Letter to the Editor

We pulled the most recent, B2B-specific stats and organized them around the most important things in B2B SEO. Below are the stats worth citing in 2025. Organic search is still a top B2B discovery and pipeline driver. AI may have…Read more ›

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According to SpaceX’s May 2026 S-1 filing, 117 million people use Grok’s features every month, out of X’s 550 million monthly active users. That makes it one of the most-used AI assistants on the planet, and a growing influence on…Read more ›

Below are lists of the top 100 most popular searches and questions in the US and worldwide, pulled from our database of 28.7 billion keywords: # Keyword Search Volume 1 chatgpt 94,610,000 2 youtube 87,790,000 3 amazon 84,320,000 4 gmail…Read more ›

AI cited pages were almost three times more likely to have JSON-LD than non-cited pages. That’s a big gap, and the kind of stat that gets shared in LinkedIn carousels and conference slides as proof that schema is an AI…Read more ›

But, although ChatGPT crawls dozens of pages to answer a single query, according to our research, it only ends up citing ~50% of them. Why does one page get the credit while another, which the AI clearly retrieved, gets nothing?…Read more ›

That felt impossible. For instance, YouTube has been the internet’s default video platform for nearly two decades. It’s frequently dubbed the second-largest search engine. So I asked Xibeijia, Ahrefs’ superstar data scientist, to pull our data and double-check. Turns out,…Read more ›

These are the 100 most searched people, along with their monthly search volumes. In almost every industry, there are celebrities, professionals, or influencers that other people want to emulate. For example, an amateur tennis player might want to know which…Read more ›

Below are lists of the top 100 most popular searches and questions in the US and worldwide, pulled from our database of 28.7 billion keywords: We removed all NSFW queries from this list. What you see above are the top…Read more ›

But after analyzing 730,000 response pairs, we found something unexpected: AI Mode and AI Overviews reach very similar conclusions (86% semantic similarity) while citing different sources (only 13.7% citation overlap). This matters because it suggests these aren’t just a “short…Read more ›

Let’s get into it. We studied two new factors in our research this time around: “YouTube mentions” and “YouTube mention impressions”—using newly available data in Ahrefs Brand Radar. Both correlated more strongly with AI visibility than anything else, beating even…Read more ›

Almost every AI I tested used the fake info—some eagerly, some reluctantly. The lesson is: in AI search, the most detailed story wins, even if it’s false. AI will talk about your brand no matter what, and if you don’t…Read more ›

For instance, this study of only 20 brands (narrow sample size) is proclaiming that content needs 10,000+ words to be cited by AI. I’ve also seen others insist very short content (250–500 words) is the future for visibility in AI,…Read more ›