AI search is not simply a new interface layered on top of traditional ranking systems. It represents a structural shift in how answers are constructed, how brands are surfaced, and how visibility is measured. With Bing now exposing AI performance data inside Bing Webmaster Tools, the industry is being forced to confront a more complex […]
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Creating separate Markdown-only versions of your website for AI crawlers is unlikely to deliver the results you’re hoping for. You will get far better results by improving your main HTML pages, their structure, and their data signals, rather than trying to serve special bot only content. The appeal of markdown for AI crawlers The idea […]
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There is a new moment most travellers will recognise. You open an AI tool, type in a question like “Where should I go for a week in October?” or “Best places for a luxury break”, and within seconds you are given a tidy answer. A shortlist. A plan. A sense that the hard part of […]
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Google have announced the Universal Commerce Protocol, known as UCP. It is an open standard designed to allow AI agents to handle commerce tasks on behalf of users, including product discovery, checkout, payment, and post‑purchase actions. This announcement marked an important moment for digital commerce because it moves shopping away from websites and apps and […]
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This study compares the types and structural characteristics of travel-related pages cited by two leading generative AI systems, Google’s AI Overviews and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. We looked at a dataset of 2,279 URLs cited in AI Overviews and 1,483 URLs cited in ChatGPT. Results were analysed across six travel categories: luxury, cruise, family, beach, solo, and […]
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Not long ago, searching the web felt like using a simple database index. You typed in a keyword and received a list of pages that matched, with different variables and weightings (that we knew as ranking factors). Today, search has become far more sophisticated. With AI at the core, platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and […]
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The team at SALT has carried out research into whether content structure and templates have an impact on your content surfacing in Google AI Mode. Now that Google AI Mode is available in the UK, CMOs and marketers are naturally keen to know how best to optimise their content. A quick online search will throw […]
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Introduction Everyone wants to know what they can do to increase their brand’s visibility in AI-assisted search. So, the SALT team conducted research to see if traditional SEO ranking signals had any impact on brand mentions in AI responses. AI search is disrupting traditional SEO. Success is no longer as simple as ranking on page […]
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Competitor analysis has always been a core part of SEO, yet the rise of AI driven search and LLM powered results has reshaped how we understand the competitive landscape. Instead of focusing only on ranking positions, we now examine visibility across many surfaces, the clarity and usefulness of content, the strength of entities, and how […]
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5 Things you need to know From LLM-powered platforms like ChatGPT to the AI Overviews in Google’s search results, AI search is already having an impact on brand visibility and clickthrough rates. But the rate of change may be about to speed up with the arrival of Google AI Mode. Currently rolling out to 180 […]
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We have seen a clear decline in LLM referral traffic over recent months, especially from ChatGPT, and this trend lines up with the release of GPT-5. Many senior marketers are asking why GPT-5 seems to send fewer clicks to websites than GPT-4.5. The answer is simple. GPT-5 gives people more complete answers inside the chat, […]
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In an era where AI-powered search and generative summaries are becoming mainstream, simply writing good content is no longer enough. Organisations need to demonstrate four key qualities of Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness (EEAT) so that their content can be surfaced reliably by large language models (LLMs) and AI-driven search engines. Why EEAT still matters, […]
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