When a buyer asks AI what to choose, the answer names two or three brands and skips the rest. Freshpet is one of the brands consistently cited. Screenshot of Google SERP for [best refrigerated dog food] featuring Freshpet, August 2026 AI Overviews Consistently Cite Freshpet By Name On August 20, in this live session, Freshpet’s…
Rightly or wrongly, publisher discoverability has been taken care of by search for years. Traffic from Google was and is so valuable – and in recent times, so vast from Discover – that reach has never been a problem. Not until very recently. As behaviors, platforms and the internet morph into something less website-friendly, business…
I have dozens of conversations per week with folks in growth and marketing, ranging from directors, VPs of marketing, and CMOs to SEOs in the nitty-gritty day-to-day. Many of my conversations involve measurement. This is an increasingly challenging topic as traditional SEO metrics are breaking down with the advent of AI answers. Much of the…
Google has finally separated generative AI visibility from the rest of the data in Search Console. On June 3, 2026, Google announced dedicated Generative AI performance reports for Search and Discover. The announcement fell on my birthday, which felt briefly thoughtful until I realized the gift was all impressions and no clicks. The Search report…
For years, you could gauge local visibility by checking the map pack and a page of organic results. These have always mattered, but now, the same business details that feed them are also powering AI assistants. Instead of presenting a page full of options, an assistant responds with just a few names. This change emphasizes…
If entity mapping feels familiar, that is because you already ran this play. It is the knowledge graph conversation you were having in 2021, wearing a 2026 outfit. The vocabulary migrated almost intact: entities, not strings; disambiguation; sameAs; relationships between nodes; feed the structure; and the machine understands you. Pull a client deck from four…
TL;DR AI search reshaped how people discover and evaluate brands in 2025. Visibility now depends on freshness, off-site credibility, content clarity and how clearly content can be interpreted inside answers—not just how it ranks. Brand visibility is in a constant state of fluctuation. Only 30% of brands stay visible from one answer to the next,…
Kevin Indig just settled an argument that’s been running in half-finished form since AI Overviews launched. Does topical authority that rewards brands for going deep on a subject instead of wide, actually carry over into AI search? Or is ChatGPT enough of a blank slate that a generalist brand can walk in and grab a…
This post was sponsored by Victorious. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. When we ask an AI platform to describe a brand, it almost always knows the answer. But when a buyer asks that same platform which brand to consider, it draws on only a small fraction of the brands it…
Right now, most publishers block AI bots. According to Vince Nero’s excellent research, 79% of top news sites block AI training bots via robots.txt. Only 18% block no AI crawlers at all. Not a perfect science, as the robots.txt is so easily circumvented, but still. No one is playing nice anymore. Multiple publisher x AI…