AI Assistants may also work slightly differently. By default, they don’t have any notion of websites and can make up sources. Looking at you ChatGPT. Some systems are augmented with search, where they retrieve documents first and they’re less likely… Read more ›

In this article, we’re looking specifically at AI’s impact on content creation. How common is AI content use? What tools do people use? How often do people edit their outputs? AI use for content marketing is extremely prevalent: 87% of… Read more ›

I looked at the top 10 websites cited 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. Here’s what… Read more ›

I was previously a skeptic of AI content detectors, and many people still are. Andrew Holland recently shared a LinkedIn comment that does a good job summarizing common concerns: In a nutshell: AI content detectors are not accurate. AI content… Read more ›

That used to work. But with AI-powered search on the rise, the era of SEOs as technicians is fading, and the era of SEOs as real marketers is here. Search isn’t just limited to Google anymore. Rankings don’t guarantee clicks.… Read more ›

This coincides with the massive rollout of AI Overviews we saw alongside the March update. AI Overviews are now in 200 countries and 40 + languages. It seems that when AI Overviews lack sufficient native-language content, Google resorts to auto-translating… Read more ›

But our latest study might surprise you: Nearly half of all Google searches (45.7%) are branded searches—meaning people are actively seeking out specific companies and products they already know. Yep, nearly half of what people type into Google includes a… Read more ›

I was looking at our LLM filter in Ahrefs Web Analytics and noticed some common generative engines missing from the list. They’re in our filters, but we aren’t seeing any data from them for sites. This invisible traffic problem comes… Read more ›

It gives me a “second brain” and superhuman speed, and takes care of all the tedious tasks I dislike about my job. Sure, maybe one day AI will replace my job. But right now? The real risk is not using… Read more ›

Soon it won’t be a case of “Should I, or shouldn’t I optimize for AI Overviews?” If you want any chance of search visibility, you’ll need to understand how to rank in Google’s AI results. With this new reality in… Read more ›