Technical SEO, split-testing, local search and algorithm analysis from independent practitioners and specialist agencies — SearchPilot, Lumar, Sistrix, Sterling Sky, Marie Haynes and others.
Impact is an automatic estimate of how much a story is likely to
affect one website, weighing who published it, whether Google has
confirmed a ranking change, how many outlets ran it, and whether
the wording implies work on your site. It reads headlines, not
your analytics — treat it as triage, not a verdict.
Ask ChatGPT the same question today and tomorrow, and you will often get two different answers. Sometimes your brand is mentioned, sometimes it isn’t. So can AI visibility be measured at all? It can…
Garrett French, Valerie Cecil and James Wirth of Citation Labs tell Greg Sterling and Mike Blumenthal how a link-building agency rebuilt itself for AI visibility: satellite comparison sites, query…
AI is absolutely rewriting how the internet works, but optimizing for LLM visibility misses where the actual ROI exists as the web morphs from a place to find information to the agentic web. Have you…
Garrett French, James Wirth and Valerie Cecil of Citation Labs talk to us about how they measure AI visibility across six layers, build the prompts worth tracking, and replace the stale facts AI…
AI visibility is downstream of real-world influence — reviews, third-party mentions, brand demand and pages that make the decision easy — so the teams that chase today's citation sources will lose…
One of the ways to improve your local SEO ranking is by optimizing your Google Business Profile (GBP). While it might seem like a simple task, small oversights—like selecting the wrong category—can…
This is a question I get pretty frequently in the Local SEO community: What URL should I link my GMB listing to? The homepage? A location page? Something else? We wanted to test & measure how the…
Andrew Shotland & Mark Kabana join us for Part 2 to discuss what "AI visibility" actually is as an agency product, why nobody can tie it to revenue yet, and how ads are quietly taking the clicks that…
I turned my 15-year archive of Google algorithm updates into an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at algo.mariehaynes.com. Here is how it was built, the architecture behind it, and how you…
Traditional ranking metrics can only tell us so much about GEO performance. In this article, we explore what a GEO analytics stack could look like, with layers covering candidate page selection to…
TL;DR Claude’s watermark only flags that Claude was “likely involved,” so it can’t tell a fully AI-drafted piece from a human draft Claude lightly edited It’s an EU compliance requirement (Code of…
TL;DR Everyone measuring AI search is defaulting to the same KPIs, but there is no one-size-fits-all AI search KPI New research shows 54% of AI search categories lack a clear category owner, and…
This regularly updated list of the top 100 domains in US search includes analysis and highlights. The list is created using the SISTRIX Domain Visibility Index values, an indicator of footprint and…
Rankings still matter, but they no longer tell the whole story in AI-powered search. Learn how GEO builds on traditional SEO and what influences visibility in AI-generated responses.
If you work in digital marketing your inbox is likely to be littered with news on the latest AI visibility trackers. With so many solutions on the market it can leave you with a difficult decision,…
In an analysis of ~45 million keywords in which Google displayed their Top Stories SERP feature, the 1,000 most prominent domains accounted for 97.3% of all listings. That’s just one of many insights…
Welcome to Detailed Q4: Our fourth quarterly report sharing insights from the companies dominating Google search results and what they’re doing to stay ahead of the competition. SEO is going through…
Welcome to Detailed Q3: Our third quarterly report sharing insights from the companies dominating Google search results and what they’re doing to stay ahead of the competition. SEO is going through…
– Updated the top 20 forums table to compare July vs February – Updated Reddit traffic chart for the last two years – Ran all numbers again for July compared to February – Updated the stats for how…
Welcome to Detailed Q2: Our second-ever quarterly report sharing insights from the companies dominating Google search results and what they’re doing to stay ahead of the competition. SEO is going…
– Documented how Reddit are now dominating results in October – Updated the number of first-place rankings the top 100 domains achieved – Three digital goliaths have 36 sites in the top 100 in…
I recently analyzed 250,000 English-language search results, primarily to answer a specific question: Do sites owned by large media companies attain more first-place rankings than independent…
