How To Win More Citations In AI Answers, Live With Ahrefs’ Constance Tan via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell
Learn which AI visibility metrics matter, how to prioritize your next steps, and the tactics that win more citations in AI answers. The post How To Win More Citations In AI Answers, Live With Ahrefs’ Constance Tan appeared first on Search Engine…
The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14, 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews to U.S. users. The timing matters: The…
Limited Ad Serving: Why Google Ads suddenly show less often
Google Ads can limit how often your ads appear without disapproving them or suspending your account. The Limited Ad Serving policy restricts an account’s eligibility to enter certain auctions, potentially reducing impressions and increasing the cost of…
USA TODAY overhauls audience strategy, citing search pressure
USA TODAY is reorganizing its audience team after telling employees that search traffic is under pressure and platforms are increasingly keeping users from clicking through to publishers, according to internal memos. The restructuring coincided with a…
SEO and PPC are sitting on each other’s best insights
Having both SEO and PPC doesn’t mean you have a search strategy. It means you have two channel strategies. That’s very different, and the gap between them is where budget gets wasted and opportunities get missed. In many businesses, the SEO team and the…
How to build a defensible SEO budget for 2027
The simplest way to defend your SEO budget has been to point to growth indicators like improved rankings and increased organic traffic. Usually, the story was simple enough to fit on a slide or two. Now, that story is becoming a lot harder to tell. In…
Getting Your Product Into ChatGPT Isn’t The Hard Part, Getting It Through Checkout Is via @sejournal, @gregjarboe
Getting surfaced in ChatGPT is the easy half. Three checks every retailer should run before connecting a fourth agentic commerce protocol. The post Getting Your Product Into ChatGPT Isn’t The Hard Part, Getting It Through Checkout Is appeared first on…
How To Measure Your Brand’s Visibility In AI Answers (And Fix What You Find)
Explore how to improve your brand’s visibility in AI search results and understand ranking discrepancies with traditional methods. The post How To Measure Your Brand’s Visibility In AI Answers (And Fix What You Find) appeared first on Search Engine…
People Aren’t Leaving Google For AI. They’re Using Both via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Research shows how people can keep using Google while making fewer traditional searches and clicking through to fewer websites. The post People Aren’t Leaving Google For AI. They’re Using Both appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google to fix citation bug with Gemini 3.8 Flash in AI Mode
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash yesterday and incorporated it into AI Mode for Google AI Pro & Ultra subscribers but there was an issue with this model – it didn’t link or cite sources within its AI responses. Google has confirmed the issue and said…