Top Factors Influencing ChatGPT Citations
SE Ranking analyzed 129,000 unique domains across 216,524 pages in 20 niches to identify which factors correlate with ChatGPT citations. The number of referring domains ranked as the single strongest…
How AI’s Geo-Identification Failures Are Rewriting International SEO
AI search isn’t just changing what content ranks; it’s quietly redrawing where your brand appears to belong. As large language models (LLMs) synthesize results across languages and markets, they blur…
Do AI Assistants Link When Mentioning Brands? For Ahrefs, Only 28% of the Time
AI assistants mention brands constantly but they rarely include links. When I tracked brand mentions for Ahrefs across six AI platforms, I found they linked to Ahrefs as rarely as…
ChatGPT Vs. Gemini Vs. Claude: What Are The Differences?
Chatbots have changed many professionals’ workflows and processes. Accountants, lawyers, SEO experts, writers, agencies, developers, and even teachers are still discussing the changes taking place in their field thanks to…
The 2026 AI Search Benchmark Every SEO Leader Needs
See Where Your Brand Stands in the New Search Frontier AI search has become the new gateway to visibility. As Google’s AI Overviews and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) reshape discovery,…
The AI Consistency Paradox
Doc Brown’s DeLorean didn’t just travel through time; it created different timelines. Same car, different realities. In “Back to the Future,” when Marty’s actions in the past threatened his existence,…
Ahrefs Ambassador On LLM Inclusion & Why Relationships Still Win
There’s a divided line in the industry between those who think optimizing for AI is separate from SEO and those who think LLM discovery is just SEO. But, this is…
How To Amplify And Measure Executive Voice For Real ROI
In this series (here and here), I’ve covered why founder-led marketing works and the systems you need to stay consistent, based on the playbook I co-authored for LinkedIn (my employer).…
Google’s Mueller Questions Need For LLM-Only Markdown Pages
Google Search Advocate John Mueller has pushed back on the idea of building separate Markdown or JSON pages just for large language models (LLMs), saying he doesn’t see why LLMs…
What Optmyzr’s Three-Year Study Reveals About Seasonality Adjustments During BFCM
Every Q4, the same message shows up in our accounts: “Use seasonality adjustments to get ready for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.” On paper, it sounds reasonable. You expect conversion…
ChatGPT Adds Shopping Research For Product Discovery
OpenAI launched shopping research in ChatGPT, a feature that creates personalized buyer’s guides by researching products across the web. The tool is rolling out today on mobile and web for…
The Behaviors And Mindset Of Marketers Who Win With Performance Max
Performance Max (like the more upper-funnel Demand Gen) is different enough from other Google Ads campaigns that it requires a different approach, even if the underlying search behavior and marketing…
EU Plan To Simplify GDPR Targets AI Training And Cookie Consent
The European Commission has proposed a “Digital Omnibus” package that would relax parts of the GDPR, the AI Act, and Europe’s cookie rules in the name of competitiveness and simplification.…
WordPress SEO Checklist: Get Ready For (Site) Launch via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Learn the WordPress SEO fundamentals that separate high-performing sites from those buried in search results. The post WordPress SEO Checklist: Get Ready For (Site) Launch appeared first on Search Engine…
Why Web Hosting Is A Critical Factor To Maximize SEO Results
Most SEO professionals obsess over content, links, and technical implementations. We track algorithm updates and audit on-page elements with precision. But there’s one factor that determines whether all that work…
Why Does Google Parameter &num= Matter?
So why does it matter? What does this actually affect? So the most obvious thing is rank tracking. Like you might be interested in your rank tracking. You’re probably primarily…
Branded Clicks Fan Out, Longer Queries Hold
Advanced Web Ranking released its Q3 Google organic clickthrough report, tracking CTR changes by ranking position across query types and industries. The company compared July through September against April through…
84% Of Adults Use YouTube As Platform Growth Continues
YouTube and Facebook continue to lead U.S. social media usage, but TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp and Reddit are showing consistent growth, according to new data from Pew Research Center. The report…
Nano Banana Pro, Image Animation & The Top PPC Influencers
PPC news this week focused on creative tool updates and the people shaping how we use them. Google Ads brought Nano Banana Pro into its creative workflow, giving advertisers sharper,…
Gemini 3 Arrives & Adobe Buys Semrush
Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how AI surfaces content, how you track brand demand, and where core SEO tools sit in the wider marketing stack. Google launched Gemini…
SEO Community Reacts To Adobe’s Semrush Acquisition
The SEO community is excited by the Semrush Adobe acquisition. The consensus is that it’s a milestone in the continuing evolution of SEO in the age of generative AI. Adobe’s…
LLMs.txt Does Not Boost AI Citations, New Analysis Finds
A new analysis from SE Ranking suggests the llms.txt file isn’t delivering measurable benefits yet. After examining roughly 300,000 domains, the company found no relationship between having llms.txt and how…
Repositioning What SEO Success Looks Like
In SEO, we are at a turning point, and after more than a decade of chasing rankings and traffic volume, many of us are beginning to recognize the need to…
The Role Of Brand Authority And E-E-A-T In The AI Search Era
AI-generated answers are spreading across search. Google and Bing are each presenting synthesized responses alongside regular results. These answers are not replacing traditional SERPs yet, but they are taking up…
How To Manage Demand Fluctuation During Key Ecommerce Shopping Seasons
Ecommerce demand doesn’t rise and fall in a straight line throughout the years. It can build gradually, spike hard, stall, or drop with little-to-no warning. During peak shopping periods like…
How to Monitor Your YouTube Video Mentions
Your brand is being talked about on YouTube right now—and you probably have no idea what’s being said. YouTube is the second-largest search engine, where users spend roughly 50 minutes…
Should Advertisers Be Worried About AI In PPC?
One scroll through LinkedIn and you’d struggle not to see a post, video, or ad about AI, whatever the industry you work in. For digital marketing, it’s completely taken over,…
Don’t Lose Search Visibility In a Merger
Most mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fail to account for the digital infrastructure and visibility of the acquired brands. While executives obsess over legal, financial, and branding integration, they overlook the…
New Data Finds Gap Between Google Rankings And LLM Citations
Large language models cite sources differently than Google ranks them. Search Atlas, an SEO software company, compared citations from OpenAI’s GPT, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity against Google search results. The…
Google’s Old Search Era Is Over – Here’s What 2026 SEO Will Really Look Like
For years, Google’s predictable, and at times too easily gamed, ecosystem created an illusion that SEO success came from creating any and all content and checking boxes rather than understanding…