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Most business owners assume that higher star ratings are linked to better business outcomes. A peer-reviewed study tested that assumption directly. Researchers Eddie Inyang and Juliana White surveyed 251 U.S. small-business owners on online reputation management, Google star ratings, and business performance. Notably, Google star ratings alone didn’t predict performance. What was associated with performance […]
Anyone selling you llms.txt, content chunking, or AI-specific schema as the path to AI Overview citations has been wrong for 18 months. Google said so. But there is a wrinkle worth pulling out. “Wrong for Google Search” is not the same as “wrong for AI agents.” In the section answering whether SEO is still relevant […]
A federal appeals court is about to decide whether your website’s terms of service can turn a user’s own AI shopping agent into a federal criminal. That is the real question sitting inside Amazon v. Perplexity, a case that started as a dispute over one browser’s checkout behavior and is now the closest thing the […]
A new analysis from Peec AI, an AI search visibility platform, found that Google’s AI Overviews appeared in about 87% of the 500,000 prompts it studied. The sample skews toward commercial, buying-intent queries and leaves out navigational searches. So the figure describes a specific slice of search, not Google overall. What Peec Found For decision-stage […]
Welcome to the week’s Pulse. Each update this week influences what can appear inside Google’s AI answers, and why. Google brought Preferred Sources into AI Overviews and AI Mode, new data looks at how personal data changes which brands appear in AI Mode, and Google’s CEO discussed AI Overview quality. If you want to go […]
This post was sponsored by Trendos. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. If you want to go further, accessibility tree: how AI agents see your website covers it in detail. Are my competitors running ChatGPT ads? Is there an ad library for ChatGPT sponsored results? How do I track who’s advertising […]
The tools are deployed. The licenses are paid. And if you’re a senior SEO or GEO practitioner right now, you’re probably using AI every day – for drafts, for summaries, for first passes at content that used to take twice as long. That’s real productivity, and it’s not nothing. It’s also not the return the […]
Google announced that Preferred Sources is coming to AI Overviews and AI Mode, alongside new article carousels and an expansion of the “Highly Cited” label across search results. Users have now selected more than 345,000 sources through Google’s Preferred Sources feature, up from roughly 90,000 when the company expanded the tool globally. If you want […]
When a customer asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google AI Overviews about a brand near them, the answer increasingly comes from a Reddit thread. For many brands, their owned content is not showing up. Across most industries, Reddit is now the single most-cited source in AI search. For multi-location brands, that creates a problem most haven’t […]
A new report from iPullRank looks at how Google’s Personal Intelligence feature influences how brands appear in AI Mode. The SEO agency analyzed 1,922 AI Mode responses and found a 46-percentage-point lift in mentions of brands seeded through a Personal Intelligence-connected account. For more on this, see our youtube measures creator video on branded search […]