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Is AIO stealing your traffic? Learn how to measure AIO impact, assess SEO damage, and update your strategy in our free on-demand webinar. The post AIO Hurting Traffic? How To…
Is AIO stealing your traffic? Learn how to measure AIO impact, assess SEO damage, and update your strategy in our free on-demand webinar. The post AIO Hurting Traffic? How To…
Google has now officially confirmed that Google Search Console is counting AI Mode data. Google said, “AI Mode is now counting towards totals in Search Console.” We saw this when…
Why Google’s SEO advice often sounds vague: Search Relations team explains the reasons behind “it depends” answers. The post Google Search Team Explains The “It Depends” Response appeared first on…
At Google I/O, Google said it will roll out AI Mode to all users based in the U.S. Well, that rollout seems to have started some time yesterday. If you…
Google has rolled out a new interface to view your historical Google Posts within Google Business Profiles. Now the interface is a scrollable list view.
Google retires seven structured data features including Book Actions, Course Info, and Claim Review to streamline search results. Rankings unaffected. The post Google Retires 7 Structured Data Features To Streamline…
Google Search, the main search engine, is not serving new content. It might be an indexing issue or a serving issue, but if you try to find new content across…
The roll-out of AI Overviews now creates two opportunities for top-ranking content to log impressions for a given keyword, while simultaneously reducing the number of people who click from the…
Learn why we don‘t recommend using meta keywords or meta keyword tags as part of your SEO strategy.
The term, The Great Decoupling has really been catching on over the past couple of weeks. It is being used to describe what we are seeing with impressions and clicks…
Imagine if your website could rank for every single keyword related to your niche. That’s the promise of programmatic SEO. It’s how Tripadvisor creates “Things to Do in” pages for…
The problem is that AI bots are new to web crawling. They’re still making some silly crawl decisions, bumping around, and wasting a lot of resources. We’ve already seen that…
In this article, we’re looking specifically at the costs and budgets associated with AI content. How much does AI content cost? Are companies investing more, or less? AI-generated content is…
Tired of all that reading in the Google Search results, is it too hard to read the AI Overviews? Well, Google has a solution for you, they are called “Audio…
But marketers have learned something important along the way: don’t try to measure everything. It’s more helpful to track a few key numbers that give you useful insights. This guide…
Google’s CEO addressed concerns about AI search replacing traditional web links in its ongoing evolution of Search The post Google CEO Sundar Pichai Discusses Fate Of The Human-Created Web appeared…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google Search is…
Google AI Overviews is surfacing AI-generated search results for queries with recipe intent. The post Recipe Intent Keywords Are Triggering Google AI Overviews appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google has rolled out a new feature to automate the process of updating your inventory with Google Merchant Center. It is called Website-reported Autofeeds and it uses Google Tag Manager…
Google seems to be flip-flopping between calling it Google Posts and Google Updates within Google Business Profiles. When a business owner wants to post an announcement of sorts on their…
OpenAI quietly updated ChatGPT search to improve its ability to understand user queries and to answer increasingly complex questions. The post OpenAI Rolls Out Update To ChatGPT Search appeared first…
Google has added a new section to its policy on pausing Google Ads accounts. It says Google “may pause your individual account if it is linked to a Manager account…
In this article, we’re looking at the performance of AI content. Does it rank? Does it perform better or worse than human content? Is it riskier than human content? Websites…
Learn how to use HTML heading tags to improve your SEO and structure your content effectively.
To answer this question, I decided to look at the referral traffic from AI Search using Ahrefs Web Analytics and compare that to traffic from Organic Search for ahrefs.com. We…
Google is testing a new design for its sponsored search ads in the Google Search results. These have horizontal lines that are darkened or filled halfway through, alternating from left…
In the early days, Google was not a fan of using tools to automatically translate your pages and then have Google index and rank those pages, even with Google Translate….
This sits at odds with Google’s original search model, which worked by passing on referral traffic to third-party sites. Google is getting better at creating zero-click searches, and that means…
It’s been almost ten days since I last reported on a Google search ranking update. Well, I had to stop the streak and cover what I’ve seen over the last…
You lost half your Google traffic. But suddenly…more people are searching for your brand. What’s going on? Welcome to the invisible influence of LLMs, where your visibility goes up even…
Google’s AI Mode is reshaping SERP rankings. Discover how embedding vectors, not keywords, now determine visibility. The post See What AI Sees: AI Mode Killed the Old SEO Playbook —…
OpenAI has updated the ChatGPT interface to add additional UTM parameters to help with tracking more clicks from ChatGPT to your website. Now, under the “more” section, those links contain…
Learn how LLM optimization (LLMO) can help you get more visibility in ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and more.
Google Ads seems to be testing a new charts and graphing user interface with larger boxes and visuals in the campaign tab. It also seems to give you new ways…
AI agents now handle more than ideation; they’re transforming audits, too. Here’s how they tackle site analysis, technical issues, and internal links. The post Agentic AI In SEO: AI Agents…
AI Assistants may also work slightly differently. By default, they don’t have any notion of websites and can make up sources. Looking at you ChatGPT. Some systems are augmented with…
Microsoft is testing removing its own name from the Bing search results box at the top left of the page. So it just says Bing, with the Microsoft logo next…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. There are new…
Google has yet again dropped support for more of its structured data elements/markup that it uses for rich results in the search results page. Google calls this “Simplifying the search…
Google has made some more minor changes to the Google Merchant Center user interface. Specifically, Google moved where the merchants access settings section is and also updated the sidebar with…
Google is investigating reports of a number of searchers seeing that all the links shown in the Google search results are marked as previously visited. When you click on a…
Discover how EYClick helped a family-run Catalan restaurant build its online presence, rank #1 locally, and boost organic traffic by 300% in just 3 months.
Google confirms Lens, Discover, and Voice Search are experiencing disruptions, potentially affecting traffic for many sites. The post Google Outage Disrupts Lens, Discover, & Voice Search Results appeared first on…
This week in search, we of course covered some Google search ranking volatility. Google Search had serving issues across Google Search, Discover and Google Lens yesterday. Google’s Sundar Pichai said…
Some are starting to see the new asset-level reporting within Google Ads for Performance Max campaigns. I am not sure how widespread the rollout is but some are starting to…
It’s a search engine: To learn more about TikTok SEO, I hopped on a call with Charlotte Ang, the co-founder of Traffic Bees, a digital marketing agency based in Singapore…
See how Cardeseo used SE Ranking’s automation tools to cut reporting time by 70%, scale its client base from 30 to over 200, and achieve three big SEO wins.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google had some…
Microsoft is testing new hover effects and styles in the Bing Search results. Specifically, when you hover over the URL of a snippet, it will bold and underline the result….
Google is testing adding colors to the in stock and out of stock labels or extensions in the search result snippets. So if a product is in stock, the icon…
The terminology in this industry is evolving. I’m defining AI search as search that happens in AI assistants like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, etc. While we’re working on a larger study…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google Search Console…
There has been a lot, I mean, a lot, of chatter around if one should add an LLMs.txt to their website. Many are starting to add it while others have…
Staying ahead and making great decisions on what to do next means understanding the data. We’ve run dozens of data studies helping SEOs and marketers figure out what’s going on…
OpenAI announced it has released several improvements to the ChatGPT search response quality. These improvements include “more comprehensive, up-to-date responses,” according to the AI company.
Just like Google had AI Overviews (also featured snippets) in the People also ask section of Google Search, Google is now testing AI Mode within People also ask. Plus, Google…
Google announced that it will be dropping more of the opt-out options available to Google AdSense publishers. Specifically, Google said that by July 7th it will remove the additional ad…
Google Ads is refreshing the interface for the conversion actions and conversion setup process. It is a new step-by-step process that is much easier to use than the old version.
Google recently was testing showing vertical search shortcuts in the autocomplete search suggestions. Now Google is testing a “back to all” option in the autocomplete.
A few months ago, Google added big blue buttons to the knowledge panels within the Google Search results but now, some of those knowledge panels buttons are taking searchers to…
Google Ads is now showing the estimated audience size in the custom segments for some advertisers. This can help you see if the reach will be large enough for you…
Yoast has added a one-click llms.txt feature designed to guide AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini to important website content. The post Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin Adds Support For LLMs.Txt…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
In this Ask an SEO, we look at how affiliate marketers are adapting their strategies with AI tools – and where caution is still needed. The post Ask An SEO:…
Yoast fixed an AI-related bug that injected unintended HTML classes into content generated by its SEO Premium plugin. The post Yoast SEO Plugin Bug Injects Hidden AI HTML Classes appeared…