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This month’s Ask A PPC explores a question many advertisers are starting to ask: “Can AI Mode ads actually drive conversions, or is this just another awareness play?” The answer to this question will vary based on how advertisers define success and what they’re comparing it against. Many accounts measure new opportunities against campaigns that […]
Jan-Willem Bobbink shared a take on X, that AI visibility trackers are quietly breaking the analytics of brands who are paying them to track for them. It’s time we put more focus on this issue, as it is causing misalignment, misreporting, and misspending of resources and marketing budget in the clamor to be more visible […]
This post was sponsored by Uberall. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Local consumers have stopped searching the way we built our marketing around. This significant change in buyer habits has been quietly happening in the last 18 to 24 months. According to recent Uberall research into AI search behavior, an […]
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 […]
TL;DR The best companies aren’t panicking. Carta, Ramp, and Webflow are proving that visibility in AI search comes from connected systems where originality, speed, and credibility compound. Search is now an answer engine. Visibility depends on being cited, not ranked. Freshness fuels authority. 70% of AI-cited pages were updated within the past year. Originality wins. […]
BrightEdge published new data showing the different kinds of sites five AI search surfaces tend to show in generated answers. The data makes it possible to see how those differences shape which types of sites each AI engine shows, with strong implications for how to promote to each one. The research focused on five AI […]
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 […]
The standard technical SEO audit checks crawlability, indexability, website speed, mobile-friendliness, and structured data. That checklist was designed for one consumer: Googlebot. This is how it’s always been. In 2026, your website has, at least, a dozen additional non-human consumers. AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot train models and power AI search results. User-triggered […]
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 […]
A randomized field experiment finds Google’s AI Overviews reduce organic clicks to external websites by 38% on queries where they appear, while self-reported search satisfaction stays nearly unchanged when the summaries are removed. The working paper by researchers at the Indian School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University was posted to SSRN this month. Authors […]