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Google has talked about AI search clicks several different ways since AI Overviews launched. This week, the company added new link surfaces instead of new click data. This article traces how Google’s public language about clicks has changed, what each phase revealed, and what this week’s five new link features add to the conversation. “No […]
Semrush put out an infographic last week. The kind built to be screenshotted into LinkedIn carousels and pasted into webinar decks. Four pillars. The fourth one is called “Technical GEO”: schema, structured data, clean architecture. The line that justifies it: “Ensures AI engines can parse and connect your content.” Ensures. See it live on X/Twitter. […]
On April 16, 2026, Robby Stein, Google Search’s VP of Product, and Mike Torres, Google Chrome’s VP of Product, announced a new way to explore the web with AI Mode in Chrome. In their announcement, the two VPs wrote that the update makes it easier to “access and engage with content and dive deeper into […]
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 […]
Brand-cited AI Overview CTR fell 61% from Q3 to Q4, according to a new report from Seer Interactive, but the clicks on those pages barely moved. The drop looks alarming on a dashboard, though it isn’t quite what it seems. Seer’s analysis of 5.47 million queries across 53 brands clearly shows what’s happening What Happened […]
OpenAI’s public crawler documentation now lists OAI-AdsBot, a bot that may visit pages submitted as ChatGPT ads to check policy compliance and help determine ad relevance. The entry sits alongside OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, and ChatGPT-User on OpenAI’s crawler docs page, bringing the documented bot count to four. OpenAI states that OAI-AdsBot only visits pages submitted as […]
Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! When an AI answers a question using your content, it usually cites you with a source link. What it doesn’t do, 62% of the time, is say your name. The link is there. The brand mention is not. This is what I like […]
An Ahrefs analysis of 1.4 million ChatGPT prompts found that pages from a dedicated Reddit source were rarely cited in ChatGPT responses, even though they were often retrieved. Ahrefs highlights this pattern in a new report. What The Report Looked At Ahrefs examined 1.4 million ChatGPT 5.2 prompts, tracking which pages were retrieved and later […]
An analysis of more than 400 websites by Zyppy founder Cyrus Shepard identifies five characteristics associated with whether a site gained or lost estimated organic traffic over the past 12 months. Shepard classified sites by revisiting many of the same ones covered in Lily Ray’s December core update analysis, categorizing them by business model, content […]
For today’s Ask An SEO, we answer the question: “As an SEO, should I be using log file data, and what can it tell me that tools can’t?” What Are Log Files Essentially, log files are the raw record of an interaction with a website. They are reported by the website’s server and typically include […]