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How long does SEO take? We checked the ages of 309 pages on Google's first page for 40 searches. The median page was 2.2 years old, and only 3% sat on domains younger than two years.
Is Google search shrinking? We pulled three years of US search volume for 230 keywords and lined it up with Alphabet's results, Statcounter and SparkToro. Searching held up. Clicking didn't, and 'best' searches split Google's own tools.
Mention tracking and citation tracking measure different things in AI search. What each shows, how often they split, and which one B2B SaaS teams should report.
RankControl vs Frase for a Shopify store blog: how each gets articles into Shopify, links them to products, tracks AI answers and what it costs. Checked October 19, 2026, plus how often store blogs rank.
An AI search visibility checklist for SaaS marketing teams: week-one setup, what to check every week, month and quarter, who owns each task, and what to report.
Automated content creation by content type: what to automate, what to check and what to keep human, plus 34 live listings we found on eBay, Etsy, Amazon and Tripadvisor where chatbot text went straight to the public.
Bot traffic statistics for 2026 from Thales, Cloudflare and HUMAN: how much of the web is bots, how much is AI, what crawlers send back, plus our test of how the top 244 sites answer a request from GPTBot.
Generative AI statistics for 2026 from the Census Bureau, the St. Louis Fed, Gallup and Pew: how many people use it, at work and at home, what they use it for, how much time it saves, and a weekday test of when people search for each AI tool.
How to increase website traffic from Google and AI search in 2026, built on a 30-question test of which pages Google, AI Overviews and ChatGPT actually send people to.
Ten marketing experiment ideas for B2B teams, from branded search holdouts to AI answer tests, each with a control, one metric and a decision set before launch.
Perplexity ads are gone: it phased them out in late 2025 and isn't selling new ones. What that means for B2B visibility, and how it compares with ChatGPT.
Voice search optimization for 2026, when Siri, Gemini, Alexa+ and ChatGPT answer out loud. A 15-question test of spoken vs typed local searches shows what changes and what to fix.
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