Search Engine Marketing

ChatGPT, LLM referrals convert worse than Google Search: Study

ChatGPT referral traffic converts worse than Google search, email and affiliate links, trailing on both conversion rate and revenue per session, according to a new analysis of 973 ecommerce sites. Why we care. AI search platforms are starting to refer meaningful traffic to retailers – but not yet sales. For now, Google (paid organic) search still […]

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Time We Actually Start To Measure Relevancy When We Talk About “Relevant Traffic” via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW

As AI Overviews reshape discovery, Dan Taylor challenges SEOs to move beyond revenue metrics and start quantifying user alignment and trust. The post Time We Actually Start To Measure Relevancy When We Talk About “Relevant Traffic” appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Why Google Search Console impressions fell (and why that’s good)

In mid-September, many SEO professionals began noticing unusual drops in Google Search Console (GSC) data.  Impressions were down, average positions shifted, and the number of reported queries changed overnight.  This wasn’t the result of a ranking update but a reporting change – one that redefines how we interpret GSC visibility data going forward. What happened

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Reddit sues Perplexity, SerpApi over scraping Google Search data

Reddit is taking four data-scraping companies to court – including AI search engine Perplexity and SEO data firm SerpApi – accusing them of illegally using its content via Google search results. The lawsuit. SerpApi, Oxylabs, AWMProxy, and Perplexity “devised a scheme” to scrape Reddit data indirectly from Google, then resell or reuse it to train

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