Tag Archives: Overviews

LLMs, AI Overviews may be quietly driving homepage traffic

Sitewide clicks are down, but clicks to homepages are up 10.7%. Your homepages may become even more valuable in AI search experiences. Danny Goodwin on May 23, 2025       Google’s AI Overviews and large language models (LLMs) have severely eroded clicks, click-through rates, and organic traffic to websites. But a new Siege Media report may have found a silver … Continue reading LLMs, AI Overviews may be quietly driving homepage traffic

YouTube Citations In Google AI Overviews Rise 25%

YouTube Citations In Google AI Overviews Rise 25% by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, February 13, 2025 YouTube turns 20 this year. Creators have moved from creating grainy videos to feature-length movies.  People are doing more than watching YouTube content on their computers or phones. Neal Mohan, YouTube CEO, explained in a blog post how TV has … Continue reading YouTube Citations In Google AI Overviews Rise 25%

Startup Shakes Up Data Black Box In AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT

Startup Shakes Up Data Black Box In AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, December 26, 2024 Ad agencies, publishers and brands have quietly complained that artificial intelligence (AI) generated search can bury content, but several industry veterans have developed tech that tracks query results to determine website visibility. Klaus-M Schremser, Josef … Continue reading Startup Shakes Up Data Black Box In AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT

Getting the Most Out of Google AI Overviews

Linda Aylesworth | December 9th, 2024 In the fast-paced world of digital marketing, Google AI Overviews are already becoming a staple. Picture this: a digital landscape where AI Overviews dominate the search results, providing users with concise, targeted information. For marketing managers and business owners, this isn’t just a passing trend; it’s an opportunity to … Continue reading Getting the Most Out of Google AI Overviews

Getting the Most Out of Google AI Overviews (DD)

Linda Aylesworth | December 9th, 2024 In the fast-paced world of digital marketing, Google AI Overviews are already becoming a staple. Picture this: a digital landscape where AI Overviews dominate the search results, providing users with concise, targeted information. For marketing managers and business owners, this isn’t just a passing trend; it’s an opportunity to … Continue reading Getting the Most Out of Google AI Overviews (DD)

Google AI Overviews Optimization Techniques Simplified

Google AI Overviews Optimization Techniques Simplified by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, November 20, 2024 Real-time data and insights through BrightEdge Data Cube X allow marketers to understand and act on performance strategies to make changes, if needed, based on how Google presents their brands in Google AI Overview (AIO) search results. By engineering for … Continue reading Google AI Overviews Optimization Techniques Simplified

Google AI Overviews Disrupts Ecommerce, Publisher Traffic

Google AI Overviews Disrupts Ecommerce, Publisher Traffic by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 20, 2024 Logging in to a company’s network creates sort of a walled garden, where the data remains within the perimeters, creating checks and balances of intent. Some may not consider Google a walled garden, but when logged in to its … Continue reading Google AI Overviews Disrupts Ecommerce, Publisher Traffic

Google AI Overviews have negligible impact on traffic, say publishers

So far, AI Overviews is not wrecking publishers’ traffic — plus other AI Overviews news. Danny Goodwin on August 19, 2024   Two large publishers, Dotdash Meredith and Ziff Davis, say Google AI Overviews haven’t significantly impacted their traffic. Here’s what the IAC (owner of Dotash) wrote its Q2 2024 shareholder letter: “Google began to roll … Continue reading Google AI Overviews have negligible impact on traffic, say publishers

Google AI Overviews Drop In Search, OpenAI ChatGPT Hides Referral Traffic

Google AI Overviews Drop In Search, OpenAI ChatGPT Hides Referral Traffic by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, July 11, 2024 Each percentage point of search market share — valued at $1.2 billion — continues to shift how technology reshapes digital in unexpected ways, says Jim Yu, BrightEdge founder. Google still dominates search. The data generated … Continue reading Google AI Overviews Drop In Search, OpenAI ChatGPT Hides Referral Traffic

Search Queries With Featured Snippets, Questions Most Likely To Trigger Google AI Overviews

Google Queries With Featured Snippets, Questions Likely Trigger AI Overviews by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, June 4, 2024 AI Overview, the search capability powered by Gemini, Google’s underlying foundational model, has begun to answer and predict follow-up questions before they are asked in a query. BrightEdge Generative Parser released data on Tuesday shows Google’s … Continue reading Search Queries With Featured Snippets, Questions Most Likely To Trigger Google AI Overviews