Topic: serp features
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Master People Also Ask SEO: Optimize, Rank & Track
Securing visibility in Google's People Also Ask (PAA) boxes is a vital SEO strategy for increasing organic traffic and dominating search results, even for competitive queries. To optimize for PAA, identify opportunities by analyzing where your site ranks organically but misses PAA visibility, the...
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Personalized Search: How Brands Can Adapt to User-Specific Results
Search results are now highly personalized, varying by user and location, making consistent brand visibility a major challenge for marketers. The rise of generative AI and social media for discovery has shifted focus from traditional SEO to managing brand perception across countless unique user j...
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Master Google's 2026 SERPs: A Webinar Guide
The webinar, led by a senior search scientist, uses extensive data to analyze upcoming changes in Google's search results, moving beyond speculation to actionable strategy. It will identify high-potential SERP features, analyze the rise of AI-driven display formats, and pinpoint specific keyword ...
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Google Search Console: AI Overviews & Blue Links Count as One Impression
Google Search Console counts a single impression when the same URL appears in both an AI Overview and the standard organic results on the same page, consolidating multiple appearances. This logic is consistent with how Google treats other SERP features like knowledge panels, counting user exposur...
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AI vs. Ads: The Fight for Ranking Supremacy
Google's AI Overviews are pushing paid and organic search results down, with ads losing visibility to the AI summary roughly 25% of the time, threatening click-through rates and revenue. The impact varies significantly by industry, with Healthcare ads appearing below AI Overviews nearly 65% of th...
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Boost Brand Awareness When Organic Traffic Stalls
The rise of zero-click search, where users get answers directly from search results, is creating an awareness gap by reducing website traffic and brand attribution opportunities. Marketers must adopt a blended strategy, using paid advertising to guarantee visibility for informational queries and ...
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Why SEO and Paid Media Are a Power Duo in the AI Search Era
AI Overviews are compressing search results and reducing click-through rates, requiring closer collaboration between SEO and paid media teams to maintain visibility. The lack of transparency in Google Ads performance tracking for AI Overview placements makes it difficult to optimize bids and asse...
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Search Engine Land Turns 19: A Look Back
Search Engine Land celebrates its 19th anniversary, having consistently provided clear news and actionable guidance on the evolving search marketing industry. Key achievements from the past year include the successful return of the in-person SMX Advanced event and definitive, trusted coverage of ...
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Organic Search Traffic Declines 2.5% in New Report
Organic search traffic has declined only 2.5% year-over-year, challenging narratives of a dramatic collapse and showing robust fundamental demand for search engines. The largest websites saw organic traffic grow, while mid-sized publishers faced losses, and organic results still generate about 90...
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