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Everyone Is Quoting The Same Number And Getting Different Answers
Publishers are blocking AI crawlers on a metric whose denominator is missing an unknown share of referrals.
How Local Businesses Can Build Visibility In AI Search
Moz leaders Jonathan Berthold and Kevin Chen explain how listings, reviews, mentions, and social activity shape local recommendations in AI search.
Google DeepMind Develops New AI Search Ranking Model
Google DeepMind researchers test Autoregressive Ranking (ARR), a unified model that can replace current retrieval and ranking methods.
How Freshpet Earned AI’s Trust: A GEO & AI Visibility Playbook
Freshpet and Intero Digital explain how brands can audit AI visibility, restructure content for citation, and connect GEO work to business priorities.
Le Monde Says AI Overviews Haven’t Hurt Its Audience So Far
Le Monde says its audience hasn’t dropped since AI Overviews launched in France, while app traffic and subscriber growth complicate the broader traffic story.
ChatGPT Shopping Results Lean Hard On Product Feeds
ChatGPT Shopping is pulling more product picks from what it calls feed-integrated sources, and store visibility moved too.
ChatGPT, Gemini & Claude Lead AI Visibility, Is It Time To Stop Tracking Perplexity?
Giving Perplexity less weight in AI search tracking can prevent distorted visibility scores without erasing useful competitive signals.
How AI Is Reshaping Search Intent – What 2 Studies Reveal
Search intent is fracturing across AI Mode, video platforms, and zero-click results and Google’s own metrics reveal what actually earns clicks now.
Brands Are Tracking AI Visibility, But Are They Measuring The Right Things?
AI visibility tools track brand mentions and citations, but marketers need outcome data to know what those movements mean and what to do next.
AI Visibility For Local Businesses: How To Get Recommended By ChatGPT & AI Overviews In 90 Days
Explore the significance of AI visibility for local businesses. Learn what makes some businesses stand out in AI searches.
Some Sites Use llms.txt Like robots.txt, Common Crawl Finds
Common Crawl analyzed 584,107 llms.txt files and found most came from templates, many had no links, and some carried crawler rules the format can’t enforce.
6 Months Into ChatGPT Ads, Advertisers Still Don’t Know What ‘Good’ Looks Like
Advertiser data now spans single-digit to $22 CPCs, but ChatGPT Ads still lacks auction insights, industry benchmarks, and reliable audience data to judge performance.
Harvard Found The Public Has Little Objection To AI Taking Search Marketers’ Jobs
Harvard scored 940 occupations on how morally objectionable the public finds automating them. Search marketing scored low at 2.31 out of 7
Your Biggest AI Search Risk Is Conflicting Information About Your Brand
Publishing more content won’t fix what AI gets wrong about your brand. Too many versions of the truth is the real problem.
Getting Your Product Into ChatGPT Isn’t The Hard Part, Getting It Through Checkout Is
Getting surfaced in ChatGPT is the easy half. Three checks every retailer should run before connecting a fourth agentic commerce protocol.
How To Measure Your Brand’s Visibility In AI Answers (And Fix What You Find)
Explore how to improve your brand’s visibility in AI search results and understand ranking discrepancies with traditional methods.
People Aren’t Leaving Google For AI. They’re Using Both
Research shows how people can keep using Google while making fewer traditional searches and clicking through to fewer websites.
Product Pages Get 24% Of AI Citations, Reddit & YouTube 4%
Ten Speed’s citation study shows product pages beating Reddit nearly six to one for B2B buyers, verified only after six pointed fact-check questions.
When AI Has Nothing On Your Company, It Describes Someone Else
Publishing more content won’t fix AI substitution. Retrieval repeats the same popularity bias that thinned your presence in the weights.
Should I Block AI Crawlers At Robots.txt Or Server Level? – Ask An SEO
Robots.txt relies on bot compliance, while WAF, CDN, and server-level blocks enforce it. A breakdown of which layer stops AI crawlers for good.
AI Slop Cleanup Job Listings Up 87%, Report Says
The Guardian reports AI cleanup listings are up 87%, while freelancers say clients lowball the work.
Google AI Mode Prices Differ From Product Carousel For Same Items
Data finds Google AI Mode rarely shows the same products as the regular results carousel, and often lists a different seller when it does.
Google Adds Gemini 3.8 Flash To AI Mode
Google added Gemini 3.8 Flash to AI Mode’s model menu on release day.
The Next AI Protocol Won’t Save Your SEO Strategy
Publishing a format is not the same as possessing the knowledge. Bill Hunt on why knowledge architecture outlasts every AI protocol.
What Happens To PPC When You Stop Managing Google Ads Through Google Ads
As agents and MCP connectors take over PPC management outside the Google Ads UI, this piece maps the risks and the governance needed to avoid.
Google DeepMind Says Gemini Is Evolving From Chatbot To AI Agent
Interview with head of Google DeepMind explains how Gemini is moving beyond answers toward AI that can use tools and accomplish tasks.
The Technical Signals AI Search Uses That Most SEOs Still Aren’t Optimizing
Getting cited in AI responses is the easy part. Our audit of 50 major websites shows where real AI readiness begins.
Schema For AI Citations: How To Become A Trusted Source
Schema is not a magic ranking switch. Loren Baker explains how consistent structured data strengthens entity trust across local, ecommerce, and author-driven content.
ChatGPT Is Now A “Very Large Online Search Engine” In The EU
ChatGPT is now a very large online search engine under the EU Digital Services Act after OpenAI reported about 159.1 million average monthly search recipients.
How To Restructure Your Marketing Team & Budget For The AI-Search Era
Three role changes and a budget rebalance can move a marketing team from invisible to cited in AI search results, no new headcount required.