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 AI-generated… Read more ›

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-click… Read more ›

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 your… Read more ›

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 ›

But marketers have learned something important along the way: don’t try to measure everything. It’s more helpful to track a few key numbers that give you useful insights. This guide will show you how to focus on the most important… Read more ›

To answer this question, I looked at the referral traffic from AI Search using Ahrefs Web Analytics and compared that to traffic from Organic Search for ahrefs.com. Ahrefs Web Analytics, a simple, free, and privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics. Try… Read more ›

Staying ahead and making great decisions on what to do next means understanding the data. We’ve run dozens of data studies helping SEOs and marketers figure out what’s going on and what they can do next. If you’d like to… Read more ›