In Bruce Clay’s SEO training course, we offer students an SEO checklist as one of the many resources. Use this version as an in-hand to-do list or basic audit outline. The post The Always Up-to-Date SEO Checklist appeared first on Bruce Clay, Inc..... Read more »

  SEO siloing is a powerful strategy to boost your website’s relevance and expertise, resulting in better search engine rankings and user experience. But even minor mistakes can make it less effective.  In this article, I’ll discuss eight common errors in SEO silo implementation and provide actionable insights on how... Read more »

  Organizing your website content in a way that benefits both search engines and visitors is an art and science. Get it right, and you’ll build a highly relevant, authoritative website for search results.  But how? One way is through SEO siloing. SEO siloing has many parts, and internal linking... Read more »

  SEO silos are a powerful strategy for making your site more relevant and visible in search results.  But let’s be honest — that’s just a byproduct of creating a user-friendly website that provides valuable content to your audience.  By organizing your content into themed sections and creating stellar content... Read more »

  Building a blog that consistently ranks high in search results requires more than just great content; it needs a solid SEO strategy.  One of the most effective methods for organizing blog content is through SEO silos.  When you structure your blog into focused, hierarchical sections, these silos not only... Read more »

  SEO is ever-changing, and search visibility is becoming more competitive across traditional, local and AI-driven results. After a site migration, businesses should expect to invest in SEO for their websites’ entire life cycle to stay relevant, provide a good user experience and continue to show up in the search... Read more »

  URL changes will undoubtedly occur during a site migration. So, URL redirects seamlessly direct search engines and visitors from the old URLs to the new ones.  URL redirects also help maintain the SEO value of a page when the URL changes, and ensure you minimize 404 error pages.  With... Read more »

A site migration is the perfect time to assess the current state of a website’s content. Does it need to be refreshed, optimized or replaced? Do you need new content? A migration forces you to take a good look at what’s working and what isn’t—an opportunity that doesn’t come around... Read more »

  Migrating a website is a high-risk initiative. Even small execution errors can lead to traffic loss, broken functionality or long-term SEO damage. Assuming your strategy and pre-migration planning are already in place, the success of your migration now depends on how well you execute each step. In this guide,... Read more »

Google can show these as rich results in Google Search and Google also added new Search Console reports. The post Google Search now supports discussion forum and profile page structured data appeared first on Search Engine Land.... Read more »

The revised policy will impact all video inventory across AdSense, Ad Manager, and AdMob under the Google Publisher Policies. The post Google is updating its Video publisher policy appeared first on Search Engine Land.... Read more »

A technical problem caused the email to be mistakenly sent to some marketers just hours before the Thanksgiving holiday. The post Google tells ‘freaked out’ advertisers to ignore account suspension notification appeared first on Search Engine Land.... Read more »

An overview of technical SEO, how it fits into an overall SEO strategy, plus key activities, tools and skills you need to know. The post What is technical SEO? appeared first on Search Engine Land.... Read more »

The New York Times, Yelp and 22 Condé Nast properties are among those who have chosen to block Google-Extended so far. The post Number of websites blocking Google-Extended jump 180% appeared first on Search Engine Land.... Read more »

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High-potential keywords don’t come from keyword planners or SEO tools. They come from third parties. Here’s how to find them. The post How to find high-potential keywords for SEO appeared first on Search Engine Land.... Read more »

The tool is going away on January 8, 2024 because Google says it is no longer useful. The post Googlebot crawl rate tool in Search Console is going away appeared first on Search Engine Land.... Read more »

A human asks Search Engine Land's ChatBot to create a Facebook post promoting a business' Black Friday deals. The post Best of the Bot: Create a Facebook post promoting Black Friday deals appeared first on Search Engine Land.... Read more »

Your content can rank on the first page of Google and still never be cited or mentioned by LLMs. This makes sense once you understand query fan-out, a background process AI systems use to build answers. When someone asks ChatGPT or Perplexity a question, it doesn’t default to the best-ranking... Read more »

You can be a strong brand, publish high-quality content, and still not have topical authority. Just look at Great Jones, a kitchenware company. Their Dutch oven (called The Dutchess) is beautiful, well-reviewed, and featured in industry-leading sites like Vogue, the New York Times, Bon Appétit, and The Kitchn. But search... Read more »

PR and SEO used to be separate disciplines. Now you can’t afford to keep them siloed. Google and LLMs both rely on third-party signals — backlinks, brand mentions, expert commentary, and coverage in trusted publications — to decide which brands deserve visibility. PR and SEO both generate those signals, but... Read more »

Your analytics dashboard tracks clicks, but it doesn’t convey the complete picture. When a buyer reads an AI answer that mentions your competitor, or scrolls through a Reddit thread where your brand doesn’t appear, that’s lost visibility. And it won’t show up anywhere in your traffic data. Share of voice... Read more »

SEO services have evolved significantly in recent years, driven by changes in search behavior, AI-powered results, and rising competition across industries. To give you the most accurate picture of the industry today, we’ve combined data from multiple sources, including our survey of 1,200 business owners. In this report, you’ll learn:... Read more »

International marketing is a job that gets exponentially complicated with each additional region and language you add. For example, we publish the Ahrefs blog in eight languages, which means roughly every meaningful task—refreshing an old article, checking hreflang tags, swapping…Read more ›... Read more »

AI disrupting search has handed SEOs the seat at the table they’ve spent years trying to earn, and for the first time, the C-suite is genuinely paying attention. The question is whether you’re ready to lead when their attention is…Read more ›... Read more »

Everything below was built via Agent A by the Ahrefs team—plus a couple of examples I managed to vibe code myself. Here’s what it takes to vibe code, and the nine prebuilt apps you can install today. On Slack, we…Read more ›... Read more »

It cleans and filters the data, then builds an updated WordPress draft for each. It then emails me preview links. I skim the drafts, make sure all looks okay, then click one button (“Approve all”) and they go live, restamped…Read more ›... Read more »

Domain Rating (DR) is Ahrefs’ measure of how strong a website’s backlink profile is, on a scale from 0 to 100. It’s relative by design: your score reflects how your backlink profile stacks up against every other website in our…Read more ›... Read more »

Curious about the state of SEO in 2026? Then look no further. We’ve curated, vetted, and categorized a list of up-to-date stats below. Contents Top SEO statistics 68% of online experiences begin with a search engine. (BrightEdge) 63.41% of all…Read more ›... Read more »

According to SpaceX’s May 2026 S-1 filing, 117 million people use Grok’s features every month, out of X’s 550 million monthly active users. That makes it one of the most-used AI assistants on the planet, and a growing influence on…Read more ›... Read more »

Copilot is woven through Windows, Edge, Bing, and Microsoft 365, and that reach is enormous: Microsoft says the Copilot apps alone draw more than 100 million monthly active users, with over 800 million people touching Copilot-powered AI features across its…Read more ›... Read more »

Unlike a general chatbot, Perplexity is an answer engine first: it was designed to respond to questions with linked references up front. That model has found a real audience, with the company reporting hundreds of millions of queries a month…Read more ›... Read more »

For the first time, bots generate more web traffic than human users, and AI agents are driving the surge.... Read more »

SEO writing helps content earn visibility in Google and AI tools. Learn 12 tips to do it well in 2026.... Read more »

Learn how rtCamp improved its AI visibility, strengthened security positioning, and increased favorable AI sentiment to 100% in one month.... Read more »

In partnership with Kevin Indig, we analyzed 3,981 domain appearances across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode. The study reveals how AI engines treat citations and brand mentions differently, why “ghost citations“ are common, and what marketers can do to improve brand visibility in AI search.... Read more »

Use this framework to build a focused, high-signal prompt set that shows you where your brand stands in AI search results.... Read more »

Google‘s new Search profiles give publishers and creators a dedicated landing page in Discover. Here‘s what it means for brands.... Read more »

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Google‘s AI search optimization guide validates SEO. What it leaves out, and four moves to make now.... Read more »

Rank in organic search and AI Overviews by improving E-E-A-T and finding low-competition keywords. Here’s how + more strategies.... Read more »

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Google Lighthouse now audits how ready your site is for AI agents. Here‘s what it means for visibility.... Read more »

Google is rolling out an AI performance report and a toggle to block content from AI responses in Search Console. Here‘s what it means for your visibility.... Read more »

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AI search is the new SEO for most marketers. But their workflows haven‘t caught up yet. Survey of 481 marketers.... Read more »

Your pricing page was built for humans. An agent buying infrastructure needs a structured catalog, a programmatic signup endpoint, and a delegated billing surface. The post Stripe Projects Opens Cloud Infrastructure Buying To AI Agents appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Apple's WWDC announcements turn the Google partnership into a shipping product, with open questions for search. The post What Apple’s Gemini-Powered Siri Means For Search Visibility appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

U.S. export control directive forces Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 access. The company disputes the security concerns. The post Anthropic Forced To Shut Down Fable 5 By U.S. Government Order appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Google publishes guidance after new law gives small businesses power to challenge lost visibility and deleted reviews. The post Google Publishes Tennessee Search “Blacklist” Guidance appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

MonsterInsights WordPress plugin site has been taken down and is warning against phishing attempts currently under way. The post MonsterInsights Website Compromised And Sending Phishing Emails appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Google's information agents are now available in all AI Mode languages and markets for AI Ultra subscribers, with expansion to more people planned this summer. The post Google Rolls Out AI Mode Information Agents To Ultra Subscribers appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Google has extended the Dynamic Search Ads to AI Max migration deadline until February 2027. Here's what advertisers need to know. The post Google Extends Dynamic Search Ads Migration Deadline appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Reddit gains ground after the May core update, new zero-click data lands, Google updates its SEO guidance, and Business Profile data comes to Analytics. The post Reddit Climbs, Clicks Drop, GBP Comes To GA4 – SEO Pulse appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

New research shows daily AI Overview users click sources 3.5x more than occasional users, revealing optimization opportunities. The post What AI Overview Click Data Reveals About Consumer Search Behavior: 5 Strategic Insights For CMOs appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Stop running accessibility and agent-readiness audits on separate quarterly cycles. They're the same audit. Here's the evidence, and the one fix to make first. The post Google’s Agent-Friendly Checklist Is The Accessibility Audit Restated appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

With 80% of AI traffic draining website infrastructure for model training, what can you do to fight back without affecting search visibility? The post AI Bots Keep Overloading Servers. Should Website Owners Keep Paying? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Stay informed about AI search trends and their effect on your website's performance. Prepare for the future of search marketing. The post 5 AI Search Shifts Marketers Can’t Afford to Miss Before Q3 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

YouTube is expanding in-app video sharing and messaging to eligible adults in more markets, reviving a version of its messaging feature removed in 2019. The post YouTube Brings In-App Sharing & Messaging To The U.S. appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Parametric memory and retrieval are two different problems with two different fixes. Most teams are solving the wrong one without knowing it. The post AI Search Runs On Two Memory Systems. The Platforms Don’t Use Them The Same Way appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Your pricing page was built for humans. An agent buying infrastructure needs a structured catalog, a programmatic signup endpoint, and a delegated billing surface. The post Stripe Projects Opens Cloud Infrastructure Buying To AI Agents appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Apple's WWDC announcements turn the Google partnership into a shipping product, with open questions for search. The post What Apple’s Gemini-Powered Siri Means For Search Visibility appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

U.S. export control directive forces Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 access. The company disputes the security concerns. The post Anthropic Forced To Shut Down Fable 5 By U.S. Government Order appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Google publishes guidance after new law gives small businesses power to challenge lost visibility and deleted reviews. The post Google Publishes Tennessee Search “Blacklist” Guidance appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

MonsterInsights WordPress plugin site has been taken down and is warning against phishing attempts currently under way. The post MonsterInsights Website Compromised And Sending Phishing Emails appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Google's information agents are now available in all AI Mode languages and markets for AI Ultra subscribers, with expansion to more people planned this summer. The post Google Rolls Out AI Mode Information Agents To Ultra Subscribers appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Google has extended the Dynamic Search Ads to AI Max migration deadline until February 2027. Here's what advertisers need to know. The post Google Extends Dynamic Search Ads Migration Deadline appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Reddit gains ground after the May core update, new zero-click data lands, Google updates its SEO guidance, and Business Profile data comes to Analytics. The post Reddit Climbs, Clicks Drop, GBP Comes To GA4 – SEO Pulse appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

New research shows daily AI Overview users click sources 3.5x more than occasional users, revealing optimization opportunities. The post What AI Overview Click Data Reveals About Consumer Search Behavior: 5 Strategic Insights For CMOs appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Stop running accessibility and agent-readiness audits on separate quarterly cycles. They're the same audit. Here's the evidence, and the one fix to make first. The post Google’s Agent-Friendly Checklist Is The Accessibility Audit Restated appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

With 80% of AI traffic draining website infrastructure for model training, what can you do to fight back without affecting search visibility? The post AI Bots Keep Overloading Servers. Should Website Owners Keep Paying? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Stay informed about AI search trends and their effect on your website's performance. Prepare for the future of search marketing. The post 5 AI Search Shifts Marketers Can’t Afford to Miss Before Q3 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

YouTube is expanding in-app video sharing and messaging to eligible adults in more markets, reviving a version of its messaging feature removed in 2019. The post YouTube Brings In-App Sharing & Messaging To The U.S. appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Parametric memory and retrieval are two different problems with two different fixes. Most teams are solving the wrong one without knowing it. The post AI Search Runs On Two Memory Systems. The Platforms Don’t Use Them The Same Way appeared first on Search Engine Journal.... Read more »

Identifying UGC Subjective Attributes Of Entities This recently granted patent is about identifying subjective attributes of entities. I haven’t seen a patent about subjective attributes of entities or responses to those entities. A critical aspect of it is that it is user-generated content. We get told that user-generated content (UGC)... Read more »

This recently granted Google patent generally relates to generating query answers, and this patent also introduces the concept of Constraints to help answer queries. Using Constraints For Query Answers This patent asks questions about contents related to facts about entities that questions are getting added about. Documents about Using constraints... Read more »

The disclosed patent relates to ways of presenting content based on generic content ratings. Searchers get interested in accessing content (e.g., television programs, movies, books, videos, music, news articles, Websites, etc.) from many different countries, regions, or other groups. Each country, region, or group may use a different rating system... Read more »

On October 1, 2019, I wrote about a continuation patent update to Google’s Universal Search Results. It was the fourth time that particular patent had gotten updated. I wrote about it under the post name – Google’s New Universal Search Results. It makes sense to see what new changes have... Read more »

How Automated Assistants Work Using Natural Language Input? Humans may engage in human-to-computer dialogs with interactive software applications referred to herein as “automated assistants.” For example, humans (who, when they interact with automated assistants, may be referred to as “users”) may provide commands, queries, and requests (collectively referred to herein... Read more »

I have a Google Speaker at home to perform some searches and listen to some music. Google has been granted patents on automated assistants that tell us more about how they work. The search input approach that automated assistants use is different from what I am used to using a... Read more »

Machine Learning On Extremely Large Datasets This Google patent is about a training framework for performing machine learning on Extremely Large Datasets. It is looking like it is focusing on videos on Youtube. LinkedIn Shows Work on vision and video for the inventors of this patent. The patent relates to... Read more »

The shopping journey has always involved a kind of surrender. You surrender to a brand’s editorial curation when you browse a site. You surrender to an algorithm when it populates your feed. You surrender to a stylist when you step into a fitting room and admit you need help. Most... Read more »

Most organizations right now are running some version of the same experiment: distribute access to AI tools, watch what happens, and try to figure out what that means before the next planning cycle. The results have been uneven. Some teams found immediate efficiency gains. Others circled back six months later... Read more »

Every influencer marketer has the same nightmare conversation. The CFO asks for the revenue number. The marketer opens a dashboard full of impressions, engagement rates, and something called earned media value. The CFO does not care. That gap between the marketing team’s enthusiasm for influencer and the finance team’s demand... Read more »

Most apparel brands know their gross margins. Fewer know whether the traffic they are paying for actually generates profit after returns, fulfillment, and media costs are factored in at the product level. That gap between revenue reporting and profit reality is where a lot of marketing budgets quietly leak. And... Read more »

Most retailers chasing fashion credibility start by shrinking their audience. They curate harder, raise prices, and build mystique around scarcity. The playbook assumes that fashion authority flows from selectivity. Walmart’s fashion strategy does the opposite. It starts with 145 million people already walking through its stores and visiting its website... Read more »

Shopping used to require a destination. A planned trip to a mall, a catalog spread across a kitchen table, a deliberate channel flip to a home shopping network. The customer came to the store. That dynamic has inverted. Today the store has to come to the customer, wherever they happen... Read more »

Every marketer who has stared at a dashboard has quietly wondered the same thing. Is this number real? Does it reflect what actually caused that sale, or is it just the last thing the system happened to record? The question determines where millions of dollars go. And the discomfort it... Read more »

The modern shopper does not follow a funnel. She watches a TikTok, compares prices on Amazon, checks her Sephora loyalty balance, and buys in store. Sometimes in the span of an hour. For retailers and brands, this creates a familiar but intensifying pressure: be present everywhere without losing coherence anywhere.... Read more »

The marketing funnel that e-commerce was built on is a decade-old agreement between brands and consumers. Brands pay for attention, consumers click through, and somewhere between the search bar and the checkout page, a purchase happens. That sequence has governed everything from media budgets to tech stacks. The agreement is... Read more »

Ranking number one on Google is great. But ranking in a Google answer box, on position zero, is even better. Google answer boxes might be a blessing for both users (they get the desired info instantly) and webmasters (their website is in the foreground, above the top ranking websites).  ... Read more »

Why did the chicken cross the road? We’ll likely never find out. But if you type this into a search engine, I’m pretty sure I can predict what the top results might return. Not only because I’ve searched for this myself, but also because of something called search intent, which... Read more »

Speed is very important for a website. It’s so important that Google has made it an actual ranking factor. Over time, Google has taken action to improve the loading speed of websites by providing a set of tools for developers and webmasters. One of these tools is Google Lighthouse.  ... Read more »

Web Directories have been the norm for the world wide web and for search engine optimization for a long time. But are they still relevant in this age of advanced AI Google Updates?   Well, as Head of Web SPAM at Google John Mueller said, “in general, no”. But the... Read more »

As your online business grows, it becomes obvious how important content marketing is for your business. And even if you’re the one working on your business’ strategy or you hire an agency to help you out, one thing is clear: you need to know the full list of content marketing... Read more »

This article provides a comprehensive roadmap of 40 advanced SEO techniques designed to exponentially increase organic traffic and improve search engine visibility. Key strategies include leveraging Wikipedia link rot for authoritative broken link building, utilizing semantic synonyms to capture broader search intent, and benchmarking competitor link profiles to identify high-value... Read more »

Titles are among the most important things in SEO. But, although it is very basic to have your keywords inside the title, it isn’t always easy to write SEO friendly title tags. That’s why we’ve prepared this guide and set of best practices you need to follow in order to... Read more »

Owning a Google My Business page can be a great way to get your business listed multiple times on Google. It is an essential asset for any local business owner, but sometimes it can get confusing.   If you’re the only business in town, you’re always going to show up... Read more »

Everybody wants the freedom of choice, but the paradox of choice is that no one wants to feel like a face in the crowd. We designed this playbook with that exact challenge in mind, giving you the strategic edge to be the marketer who genuinely stands out.   As automated... Read more »

Een meerderheid van de politieke partijen in Purmerend wil het referendum afschaffen. Veel inwoners zijn het hier niet mee eens.... Read more »

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De buurman komt aan de deur klagen over het feestje van de avond ervoor. Hij was maar wat graag ook uitgenodigd.... Read more »

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