Most SEO platforms ask you to subscribe to a monthly plan to access advanced features and tracking. But you pay for all the features, even when you don’t use them in your project. Dmytro Lobov, our WordPress developer, compared a…
Picking a local business is rarely a one-step decision. Customers check reviews, weigh prices, and compare two or three options before they commit. A lot of that work now happens inside an LLM. When someone asks ChatGPT to recommend a…
As new content gets published, competitors gain authority, or AI systems update the information they rely on, the sources and brand names included in AI responses change. So, while a single AI visibility check tells you whether your business appears…
Every brand wants to appear in AI-generated answers. However, being found during an LLM’s research is different from being featured in the final answer users actually see. That distinction creates a new challenge for SEO and GEO: what makes a…
Suppose you’re asking ChatGPT, “Where should I eat in London tonight?”. Instead of throwing generic suggestions at you, it offers selected places for best-value dining, trendy dining, or high-end food destinations, and describes every choice in detail. Why can ChatGPT…
Most SEO platforms ask you to subscribe to a monthly plan to access advanced features and tracking. But you pay for all the features, even when you don’t use them in your project. Dmytro Lobov, our WordPress developer, compared a…
Picking a local business is rarely a one-step decision. Customers check reviews, weigh prices, and compare two or three options before they commit. A lot of that work now happens inside an LLM. When someone asks ChatGPT to recommend a…
As new content gets published, competitors gain authority, or AI systems update the information they rely on, the sources and brand names included in AI responses change. So, while a single AI visibility check tells you whether your business appears…
Every brand wants to appear in AI-generated answers. However, being found during an LLM’s research is different from being featured in the final answer users actually see. That distinction creates a new challenge for SEO and GEO: what makes a…
Suppose you’re asking ChatGPT, “Where should I eat in London tonight?”. Instead of throwing generic suggestions at you, it offers selected places for best-value dining, trendy dining, or high-end food destinations, and describes every choice in detail. Why can ChatGPT…
Every link pointing to your competitor is a relationship: a partner, a publisher, a review site, or a customer who cared enough to write about them. That makes a competitor’s backlink profile one of the cheapest, most overlooked sources of…
Rank checking looks like scraping until you try to schedule it. A scraper has to return a page. A rank checker has to return one number for one keyword in one market, then return it the same way tomorrow. Bing…
We pulled rankings for the keyword “emergency plumber” from one point in Brooklyn (40.689199, -73.975035), asking Google the same thing three different ways. Park Slope Plumbing and Heating Services came back at #1 on Google Maps. In the Local Finder…
The new DataForSEO Affiliate Program is now officially open! Share your affiliate link, and when someone you refer to DataForSEO becomes a DataForSEO customer, you will earn a share of what they pay us – 25% of eligible payments, up…
This guide explains how to install the official DataForSEO plugin for Codex – OpenAI’s AI agent for software development. With this plugin, you can retrieve structured SEO and GEO data and run analysis directly in Codex. What’s the DataForSEO Codex…
You already know the keywords your buyers type into Google, and you have probably never read those results as a prospect list. Every domain on SERP belongs to a company that decided your audience was worth spending money on, whether…
In this guide, we’ll explain how to connect the official DataForSEO MCP server to the desktop and web versions of ChatGPT for use with the new ChatGPT Work mode. Additionally, we’ll showcase the MCP integration with OpenAI’s Codex CLI. Why…
If you’ve ever done keyword research by hand, you know the grind: build your keyword list, run it through Google Keyword Planner, export the results, and merge them back into your spreadsheet. The hassle is keeping your spreadsheet up to…
The Google Trends Keyword Data API now supports trend analysis by category without requiring a keyword. What’s new Following Google Trends’ introduction of category filters on the new Explore page, we updated the keywords and category_code parameters in the Google…
The Gemini LLM Responses API from the AI Optimization API suite now provides direct destination URLs for links returned in Gemini responses. The new direct_url field is available in both Live and Task GET endpoint responses. What’s new Gemini returns…
To keep our development efforts focused on the areas that bring the most value to our customers, we have decided to discontinue Pinterest API and retire the Social Media API suite. What’s changed As of September 16, 2026, the following…
Google has discontinued Events as a separate search tab. As a result, we are retiring Google Events in the DataForSEO SERP API. What’s changed As of September 15, 2026 Google Events has become deprecated as a separate search engine type…
Introducing a new algorithm for calculating the ETV metric in DataForSEO Labs API. It provides improved traffic estimates by accounting for SERP features displayed for a query, its primary search intent, and search volume normalized with clickstream data. What’s new…
UPD: On August 28, we released an update that enables us to return direct destination URLs across all affected SERP elements, including AI Overviews. Google is gradually rolling out this change to additional SERP features. We are actively monitoring the…
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