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🔥 SE Ranking is now available inside ChatGPT

You can connect SE Ranking directly in ChatGPT and pull your rankings, competitor insights, and AI search visibility data — just by asking.

Why now: search is becoming AI-driven, and fast access to the right data matters more than ever. The connector brings your SEO insights into one of the places teams already work and think.

Get started in seconds:
Apps → Search apps → SE Ranking → Connect

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After Google’s May 2026 core update, Reddit is taking the #1 spot in Google more often.

The number of keywords where Reddit ranked first grew by 54% compared with March — from 8,993 to 13,872.

That’s a different story from "Reddit gained share."

Wider presence in the top 3 is one thing. Taking the top spot outright is a stronger signal about what Google now treats as the best answer to a query.

Read the full study ↓
https://t.co/XtuVcNZaRl

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⚡️ A small data point for you today:

Claude is the fastest-growing AI referral traffic source in 2026.

Its share grew 386% between January and April. ChatGPT, the channel leader, grew 1.53% in the same window.

Are the numbers still tiny? Yes.

Claude is around 1.4% of all AI-referred traffic.

But should marketers keep an eye on how even small AI traffic sources change over time? Also yes.

What do you think — is Claude traffic worth watching?

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In 4 months, traffic from Claude grew by 386%, while ChatGPT traffic grew by only 1.53% over the same period ⚡

But the absolute numbers are still tiny.

Even after that growth, Claude accounted for only 0.0141% of global web traffic in April 2026.

So for most websites, it’s still not a meaningful channel in GA. But the trend is worth watching.

👉 Read on for the details: https://t.co/4OlTtJQJtd

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🔻 21.5% of agencies are losing money right now.

Not "underperforming." Losing money. That's one of the findings from our joint research with @PlanableApp — benchmark data from 186 agencies across five regions.

The more interesting finding: the agencies on the other end of the distribution aren't bigger, older, or working with fancier clients. They're configured differently.

Client count, team structure, pricing model — specific combinations that show up again and again in the high-margin group, and almost never among agencies in the red.
⚡ We turned the full research into a free course:

- the complete report
- two expert sessions (including a panel with agency founders)
- a self-assessment that maps your agency to one of four profitability tiers — with data-backed next steps for each

If you run an agency and you've been working from gut feel about your margins, this is the benchmark you've been missing.

👉 https://t.co/1hBqH2NCCI

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✨ FIFA World Cup starts today! Any guesses on who’ll win the first match?

We wanted to make our own prediction, but with a fun, data-driven twist. So we compared Google Trends data for Mexico and South Africa.

Based on search interest, it looks like Mexico might take the win today.

What do you think?

@FIFAWorldCup #FIFAWorldCup

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Same finding on our end — we analyzed ChatGPT citations, and Reddit and Quora mentions were a real trust multiplier.

It doesn't outrank backlinks and domain trust — those are still the #1 driver — but for smaller sites it's one of the few ways to earn that trust without a huge link profile.

https://t.co/Vg7DcvlLFi

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We haven’t analyzed LinkedIn articles yet, but we do see that off-site mentions are a real lever.

In our study, brand mentions on Reddit and Quora were associated with citations growing from under 2 to around 7 for brands with a strong presence. Review-site profiles like G2, Trustpilot, and similar platforms also acted as trust multipliers.

https://t.co/Vg7DcvlLFi

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Can AI content actually be good?

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Can one marketer + AI agents actually do the work of five people?

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what a good reminder:

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@randfish:

"Correlation doesn’t equal causation — but it sure is a good hint."

[Mordy Oberstein @MordyOberstein]

Today we had @DarrenShaw_ AND his hair 👱‍♂️ on the show as he blew CHUNKS 🤢 all over spam, local SEO and AI.

Also, he had the AUDACITY to pull out a timer on me to shut me up (@rustybrick you should try this). Didn't work Maria Kazakova.

It's a new episode of Let's Chunk!

The biggest takeaway of the episode is that Darren does not think "NYC plumber, NYC NEAR ME, Plumber New York, NY Near Me Plumber" is a scam.

Tagging all of his local peers @JoyanneHawkins @ownyourserp Claire Carlile 🦆 @mblumenthal @gsterling @GregGifford Gyi Tsakalakis @ColanNielsen - is this what you all stand for?!

Next up @RayMartinezSEO (Sorry @mizlouisa720 I got my episodes mixed up... yours is coming!)

Keep an eye out for a new episode next TUESDAY here or on the @SERanking accounts!

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@CrystalontheWeb looks so good in the SE Ranking sweatshirt 🥹

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⚡️ BreakingSilos 2026, we’re live!

Check out real-time insights from the event:

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Does longer content earn more AI citations?

Actually, it does.

Find more data here: https://t.co/pL3AQQs8Gk

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@danaditomaso:

"Fact. I'm going to say fact for this one. No question.

I mean, I did start out as a local SEO back in the day. We used to call these citations (review profiles), and now they're back in citations, but it's a different kind of citation, just to make it extra confusing."

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"Fresh content nearly doubles citation rate" — that's a fact.

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"Highly keyword-optimized URLs and titles get more AI citations" — it's a myth.

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⚡️ChatGPT sends users to broken (404) pages more often than Google’s AI Overviews.

That's true.

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"ChatGPT is just Google in a trench coat half the time."

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FAQ schema markup increases your chances of being cited by ChatGPT.

@danaditomaso: "It's a myth. If you ask, for example, Claude or ChatGPT, ‘Does this site have markup on it?’ it says, ‘No, it doesn't,’ because markup is JSON and LLMs, for the most part, do not see JSON."

Bogdan Babiak: "Data shows it is a myth."

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@danaditomaso on LLMs.txt:

"It’s not the first thing I’d prioritize, but if you’re looking for something extra, it can be worth shipping."