console Message Glitch Gives SEOs A Scare
Google Search Console erroneously sent out emails to site owners advising them that Google has just started to record impressions beginning on April 12th. The implication of the message is…
Google Chrome Skills Turn Gemini Prompts Into Reusable Workflows
Google announced Skills in Chrome, a new Gemini in Chrome feature that lets you save prompts and rerun them as one-click tools across selected pages and tabs. What’s New Skills…
Shorter, Focused Content Wins In ChatGPT
Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! For years, SEOs have operated on a simple assumption: The more ground your content covers, the more likely…
How To Break Through An Affiliate Site Plateau
This week’s Ask an SEO question is: “I’ve been running an affiliate site for 2 years but hit a plateau. What advanced data analysis techniques can help me identify new…
The Complete AI Research Workflow: From Prompt Discovery to Content Creation
Now that you’ve identified prompts that are important to your business, you can add them to your AI Visibility Dashboard to track. Why should I track AI prompts? Prompt tracking…
How AI Chooses Which Brands To Recommend
Ask ChatGPT or Claude to recommend a product in your market. If your brand does not appear, you have a problem that no amount of keyword optimization will fix. Most…