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Understand the questions in People Also Ask boxes. Notice how Google talks about having to search after a search to find answers? How else will you know what searchers ask for next?

Use trends, PAA clues, and news to drive your questions and ask them what they think.

sites should consider providing links to more than one retailer to purchase products

against Amazon’s TOS

my recommendation is to link to more than one seller, if possible (to future-proof your site), but it’s not a requirement as of now

Google has 92.04% of the global market share. Bing accounts for 6.79% of the market share on desktop devices worldwide.

Globally, search traffic accounts for 29% of the web traffic.

In September 2021, Google’s desktop market share was 86.64%.

Let’s check out how the search engine market share looks. As of April 2021, Google holds a whopping 92.18% share of the global search engine market. Bing ranks second with a market share of 2.27%.For mobile devices only, Google share is even more significant—94.84%, while Bing’s is only 0.42%. However, Bing seems to be more popular on desktop computers, with a 5.53% market share, while Google’s is 87.28%. With our SEO tool, it’s easier than ever to track your ranking by device.

AI can create ads at scale and optimize ad creatives in mere moments. It can run A/B tests with hundreds of different words, all while writing actual ad copy and making adjustments based on data. The future for digital advertising is a lot less manual.

As an example, I wanted to see what the Google Sheet could do, so I decided to list a few keywords that are relevant to the marketing industry. Let’s say Foundation wanted to create definition content on topics like content marketing, editorial calendar, and digital marketing for a marketing blog. I simply add these keywords to the Google Sheet that Arielle Phoenix developed. And using an API connected to ChatGPT, it delivers the title, meta description, intro, outline and more: This was all developed in the matter of seconds. 

RankBrain continues to be one of the major AI systems powering Search today.

BERT understands words in a sequence and how they relate to each other, so it ensures we don’t drop important words from your query — no matter how small they are.

MUM is not currently used to help rank and improve the quality of search results like RankBrain, neural matching and BERT systems do.

Google recently added an extra “E” to the search quality standards of E-A-T to ensure content is helpful and relevant. The extra “E” stands for “experience” and precedes the original E-A-T concept – expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness. 

The Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab compiled 10 guidelines for building web credibility based on three-year research with over 4,500 participants. Make it easy to verify the accuracy of the information on your site. Show that there’s a real organization behind your site. Highlight the expertise in your organization and in the content and services you provide. Show that honest and trustworthy people stand behind your site. Make it easy to contact you. Design your site so it looks professional (or is appropriate for your purpose). Make your site easy to use – and useful. Update your site’s content often (at least show it’s been reviewed recently). Use restraint with any promotional content (e.g., ads, offers). Avoid errors of all types, no matter how small they seem. – Stanford Web Credibility Research If the above doesn’t scream, “Be a human, care about your users and your website experience,” I don’t know what does.

Experience is especially important in a digital world moving toward generative AI content

Creating things other humans who use ChatGPT prompts can’t (or won’t) create is the only path forward. In my experience, the three biggest advantages human creators have over AIs (for now) are: Emotion – ChatGPT can’t be vulnerable. It isn’t scared. It feels no empathy, nor can it convey true regret. It isn’t humble or prideful, distraught or loving. When you prompt it to communicate using these emotions (e.g. “Say that again, but more empathetically?”), the results feel inauthentic. Spicy autocomplete almost never elicits the emotional weight that good, human writers can. Novelty – If an idea, a bit of data, a data source, an amalgamation of information, or an event didn’t exist before 2021, ChatGPT isn’t going to produce content about it. Technically, it can create new works, but these will always be derivative. If you ask ChatGPT what to write about to please an audience of X, it can only tell you what they might have cared about in the past. Creative Insight – After reading the output of a LLM AI, you will almost never hear someone exclaim “Oh my god… that’s a great point!” or “Whoa… I’ve never thought of it that way.” Nor will you see the AIs get artistic or inspirationally motive with their replies. “Oooo… I just thought of a great way to visualize that,” or “I bet we could make a really cool video game based on that premise,” aren’t responses the machines can compete with (yet).

The average AI Overview is 169 words and 912 pixels long.Only 12.4% of the analyzed keywords display an AI Overview.A Featured Snippet is showing on 17.6% of the analyzed keywords.On average, AI Overviews appear alongside Featured Snippets in 7.4% of cases. For the Health niche, they show up together the most often (34.9% of queries).AI Overviews contain 7.2 links on average when expanded.33.4% of AI Overview links rank in that query's top 10 organic results.46.5% of the URLs included in AI Overviews rank outside the top 50 organic results.Five-word queries trigger an AI Overview most frequently.Keywords from the Health and Safety niches are more likely to trigger AI Overviews.No AI Overviews show up for brand related queries.Navigational intent keywords are less likely to display AI Overviews.Google Ads are displayed in 28.3% keywords that trigger AI Overviews.From all the keywords that trigger AI Overviews, Ads at the top of the SERP appear for 8.7% of keywords. Ads at the bottom are displayed for 19.5% of these keywords.Shopping Ads are almost never seen together with AI Overviews and when they are, they always appear below the AI Overview.

AI Overview Visibility by IndustryWhich industries show AI Overviews more frequently?The bar chart below shows the frequency of AI overviews across different industries.

Rankings totally different [high impact]​ - SGE's method of selecting and ranking pages it shows is completely different from traditional ranking factors. This could have high impact on sites currently ranking high for keywords.  Local results sub par [low impact]​ - SGE's presentation of local results is clearly not as good as the traditional results, so if it remains as it currently is, users will probably prefer not using it.  Shopping results limit traffic opportunities [high impact]​ - Shopping results could have a high impact if you are not showing up in Google's product results. No web results are shown, so some brand sites will lose traffic. Top of funnel research useful (but you may be left out!) [high impact]​ - Informational searches could have a high impact if your brand isn't included. The key to getting included seems to be getting mentioned in third party lists that SGE depends on heavily.  Intent sometimes “off” [low impact] -  SGE is very bad at understanding the intent of queries. If users see this mismatch often, it may sour them to using SGE.