AI citations are now in @ahrefs Site Explorer. You can see the numbers and changes from our Brand Radar indexes on all plans, but to see the actual mentions and citations, you'll have to subscribe to Brand Radar.

A user on Reddit asks why Semrush is pushing llms.txt. This is a waste of time for people and it has no support. They should not be wasting people's time.

RT @thinking_slow: so i set up the official .@ahrefs MCP server, and now i have access to over 40 Ahrefs endpoints directly in a Claude cha….

RT @harpreetchatha_: Anyway, SEO industry. Here's an example of what used to be called "Parasite SEO" featuring Search Engine Land. This i….

Did y'all see this? Across ~82k sites, ChatGPT is the AI Assistant sending the most traffic by far. Study by @Lou_Linehan

RT @googlesearchc: Today we released the June 2025 core update. We'll update our ranking release history page when the rollout is complete:….

New insights from @Lou_Linehan. Over the past year, the average site’s search traffic has dropped by about 21%, while its AI traffic has grown ~9.7x. But AI traffic on average is only 0.25% of a sites traffic. Search traffic is 210x higher!. More here:

Me trying to explain internally why @ahrefs AI Content Helper is exactly what SEOs need in the AI era. You get main topics, a score for how relevant you are for each topic. Higher score = more likely to be cited. An example from Gemini for how it maps to fan out queries.

There's a lot of hype around "AI search". It's still search. It will take some time for the hype to die down and then we'll all just be calling it search again.

We've added exports to @ahrefs Web Analytics, csv or Sheets. Bulk exports of reports coming soon. Also added was a cloned pages report. It shows if you page appears on an external domain via an iframe, a cached version, Google Translate, or someone stole your content.

There's a new Instant Recrawl option in Ahrefs Site Audit. It works if you're using Always-on Audits. Click re-crawl and we'll check the page again and update the issues. There's a bulk recrawl option coming soon so you can check multiple pages to see if an issue was fixed.

Websites that get more traffic in traditional organic search also get mentioned more in AI Search. The biases were interesting. All 3 studied over-indexed on Wikipedia. Google also favors UGC like Reddit and Quora, while under-indexing on social media.

RT @timsoulo: Ahrefs Evolve 2024 was attended by folks from FIFTY (50!!!) different countries!!. That’s about 1/4 of the world! 🌍. And from….

Is AI traffic actually better? It's kind of a mixed bag in this study of ~82k websites from @Lou_Linehan

I'm always amused when Semrush shows up here. It makes me think what I might have said lately that would draw their attention. Could be a number of different posts, but my bet is on this one:

Who needs websites when Google can just provide all the answers and keep you on Google? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

In ~2 hours, at 10am ET (UTC -4) I'll be doing an AMA with @rdelory around AI, SEO, etc. Link is in the comments.

RT @rdelory: @patrickstox and I will be conducting a live AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Tuesday, June 24 at 10 am EST. AI has been a pretty hot….

It looks like AI Overviews have grown all they're going to for now. They're flattening out according to @ahrefs Brand Radar.

I don’t think this result will come as a surprise to anyone. Websites that get more traffic in traditional organic search also get mentioned more in AI Search. Popular sites are popular, even if the search system changes.