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This post was sponsored by Siteimprove. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own.  Why does my content get crawled but never cited in ChatGPT or Perplexity? How do I tell if my AI visibility problem is technical or content-quality related? What actually decides whether AI picks my page over a competitor’s? The gap […]

Google’s Martin Splitt and Nikola Todorovic, Director of Software Engineering at Google Search, recently discussed how AI is changing Google and SEO. Todorovic encouraged SEOs and businesses to take advantage of AI to analyze data, research competition, and improve their ability to provide value. AI And The Web Ecosystem Google’s Martin Splitt asked a question […]

There’s a lesson from the early days of social media that most brands eventually learned the hard way: Social media is not a megaphone. You couldn’t just broadcast your press releases into the feed and expect people to care. The channel had rules. It rewarded conversation, not announcements. The companies that figured this out early […]

Alphabet reported Q1 2026 earnings with Google Search & Other revenue rising 19% year over year to $60.4 billion. Microsoft announced on the same day that Bing reached 1 billion monthly active users for the first time, with search ad revenue up 12%. Both companies posted strong search quarters. But one line item in Alphabet’s […]

Google updated its Search Central documentation to reflect that the Preferred Sources feature is now available in all languages supported by Google Search. The change clarifies global availability and introduces updated guidance for publishers looking to grow their audience through Top Stories. Preferred Sources Google’s Preferred Sources feature gives users a way to choose specific […]

Aleyda Solis, founder of Orainti, analyzed 87 million AI search visits across 10 markets, finding most clicks go to local domains rather than global defaults. Using Similarweb data, she examined more than 57,000 domain-market entries in the ‘click-producing layer.’ This layer includes visits to a domain after users click citations or links in AI-generated answers. […]

Alphabet reported Q1 2026 earnings, with Google Search & Other revenue rising 19% year over year to $60.4 billion. CEO Sundar Pichai tied the quarter’s Search performance to AI Overviews and AI Mode, saying people are “coming back to Search more.” Q1 revenue was lower sequentially than Q4 2025, when Search & Other came in […]

When a customer asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or another AI tool a question, that system selects a short list of sources to cite in its answer. If your brand isn’t on that list, it’s not a visibility problem; it’s a brand and content strategy problem. What AI Actually Evaluates AI systems don’t cite randomly. They evaluate […]

OpenAI’s automated crawl activity is estimated to have roughly tripled after the launch of GPT-5, according to a new analysis from Botify and guest author Chris Long. In Botify’s dataset, OpenAI’s search crawler is now generating more log events than its training crawler. That’s a reversal from the period before GPT-5. Long, co-founder of the […]

Cost-per-click (CPC) remains one of the most closely scrutinized metrics in digital advertising for both business owners and expert practitioners. This is understandable; it’s a tangible, easy-to-track metric that offers immediate gratification when it drops and immediate anxiety when it rises. After all, if your average CPC increases from $2 to $5, it’s natural to […]