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What Top Stories Inside AI Overviews Means For Publishers And Brands In 2026 And Beyond via @sejournal, @gregjarboe

Most publishers think robots.txt keeps them out of AI Overviews. It doesn't. John Shehata's data shows what the wrong setting actually costs newsrooms. The post What Top Stories Inside AI Overviews Means For Publishers And Brands In 2026 And Beyond appeared first on Search Engine Journal . from Search Engine Journal https://ift.tt/qulmsWp
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Otterly says a competitor has "100% likelihood to buy." From 15 prompts over 14 days. How are you defending numbers like this to clients?

Was poking at Otterly and exported a full brand report for a random SaaS to see what a client would actually receive. 10 pages. Some things that stopped me: - Page 5 has a "Likelihood to buy" column. Semrush 100%. Writesonic 92%. No idea where that comes from. Sample was 15 prompts over 14 days. - One competitor had 1 mention total and got reported as "1% share of voice." One observation, printed as a percentage. - The brand I ran it for is invisible, so pages 3, 4 and 9 are just columns of zeros. "Top 10 prompts by brand mentions" - all 0. - One heading literally reads "My top 0 URLs". - It lists the prompts but never shows what ChatGPT actually said. So there's nothing in the document a client could check. Not dunking on Otterly specifically, every tool I've looked at does roughly the same thing. But it got me wondering about the day-one problem: a new client is invisible by definition, that's why they hired you. So th...

AI assistants cite my site 10,000+ times a month. It sends me almost no traffic. My data after 12 weeks of optimizing for AEO.

I run a streaming-availability site focused on Asian markets, 12 weeks old. Instead of fighting for traditional SERPs against IMDb and the big aggregators, I optimized for AI answers from day one. Sharing the numbers because the results surprised me in both directions. What the data shows (Microsoft Clarity AI visibility + my own referral logs): Rank #1 cited source in my niche's query set, with 65 percent share of all page citations. Ahead of Netflix's own domain and the big aggregators for those queries. 10,000+ Copilot citations in 30 days, plus growing ChatGPT and Gemini citations. Direct referral traffic from all of that: a fraction of one percent of sessions. The assistants answer with my data and the user never visits. What actually got the citations, in order of impact as far as I can tell: Country-specific long-tail pages. "Where to watch X in Pakistan" beats "where to watch X" because nobody authoritative covers the specific version. Comp...

Open Knowledge Format v0.2 Adds A Trust Layer – No AI Agent Reads It Yet via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

No agent reads your OKF bundle. Write one anyway: v0.2's provenance and staleness fields expose every claim your website cannot defend. The post Open Knowledge Format v0.2 Adds A Trust Layer – No AI Agent Reads It Yet appeared first on Search Engine Journal . from Search Engine Journal https://ift.tt/qWxJLOH

Advice On A Project

Hey everyone, I'm building a tool in the SEO field. It generates monthly client reports automatically. You enter your numbers and what you did that month, it writes the full professional report and exports a PDF. The advice I want is, if a tool like this saved you 2-3 hours per client per month on report writing, would $28/month feel fair, too expensive, or too cheap? And what would make you actually pay for it versus just using ChatGPT? I appreciate the comments in advance, thanks! submitted by /u/VertexTheDreadLord [link] [comments] from The SEO Authority https://ift.tt/aObWdiU

SEO beginner: Can I rank a website using mostly AI? What tools would you recommend?

I'm a complete SEO beginner and want to rank a new website, but I'd like AI to do as much of the work as possible. Is it realistic to handle almost the entire SEO process with AI (e.g. ChatGPT agents and other tools), while I mainly review the results? I'm looking for a workflow that covers everything: Keyword research Competitor analysis Topical maps Content briefs Writing & optimization Internal linking Technical SEO Publishing Rank tracking If you were starting from scratch today, which AI + SEO tools would you use, and what would your end-to-end workflow look like? Is anyone already doing this successfully? submitted by /u/Suspicious-Good-4492 [link] [comments] from The SEO Authority https://ift.tt/iE0UWy6

Question around using a subdomain

Hi community, I have a question I wanted to pose. I am the owner of a teaching company called thedegreegap.com, and I am building out a PSEO subject X location matrix for local tutoring inquiries. My actual website, thedegreegap.com, is where operations happen and online tutoring occurs. I built the study.thedegreegap.com to run as my lead funnel, but I am not sure how feasible this is. I run in a quite competitive space, so I am finding it hard to rank study.thedegreegap.com at the moment. It took me a year and a half to build up the domain authority of thedegreegap.com and to rank for those terms. I've been running this for three months, and my impressions are at 450 a day, which is a gradual increase, but it's still ranking on page three or four at the moment, even for long-tail terms. I am wondering if I should move this whole website to thedegreegap.com and have it run on there. The only issue that I am finding is that it's built on the Hugo framework, and I don...