always interesting to drop in on cloudflare's AI insights tool to see where the crawl-to-refer ratios stand google 5.3 crawls for every one click - not bad! anthropic 16k crawls for every one click - yikes!

how to create content that fills knowledge gaps 🧵 1. mine reddit with google operators use: site:reddit. com "your topic" site:reddit. com "your topic" "why" site:reddit. com "your topic" "how do i" hit search and then click "tools" and "past month" to surface fresh threads

chat, seo is still dead, apparently @ahrefs

how to recover lost backlinks (and strengthen your profile) 🧵 1. find the lost backlinks using ahrefs enter root domain into site explorer then, under backlink profile, go to backlinks, and filter for lost

asking the average google user if they've ever clicked on a site from AIOs/AI Mode:

how to prioritize relevance vs authority in local link building 🧵 1. open the referring site in ahrefs' site explorer enter the root domain and set the mode to subdomains then, review: a) DR b) referring domains c) organic traffic high DR + zero traffic is a 🚩

from position 1 to position fry

web dev: “the site is seo friendly” seo: define “friendly”

link-building tip: how to manually review link prospects using ahrefs 🧵 1. open the potential referring site in site explorer from ahrefs' dashboard, go to: site explorer → enter root domain → select “subdomains” and generate the report by hitting the orange search button

ai brand mentions are less stable than they appear even when asked the same question, the odds of getting the same brands, let alone in the same order, are low across all major ai tools what are you seeing across your managed properties? stable or volatile brand mentions?

GEOs rejoice. leaked internal emails from google just exposed how ai overviews choose citations:

the “seo is dead” narrative is looking a lot less convincing right now. the datos x sparktoro state of search q4 2025 report just dropped, and it shows traditional search isn’t collapsing under the weight of ai hype. 🧵

seo quick win: turn unlinked brand mentions into backlinks here's how 🧵

"hi dear, we have DR 70+ websites ready for link insertion. here's the sites:" *puts URL into ahrefs* site traffic: 200 visitors/month

traditional search engines still goated for their click-to-refer ratios anthropic: 51.8k crawls per 1 visit 💀 google: 4.6 crawls per 1 visit 🤑 optimize for whaaaaaaaat???

seo quick win: update your title tags for better ctr 1. make them ~60 characters (600 pixels) 2. include the primary keyword 3. mention exactly what the page delivers helpful tool: mangools' serp simulator shows exact truncation mangools.com/free-seo-too...

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apparently SEO is “dead” although, it appears that CMOs didn’t get the memo acccording to Gartner, SEO now accounts for 8.9% of total digital channel allocation, and 37% of CMOs plan to aggressively increase investment in it nothing says "SEO is dead" like rising investment, am I right?

48 hours after building DR 80+ backlinks to a money page

the food blogging world has got a front-row seat to what ai search gets very wrong. case in point: adam and joanne gallagher from inspired taste have been documenting google’s ai-generated recipe answers, and the results are… pret-tay grim.

prepared to adapt. again. for 2026. please, google. we're totally ready...

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google is denying a new report that claims ads are coming to the gemini app in 2026 adweek said google told agencies that paid placements would land inside gemini next year

google has updated its core updates documentation: google now explicitly says smaller core updates happen continuously not just the named ones we all track several times a year: developers.google.com/search/docs/...

google just got hit with a new EU antitrust probe and this time, the target is how its AI products use publisher and creator content the commission is looking at two big questions...

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if you’ve spent any time on X lately (we won't hold it against you), you’ll have seen it youtubers waking up to instant channel bans for breaking youtube's terms of services the thing is, they haven't broken the terms of service

openai has rewritten the job description for its chatgpt crawlers meaning, OAI-SearchBot, the crawler that browses the web on behalf of users, is no longer described as respecting robots.txt there's long been speculation that this was the case anyway, but this makes it official

jingle bells, rankings fell

google is gearing up for another core update john mueller confirmed it at the google search central live event in zurich just a few days ago he said the team is still working on it and that it should be out soon fingers crossed it's after the holiday period!

Nectiv just dropped a monster study on 60,000+ Google Gemini fan-out queries. The results? Gemini is firing off an average of 9.06 fan-outs per prompt. Some prompts were even found to trigger off up to 28 separate searches. Hot damn!

"spam policies apply to thee, not to me" - google

"y'all let me know when one of you cracks 1%"

google has dropped an experimental ai feature inside search console, and it’s like a “analytics advisor” for your performance report

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Ladies and gents, it’s happened. The long rumored, widely dreaded, but inevitable thing has happened: ads in ChatGPT. And not just for free account users either, but all the way to the top. I’m talking right up to the $200 per month users. The audacity!

"gemini dropped early 'cause my polymarket bags" 💎

every seo trend cycle: step 1: panic step 2: acronym step 3: it’s seo again

the year is 2025. chatgpt's live retrieval has really taken off chatgpt rolls out ads in its outputs a platform built on your content… now monetizing the traffic it took from you if you squint, you can almost see the business model forming if you don't squint, you can see it even clearer

dear, google... what. the. f$%k?!

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jes scholz just ran 100+ tests in chatgpt’s new agent mode she booked hotels, buying products, even searching for jobs, and what she found is interrrresting:

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just like chatgpt, the ai overview's responses and citations are in constant flux @ahrefs just analyzed 43,000 keywords and found: