... mystery shopper where the shopper is AI. Up to 10 AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and more) try to buy from your company, and we score every step out of 100: Do they recommend you, or a competitor? Can they find what they need on your site and get your prices right? How much time and how many tokens do they burn? And the big one: can they book a call or buy from you? Why we built ... ... Ahrefs

... shared inbox plus a spreadsheet stops working within a week. Someone forgets a follow up, someone pays for a placement and nobody checks it went live. So the flow we ended up with: you bring the pages (from Ahrefs, Semrush or your own prompt tracker), it finds who runs each one, drafts the pitch, keeps every conversation in one inbox with the site's metrics next to it, and monitors the placement after the deal. The outreach is done from ...

... everyone, I recently purchased the domain curetotal.com through GoDaddy - it's only about 25 days old under my ownership. But when I checked backlink data: - Ahrefs shows ~1.1k backlinks - Ubersuggest shows ~27 backlinks Both tools show referring domains and backlink history going back to previous years, way before I bought it. My understanding is that this is because the domain was previously owned/used by someone else, and SEO tools track the domain's crawl history rather than registration date ...

... show up your brand like "best tool for X" or "what would you recommend for Y." Make sure you are logged out or use fresh session, so the answers won't use your previous history. The paid tools like Ahrefs Brand Radar basically do the same just at much larger scale (more models, more prompts, queries run on schedule, added reporting). By the way, Perplexity is useful because it shows its sources, so you can see which pages ... ... pulling from. I'm currently checking it manually for my own site as well. If you're interested, Ahrefs

... Product Hunt community! Most comprehensive SEO platforms like Ahrefs or Semrush are incredible, but they often feel too bulky and expensive when you simply need a quick, on-page, side-by-side comparison between your page and a competitor

... homepage placements elsewhere at $200+/month." That part is true. Those placements send traffic. This one sends a few dozen clicks. The comparison flatters the price, not the outcome. The backlink is the real asset. Its DR 72 on Ahrefs, dofollow, permanent. But it sits on a page full of other paid links to random SaaS, domain flippers, and, at #2 and #15, two other pay-to-rank boards. Googles guidelines treat paid links as link schemes. Screening is name ...

... opened Ahrefs a few weeks ago to check one number. Forg's domain rating: 43. For something built mostly in evenings, that felt like a milestone. Google was starting to trust the site enough to rank it. Then I checked something else, almost by accident. Referral traffic from ChatGPT. Not a fluke, not a one-time spike. Repeated visits, day after day, coming from people who had just asked ChatGPT about indie builders, side projects, or companies they were curious ...

... share what's in it. The part I'm most excited about is the AI Visibility feature. Since search is shifting toward AI answer engines rather than just Google, I built a 6-tab dashboard (Summary, Questions, AI Responses, Competitors, Recommendations, History) that tracks how often a brand gets mentioned when people ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity about a topic. It also compares visibility against competitors

... mine, so tell me what to build next: Which assistant should I support next? Windsurf, Copilot, Aider, Cline, Zed? MCP server with live tool access, or keep skills as simple drop-in files? Data integrations (Search Console, Ahrefs, Semrush APIs) or keep it API-free and free? Should skills publish straight to WordPress and Webflow, or stick to analysis and generation? What's missing completely? Local SEO, schema, rank tracking, multi-language? What's the one SEO task you still ...

... keep digging into what actually gets a product mentioned in ChatGPT or Perplexity answers, and the data keeps pointing somewhere that makes me question the whole "GEO/AEO" hype. Ahrefs looked at 75k brands and found branded mentions correlated with AI visibility way more than backlinks 0.664 vs

... paid conversion. 25%+ with PQL. Webinars (live): 22-33% CTA conversion. High-engagement webinars hit up to 69%. AI search (GEO/AEO): 4-5x higher conversion than traditional organic. One B2B study found AI-referred traffic converted at 7.12% vs 1.37% for organic. Another found 14.2% for AI traffic. Quora: 2-5% conversion. 35% of B2B decision-makers answer questions on Quora. Reddit: 0.3-1.5% post-to-customer conversion in fit subreddits. CPC of $0.50-$2.00 vs

... linked sources . YouTube mentions are the strongest correlated signal for AI visibility across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and AI Overviews outperforming backlinks, domain authority, and content volume Brand mentions correlate 3x more strongly with AI visibility than backlinks ( Ahrefs study of 75,000 brands ) Unlinked brand mentions on Reddit and YouTube are growing to be just as important as traditional backlinks Entity SEO: The Framework That Connects Everything All of these trends come together under entity SEO a strategy that ... ... backlink strategy? Are you still chasing DA, or are you focused on earning unlinked brand mentions and entity signals? Imed Radhouani Founder & CTO Rankfender Sources: Semrush + Kevin Indig study (1,000 domains, Pearson 0.65 correlation) https://www.semrush.com/blog/bac... Ahrefs

... actually happens when sensitive data gets pasted into a chatbot) instead of just listing features ourselves. One thing I'm curious about: for the pre-launch phase, how did you decide which communities were actually worth showing up in vs. just noise? Comment from Frank A.(@fasathor): Not a hack exactly, but the most useful thing I did this launch was answer every paid-promotion DM with an affiliate offer instead, 25% recurring, commission only. Five people offered to promote ... ... small problems, the attention/demand already exists! Small tools like photo background remover, invoice generator, resume templates -- people are already searching for the solution, you just need to be the one that google recommends. I use Ahrefs

... predict if the link is dofollow. Fill out a form with 15 fields, wait for a week, and be listed but it will turn out to be nofollow. - Zero DR. Sometimes I would have 30 tabs opened in Ahrefs to check if the directory is worth 20 minutes of my time. - Each directory has its own set of unwritten rules. Put yourself in the wrong category, use free email address or write a commercial description, and the chances are high ...

... context that appears in synthetic answers? ". Google is no longer just a referral engine; it is increasingly the final destination for information. The data is already in The impact on organic traffic is significant. According to data from Ahrefs, even pages that were ranked #1 before the change now see, on average, 58% fewer clicks . The Pew Research Center found that only 8% of users click on traditional links when an AI summary is visible , compared to 15% without ... ... queries are getting absorbed completely: my single biggest query sits at position 5 with 2,562 impressions and zero clicks, because Google just answers it on the results page. Meanwhile commercial-intent queries behave like it's 2019 "X vs

... Ahrefs just dropped a study that changes how we think about SEO. They analyzed 863,000 keywords and 4 million AI Overview URLs . The findings are clear: the old playbook is broken. In July 2025, 76% of URLs cited in AI Overviews also ranked in Google's top 10 for the same query. Today, that number has collapsed to 38% . The drop is real. The overlap has been cut in half in less than a year. Where are the citations ...

... shows you your visibility, share of voice, and citation rates across each platform individually . This allows you to see exactly where you win and where you are invisible, with the granularity required to understand each platform's editorial identity. Competitor Intelligence: The platform automatically detects competitors

... LinkedIn, so I will not lose my account.] What are your five? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @jan_riis_sorensen  Is it something like Trello? :) Comment from Sumit Singh Chauhan(@sumit_singh_chauhan): My 5: 1. VS Code 2. Loom 3. Google Sheet (I have replaced so many other tools but just plain google sheet now) 4. Apple Calendar & Reminder 5. Google Drive After trying at least dozens of tools for a decade, I settled ... ... solo founder, these are the five tools I use almost every day: ChatGPT VS

... maria_camila_ramos): Distribution is the hard part now, that's the real bottleneck. AI made content cheap, so getting it seen (by people and by ChatGPT) is where the work moved. I keep my stack small. Semrush and Ahrefs for research, and lately Genius Rank ( geniusrank.com ) for checking how AI engines actually see a brand. That visibility piece is the gap I never had a real tool for before. Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9935067): Comment Deleted Comment ...

... gets borne by the freeloader, not the host. Has the design held up against the obvious gaming patterns yet, or is it still pre-scale enough that nobody's tried? Comment from Lakshminath Reddy Dondeti(@lakshminath_dondeti): Semrush and Ahrefs seem to amplify the same parameters. If domain authority is not it, what should people track? Comment from Imed Radhouani(@imed_radhouani): @tessa_nicole  That's the hard part. You can't force reciprocity. But you can design ... ... gatekeeper. The site owners themselves will report spam because they do not want their links associated with garbage content. What would you look for in a vetting process? Any signals that tell you "this is a real site" versus

... language models that extract and synthesize. The inputs are structured data, schema markup, comparison tables. The outputs are citations, not clicks. So where does the human fit now? What the data says about AI's performance: A 2026 Ahrefs study of 1 million search results with AI Overviews found that 87.8% of cited content contained AI-generated material . Only 8.6% was purely human-written . The machines are already talking to each other. At the same time, Andrej Karpathy (OpenAI founding ...

... schema 71% 19% Cite data sources 68% 27% Part 3: What content wins AI citations? This is the question everyone asks. Here's the data: Top 5 content types by citation rate: Comparison pages (X vs Y) 3.2x average Structured FAQs 2.8x average Data-driven articles (with stats, tables, studies) 2.4x average "How to" guides (step-by-step) 1.9x average Original research 1.7x average What performs poorly: Short opinion pieces Thin content (<500 words ... ... millions and likely get us blocked. Daily updates give the perfect balance: fresh enough to spot trends, stable enough to be reliable. Part 6: What Rankfender actually does We built Rankfender because existing tools don't solve this problem. Ahrefs

... topics that I found helpful. I am curious to know from older users if what my friend said has some truths to it and if so, what has changed? What I can confirm is that when I check on Ahrefs, there s a big downward trend in monthly traffic on PH. Comment from Bhavin Sheth(@allinonetools_net): This resonates a lot. What kept me here wasn t the launches or streaks, but the quality of conversations and familiar faces over ...

... search is different. It's about making your project understandable to AI models. And you can do that in an afternoon. Think about it: - Your perfect users are asking ChatGPT for recommendations RIGHT NOW - AI is citing your competitors, not you - You're building in the dark while others get discovered DeepRank fixes that. We generate your "Identity Capsule" (tells AI who you are), create AI-optimized content (FAQs, blogs for 30-day plan, about pages), and show you exactly ... ... First movers in each category are winning hard --- The vibe: This isn't some enterprise bloatware. It's built FOR vibecoders, BY vibecoders. - Free tier to try portion of our audit capabilities - $64/mo for full access (not $199 like Ahrefs

... gave StartupSubmit a try for my SaaS launch, and honestly, the value for money is insane. They manually submitted my product to 300+ directories, and within a few weeks I started seeing referral traffic and backlinks showing up in Ahrefs. The process was smooth, they shared a detailed Airtable report with live links, and I appreciated that they replaced any sites where I was already listed. If you re in the early traction phase and don t want to spend ...