AEO Integration Without Cannibalizing Traditional SEO: Building Your Unified Search Strategy for 2026
Google's AI Overviews killed click-through rates by 61% on queries where they appear, according to Dataslayer's 2026 analysis.
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Building Your AI Answer Engine Tracking Stack: Moving Beyond Traditional SEO Tools in 2026
AI referral traffic to websites grew 357% year-over-year through mid-2025, according to Similarweb's Generative AI Report, and email marketers are absorbing the downstream effects whether they realize it or not.
Zero-Click SEO: How to Win Traffic When Your Link Doesn't Get Clicked
93% of searches in Google's AI Mode end without a single click to an external website. That number, reported by Semrush and confirmed in updated 2026 data, isn't a forecast or a projection. It's what's happening right now, this week, across every search vertical I track for clients.
AI Answer Engines Are Eating Your SEO Traffic: How to Optimize for Non-Google Search in 2026
One of my clients held the number-one organic position for their most valuable keyword. Rankings steady. Content quality high. And their organic traffic from that keyword dropped 34% in a single quarter. The culprit wasn't a competitor outranking them or a Google penalty.