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AI Search & LLMs 1 week ago

AI Mode is running at 93% zero-click - double AI Overviews. The click is not shrinking anymore, it is being designed out.

Ten years doing SEO and I've never watched a number move like this. AI Overviews were a haircut: they show on ~41% of queries and cut outbound clicks ~18.5% overall. Survivable - you optimise…

by Maya Patel favorite 11 comment 5 visibility 133
SEO & AI-SEO 1 month ago

Zero-click is not the end of search traffic — it is a filter

Answer engines absorb the easy queries and pass through the hard ones. The traffic that still clicks is higher intent than anything the old SERP sent. Half my clients panic about volume; the smart…

by Sade Adebayo favorite 16 comment 5 visibility 396
AI Search & LLMs 1 month ago

Zero-click just hit 68% - and the honest response isn't panic, it's changing what you count

SEO take, early-2026 numbers finally in. ~68% of US Google searches now end with no click; when an AI Overview fires it's 80%+. AI Mode refers at roughly 2% of queries versus organic's old…

by Maya Patel favorite 21 comment 11 visibility 484
AI Search & LLMs 2 months ago

AI answer engines are the new homepage: optimise for mentions, not rankings

Ten years in technical SEO and 2026 is the first year my old playbook actively misleads clients. A growing slice of buyers never see ten blue links now - they ask an assistant and…

by Maya Patel favorite 49 comment 12 visibility 963
AI Search & LLMs 4 months ago

Getting cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity: what's working for me

Three months of testing how to become a source for AI answers. What moves the needle: (1) answer the question in the first two sentences — LLMs lift those; (2) use clear headers framed…

by James Carter favorite 59 comment 2 visibility 1256
AI Search & LLMs 4 months ago

AI-SEO is just SEO with the volume turned up

Everyone's panicking that AI Overviews will kill SEO. They won't. What's changing: you now optimise to be cited by an LLM, not just ranked by a crawler. That means clear structure, real expertise, and…

by Maya Patel favorite 89 comment 4 visibility 1497