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The Gap Between AI Search Visibility and AI Citation

The Gap Between AI Search Visibility and AI Citation

What's New

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…

Fan-Out Queries: The Hidden Layer of AI Search You Need to Optimize For

Fan-Out Queries: The Hidden Layer of AI Search You Need to Optimize For

What's NewUse Cases

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…

Budget-Friendly Rank Tracking Strategies with DataForSEO SERP API

Best Practices

If you’ve been in SEO long enough, you know that Google likes to keep us on our toes. This time, though, they’ve shaken the ground under everyone who tracks keyword rankings. Recently, Google quietly removed support for the num=100 search…

SEO vs GEO: Key Differences and Shared Principles in Data and Optimization

Best Practices

Generative search has revolutionized the digital marketing industry by introducing a completely new paradigm for measuring online visibility. While most marketing experts now understand what generative search is, the core question remains: what data do you need to optimize for…

The Gap Between AI Search Visibility and AI Citation

The Gap Between AI Search Visibility and AI Citation

What's New

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…

Fan-Out Queries: The Hidden Layer of AI Search You Need to Optimize For

Fan-Out Queries: The Hidden Layer of AI Search You Need to Optimize For

What's NewUse Cases

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…

Budget-Friendly Rank Tracking Strategies with DataForSEO SERP API

Budget-Friendly Rank Tracking Strategies with DataForSEO SERP API

Best Practices

If you’ve been in SEO long enough, you know that Google likes to keep us on our toes. This time, though, they’ve shaken the ground under everyone who tracks keyword rankings. Recently, Google quietly removed support for the num=100 search…

SEO vs GEO: Key Differences and Shared Principles in Data and Optimization

SEO vs GEO: Key Differences and Shared Principles in Data and Optimization

Best Practices

Generative search has revolutionized the digital marketing industry by introducing a completely new paradigm for measuring online visibility. While most marketing experts now understand what generative search is, the core question remains: what data do you need to optimize for…

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How to Measure AI Search Demand With the AI Optimization API

AI Optimization API

Your audience is no longer starting every search in Google. More and more of them are relying on an AI assistant like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews feature to get answers to the questions they used to type into…

Parse Google AI Overviews and AI Mode

SERP API

Detecting when an AI Overview triggers on a SERP has become standard across SEO platforms. The harder problem, and the one most AI visibility tracking products still gloss over, is what to do with the contents: the generated text, the…

Connecting the remote DataForSEO MCP server using OAuth

DataForSEO MCP

DataForSEO MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that allows popular LLMs and AI-powered tools to interact with our APIs and fetch data. In this guide, we’ll demonstrate how to connect to the DataForSEO MCP server remotely,…

How to Run Bulk Keyword Research with DataForSEO APIs

DataForSEO Labs APIKeyword Data API

When teams need a bulk keyword research workflow, there are usually two ways to get there: stitching together GUI exports or integrating a keyword research API. Our Keyword Data API and DataForSEO Labs API both offer endpoints that accept up…

How to get LLM citation data with LLM Mentions API

AI Optimization API

Understanding how often and how prominently a website is cited in LLM’s is one of the core processes in AI visibility tracking. However, getting correct and detailed LLM citation data isn’t simple without access to the right tools. You must…

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Pricing Update in DataForSEO APIs

Pricing Update in DataForSEO APIs

Announcement

Starting today, July 1, 2026, we’re introducing a pricing update necessary to support the continued performance, reliability and quality of DataForSEO APIs. We’re applying adjusted rates across selected APIs and moving all endpoints to a pay-as-you-go model by cancelling monthly…

Default Depth Update in App Store Reviews API

Default Depth Update in App Store Reviews API

App Data API

We’re changing the default depth setting in the Apple App Store Reviews API. What’s new Starting today, June 30, 2026, the default value of the depth parameter changes from 50 to 25. Previously, if no depth value was specified when…

Live Endpoints in Amazon Merchant API

Live Endpoints in Amazon Merchant API

Merchant API

We’re making it faster and more convenient to work with the Amazon Merchant API. This update introduces Live mode support, which is especially useful for workflows that require real-time or near-instant access to Amazon data. What’s new We’ve added new…

Ad Results Support in LLM Scraper API

Ad Results Support in LLM Scraper API

AI Optimization API

We’re excited to announce that the ChatGPT LLM Scraper in our AI Optimization API now returns sponsored ad results appearing within ChatGPT responses, giving you a more complete picture of the AI search landscape. What’s new The ChatGPT LLM Scraper…

DataForSEO API v2 Now Officially Closed

DataForSEO API v2 Now Officially Closed

Announcement

As of today, May 5, 2026, support for DataForSEO API v2 has officially ended. If you’ve been using v2, you can no longer create new API v2 requests as of this date. However, the task_get endpoints will remain active for…

New Browser Simulation Parameters in the OnPage Lighthouse API

New Browser Simulation Parameters in the OnPage Lighthouse API

ImprovementOn-Page API

The OnPage Lighthouse API now supports a set of new parameters for browser simulation. You can now customize the browser environment used during Lighthouse audits to better reflect real-world device and network conditions. What’s new We added seven new parameters…

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