Hostinger analyzed 66.7B bot requests across 5M+ hosted sites and found AI training crawlers are blocked more often, while OpenAI’s search bot expands.
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SEO isn’t dead. New data confirms it: traffic grew at the largest sites, and the sharpest declines were felt by the top 100 to 10,000 sites.
Advertisers must migrate to Google’s new Merchant API or risk Shopping and Performance Max campaigns stopping altogether.
We analyzed llms.txt across 10 websites. Only two saw AI traffic increases — and it wasn’t because of the file.
From illegal trades to chatbot lawsuits, these examples reveal the operational, legal, and reputational risks behind failed AI deployments.
AI search broke the link between traffic and revenue. This piece explains how SEO creates demand without page views.
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Creating pages only machines will see won’t improve AI search visibility. Data shows standard SEO fundamentals still drive AI citations.
Understand why entity linking is becoming a strategic requirement for local SEO in AI search environments.
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Hype cycles come and go. But real SEO gains still depend on trust, crawlable data, and meeting user needs — not chasing the latest novelty.
Interview with Perplexity AI offers insights into what makes AI answer engines different from regular search
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