AI search & manufacturing SEO: What the data shows [Study]
Semrush data on AI search in manufacturing. See which brands get mentioned, which get cited, and why citations don‘t drive traffic.
Original Research & Studies
Stay on top of the SEO industry with original research and studies. Here are the latest data-backed resources.
AI Overviews are expanding across commercial intent search [Study]
Google’s move to extend AI Overviews into a wider variety of SERPs is disrupting not only informational searches, but also searches with commercial intent and advertising value.
Only 25% of cited sources overlap between ChatGPT's different reasoning modes [Study]
Most AI visibility strategies treat ChatGPT as a single system. Our research found that‘s a mistake. Thinking mode and Instant mode cite different sources, favor different content, and can recommend different brands for the exact same prompt. Here‘s what marketers need to know.
ChatGPT traffic analysis: Insights from 17 months of clickstream data
Discover how ChatGPT is reshaping search habits and web traffic patterns. Analysis of clickstream records reveals changing user behaviors and referral trends in AI-driven search.
Voice Search Study: Factors Influencing Search Engine Rankings in 2019
With voice search so hotly discussed and debated this year, we decided to produce a study that will offer data you need. Discover which ranking factors are critical for success to do well on Android & other Google devices. Our findings will offer great insights to SEOs and marketers worldwide.
How To Promote Your Business Using Thematic Campaigns: Semrush Case Study
How do you promote your product when there’s nothing new to report? In this post, you‘ll learn some of the cheapest and quickest ways to entertain your users and get them to test your product. Explore the power of occasion-based marketing with Semrush!
Website Performance Research [Semrush Study]
Page load speed is both a very important user experience factor and a Google ranking factor. Semrush studied 150,000 websites to find out which website performance mistakes are the most common, and which should get extra attention. Keep reading to find out what you can do to improve your website‘s performance.
Most Effective Outreach Strategies for Link Building [Semrush Study]
Whatever new ways of increasing websites’ visibility come out, link building isn‘t going away anytime soon. To reveal the outreach strategies and content types that specialists from different areas of digital marketing choose to achieve their link building goals, Semrush surveyed over 500 SEO and digital marketing professionals.
Top 3 Viral Marketing Campaigns to Take Inspiration From
Marketers aim to spread the word about their brand to a wide audience, and they often do this by trying to make their content go viral. Just like a biological virus, a viral marketing campaign spreads from one person to another, resulting in a large number of views, substantial amount of social shares and remarkable brand awareness.
What We Can Learn From the Biggest Social Media Management Nightmares
In the age of social media, any brand can end up in a crisis situation. This means that the social audience reaction on brand’s actions becomes unmanageable, influences the market’s value and threats to destroy brand’s reputation. Let’s look at three recent cases and see what we can learn from them.