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We wanted to see for ourselves how ChatGPT retrieves information—and what that means for AI visibility—so we analyzed 66.6 million free, logged-out GPT-5.6 Luna responses and their 15 million fan-out queries from August and September. Only 14.4% of the 66.6… Read more ›

That puts AI ahead of YouTube as a source of signups, and second only to Google. If we’d relied on our referral traffic alone, we’d have badly undersold it. Most AI influence happens out of sight. A buyer can read… Read more ›

Forrester found 94% of business buyers now use AI search when buying, rating it above vendor websites, product experts, and sales reps. B2C isn’t far behind: NielsenIQ puts it at 42% of consumers researching products with AI. That’s why bigger… Read more ›

That prompted us to investigate AI Overviews for branded searches on a larger scale. We found that AI Overviews now appear for 83% of branded queries, potentially reducing clicks to brands’ own websites and giving third-party sources like Wikipedia, YouTube… Read more ›

But easier to build doesn’t necessarily mean easier to optimize. WordPress and other CMSs quietly handle many SEO basics through plugins and built-in functionality, from canonicals and sitemaps to redirects, metadata, schema, and 404 handling. With a static site, much… Read more ›