Category: SEO

Millions of people still turn to Google for answers. But there’s also a growing number of people who are turning to AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity directly for answers and getting their tasks done. If your brand isn’t appearing in these AI responses, you’re becoming invisible to an increasingly important segment of your audience.…

Visibility in AI search is still in its early stages, which means you’re not late to the game—you’re actually early. Most businesses haven’t even started tracking their AI mentions, let alone optimizing for them. This creates a genuine first-mover advantage for those who act now. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know…

SEO has undeniably changed. To stay discoverable in search, AI, and beyond, brands now need to track visibility in AI Overviews, chatbots, and LLM responses.  And that’s where Ahrefs’ Brand Radar comes in. It’s one of the fastest-growing tools in AI brand visibility, with 100M+ prompts, 6+ AI indexes, and requires zero setup. Below, I share my…

Traditional search tracking is built on a simple promise: type a query, get a result, and track your ranking. AI doesn’t work that way.  Assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity don’t show fixed results—they generate answers that vary with every run, every model, and every user. “AI rank tracking” is a misnomer—you can’t track AI like you…

100 most cited domains in ChatGPT globally The top most cited domains in ChatGPT globally are Reddit, Wikipedia (English, Spanish, and German versions), Amazon, and TechRadar. Globally, ChatGPT seems to prefer authoritative and well-known publications, with sites like TechRadar, The Sun, Times of India, Forbes, Wired, and more high on the list. # Domain Mentions 1…

In 30 seconds, here’s what you need to know about the differences between SEO and GEO: SEO (Search Engine Optimization): Getting your website to show up in Google searches. Goal: Get people to click your link. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization): Getting AI chatbots like ChatGPT to mention your brand or information. Goal: Get AI to quote and…

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 responses. These are the 100 most cited domains, along with their number of mentions. 100 most cited domains in AI Mode The top domains cited in…

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 of experiments looking at the relationship between the URLs cited by AI assistants, and the results found in Google when searching for the same topics.…

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 understand how to make your brand visible in AI answers. The latest wave of experts claim to know the “secret” to AI visibility, but the…

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 the http status of 16 million unique URLs cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, and Mistral. We found that AI assistants send visitors to…