25 SEO Conferences to Attend in 2026
We’ve attended tons of SEO conferences and it’s still the best way to meet people in the…
How to Choose the Best Prompts to Monitor Your AI Search Visibility
Now that Ahrefs users can track AI visibility for the exact queries they care about, many people…
Update: AI Overviews Reduce Clicks by 58%
Back in April 2025, we found that AI Overviews reduced clicks to top-ranking content by 34.5%, despite…
How to Track AI Overviews: Mentions, Citations, Click Loss, and the Traffic Google Won’t Show You
How much traffic do AI Overviews drive? How much awareness do they create for your brand? And…
Semantic Search Is the Only Search That Matters Now (For SEO and AI Visibility)
The same principles apply to backlinks. When other sites link to you using topically relevant anchor text,…
How to Rank in AI Overviews: What Actually Works (Based on Data, Not Speculation)
Most advice on ranking in AI Overviews is speculative, so we’ve analyzed millions of AI Overview responses…
Are AI Mode and AI Overviews Just Different Versions of the Same Answer? (730K Responses Studied)
Google’s AI Mode generates responses that are 4x longer than AI Overviews (on average). When we first…
Top Brand Visibility Factors in ChatGPT, AI Mode, and AI Overviews (75k Brands Studied)
Expanding on one of our most popular AI Overview studies, we’ve analyzed 75,000 brands to see which…
I Ran an AI Misinformation Experiment. Every Marketer Should See the Results
I invented a fake luxury paperweight company, spread three made-up stories about it online, and watched AI…
10 ChatGPT SEO Tools That Help You Rank Higher
We’re all guilty of losing hours researching keywords and fixing markup—tasks that AI can already do faster…
Do Self-Promotional “Best” Lists Boost ChatGPT Visibility? Study of 26,283 Source URLs
Across 60,000+ websites we track daily analytics for, ChatGPT sends 8-9x the referral traffic of the next…
Short vs. Long Content in AI Overviews: The Data Says Both Work
Lately, I’ve seen some particularly bad advice floating around on how long content should be to show…
What Is an MCP Server, and Why Should Marketers Care?
MCP (Model Context Protocol) connects your AI tools directly to your marketing stack—your CMS, analytics, CRM, social…
13 of the Best SEO Blogs (Beyond the Usual Suspects)
AI may be killing search clicks, but we’re still reading content—especially the good stuff. At Ahrefs, we read…
Do AI Assistants Link When Mentioning Brands? For Ahrefs, Only 28% of the Time
AI assistants mention brands constantly but they rarely include links. When I tracked brand mentions for Ahrefs…
How to Monitor Your YouTube Video Mentions
Your brand is being talked about on YouTube right now—and you probably have no idea what’s being said….