Rudrendu Paul and Sourav Nandy released LLMScout, a zero-dependency CLI that runs 21 checks against any website to determine how well AI systems can find and cite it. The tool covers technical SEO fun…
A developer built a tool to check whether AI assistants name their product, and found that across 44 answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, their product was named zero times. The developer dis…
Google's rollout of AI Mode as the default search experience, powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash, has cut publisher click-through rates by up to 58%, according to an Ahrefs study, with users clicking a tradi…
A developer's analysis of 2025-2026 data from Cloudflare, Vercel/MERJ, and Ahrefs reveals that major AI crawlers—including OpenAI's GPTBot, Anthropic's ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot—do not execute Java…
Bing holds 4.68% of global search and 8.73% in the US as of June 2026, but Microsoft retired every Bing Search API in August 2025, leaving no official way to pull Bing positions programmatically. This…
AI-referred traffic to US retail sites surged 693% year over year during the 2025 holidays, converting 31% better than non-AI traffic, according to Adobe data. A Semrush analysis found that only about…
A new analysis of customer acquisition cost (CAC) by channel for one-person AI products finds that paid channels run hundreds of dollars per customer, with B2B paid search near $800 and LinkedIn near …
OpenSEO, an open source SEO platform launched on Product Hunt in July 2026, offers keyword research, rank tracking, backlinks, and site audits as a pay-as-you-go alternative to Ahrefs and Semrush. Bui…
AI agent traffic surged 45% in Q2 2026 to 17.7 billion requests, according to a DataDome report, as publishers shift focus from referral traffic to controlling how AI agents consume content. Meta's RA…
Ahrefs will require authentication for its free Domain Rating API endpoint starting August 10, 2026, after which unauthenticated requests will receive a 401 Unauthorized error. The endpoint remains fr…
AI answer engines sent about 1.13 billion referral visits to the top 1,000 websites in June 2025, up 357% year-over-year, but that is still roughly one part in 170 of Google's 191 billion visits. Semr…
Google's AI Overview, a Gemini-generated answer block placed above traditional search results, now appears on close to one in five searches, according to Ahrefs' analysis of roughly 100,000 keywords. …
AI agents can automate content marketing from research to publishing, reducing manual work from 6-12 hours per post to minimal human intervention, according to a guide on building agent workflows usin…
A developer ran 1,790 measurements across five AI engines and found that most AI visibility dashboards report misleading numbers. Branded prompts inflate scores, and different engines produce conflict…
AutoBacklinks launches an all-in-one link building outreach tool that replaces multiple services like Ahrefs, Hunter, and Instantly, offering AI-powered prospect discovery, contact finding, email gene…
A developer released SEO Command Center, an open-source, self-hosted SEO dashboard that runs on DataForSEO's pay-as-you-go API for roughly $4 per month in API credits, undercutting subscription-based …
Founders must now optimize for AI chatbots like ChatGPT rather than traditional search engines, as Gartner predicts a 25% drop in search volume by 2026 and Google's AI Overviews produce zero-click res…
The agentic web is splitting into two bets: identity via llms.txt and capability via WebMCP. Llms.txt, a file that tells AI models what a website covers, is being enabled by default on millions of Wor…
The percentage of ad spend going to made-for-advertising (MFA) sites increased for the first time since 2023, rising from 0.6% in Q4 2025 to 1.1% in Q1 2026, according to the Association of National A…
AI engines use brand information in two distinct ways: usage (ingesting content without citation) and citation (directly referencing the brand as a source). A Pew Research study found users click link…