Now that Ahrefs users can track AI visibility for the exact queries they care about, many people are wondering which terms they should monitor. After all, conversing with AI is unlike how we would traditionally search, since requests can be far more detailed, or occur in the middle of longer conversations. AI responses are also…
How much traffic do AI Overviews drive? How much awareness do they create for your brand? And how can you track that over time? 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… Ahrefs Web Analytics, our GA4 alternative. The source…
Most advice on ranking in AI Overviews is speculative, so we’ve analyzed millions of AI Overview responses, reviewed third-party research, and studied Google’s guidance to find out what actually works. Our own study shows that AI Overviews have caused click-through rate drops of 34.5%, with new research from Seer Interactive reporting drops as high as…
Millions of people still turn to Google for answers. But there’s also a growing number of people who are turning to AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity directly for answers and getting their tasks done. If your brand isn’t appearing in these AI responses, you’re becoming invisible to an increasingly important segment of your audience….
Traditional search tracking is built on a simple promise: type a query, get a result, and track your ranking. AI doesn’t work that way. 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…
Article Performance Data from Ahrefs Linking websites The number of websites linking to this post. Get the week’s best marketing content We analyzed our Brand Radar database of 5.5 million AI Mode queries to identify the domains that appear most often in Google’s AI Mode responses. These are the 100 most cited domains, along with…
