2025-07-30 18:00:00
Here’s the thing: on one side, we’ve got how people feel about SEO these days—the doom-and-gloom headlines, the panic about zero-click searches, the fear that AI has made everything obsolete. But on the other hand, the data tells a totally…
2025-07-28 21:42:55
As we clamor to optimize for AI search visibility, I’ve seen suggestions that we should update pages more frequently to boost their chance of being cited. To test the theory, we used data from Ahrefs Brand Radar to extract 16.975…
2025-07-23 17:00:05
I asked our ace data scientist, Xibeijia, if she could help me build a profile of “AI proof keywords”. By “AI proof keywords” I mean queries that keep (or increase) their clicks, even when AI Overviews are present in the…
2025-07-22 21:47:09
Every SEO—whether beginner or expert—uses Google’s free tools in some capacity. They’re widely accessible, they offer a glimpse into how Google’s search and advertising systems work, and they’re often the first place we look for performance data. Here’s what each…
2025-07-22 21:34:10
AI Overviews appeared from nowhere in August 2024, and now appear on over a quarter of the keywords in this sample (and they’re much more prevalent for informational keywords). Functionally, AI Overviews seem to overlap with existing SERP features, especially…
2025-07-22 00:49:41
We decided to find out. Methodology We pulled one million keywords that triggered AI Overviews and extracted the top three links cited within those AIOs: a total of 1.9 million citation links in our database. We then analyzed the relationship…