ChatGPT Has 12% of Google’s Search Volume but Google Sends 190x More Traffic to Websites

While ChatGPT has nearly a fifth of Google’s query volume, people use the platforms in different ways. I wanted to see how ChatGPT compared to Google, not just on the…

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Bing Webmaster Tools Adds AI Citation Performance Data via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Bing Webmaster Tools now shows publishers how often their content is cited in Copilot and AI-generated answers, with page-level data and grounding queries. The post Bing Webmaster Tools Adds AI…

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How to Track AI Overviews: Mentions, Citations, Click Loss, and the Traffic Google Won’t Show You

These questions aren’t easy to answer—especially since Google keeps AI Overview data under lock and key. But, if you keep reading, you might just find out… When people talk about…

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How To Analyze Google Discover

Why Discover success depends on outperforming expected early performance, and how entities, headlines, and images shape long-term credibility. The post How To Analyze Google Discover appeared first on Search Engine…

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Google Files DMCA Suit Targeting SerpApi’s SERP Scraping via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google sued SerpApi under the DMCA, alleging it circumvented SearchGuard to scrape and resell licensed copyrighted content from Google Search results at scale. The post Google Files DMCA Suit Targeting…

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96.98% of Clicks Happen in the Top 10 Search Results

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…

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Bing Supports data-nosnippet For Search Snippets & AI Answers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Bing now supports the data-nosnippet HTML attribute, letting websites exclude specific page sections from search snippets and AI-generated answers in Bing. The post Bing Supports data-nosnippet For Search Snippets &…

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Google Modifies Search Results Parameter, Affecting SEO Tools via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google appears to have disabled the &num=100 results parameter, disrupting rank trackers and prompting a rethink of desktop impressions in Search Console. The post Google Modifies Search Results Parameter, Affecting…

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Google Expands YMYL Guidelines To Cover Election & Civic Content via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google updated its quality rater guidelines to treat election and voting info as YMYL. See what changed and how to align civic content. The post Google Expands YMYL Guidelines To…

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ChatGPT May Scrape Google, but the Results Don’t Match

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…

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