Ranking & Algorithms recap: week of 12 Oct 2026

The stories about Ranking & Algorithms from this period, ranked by likely impact on a single site.

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Medium SEO-Serps Blog

DIY Link Building and Digital PR on a Small Budget

Links from other websites remain one of the strongest signals search engines use to judge which pages deserve to rank. They are also where small sites most often go wrong — either ignoring links…

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Medium Ahrefs Blog

How ChatGPT Does Query Fan-Out (15 Million Queries Studied)

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…

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