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…
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…
Building your own Google Maps scraper looks easy until you run it at scale. Then the real work starts: rotating proxies so you don’t get blocked, a captcha solver for when Google throws a challenge, and a parser you end…
The Domain Rank Overview endpoint of DataForSEO Labs API returns ranking and traffic data from organic and paid search for any domain. The data is updated weekly. You can check the latest update date via the DataForSEO Labs Status endpoint….
Checking one keyword’s position in Google sounds like a weekend script. Then the request has to come from the right location, the parser has to survive the next time Google reshuffles the page, and both need proxies underneath. Teams that…
If you use DataForSEO for building an SEO tool or powering an agency workflow, you almost certainly have a single DataForSEO account serving more than one client. While a single SERP API call costs a fraction of a cent, the…
In this article, we’ll explain two ways to specify location settings in requests to the Search and Categories Aggregation endpoints of the Business Listings API. 1. Setting the location_coordinate parameter The first way to set location settings in the Business…
A new business usually registers its domain before it does anything else. Before the site goes live, before there’s a logo, before it shows up in any lead database. That registration date is the earliest public record of the business…
What is the Lighthouse API for and how to use it? The Lighthouse API runs Google’s open-source Lighthouse tool against a URL you specify and returns the full report as JSON. This API is part of our OnPage API, but…
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…
ChatGPT ad results may contain ads that were returned in the response but were not actually displayed to the user. A new field in ChatGPT LLM Scraper API now helps you identify which ChatGPT ads actually made it onto the…
Get deeper insight into Google’s Popular Products results. The Google SERP API now returns additional product and source information, including product URLs, domains, and Google Shopping identifiers in Task GET and Live Advanced endpoint responses. What’s new We added three…
Apple App Store listings can include a subtitle that provides additional context about an app. You can now retrieve this information through the App Data API and App Store databases. What’s new We added a new subtitle field to the…
Google’s AI Mode search results can now include sponsored content within AI-generated responses. To help you track and analyze these placements, the AI Mode SERP API now returns paid ad elements displayed within AI Mode results. What’s new The AI…
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