AI Search Engine Optimization: What Actually Works

AI search engine optimization illustration: marketer reviewing mock AI answers from Google, ChatGPT, and Perplexity

You search your own core topic, and an AI Overview answers it before your page even shows up. So does SEO still matter? Yes. That’s the short version of this whole guide. AI search engine optimization is the work of making your pages easy for AI-powered search, like Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT search, and Perplexity, … Read more

Where ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews Disagree

Four AI answer cards from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews giving different answers to one Gemini API question

You ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google the same question: what’s the free-tier rate limit on the Gemini API? You get four answers. Two match, one describes last year’s limits, and one cites a forum thread. That’s normal for ChatGPT vs Perplexity vs Gemini vs Google AI Overviews. Each system decides differently when to search, … Read more

Google AI Mode: What It Means for Website Traffic

Google AI Mode traffic: AI Mode answer with cited sources on a laptop, next to a chart of impressions up and clicks down

Your rankings look stable. Impressions in Search Console might even be up. Clicks, though, keep slipping, and Google AI Mode is the obvious suspect. Google AI Mode is a conversational search experience inside Google Search that writes an AI-generated answer, links to the pages it drew from, and lets the searcher keep asking follow-up questions. … Read more