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These are the top 50 countries with the biggest proportion of AI Overviews worldwide. We pulled data from our search index and calculated how many keywords appear in AI Overview queries compared to regular search queries that appear in SERPs…Read more ›View the full article

At first glance, it looks like only big brands get cited in AI answers. Wikipedia alone accounts for over 2 million citations across major AI platforms. But these brands aren’t cited just because they’re famous. They’re cited because their content…Read more ›View the full article

This year? We barely talked about algorithms. Instead, more than 500 marketers gathered and listened raptly as every conversation circled back to AI. Its meteoric impact on our industry cannot be overstated. Here are the four themes that defined Ahrefs…Read more ›View the full article

The examples in this article prove the opposite: AI’s value is removing grunt work and constraints, not replacing the humans who understand your market, your brand, and your customers. A $100 denim dog harness brand struggled with low ad engagement.…Read more ›View the full article

Want the full story? Read on. As you probably already know, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the practice of improving your website so it appears higher in Google, Bing, or other search engine results when people search for topics related…Read more ›View the full article

Thanks to generative AI, every part of our discipline is in flux: the tactics and strategies that yield great results, the tools and processes we use to achieve them, even the unit economics that justify it. One suggestion put forward…Read more ›View the full article

In this guide, I’ll show you everything you need to know about using AI to create content, while still feeling confident about it. AI-generated content is any material—text, images, video, audio, code, or data visualizations—created primarily or entirely using artificial…Read more ›View the full article

The post exploded. 500+ likes, 400+ comments, and people are loving it. But SEOs didn’t. I can’t believe we’re still talking about this at the end of 2025. I want to believe it’s ragebait. But whether he’s antagonising on purpose,…Read more ›View the full article

Let’s get into it. We studied two new factors in our research this time around: “YouTube mentions” and “YouTube mention impressions”—using newly available data in Ahrefs Brand Radar. Both correlated more strongly with AI visibility than anything else, beating even…Read more ›View the full article

Assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity don’t show fixed results—they generate answers that vary with every run, every model, and every user. “AI rank tracking” is a misnomer—you can’t track AI like you do traditional search. But that doesn’t mean…Read more ›View the full article

To find out, we analysed 458 billion clicks and 17 trillion impressions from Google Search Console. Our findings are a good reminder: page one is where the overwhelming majority of clicks and impressions happen. In August 2025, 96.98% of desktop…Read more ›View the full article

This guide shows you how to run an AI search competitor analysis that reveals: Which brands in your industry dominate AI search today Where your competitors earn visibility, but you don’t Which topics, pages, and sources drive their advantage What…Read more ›View the full article

But when potential customers search “pizza near me” or “plumber in London,” you’re nowhere to be found in the top three results. Your competitors are stealing your customers. Here’s the reality: just having a Google Business Profile doesn’t mean Google…Read more ›View the full article

So I did something different: I asked the speakers and panelists at Ahrefs Evolve, our conference in San Diego from October 13-15, which newsletters they actually read and recommend. The result? A curated list of newsletters that span SEO, media,…Read more ›View the full article

MCP, which stands for Model Context Protocol, is an open standard that companies can use to integrate their external tools and data with compatible AI assistants. Imagine you’ve recently launched a new clothing brand and want to find eCommerce stores…Read more ›View the full article

That’s what a brand gap analysis enables. It also turns brand visibility from a vague concept into something measurable and fixable. Here’s how. A brand gap analysis measures the difference between your brand’s potential visibility and its actual presence across…Read more ›View the full article

To find the answers, our data scientist, Xibeijia Guan, analyzed over 43,000 keywords—each with at least 16 recorded AI Overviews—over the course of a month. She extracted this data from Brand Radar, our new AI visibility tool that tracks hundreds…Read more ›View the full article

We pulled the most recent, B2B-specific stats and organized them around the most important things in B2B SEO. Below are the stats worth citing in 2025. Organic search is still a top B2B discovery and pipeline driver. AI may have…Read more ›View the full article

User interactions, also called UX signals or user signals, include things like clicks, scrolls, swipes, and mouse hovers. These now play a major role in how Google ranks content and which brands gain more visibility in search results. Here’s everything…Read more ›View the full article

It measures where the brand is mentioned in AI search platforms, how often, how accurately, and based on which sources. Here’s a step-by-step process for how you audit your brand’s AI visibility today. Before benchmarking your AI visibility, start by…Read more ›View the full article

At Ahrefs, we read and share articles all the time for marketing and SEO inspiration. In fact, SQ puts a call-out for the best SEO blogs every week, to curate the Ahrefs’ Digest. Below you’ll find our favorites–the blogs that…Read more ›View the full article

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Fresh content or content freshness simply means how new or recently updated a page is. Keeping your content up to date tells Google and AI assistants that your information is current, helpful, and reliable, which helps you keep good rankings…Read more ›View the full article

AI visibility is how discoverable your brand is and how often your content gets referenced across AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity. For example, here I’m using Ahrefs’ Brand Radar to analyze Tesla’s…Read more ›View the full article

YouTube is the second-largest search engine, where users spend roughly 50 minutes daily (and growing). It’s also the 2nd most cited source by LLMs, meaning video mentions don’t just reach human audiences—they teach AI how to recommend your brand. YouTube…Read more ›View the full article