Google Adds AI-Powered Configuration To Search Console
Google is rolling out an experimental feature that lets Search Console users configure the Search results Performance report using natural language instead of manual filter selection. The feature, called AI-powered…
The New Structure of AI Era SEO
People keep asking me what it takes to show up in AI answers. They ask in conference hallways, in LinkedIn messages, on calls, and during workshops. The questions always sound…
5 Reasons To Use The Internet Archive’s New WordPress Plugin
The Internet Archive, also known as the Wayback Machine, is generally regarded as a place to view old web pages, but its value goes far beyond reviewing old pages. There…
Do Self-Promotional “Best” Lists Boost ChatGPT Visibility? Study of 26,283 Source URLs
Across 60,000+ websites we track daily analytics for, ChatGPT sends 8-9x the referral traffic of the next leading AI-first platform, Perplexity. Just last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that…
Gemini, DeepSeek Top Trending Lists
Google released its Year in Search data, revealing the queries that saw the largest spikes in search interest. AI tools featured prominently in the global list, with Gemini ranking as…
How To Maximize Paid Ads Profitability With A Strategic Landing Page Audit
Your campaigns are only as strong as the pages they lead to. You can have the most targeted ads, the sharpest copy, and a budget that makes your CFO nervous.…
7 SEO, Marketing, And Tech Predictions For 2026
Previous predictions: 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 This is my 8th time publishing annual predictions. As always, the goal is not to…
Quantifying Lost Organic Market Share
Every month, companies lose millions in unrealized search value not because their teams stopped optimizing, but because they stopped seeing where visibility converts into economic return. When search performance drops,…
The Data Says Both Work
Lately, I’ve seen some particularly bad advice floating around on how long content should be to show up in AI search. For instance, this study of only 20 brands (narrow…
Predicting Future Impact Of Content Marketing
This edited excerpt is from “B2B Content Marketing Strategy” by Devin Bramhall ©2025, and is reproduced and adapted with permission from Kogan Page Ltd. Marketing can contribute to company growth…
Is An XML Or HTML Sitemap Better For SEO?
In this edition of Ask An SEO, we break down a common point of confusion for site owners and technical SEOs: Do I need both an XML sitemap and an…
YouTube Launches First Annual Recap Feature For All Users
YouTube launched its first annual Recap feature, providing users with a personalized summary of their viewing activity throughout the year. The feature is available starting today for users in North…
OpenAI Declares ‘Code Red’ To Improve ChatGPT In Response To Google
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared a “code red” to focus company resources on improving ChatGPT, according to an internal memo reported by The Wall Street Journal and The Information.…
Google Connects AI Overviews To AI Mode On Mobile
Google is testing a new mobile search flow that connects AI Overviews to AI Mode. Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, announced the test on X. The feature…
Black Hat SEO Is Back
For as long as online search has existed, there has been a subset of marketers, webmasters, and SEOs eager to cheat the system to gain an unfair and undeserved advantage.…
Google Reports Search Console Page Indexing Report Delays
Google announces delays in Search Console’s Page indexing report. The company confirms crawling, indexing, and ranking remain unaffected by the reporting issue. Google is experiencing longer than usual delays in…
Should Your PPC Strategy Focus On The Lead Pipeline Or Revenue?
Marketing leaders often believe they have a performance problem when, in reality, they have a goal problem. A PPC strategy built around generating leads behaves very differently than one optimized…
Pragmatic Approach To AI Search Visibility
Bing published a blog post about how clicks from AI Search are improving conversion rates, explaining that the entire research part of the consumer journey has moved into conversational AI…
The Impact AI Is Having On The Marketing Ecosystem
I’m not someone who’s drunk much of the AI Kool Aid. I have sipped it. Swilled it around my mouth like you would an 1869 Château Lafite Rothschild. But I’ve…
Google’s Mueller Says Sites In A ‘Bad State’ May Need To Start Over
Google’s John Mueller says sites with low-quality AI content should rethink their purpose rather than manually rewrite pages. Starting fresh may be faster than recovering. Manually rewriting AI content doesn’t…
ChatGPT Gets Shopping & What Drives AI Citations
Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how product discovery works, what drives visibility in ChatGPT, and how background assets impact Core Web Vitals. OpenAI launched shopping research in ChatGPT,…
Paid Ad Scheduling Across Time Zones That Actually Works
Scheduling ads in Google or Microsoft Ads sounds simple until you realize how many hours you’re wasting showing them at the wrong time. A campaign that performs well in one…
How To Redesign SEO Content Workflows
It’s officially the end of organic search as we know it. A recent survey reveals that 83% of consumers believe AI-powered search tools are more efficient than traditional search engines.…
The Alpha Is Not LLM Monitoring
Adobe just paid $1.9 billion for Semrush. Not for the LLM tracking dashboards. For the platform, the customer relationships, and the distribution. Contrast: Investors poured $227 million into AI visibility…
13 of the Best SEO Blogs (Beyond the Usual Suspects)
AI may be killing search clicks, but we’re still reading content—especially the good stuff. At Ahrefs, we read and share articles all the time for marketing and SEO inspiration. In…
What Is an MCP Server, and Why Should Marketers Care?
MCP (Model Context Protocol) connects your AI tools directly to your marketing stack—your CMS, analytics, CRM, social platforms, and more—through one standardized connection. This means you can ask: ‘Show me…
Background Video Loading Unlikely To Affect SEO
Google Search Advocate John Mueller says large video files loading in the background are unlikely to have a noticeable SEO impact if page content loads first. A site owner on…
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…