Publishers are blocking AI crawlers on a metric whose denominator is missing an unknown share of referrals.

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Moz leaders Jonathan Berthold and Kevin Chen explain how listings, reviews, mentions, and social activity shape local recommendations in AI search.

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Google DeepMind researchers test Autoregressive Ranking (ARR), a unified model that can replace current retrieval and ranking methods.

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Freshpet and Intero Digital explain how brands can audit AI visibility, restructure content for citation, and connect GEO work to business priorities.

The post How Freshpet Earned AI’s Trust: A GEO & AI Visibility Playbook appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Le Monde says its audience hasn't dropped since AI Overviews launched in France, while app traffic and subscriber growth complicate the broader traffic story.

The post Le Monde Says AI Overviews Haven’t Hurt Its Audience So Far appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

ChatGPT Shopping is pulling more product picks from what it calls feed-integrated sources, and store visibility moved too.

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Giving Perplexity less weight in AI search tracking can prevent distorted visibility scores without erasing useful competitive signals.

The post ChatGPT, Gemini & Claude Lead AI Visibility, Is It Time To Stop Tracking Perplexity? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Search intent is fracturing across AI Mode, video platforms, and zero-click results and Google's own metrics reveal what actually earns clicks now.

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AI visibility tools track brand mentions and citations, but marketers need outcome data to know what those movements mean and what to do next.

The post Brands Are Tracking AI Visibility, But Are They Measuring The Right Things? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Search bars are no longer the only way people shop online. Customers can now tell AI what they’re

Page-one rankings don't earn AI citations. Learn which sources ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini trust in your industry, and how to get published by them.

The post The AI Citation Mistake: Optimizing For Google, Not For Sources appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Explore the significance of AI visibility for local businesses. Learn what makes some businesses stand out in AI searches.

The post AI Visibility For Local Businesses: How To Get Recommended By ChatGPT & AI Overviews In 90 Days appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Common Crawl analyzed 584,107 llms.txt files and found most came from templates, many had no links, and some carried crawler rules the format can't enforce.

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Advertiser data now spans single-digit to $22 CPCs, but ChatGPT Ads still lacks auction insights, industry benchmarks, and reliable audience data to judge performance.

The post 6 Months Into ChatGPT Ads, Advertisers Still Don’t Know What ‘Good’ Looks Like appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Harvard scored 940 occupations on how morally objectionable the public finds automating them. Search marketing scored low at 2.31 out of 7

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Publishing more content won't fix what AI gets wrong about your brand. Too many versions of the truth is the real problem.

The post Your Biggest AI Search Risk Is Conflicting Information About Your Brand appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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 Journal.

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 Search Engine Journal.

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 Journal.

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.