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Why LLMs Cite Reddit Instead Of Your Brand: A Practical AI Visibility Audit [Webinar]
Search Engine Journal
Understand the role Reddit plays in AI answers and how brands can capitalize on community signals to enhance visibility.
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5 places to find FAQ content that improves AI visibility
Search Engine Land
Use GSC, Reddit, People Also Ask data, customer insights, and AI prompt trends to uncover the questions that drive search visibility.
How AI Is Changing Google Search and SEO
Google Search Central
Google adds AI shopping visibility insights to Merchant Center
Search Engine Land
Google is adding new AI shopping insights to Merchant Center, giving retailers visibility into how products perform across their AI platforms.
Beyond RAG: Why every AI search platform is now agentic and what that means for your content
Search Engine Land
AI search has outgrown simple RAG. Learn how today’s hidden AI retrieval systems decide whether your content gets surfaced or filtered out.
Brand depth determines what AI systems recommend
Search Engine Land
Citations only show the outcome. The real advantage comes from building a brand AI systems consistently retrieve, recognize, and recommend.
Preferred Sources Expand, Gmail Brand Lift, Pichai On AI Overviews
Search Engine Journal
Google brings Preferred Sources into AI Overviews and AI Mode, iPullRank measures Gmail's pull on AI Mode brand visibility, and new ad formats arrive.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 28, 2026
Search Engine Roundtable
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 AI Mode and AI Overviews gain preferred sources...
Google Search Console — Free Search Performance Data
Google's free tool showing exactly how your site performs in Search — impressions, clicks, average position by query and page, indexing coverage, Core Web Vitals. The single most important tool every SEO needs.
Google Discover Publisher Profile Pages Tests Short URLs
Search Engine Roundtable
Google is testing short URLs with @handles for the Google Discover publisher profile pages. Instead of those long URLs that go on forever, Google is testing a format that uses the publisher's handle.
Google AI Overviews & AI Mode gain preferred sources, plus new perspectives carousel and highly cited labels
Search Engine Land · by Barry Schwartz
Google says these are "new ways to help you find high-quality content and firsthand perspectives."
Google Preferred Sources Hit 345K, Expand Into AI Search
Search Engine Journal
Google says users have selected 345,000 Preferred Sources, which now appear in AI Overviews and AI Mode alongside new link carousels.
How To: Optimize Your Small Business For AI-Powered Search
Search Engine Journal
Ensure your business stands out in AI Search results. Get proven strategies to improve your online presence effectively.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 27, 2026
Search Engine Roundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Google Destroyed Their Business with No Excuses
Ahrefs YouTube
The latest jobs in search marketing
Search Engine Land
Land your next job in SEO or PPC. These brands and agencies are hiring to fill open search marketing positions right now.
Google SERP Layout Shift: Position 1 Now Appears Halfway Down The Page
Search Engine Journal
Understand SERP visibility and why ranking #1 is no longer sufficient for brand impressions and clicks in today's digital landscape.
Vanessa Fox on the birth of Google Search Console
Search Engine Land · by Barry Schwartz
From the super early days of Google through using AI today for SEO - we covered a lot in this interview.
Do You Still Need a Website in 2026?
Google Search Central
SEO for vibe-coded websites
Google Search Central
100 Most Asked Questions on Google (May 2026)
Ahrefs Blog
These are the 100 most asked questions on Google, along with their monthly search volumes. # Question Search Volume 1 what is today 3,700,000 2 where’s my refund 1,270,000 3 what is my ip 1,100,000 4 how many days until …
Google Strongly Warns Against Manipulating Mentions For AI
Search Engine Roundtable
Gary Illyes from Google reportedly said at the Search Central Live Shanghai 2026 event on May 15th that he and Google strongly warns against buying or manipulating mentions brand mentions to try to show up in the AI responses, AI Overviews and AI Mode.
AI Agents for SEO: What They Are, How They Work, and How to Build One
Ahrefs Blog
This article covers what AI SEO agents actually do in practice, which tools are worth knowing about, how to build your own, and what the people building them have learned the hard way. An AI SEO agent is software that …
Google’s Standards Haven’t Changed But AI Is Making That Harder To Ignore
Search Engine Journal
Sam Sifton's commitment to human-driven journalism reflects Google's unchanged stance: quality content requires accountability, not just automation.
You’re Using AI At The Execution Layer. The Value Is In The Judgment Layer
Search Engine Journal
The six-mode taxonomy maps almost exactly onto the split between execution-layer and judgment-layer work. Most practitioners are living in the execution layer. The post You’re Using AI At The Execution Layer. The Value Is In The Judgment Layer appeared first on Search Engine Jour
He Rejected 1 Million Dollars Right Before His Website Tanked
Ahrefs YouTube
How to Optimize Content for AI Search Engines | 3.1. AEO Course by Ahrefs
Ahrefs YouTube
Search Console data analysis tips
Google Search Central
Google's Algorithm Crushed This Business
Ahrefs YouTube
The 100 Most Searched People on Google (May 2026)
Ahrefs Blog
These are the 100 most searched people, along with their monthly search volumes. # Person Search Volume 1 sydney sweeney 4,400,000 2 donald trump 3,680,000 3 taylor swift 3,470,000 4 rob reiner 2,900,000 5 sabrina carpenter 2,520,000 6 ozzy osbourne …
Screaming Frog SEO Spider — Desktop Site Crawler
Screaming Frog
Desktop crawler beloved by technical SEOs — scans your site like Googlebot, surfacing broken links, redirect chains, missing tags, hreflang errors, schema issues. Free up to 500 URLs.
Google appears to be testing new branded search controls in AI Max campaigns
Search Engine Land
Google Ads is showing AI Max branded search controls that could help advertisers separate branded/non-branded traffic more effectively.
Google Search Central Documentation
Google Search Central
Google's official documentation for how Search works — crawling, indexing, structured data, ranking signals. The primary source SEOs cite when implementing technical changes.
Top Trending Topics (May 2026)
Ahrefs Blog
They’re the keywords with the highest average search volume increase from our database of 28.7 billion keywords. These topics are trending or trended in the United States: # Topic Search Volume Growth (3m) 1 what time is artemis 2 launching …
Google AI Overview Data Looks Different For Commercial Queries
Search Engine Journal
AI Overview tracking can tell very different stories depending on the prompts, query types, and markets included in the sample.
Brand Mentions for SEO: How to Get Cited by AI (3 Tiers) | 3.2. AEO Course by Ahrefs
Ahrefs YouTube
Google Says AI Mode Can Now Scale Faster Across Languages
Search Engine Journal
In a post-keynote interview, Google's Liz Reid told NDTV that AI Mode's multilingual models have made it easier to expand across countries and languages.
Machine-First Architecture: How To Build Websites Machines Can Identify, Read, Cite & Use
Search Engine Journal
Designing for the most constrained consumer, a machine, produces a better foundation for every visitor. Here's the full build sequence.
Ahrefs YouTube — SEO Tutorials & Case Studies
Ahrefs YouTube
Ahrefs' channel is one of the highest-signal YouTube destinations for SEO — deep technical tutorials, keyword research workflows, and case studies from real sites.
Agent-To-Agent Marketing Was Just Born on Moltbook
Ahrefs Blog
More people are asking AI assistants to research products, compare options, and make recommendations for them. And once AI agents become the layer between people and the internet, marketers will not just need to convince you. They will need to …
846,000 Google Searches Reveal How AI Overviews Are Changing User Behavior
Search Engine Journal
Users with AI Overviews scroll back up the page nearly twice as often. What that back-scrolling behavior means for how you write your search listings.
Your AEO Strategy + Action Plan Checklist | 4.2. AEO Course by Ahrefs
Ahrefs YouTube
Interviews Of Google's Sundar Pichai & Nick Fox
Search Engine Roundtable
There are two interviews that is probably worth a listen of Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai and Google's SVP of Knowledge & Information, out of Google I/O and Google Marketing Live. If you listen, you can see the direction Google Search is headed - and duh, it is AI.
Modern Local SEO & AI Visibility: How To Get Clients Into AI Results
Search Engine Journal
Unlock the secrets of local SEO and enhance your business visibility in AI recommendations through effective keyword research.
Introducing ‘YBYS’: Your brand = Your SEO
Search Engine Land
The easiest way to survive AI search may be the least exciting SEO advice ever: build a real brand.
Google Ads To Delete Short Term Performance Data June 1st
Search Engine Roundtable
As you know, Google updated its Google Ads data retention policy recently, which changed how long it will store some of its shorter-term performance data. Specifically, the data hourly, daily, and weekly reporting data...
Search Console custom chart annotations demystified
Google Search Central
Analysing Robots.txt at scale with HTTP Archive and BigQuery
Google Search Central
Is Performance Max Actually Better Than Running Separate Campaigns? – Ask A PPC
Search Engine Journal
See when Performance Max drives better efficiency and when separate campaigns offer necessary control.
New Google Merchant Center AI Performance Insights
Search Engine Roundtable
Google is rolling out a new AI performance report within Google Merchant Center named AI performance insights. Google said the "AI performance insights can help provide you with a view into your brand's performance on AI surfaces and how you can optimize your product data to impr
What Is Content Engineering, and How Do You Do It?
Ahrefs Blog
In this post, I’ll cover what content engineering actually is, its core components, whose responsibility it is, and how you can become a fully-fledged Content Engineer. Content engineering is the practice of building the systems that create content, rather than …
This AI Tool Generates Viral Thumbnails (Prompts Included)
Ahrefs YouTube
How to Track AI Traffic in GA4 and Ahrefs Web Analytics (ChatGPT & More) | 4.1. AEO Course by Ahrefs
Ahrefs YouTube
Google CEO Admits AI Overviews ‘More Opinionated Than It Should Be
Search Engine Journal
Pichai reviewed a live AI Overview and called it "more opinionated than it should be." He also addressed bounce clicks and publisher traffic.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 29, 2026
Search Engine Roundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Matt McGee on the Wild West days of SEO
Search Engine Land · by Barry Schwartz
Matt was also the former Editor-in-Chief at Search Engine Land, so this interview is full of great SEO topics.
SEO, AIO, GEO, your site, & third-party support to optimize for LLMs
Google Search Central
Gmail Content Shows Brand Visibility Boost In AI Mode
Search Engine Journal
iPullRank tested Gmail and Photos signals in opted-in AI Mode Personal Intelligence accounts. Gmail showed the strongest brand visibility lift.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google May Core Update Status, Buying AI Brand Mentions, Preferred Sources In AI Responses, Google Ads, Local & Legal
Search Engine Roundtable
This week in search, we gave a status update on the Google May 2026 core update. Google strongly warned against buying mentions for AI or manipulating mentions for AI. Google removed the indexing lag between....
This Business Tanked Online After One Google Update
Ahrefs YouTube
We Ran an AI Hackathon for Our Content Team. Here’s What We Built with Agent A
Ahrefs Blog
Some marketer automated their entire workflow. Cut their week to four hours and cloned their voice. Built an agent that drafts, ships, and reports on itself. Maybe whitened their teeth too. Elena Verna, CMO at Lovable, called it out perfectly: …
What Is Agentic SEO? And How to Get Started This Week
Ahrefs Blog
It’s just a completely new way of working, also for SEOs. Instead of building every step of an SEO workflow yourself—like the setups you see all over n8n or Zapier—you simply describe the outcome you want. The agent takes it …
AI Content Alone Won’t Fix Your SEO Rankings (Here’s What Will)
Search Engine Journal
Explore the impact of AI content on modern SEO strategies and how it adapts to changing search behaviors and long-tail queries.
New: Google Ads Prospects Mode
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads has expanded New Customer Acquisition with a new feature called Prospect Mode. Prospect mode also targets brand-unaware users, Google said. Those prospects who have not searched for, engaged with, or visited your site. Some call them cold prospects.
7 Ways to Automate Content Marketing with Agent A
Ahrefs Blog
Writing formulaic SEO content, updating old articles, reporting on blog performance, even running complicated performance analyses… these are all things Agent A does for me. Here are some of our favorite Agent A use cases for content marketers. Agent A …
How persuasive content taps into human psychology
Search Engine Land
TikTok Shop creators understand the psychology that drives action. Here’s how to apply the same persuasion principles to written content.
The Beginner's Guide to SEO
Moz
Moz's foundational guide — how search engines work, what to optimize, and how to think about SEO from first principles. The single best onboarding read for new SEOs.
Google 1st Order Price Labels On Shopping Ads (Again)
Search Engine Roundtable
Over a year ago, we saw Google testing a "First order" label on shopping ads within search. Now, we are seeing Google test a variation of that named "1st order price" on those same ads. It basically tells the customer that if this is their first order with this retailer, it is a
Search Off the Record — Google's Official Search Podcast
Google Search Central · by John Mueller
Google's Search Relations team — John Mueller, Gary Illyes, Lizzi Sassman, and Martin Splitt — talking informally about how Search works behind the scenes.
Google Is Retiring Standalone Display Campaigns In Favor Of Demand Gen
Search Engine Journal
Google is moving Display campaigns into Demand Gen, changing how advertisers manage GDN inventory, exclusions, reporting, and campaign controls inside Google Ads. The post Google Is Retiring Standalone Display Campaigns In Favor Of Demand Gen appeared first on Search Engine Journ
The AI Sameness Trap Is Quietly Eroding Your SEO Competitive Advantage
Search Engine Journal
Machines writing for machines is a race to the bottom. Here's how to reintroduce human thinking before your brand disappears into the wallpaper.
ChatGPT Ads Conversion-Optimized Campaigns Coming June 5th
Search Engine Roundtable
OpenAI sent out an email to some early advertisers offering them early access to conversion-optimized campaigns. Conversion-optimized campaigns are going to be available to some advertisers starting on June 5, 2026.
Brad Geddes on 20 Years of Paid Search Evolution
Search Engine Land
Brad Geddes reflects on the evolution of search marketing and why human creativity will remain essential in an AI-driven future.
YouTube SEO for AI Search: How to Rank your YouTube Videos | 3.3. AEO Course by Ahrefs
Ahrefs YouTube
Are websites getting “fat”? Page weight, HTML size & Googlebot limits explained
Google Search Central
Why Enterprise SEO Recommendations Fail – It’s Psychological, Not Technical
Search Engine Journal
Reframing "problems" as "opportunities" isn't corporate spin. It's the psychological condition that makes enterprise change actually happen.
Technical SEO Audit: A Step-by-Step Guide
Ahrefs Blog · by Patrick Stox
Patrick Stox walks through a technical SEO audit using Ahrefs Site Audit — indexing, crawl errors, redirect chains, hreflang, and what to prioritize first.
Crawling Challenges: What the 2025 Year-End Report Tells Us.
Google Search Central
Google’s I/O Demos Reveal The New Business Visibility Problem
Search Engine Journal
Many Google I/O demos ended in transactions, bookings, or task completion. The consumer path is clear, but business visibility isn't.
Google crawlers behind the scenes
Google Search Central
How to Run a Brand Gap Analysis | 2.1. AEO Course by Ahrefs
Ahrefs YouTube
Search Engine Roundtable — Daily SEO News
Search Engine Roundtable · by Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz's daily news desk on algorithm updates, Google statements, and ranking volatility. The go-to morning read for SEOs tracking what's actually changing in Search.
How To See If Competitors Are Advertising In Your Customers’ ChatGPT Answers
Search Engine Journal
Learn the manual process to track who is advertising in ChatGPT answers. Understand your competitors' strategies in real-time.
Why your B2B PPC metrics may be lying to you
Search Engine Land
More conversions and higher ROAS don’t always translate to more pipeline or revenue. Here’s how to measure incremental value more accurately.
Google Tests New Sitename & Favicon Layout In Search
Search Engine Roundtable
Google is testing shifting the sitename and favicon in the search results around, where it is on one line with the favicon, then a bold sitename and then the URL, followed by the rest of the snippet; the title and description and sitelinks. Typically, the favicon spans two lines
Core Web Vitals: WordPress And Astro Versus Everyone Else
Search Engine Journal
WordPress and Astro emerge from the latest performance comparison as a contrast between platform complexity and lightweight publishing.
How This "Boring" YouTube Channel Gets 16M Views a Month
Ahrefs YouTube
Bing Tests New Sitelinks On Ads
Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Bing is testing a new style of sitelinks for the search ads. These sitelinks differ in that they are narrower, use a smaller font, have a border and when you hover over them, they change from a blue font to a bold black font.
How Browsers Really Parse HTML (and What That Means for SEO)
Google Search Central
Google expands customer acquisition targeting with “new prospects” mode
Search Engine Land
Google’s new AI targeting mode is designed to help brands reach entirely new brand-unaware audiences earlier in the discovery journey.
8 Ways to Automate Product Marketing with Agent A
Ahrefs Blog
Andrei leads product marketing at Ahrefs, with a small team covering copy, webinars, partnerships, and paid promotion for all of Ahrefs (including the dozens of updates we ship each month). Constance works on the product team, running all of our …
Google: Search Quality Raters Guidelines Not A Guide For Search Rankings
Search Engine Roundtable
John Mueller from Google said that the Google Search Quality Raters guidelines are not a guide for search rankings. Meaning, the content in those guidelines is not a blueprint on how to rank your website in Google Search.
OpenAI confirms conversion-focused ads are coming to ChatGPT
Search Engine Land
The latest OpenAI rollout brings ROI-focused campaign optimization and conversion tracking directly into ChatGPT ads.
Top Google Searches (May 2026)
Ahrefs Blog
Below are lists of the top 100 most popular searches and questions in the US and worldwide, pulled from our database of 28.7 billion keywords: # Keyword Search Volume 1 chatgpt 94,610,000 2 youtube 87,790,000 3 amazon 84,320,000 4 gmail …
Google AI Mode & AI Overviews Add Preferred Sources & New Carousel
Search Engine Roundtable
Google is officially rolling out preferred source labels within AI Mode and AI Overviews and adding a new carousel to AI Mode and AI Overviews, as well. Plus, Google said the highly cited label is expanding to more search results (which is not specific to AI Mode and AI Overviews
AI Chatbot Traffic: What It Is, and How to Get More
Ahrefs Blog
When ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Claude cites your content in a response, some of those users click through the citation and visit your website. That’s AI chatbot traffic, and it may convert better than most channels you’re probably already tracking. Here’s …
How to structure paid social creative testing for better performance
Search Engine Land
Platforms can recognize when creative variations are nearly identical, making differentiated concepts more valuable than cosmetic tweaks.
Google Ads launches built-in lead management dashboard
Search Engine Land
Google Ads now lets advertisers manage leads and share quality signals with AI to improve bidding performance.
Google Search Central YouTube — Official Search Guidance
Google Search Central · by John Mueller
Google's official Search YouTube channel. Office hours, SEO mythbusting, Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals deep dives. John Mueller and the Search Relations team explain how Search actually works.
Your Business Is at Risk if You Rely on Google
Ahrefs YouTube
How to Persuade Your Boss to Send You to Ahrefs Evolve in San Diego
Ahrefs Blog
After hosting over 600 marketers for our first US conference last October, we’re returning to San Diego in 2026. Same city, bigger stage, and—dare I say it?—an even better agenda. And there’s only one teeny-tiny little thing standing between you …
YouTube Now Auto-Detects AI Content, Labels It For Viewers
Search Engine Journal
YouTube is moving AI disclosure labels to more visible spots and adding automatic detection for undisclosed photorealistic AI content on videos.
Understanding the Search Console performance reports
Google Search Central
Technical SEO for AI: Robots.txt, GPTBot & llms.txt Explained | 3.4. AEO Course by Ahrefs
Ahrefs YouTube
100 Most Expensive Keywords for Google Ads (May 2026)
Ahrefs Blog
These are the 100 most expensive keywords on Google Ads, along with their monthly search volume and cost per click (CPC). The main reason is due to Google’s ads mechanism: Companies have to outbid each other in order to secure …
Ahrefs — SEO Toolset for Keywords, Backlinks & Content
Ahrefs
Full-stack SEO platform: Site Explorer for backlinks, Keywords Explorer, Site Audit, Rank Tracker, Content Explorer. Industry-standard tooling at every level of SEO work.
Keyword & Prompt Research for AI SEO (AEO) | 2.2. AEO Course by Ahrefs
Ahrefs YouTube
Vibe Coding - yay or nay?
Google Search Central
Japanese Google Search Office Hours（ #Google検索オフィスアワー 2026 年 03 月 05 日）
Google Search Central
How to train Claude to sound like your brand
Search Engine Land
If Claude keeps writing beige, the problem is probably the brand rules you never gave it. Train AI on your voice, tone, visuals, and style.
WordPress Market Share Declines For Six Months In A Row
Search Engine Journal
WordPress is losing market share for six months in a row as competing platforms hold steady or grow more popular.
AI Websites, Crawling and Search Console updates (Q2 ‘26)
Google Search Central