Author: Logan

  • SEO “Chunk Optimization” is Overrated

    SEO “Chunk Optimization” is Overrated

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    Across LinkedIn threads and AI‑SEO guides, the promise is the same: format your content into perfect “chunks” and you’ll get chosen for Google’s AI Overviews or cited in AI search results. The problem? Chunk optimization isn’t actually an SEO tactic.… Read more › Source link

  • Is ChatGPT Really Powered by Google? 118,931 Fan-Out Queries Analyzed

    Is ChatGPT Really Powered by Google? 118,931 Fan-Out Queries Analyzed

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    Get the week’s best marketing content Given OpenAI’s close relationship with Microsoft, many expect that ChatGPT’s retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) process would use Bing. However, over the past months, some SEOs discovered that ChatGPT may have secretly pivoted to using Google instead. These were all one-off experiments. So, I wondered if it was possible for us to…

  • Growth Strategies and Metrics For the AI Era

    Growth Strategies and Metrics For the AI Era

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    GEO, short for Generative Engine Optimization (also known as AEO or LLMO), is about getting your brand noticed—and accurately represented—in AI-generated answers. That includes results from Google’s AI Overviews, and AI assistants like ChatGPT, and Gemini. The goal is to make sure your brand shows up when AI tools answer user questions, even if no…

  • 5 Places to Optimize Beyond Google

    5 Places to Optimize Beyond Google

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    Search everywhere optimization (some call it SEvO) means making sure people can find you no matter where they’re looking online. And here’s the thing: they’re not just looking on Google anymore. People are turning to TikTok for product suggestions, digging through Reddit for brutally honest reviews, and asking ChatGPT for personalized shopping lists and recommendations—often…

  • The Genius Marketing Strategy in Ryan Trahan’s 50 States Challenge

    The Genius Marketing Strategy in Ryan Trahan’s 50 States Challenge

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    It started with a $100,000 donation, ended with $11 million raised for charity, and somewhere along the way, an electric bike brand earned 235M+ impressions and $7M worth of brand awareness.  Ahrefs’ Community Manager, Michelle Lindner, shared Ryan Trahan’s “50 States Challenge” in our #Marketing Slack channel after watching it with her kids. She thought…

  • How 8 Companies Are Evolving Their SEO Strategies

    How 8 Companies Are Evolving Their SEO Strategies

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    First, we had “the great decoupling”, now we’re seeing “the great diversification”. Brands are overhauling their strategies since losing clicks to Google.  You’ve probably heard that Google’s AI search features are tanking organic traffic. In April, we reported that click-through rates dropped by 35% across 300,000 keywords. Now, a Pew Research study has revealed that…

  • How to Detect AI-Generated Content

    How to Detect AI-Generated Content

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    In April 2025, we analyzed 900,000 newly created web pages and discovered that 74.2% contained AI-generated content. With the rapid growth of generative AI, businesses, educators, and publishers are asking a critical question: how can we tell what’s written by humans and what’s produced by machines? The answer: it’s possible, but not foolproof. Here’s how…

  • Only 12% of AI Cited URLs Rank in Google’s Top 10 for the Original Prompt

    Only 12% of AI Cited URLs Rank in Google’s Top 10 for the Original Prompt

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    In a dataset of 15,000 prompts, we found that—on average—only 12% of links cited by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot appear in Google’s top 10 results for the same prompt. Perplexity is the outlier: nearly 1 in 3 of its citations point to pages that rank in the top 10 for the target query. We analyzed…

  • 10 Best Press Release Services for SEO in 2025 (Features, Pricing & ROI) « SEOPressor – WordPress SEO Plugin

    10 Best Press Release Services for SEO in 2025 (Features, Pricing & ROI) « SEOPressor – WordPress SEO Plugin

    Press releases remain one of the fastest ways to earn coverage—as long as you choose the best press-release service for SEO. After reviewing 30+ industry guides and interviewing 12 in-house SEO leads, we narrowed the field to the 10 strongest platforms for 2025. Prefer a hands-off approach? Outreach Labs tops our list with guaranteed editorial…

  • My Complete AI Content Process for Ahrefs

    My Complete AI Content Process for Ahrefs

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    Here’s the complete process I use to publish high-quality AI content on the Ahrefs blog. I’ll be honest: there are parts of my job that I don’t like. Writing my 500th article on content gap analysis because we found a new long-tail keyword to target. Listing out the features of 30 free SEO tools for yet…