Wirecutter dropped heavily in search visibility over the past four months – Was it a reviews update, Google’s ‘Starkly different’ algorithm, or was vertical expertise rewarded?

Update 3: September 6, 2025The robots.txt change that Wirecutter implemented on thewirecutter.com doesn’t seem to have helped the situation. Wirecutter is still down, and even dropping more based on some of the visibility tools. See the screenshots below in my X share. I’ll keep tracking the situation and will provide updates over time. But for […]

ChatGPT Shopping Results Have Been Updated

Table of Contents sort-tool ChatGPT Shopping results have undergone the most significant update to their shoppable products integration since launch in April earlier this year. At the time, I was quite critical of the integration of ChatGPT’s equivalent to free listing results on Google, highlighting key issues related to the mobile experience, inability to explore […]

ChatGPT uses Google SERP Snippets for its Answers [A Test with Proof]

I’ve run a simple but straight-forward to follow test that confirms the reliance of ChatGPT on Google SERPs snippets for its answers. Let’s go through it:  1. I Published A New Page in LearningAISearch.com without submitting to any search engine I published a new indexable LLMS.txt Generators page, linked from the home page, and across […]

Google AI, ChatGPT rarely agree on brand recommendations: Data

Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode and OpenAI’s ChatGPT often give consumers different brand recommendations – a potential warning sign for marketers chasing AI visibility – according to a new BrightEdge analysis. The big picture. ChatGPT and Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews disagreed on brand recommendations nearly two-thirds of the time (61.9%), according to BrightEdge’s […]

5 things to improve • Yoast

Having great product pages is important for your sales. After all, it’s where people decide to click that buy button. Besides optimizing your product pages for user experience, you also want to make sure these pages work for your SEO. You might think this is obvious. That’s why we’ll show you a few less obvious […]

6 Tactics from Industry Experts

More of your potential customers are turning to AI search tools like ChatGPT to find what they need. To stay visible, your brand needs to show up there—on top of your usual SEO efforts. In fact, Semrush data suggests that traffic from large language models (LLMs) will overtake traditional organic search traffic by early 2028. […]