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OpenAI crawl activity roughly tripled after GPT-5, with OAI-SearchBot now generating more log events than GPTBot. The post OpenAI Crawl Activity Tripled Since GPT-5, Data Shows appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Every company’s competitors are showing up in AI-generated answers, but do marketers know which ones, for which queries, and why? That’s exactly what AEO competitor analysis is designed to tell teams. Answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews…
When tracking share of voice for marketing teams, it’s often assumed to be a vanity metric — a number executives like to include in board decks but one that rarely influences strategy. In practice, that assumption doesn’t hold up. Share…
I’ve spent considerable time testing free answer engine optimization tools across dozens of brand audits, and the verdict is clear: you don’t need a five-figure tech stack to get meaningful AEO data. The right free tools used in the right…
When I first started auditing content for answer engine visibility, I assumed the keyword research process was roughly the same as traditional SEO — just with a few tweaks. I was wrong. Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) keyword research isn’t just…
Your competitors are adjusting pricing, launching new ad creative, publishing content that outranks yours, and showing up in AI answers you didn’t know existed — often all in the same week. Competitor monitoring tools exist to catch those moves early,…
LinkedIn is rolling out Off-Platform Event Ads, giving marketers a new way to promote events without needing a native LinkedIn Event Page. What’s happening. The new format allows advertisers to run Event Ads that link directly to external destinations —…
Every brand holds its claims, and somewhere in the archive of its digital life, there’s proof to back them up. The AI assistive engine (the systems behind ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews) holds that proof too, scattered across its…
Wil Reynolds, founder and CEO of Seer Interactive, is challenging SEOs to rethink what success looks like in a world increasingly shaped by AI. In his SEO Week session, “SEO is a performance channel, GEO isn’t. How do you pivot?”,…
One of the most dependable ways to grow organic visibility was to publish more content. Expanding into the long tail and creating pages around different variations of a topic often led to steady traffic growth. Many SEO teams still operate…