These are the 100 most cited domains, along with their number of mentions. The top domains cited in AI Mode are Wikipedia, YouTube, Google’s blog, Reddit, and Google itself. With so many mentions of YouTube, their own blog, and themselves,…Read m...

We know that AI assistants like ChatGPT access search indices, like Google and Bing, to retrieve URLs for their response. But how, exactly? To find out, we’ve run a series of experiments looking at the relationship between the URLs cited…Read mor...

If you want any chance of visibility in LLM search, you need to understand how to make your brand visible in AI answers. The latest wave of experts claim to know the “secret” to AI visibility, but the reality is…Read more ›

To find out, we looked at the http status of 16 million unique URLs cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, and Mistral. We found that AI assistants send visitors to 404 pages 2.87x more often than Google Search. ChatGPT…Read more ...

If traffic from search goes up, so do their stock prices. But recently, many companies saw major traffic (and revenue) declines thanks to changes in AI search. This post is for you if you’re a business stakeholder, journalist, researcher, or…Read...

Two months later, on 20 May 2025, Google rolled out AI Mode to everyone in the U.S. Just a couple of months later, Google went full steam ahead and rolled it out to India, later the UK, and now 180…Read more ›

SEO is still essential for brands to show up in these answers, but visibility now depends on more than rankings. What matters is whether your brand and content are trusted and structured enough to be mentioned or cited. This is…Read more ›

Across LinkedIn threads and AI‑SEO guides, the promise is the same: format your content into perfect “chunks” and you’ll get chosen for Google’s AI Overviews or cited in AI search results. The problem? Chunk optimization isn’t actually an SEO tactic.&#...

However, over the past months, some SEOs discovered that ChatGPT may have secretly pivoted to using Google instead. These were all one-off experiments. So, I wondered if it was possible for us to find out the ‘truth’ using data instead.…Read more...

As AI tools become more common, they’re changing how people search, delivering direct, personalized answers, often without sending users to other websites. That means digital marketing is shifting—from chasing clicks to building brand visibility and tr...

And here’s the thing: they’re not just looking on Google anymore. People are turning to TikTok for product suggestions, digging through Reddit for brutally honest reviews, and asking ChatGPT for personalized shopping lists and recommendations—often in ...

Ahrefs’ Community Manager, Michelle Lindner, shared Ryan Trahan’s “50 States Challenge” in our #Marketing Slack channel after watching it with her kids. She thought it showed some awesome examples of unconventional marketing—and we agreed. One brand st...

You’ve probably heard that Google’s AI search features are tanking organic traffic. In April, we reported that click-through rates dropped by 35% across 300,000 keywords. Now, a Pew Research study has revealed that just 1% of articles cited in AI&#8230...

With the rapid growth of generative AI, businesses, educators, and publishers are asking a critical question: how can we tell what’s written by humans and what’s produced by machines? The answer: it’s possible, but not foolproof. Here’s how to approach...

Perplexity is the outlier: nearly 1 in 3 of its citations point to pages that rank in the top 10 for the target query. We analyzed four AI assistants—ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Perplexity—to measure how often the URLs they cite…Read more &#825...

I’ll be honest: there are parts of my job that I don’t like. Writing my 500th article on content gap analysis because we found a new long-tail keyword to target. Listing out the features of 30 free SEO tools for…Read more ›

These are prominent pages on the web and those that other websites have deemed worthy of linking to. Having your brand present on these pages means you likely have more credibility, that you’re a known brand. I looked at the…Read more ›

If you think about it, there is no clearer signal than the fact that Google has rapidly rolled out AI Overviews (and now AI mode), both of which are basically AI-generated content. Yet there are still many SEOs and digital…Read more ›

I looked at the top 50 websites mentioned in Ahrefs Brand Radar for Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. This is across ~76.7M AI Overviews, 957k ChatGPT prompts, and 953.5k Perplexity prompts for the month of June 2025. Let’s dig…Read m...

These are prominent pages on the web, with a lot of visibility. Having your brand present on these pages means you likely have more credibility, that you’re a known brand. I looked at the top 50 websites mentioned in Ahrefs…Read more ›

There are tons of AI detectors available. And, while ours is the only one that can also show you any webpage’s backlinks and estimated search traffic, how the page content has changed over time, and how it performs relative to…Read more ›

With AI, you can bypass coding, hiring a developer, or staring at a blank page for hours. You can automate everything from writing content to choosing a professional layout and images. This guide walks you through the entire process, step…Read mo...

The good news is that’s no longer true. Today, anyone with an internet connection can uncover really powerful market insights using affordable and even free tools. This guide will show you how. In simple terms, product research is the process…Rea...

I looked at the top 50 websites mentioned in Ahrefs Brand Radar for Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. This is across ~76.7M AI Overviews, 957k ChatGPT prompts, and 953.5k Perplexity prompts for the month of June 2025. I compared…Read ...

To help you get it right, I turned to someone who’s been deep in the trenches of localization: Erik Sarissky, Head of International Marketing and Product Localization at Ahrefs. Erik has quadrupled organic traffic to Ahrefs’ Spanish blog in 18…Re...

Instead of just looking at which websites are mentioned the most, I wanted to understand whether those mentions actually match the popularity of the topics being discussed. I compared each domain’s Mention Share (how often it shows up) to its…Rea...

It’s a search engine: To learn more about TikTok SEO, I hopped on a call with Charlotte Ang, the co-founder of Traffic Bees, a digital marketing agency based in Singapore that also owns PickleGO, a pickleball equipment store that she…Read more &#...

In this article, we’re looking specifically at the costs and budgets associated with AI content. How much does AI content cost? Are companies investing more, or less? AI-generated content is 4.7x cheaper than human-written content. The average cost per...

The problem is that AI bots are new to web crawling. They’re still making some silly crawl decisions, bumping around, and wasting a lot of resources. We’ve already seen that AI bots are starting to be blocked by a lot…Read more ›

This sits at odds with Google’s original search model, which worked by passing on referral traffic to third-party sites. Google is getting better at creating zero-click searches, and that means that websites get fewer and fewer clicks in search. Zero-c...

The roll-out of AI Overviews now creates two opportunities for top-ranking content to log impressions for a given keyword, while simultaneously reducing the number of people who click from the search engine results page (SERP) into your content. If you...

In this article, we’re looking at the performance of AI content. Does it rank? Does it perform better or worse than human content? Is it riskier than human content? Websites using AI content grew 5% faster than those not using…Read more ›

The terminology in this industry is evolving. I’m defining AI search as search that happens in AI assistants like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, etc. While we’re working on a larger study across many websites, I wanted to share more data on…Read more ...

Calculating SEO potential can be complex and time-consuming. But this is where my free SEO Potential Bot comes in. This simple tool automates the process of analyzing keywords, modeling ranking scenarios, and, in effect, calculating your/your client’s ...

These small business SEO tools are free, beginner-friendly, and cover all your needs for DIY SEO. Ahrefs is an essential SEO platform used by over 50,000 companies worldwide. Many small business owners get started for free with Ahrefs Webmaster Tools&#...

In that time, I’ve built up a trusty vault of tried-and-tested SEO resources that I use, which I’ll share with you today. Hopefully, you’ll find them useful (…and maybe even bookmark this page). There is an unlimited supply of useful…Read more &#...

Take the famous Michelin guide Branded content is mass-appeal media or entertainment content that’s either sponsored, commissioned, or created by a company. Think Netflix-style documentaries for SaaS marketers, or short films directed by clothing brand...