Category: SEO

Get the week’s best marketing content Does being mentioned more on the web lead to more mentions in AI assistants? I’m defining mentions as the number of web pages that mention an entity at least once. I looked at the top 50 websites mentioned in Ahrefs Brand Radar for Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. This…

Get the week’s best marketing content Does being seen more on the web lead to more mentions in AI assistants? I’m defining “being seen” or web visibility as the estimated total monthly organic search traffic to all pages that mention the entity. These are prominent pages on the web, with a lot of visibility. Having…

We recently launched our new AI detector. For almost any webpage, you can analyze the likelihood that AI was used to create it, highlight AI-generated sections of text, and even identify the specific AI models used to create the text. There are tons of AI detectors available. And, while ours is the only one that can…

You don’t need to be tech-savvy to build a website.  With AI, you can bypass coding, hiring a developer, or staring at a blank page for hours. You can automate everything from writing content to choosing a professional layout and images. This guide walks you through the entire process, step by step. Imagine having a fully…

Ever had a brilliant product idea but felt stuck, unsure if anyone would actually buy it? You’re not alone. Many aspiring entrepreneurs believe that product research is a complex and expensive process reserved for big companies with huge budgets. The good news is that’s no longer true. Today, anyone with an internet connection can uncover…

Though still <1% of total traffic, it’s now our highest converting channel at 10%+ CVR (going by our new custom event tracking in Web Analytics). I wanted to see if other sites were experiencing any AI traffic growth–especially now that zero-click search has taken hold. We decided to update the findings of our March AI traffic…

Going into this study, I suspected that domain-level link metrics would not be a good predictor for mentions. I was expecting Google AI Overviews to show more of a correlation since they may use some of the traditional search signals, whereas the other systems may not. For traditional search, usually the page-level metrics are more…

Branding wasn’t something SEOs traditionally thought much about. The real wins were in non-branded keywords, where the traffic and conversions lived.  However, that changed when Google and OpenAI turned most of these queries into zero-click searches. For the remaining queries, search platforms directly reward authoritative and popular brands, so branding can no longer be ignored…

I became interested in automotive SEO after buying a new car and getting some repairs done on my old one at the same time. I found the dealerships and repair shops that helped me out, as well as the car that I bought, through Google. If they hadn’t shown up when I was looking, I…