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This week’s Ask an SEO question is: “Why have page impressions increased so much in GSC, but my page traffic is reducing? I thought it might be AIO, but when I look into this, not all pages have AI Overviews – what else could be causing impressions to increase so much?” Good question, and there […]
On a recent Search Off the Record podcast, hosts John Mueller and Martin Splitt pushed back on the idea promoted by AI SEOs that stripped-down, content-only versions are a better way to optimize for AI Search. They made the case that all the things AI SEOs want to remove are actually useful for ranking. Non-Content […]
When Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity answer a question that used to send someone clicking through ten blue links, they still have to decide which local business is trustworthy enough to name. Overwhelmingly, they lean on one signal above everything else on a website or listing: reviews. That changes what a review generation program […]
Ahrefs analyzed logs from 137,000 domains and found 97% of llms.txt files got zero requests. No bots, no humans. The analysis used Ahrefs data to identify user agents fetching files. Around 28% of 137,000 domains publish an llms.txt file, but since Ahrefs’ customers are more technical, the actual adoption on the broader web is likely […]
Google’s John Mueller argued that LLM systems can’t use files like llms.txt to decide which websites to surface for a given query. He made the comments on a recent episode of Search Off the Record, the podcast from Google’s Search Relations team. His comment points to a broader signal problem, not just intentional gaming. Even […]
This post was sponsored by Peec AI. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Which prompts should I prioritize tracking for AI visibility? Does exact wording change which brands AI engines recommend? Do I need to track every way someone might phrase a prompt in AI search? Marketers often panic about the […]
Google Ads Liaison Ginny Marvin announced three bidding and budgeting updates on LinkedIn, including one change scheduled to begin rolling out on August 17. Two of the updates expand capabilities that were previously limited or unavailable to many advertisers. Smart Bidding Exploration is now available globally, while Promotion mode is entering beta for Search and […]
SEOs all know how important reviews are as a local SEO ranking factor and decision maker for users. But how many SEOs are actually using the review content to help with their roadmapping and content updates? Reviews are typically looked at as a reputation task, and the focus is on the quantitative data (number of […]
Your Google Ads account is going to start serving a buyer you cannot see. That buyer is an AI agent that compares products and goes through checkout on your customer’s behalf. Related reading: cloudflare’s AI crawler rules can block googlebot. Agentic commerce is going to be the biggest structural change to ecommerce paid media since […]
Google announced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), a new open specification for organizing and exchanging the knowledge that AI systems need in order to perform useful work. You will find more ideas in stripe projects opens cloud infrastructure buying to AI. The announcement explains the reason for developing this new specification: “As foundation models continue […]