AI Overviews have nearly doubled across five commercial search modifiers
AI Overviews now appear on 88% of the commercial keywords we tracked, up from 46%. See how coverage changed for reviews, pricing, comparisons, and more.
Original Research & Studies
Stay on top of the SEO industry with original research and studies. Here are the latest data-backed resources.
AI search & manufacturing SEO: What the data shows [Study]
Semrush data on AI search in manufacturing. See which brands get mentioned, which get cited, and why citations don‘t drive traffic.
AI Overviews are expanding across commercial intent search [Study]
Google’s move to extend AI Overviews into a wider variety of SERPs is disrupting not only informational searches, but also searches with commercial intent and advertising value.
Only 25% of cited sources overlap between ChatGPT's different reasoning modes [Study]
Most AI visibility strategies treat ChatGPT as a single system. Our research found that‘s a mistake. Thinking mode and Instant mode cite different sources, favor different content, and can recommend different brands for the exact same prompt. Here‘s what marketers need to know.
SEO Split Test Result: Would Adding “Updated 2022” in Title Increase Organic Clicks?
Content freshness has been a hot topic in SEO since Google rolled out its “fresh results” algorithm update in 2011. We wanted to validate whether signals of content freshness were a factor (for Google and/or users) for the category pages of a major online furniture retailer in the US.
SEO Split Test Result: Would Adding the City and State to a Cannabis Directory Site Title Tag Improve Clicks?
We hypothesized, by adding the city and state of a local dispensary to that dispensary’s listing page, we’d see an increase in clicks.
SEO Split Test Result: Should You Sentence Case or Title Case Your Title Tags?
Over the years, many articles have been written about “best practices” for writing the perfect title tag. A topic that you often see is the use of capital letters. Should you sentence case or title case your title tags?
6 SEO Split Testing Best Practices to Validate Your ROI
Understanding the ins and outs of a successful SEO split-test campaign is important for your success once you’re running your own tests. Read the full article to lear about them.
App Store Optimization Study: What We Can Learn From the Top-Ranking Apps
Learn what makes the top-performing apps rank the way they do according to our ASO study.
SEO Split-Test Result: Does Emphasizing an H1 Impact Organic Traffic?
We added a CSS font-weight treatment to the primary H1 for the product pages on the ecommerce site. What do you think the impact was on organic traffic? Ranking? Read the article to find out.