There’s been a lot of talk recently about whether large language models (LLMs) are replacing a considerable amount of Google searches. While Google is clearly still the market leader, with 14 billion searches per day worldwide, an estimated 37.5 million “searches” on ChatGPT represent an opportunity for your brand. SEO professionals have years of experience testing … Read more
This time on Ask An SEO, we’re diving into a branding question from someone dealing with negative SERP results: I have a client that recently had some financial issues and the SERP for their brand has many negative listings. Do you have any ideas for a strategy that could help to remove those listings and … Read more
In a Google SEO Office hours hangout, someone asked Googler John Mueller related the situation of articles talking about his site but that the mentions of the brand name or domain name were not linked to his site. What he wanted to know was if those mentions of his domain and brand name could pass … Read more
Google’s John Mueller was asked if “unlinked brand mentions” were important in Google’s algorithm. It was apparent from John’s response that “brand mentions” is probably not a real thing in Google’s algorithm, but he also said that there may be value to site visitors who encounter them. Brand Mentions There is a longstanding idea in … Read more
