AI search is driving the biggest shift in consumer behavior in 20+ years. Many teams are now chasing AI search visibility, but few know what the data truly means for their business or how to act on it. That leaves SEOs, digital leaders, and executives with one pressing question: “What’s our AI search opportunity?” In ..
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A simplified explanation of how Google ranks content is that it is based on understanding search queries and web pages, plus a number of external ranking signals. With AI Mode, that’s just the starting point for ranking websites. Even keywords are starting to go away, replaced by increasingly complex queries and even images. How do ..
LLM referral traffic has been growing +65% year-to-date. But we should assume 0 in the future. LLM Referral Traffic Is Shrinking LLM referral traffic in B2B grew +65.1% since January – but dropped -42.6% since July. Image Credit: Kevin Indig My December prediction of 50% organic by 2027 is dead: In December 2024, I analyzed six B2B sites ..
The latest Ahrefs podcast shares data showing that brand mentions on third-party websites help improve visibility across AI search surfaces. What they found is that brand mentions correlate strongly with ranking better in AI search, indicating that we are firmly in a new era of off-page SEO. Training Data Gets Cited Tim Soulo, CMO of ..
Google’s VP of Product for Google Search confirmed that PR activities may be helpful for ranking better in certain contexts and offered an explanation of how AI search works and what content creators should focus on to stay relevant to users. PR Helps Sites Get Recommended By AI Something interesting that was said in the ..
The footprint of large language models keeps expanding. You see it in productivity suites, CRM, ERP, and now in the browser itself. When the browser thinks and acts, the surface you optimize for changes. That has consequences for how people find, decide, and buy. Microsoft shows how quickly this footprint can spread across daily work. ..
Researchers from Anthropic investigated Claude 3.5 Haiku’s ability to decide when to break a line of text within a fixed width, a task that requires the model to track its position as it writes. The study yielded the surprising result that language models form internal patterns resembling the spatial awareness that humans use to track ..
Learn How to Track What Really Matters in AI Search Tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Mode no longer deliver ranked results; they deliver answers. So what happens when traditional SEO metrics no longer apply? Join AJ Ghergich, Global VP of AI and Consulting Services at Botify, and Frank Vitovitch, VP of Solutions Consulting ..
Google used its Q3 earnings call to argue that AI features are expanding search usage rather than cannibalizing it. CEO Sundar Pichai described an “expansionary moment for Search,” adding that Google’s AI experiences “highlight the web” and send “billions of clicks to sites every day.” Pichai said overall queries and commercial queries both grew year ..
This is all based on the Google leak and tallies up with my experience of content that does well in Discover over time. I have pulled out what I think are the most prominent Discover proxies and grouped them into what seems like the appropriate workflow. Like a disgraced BBC employee, thoughts are my own. ..
