What The Remedies Really Mean For Search, SEO, And AI Assistants
When Judge Amit P. Mehta issued his long-awaited remedies decision in the Google search antitrust case, the industry exhaled a collective sigh of relief. There would be no breakup of…
How to Resolve Duplicate Content
So first off, what is duplicate content? Essentially, duplicate content is content that appears in more than one place on the Internet. But this may not be as cut and…
Why You Need Sprints, Not Checklists
There’s a lot that goes into SEO. And, now, more broadly into being found online and online visibility overall, whether we’re talking about an organic result in a search engine,…
GEO, AEO, LLMO: Separating Fact from Fiction & How to Win AI Search [MozCon 2025 Speaker Series]
Every few years, a shiny new acronym takes over the SEO industry. This time, it’s Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and everyone’s talking about it like it’s the future of search.…
Your Login Pages May Be Hurting Your SEO Performance
Google’s Search Relations team says generic login pages can confuse indexing and hurt rankings. When many private URLs all show the same bare login form, Google may treat them as…
AI Overviews Use FastSearch, Not Links
A sharp-eyed search marketer discovered the reason why Google’s AI Overviews showed spammy web pages. The recent Memorandum Opinion in the Google antitrust case featured a passage that offers a…
AI Search Sends Users to 404 Pages Nearly 3X More Than Google
New research examining 16 million URLs aligns with Google’s predictions that hallucinated links will become an issue across AI platforms. An Ahrefs study shows that AI assistants send users to…
Let’s Look Inside An Answer Engine And See How GenAI Picks Winners
Ask a question in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Copilot, and the answer appears in seconds. It feels effortless. But under the hood, there’s no magic. There’s a fight happening. This…
How Do I Nail A PPC Job Interview For Google & Meta Ads?
It is a wild job market right now, and if you’re applying for a PPC role, you’re probably feeling the pressure to stand out in interviews that are increasingly demanding…
20 New York City Adventures for MozCon Attendee
Here are a few recommendations for lunch, dinner, snacks – you name it! All within walking distance of the MozCon venue. Tony DiNapoli’s Family-style Italian Walk time: 10 minutes |…
8 GEO Strategies For Boosting AI Visibility in 2025
This post was sponsored by Writesonic. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. AI search now makes the first decision. When? Before a buyer hits your website.…
Google Quietly Raised Ad Prices, Court Orders More Transparency
Google raised ad prices incrementally through internal “pricing knobs” that advertisers couldn’t detect, according to federal court documents. Google raised ad prices 5-15% at a time using “pricing knobs” that…
Make AI Writing Work for Your Content & SERP Visibility Strategy
Are your AI writing tools helping or hurting your SEO performance? Join Nadege Chaffaut and Crystie Bowe from Conductor on September 17, 2025, for a practical webinar on creating AI-informed…
What To Expect AT NESS 2025: Surviving The AI-First Era
This post was sponsored by NESS. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. For anyone who isn’t paying attention to news SEO because they feel it isn’t…
ChatGPT May Scrape Google, but the Results Don’t Match
We know that AI assistants like ChatGPT access search indices, like Google and Bing, to retrieve URLs for their response. But how, exactly? To find out, we’ve run a series…
Navigating The Multi-AI Search Era
Some of the critical questions that are top of mind for both SEOs and CMOs as we head into a multi-search world are: Where is search going to develop? Is…
100 Most Cited Domains in Google’s AI Mode
Get the week’s best marketing content We analyzed our Brand Radar database of 5.5 million AI Mode queries to identify the domains that appear most often in Google’s AI Mode…
The Behavioral Data You Need To Improve Your Users’ Search Journey
We’re more than halfway through 2025, and SEO has already changed names many times to take into account the new mission of optimizing for the rise of large language models…
9 Content Management Systems Ranked
Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is a meaningful Core Web Vitals metric because it represents how quickly a web page responds to user input. It is so important that the…
How To Measure Content Revenue and Prove Success
When you pair it with an SEO tool like Moz Pro, you can show how optimising a specific page could lead to increases in traffic, what that traffic would cost…
Google Avoids Breakup As Judge Bars Exclusive Default Search Deals
A federal judge outlined remedies in the U.S. search antitrust case that bar Google from using exclusive default search deals but stop short of forcing a breakup. Reuters reports that…
Evolving From Link Juice To Entity Maps
Let’s reminisce for a moment. Do you remember how, back in 2020, we all obsessed over “link juice” and PageRank flow as far as internal links are concerned? In 2025,…
How Often Do AI Assistants Hallucinate Links? (16 Million URLs Studied)
AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude can hallucinate URLs and direct visitors to non-existent pages on your website. But how often does it happen? To find out, we looked at…
What We Actually Know About Optimizing for LLM Search
When you search on the internet, there’s a good chance LLMs are involved somewhere in the process. If you want any chance of visibility in LLM search, you need to…
Stop Trying To Make GEO Happen
“Stop trying to make GEO happen. It’s not going to happen.” With apologies to Gretchen Wieners and the writers of “Mean Girls,” the line feels like the only way to…
All You Need to Know
Google announced AI Mode as a Labs experiment on 5 March 2025. Two months later, on 20 May 2025, Google rolled out AI Mode to everyone in the U.S. Just…
AI Mode Sees “Big Improvements” On STEM Queries
Google says AI Mode now handles complex STEM questions better and surfaces key details sooner, timed for back to school. Google rolled out an iterative update to AI Mode …
81 AI SEO Statistics for 2025 (Fresh and Original Data)
It pays to know how AI is changing search. 32% of Nasdaq companies see a strong correlation between their search visibility and stock prices. (Source) If traffic from search goes…
How to Use Google Ads Performance Max Channel Reporting
For years, marketers have asked for better visibility into how individual channels contribute to Performance Max results. Google has released a tutorial walking advertisers through its new Performance Max channel…
Google Adds Guidance On JavaScript Paywalls And SEO
Google is apparently having trouble identifying paywalled content due to a standard way paywalled content is handled by publishers like news sites. It’s asking that publishers with paywalled content change…