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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 parameter – the one that…

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 it effectively? Traditional SEO strategies…

Beyond Traditional SERP Data: Accessing Google AI Mode Results with DataForSEO APIs

What's NewUse Cases

Google’s evolution from traditional to AI-driven, conversational search accelerated dramatically in 2024. First came AI Overviews, adding intelligent summaries atop organic results. But Google didn’t stop there. Now, the company has rolled out AI Mode, a standalone AI-powered search engine. With AI Mode, users no…

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 parameter – the one that…

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 it effectively? Traditional SEO strategies…

Beyond Traditional SERP Data: Accessing Google AI Mode Results with DataForSEO APIs

Beyond Traditional SERP Data: Accessing Google AI Mode Results with DataForSEO APIs

What's NewUse Cases

Google’s evolution from traditional to AI-driven, conversational search accelerated dramatically in 2024. First came AI Overviews, adding intelligent summaries atop organic results. But Google didn’t stop there. Now, the company has rolled out AI Mode, a standalone AI-powered search engine. With AI Mode, users no…

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How to extract ChatGPT brand entities with LLM Scraper API

AI Optimization API

Since October 2025, ChatGPT search structures information about brands into separate brand entities in its responses. By structuring brand data into entities, ChatGPT can more accurately represent brands in its responses, distinguishing them from generic terms. Moreover, entity-based structure makes brand data retrieval straightforward, as…

How to scrape Google AI Overviews with SERP API

SERP API

With the powerful Google Organic SERP API, you can track all possible SERP features, and AI Overviews are no exception. In this guide, we cover the key aspects of scraping Google AI Overviews with SERP API and the types of AI Overview data you receive….

How to use new crawl control parameters in Google Organic SERP API

SERP API

In Google Organic SERP API, we enhanced control over the stop_crawl_on_match feature with three new parameters: target_search_mode, find_targets_in, and ignore_targets_in. These parameters enable you to fine-tune when crawling stops and which SERP elements are checked for target matches, providing greater precision in Google rank tracking….

How to crawl specific website directories in OnPage API

On-Page API

In the OnPage API Task POST endpoint, you can customize the request to crawl only a specific directory of a website. This is particularly useful for targeted audits of specific site sections without processing the entire domain. Besides, you’ll spend less money on analysis as…

How to Define Targets and Analyze Data in the LLM Mentions API

AI Optimization API

The LLM Mentions API transforms raw AI search data into actionable intelligence. By combining flexible targeting, structured metrics and source data, you can uncover where and how your brand or competitors are mentioned. This guide lists the features available, explains how to configure and customize…

Using Cross Aggregated Metrics in LLM Mentions API for Side-by-Side Analysis

AI Optimization API

The Cross Aggregated Metrics endpoint in LLM Mentions API allows you to directly compare how multiple products or brands are mentioned across AI searches. Besides delivering blended data on all mentions for your target parameters, it also offers separate results into distinct groups each labeled…

LLM Mentions API subscription explained

AI Optimization APISubscriptions

This article explains how subscription and billing work for the LLM Mentions API endpoints in DataForSEO’s AI Optimization API suite. You’ll learn what the monthly commitment is, how it works, and how this model fits alongside our pay-as-you-go pricing. DataForSEO’s pricing model at a glance…

How to access search queries data from ChatGPT?

AI Optimization API

Understanding how large language models navigate and interpret the web becomes key to staying visible in AI responses. That’s where the new fan_out_queries feature in the LLM Scraper endpoint of AI Optimization API comes in. It gives you a behind-the-scenes look at how ChatGPT expands…

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Upgraded AIO Collection for Databases and DataForSEO Labs API

Upgraded AIO Collection for Databases and DataForSEO Labs API

DatabasesDataForSEO Labs APIImprovement

We’ve improved the way Google AI Overview data is collected across our Google SERP datasets. Now our system can retrieve asynchronous AIOs, providing broader and more accurate coverage throughout both our Google Databases and relevant Google endpoints in the DataForSEO Labs API. What’s new Previously,…

First & Last Response Timestamps in LLM Mentions API

First & Last Response Timestamps in LLM Mentions API

AI Optimization APIImprovement

Today we’re bringing you smoother analytics experience in the LLM Mentions API with two new timestamp fields that help you understand exactly when mention-containing LLM responses were first and last recorded in our database. What’s new The Search Mentions endpoint now includes two additional fields…

Brand Entity Extraction in ChatGPT LLM Scraper API

Brand Entity Extraction in ChatGPT LLM Scraper API

AI Optimization APIAnnouncement

LLM Scraper API from our AI Optimization API suite now automatically surfaces brand entities detected in ChatGPT responses. This update allows you to extract deeper insights from scraped content without additional parsing or post-processing. What’s new The brand_entities field is already available in your API…

DataForSEO API v2 Sunset Notice & v3 Upgrade Path

DataForSEO API v2 Sunset Notice & v3 Upgrade Path

Announcement

Data needs, as well as the tools built around it, have evolved significantly since our v2 API first launched. To ensure we continue delivering the fastest and most reliable data infrastructure expected today, we’re preparing to close the chapter on v2 API. Support for v2…

🖤50% Off One-Year Access to Backlinks & LLM Mentions APIs

🖤50% Off One-Year Access to Backlinks & LLM Mentions APIs

Announcement

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Word Count Filtering in DataForSEO Labs API

Word Count Filtering in DataForSEO Labs API

DataForSEO Labs APIImprovement

Refining the keywords you retrieve by word count is now faster and easier than ever. We’ve added a simple numeric filter that makes keyword analysis with DataForSEO Labs API much more efficient. What’s new You can now filter keywords by the number of words across…

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