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Research, experiments and analysis on AI visibility, generative search, SEO and how artificial intelligence systems understand the web.
92% of Content Marketers Use AI—but Blog Success Just Hit a 12-Year Low
AI has become nearly universal in content marketing, but the industry's self-reported results have moved in the opposite direction. In Orbit Media's latest annual survey of 1,042 c...
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Restructuring Content Lifted AI Citation Rates 17.3% Across Six Generative Engines
What if improving visibility in AI search required changing less of what an article says and more of how it is built? A new research preprint argues that document architecture, inf...
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Pinterest Says Production-Scale GEO Across Billions of Images Drove 20% Organic Growth
Pinterest says it has moved Generative Engine Optimization from theory into a production system operating across billions of images—and attributes a 20% increase in organic traffic...
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A New GEO Defense Cut AI Search Manipulation Success From 50% to 6%
Generative Engine Optimization is creating a security problem alongside a marketing opportunity. If publishers can rewrite pages to make them more likely to be retrieved, cited or....
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Claude Can Triage GA4 and Search Console Data—but It Still Can’t Prove What Caused the Conversion Drop
Artificial intelligence can make a conversion rate optimization audit faster without making it more certain. That is the central lesson from a new workflow for using Claude with GA...
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Amazon DSP Becomes a New Gateway to ChatGPT Ads—and Product Feeds Power the Creatives
Amazon is opening another door into one of digital advertising’s newest surfaces: ChatGPT. In a U.S.-only pilot announced on September 10, selected advertisers using Amazon’s deman...
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An AI Agent’s Recommendation Is Only Useful If Marketers Can Inspect the Evidence Behind It
Marketing agents are moving from answering questions to recommending actions, and that shift changes what “trust” should mean. A chatbot that summarizes a report can be checked aft...
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Google’s AI Overview Can Answer a Query With No Search Intent at All
Google Search has an odd new edge case: an AI Overview can appear even when the user has not supplied anything resembling a normal search query. Triggered through a manipulated Sea...
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Google Ads Can Now Connect Maps and Waze Intent Directly With Offline Store Sales
Google Ads is tightening one of the most difficult loops in local advertising: identifying consumers who appear ready to visit a physical business, spending campaign budget to reac...
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The AI SEO Tool Won on Price and Volume—but Who Owns the Bad Recommendation?
AI software has reached a point where it can make a compelling SEO sales pitch. It can research keywords, generate briefs, scan technical problems and turn recommendations into pro...
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Google Is Adding AI Agents and Branded Search Demand to Marketing Measurement
Google is trying to make marketing measurement behave less like a collection of reports and more like an operating system for investment decisions. Its latest updates connect three...
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