Jeff Oxford June 16, 2026
We analyzed 20,000 ChatGPT responses across 1,000 product prompts to measure how much its recommendations change when search is enabled vs disabled. The overlap was just 19.8% — and it gets lower for the most-recommended products.
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Jeff Oxford May 12, 2026
AI search engines like ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity are changing how consumers discover and compare products. Here's the 6-point scorecard we use to determine whether a product page is AI-ready.
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Jeff Oxford April 16, 2026
Ahrefs published a fascinating study confirming that brand mentions have the highest correlation with getting recommended in AI search. But here's a question that almost no AI SEOs are asking: are all brand mentions treated the same?
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Jeff Oxford April 10, 2026
A 6-month AI SEO campaign that grew Private Label MFG's AI search visibility from 1% to 20%, driving a 10x increase in AI-attributed sales.
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Jeff Oxford March 16, 2026
In November 2025, Ahrefs reported that AI Overviews only appeared for 2.1% of transactional queries in Google Search. eCommerce stores were fairly immune. A lot has changed since then.
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Jeff Oxford February 23, 2026
A 12-month GA4 deep-dive across 94 eCommerce stores reveals what nobody's talking about: LLM traffic outperforms traditional search on conversion rate, but the volume gap makes traditional SEO budget reallocation financially reckless.
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