When someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google’s AI Mode for a local recommendation, they increasingly get one answer instead of a page of ten businesses to compare. That single recommendation is the new first impression — and it is decided before the customer ever sees your website. Ranking in the traditional local pack still matters, […]
9 AI Search Myths, Debunked by 15 Million Data Points
A lot of AI search advice circulating right now sounds confident and tests out flimsy. A recent Ahrefs research effort spanning more than 50 studies and roughly 15 million data points set out to check the claims the industry keeps repeating — about schema markup, llms.txt files, backlinks, “best of” listicles, and whether AI search […]