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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…

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…

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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What are the initial dataset filters, and how do they work?

AI Optimization APIBusiness Data APIContent Analysis API

Among the request parameters of specific endpoints of the LLM Mentions API, Business Data API, and Content Analysis API, you might have encountered the initial_dataset_filters array. Although you can pass similar filter fields and operators in initial_dataset_filters as in the…

How the AI search volume metric works in LLM Mentions

AI Optimization API

While working with endpoints of the LLM Mentions API, you may notice that the values of ai_search_volume for the same keyword may vary significantly depending on the selected platform type. The difference in values of ai_search_volume for Google and ChatGPT…

What is LLM Scraper API, and what data does it provide?

AI Optimization API

Generative Engine Optimization evolves rapidly, so do the methods of collecting LLM data for optimization. To keep up with changes and the growing data demands, we introduce the API LLM Scraper as a part of AI Optimization API. With this…

How to use search_this_area parameter in Google Hotel Searches

Business Data API

In the Google Hotel Searches endpoint, the system automatically appends the location name to the specified keyword. This is done to obtain accurate search results by searching a specific area within the target location. For example, if you specify “keyword”:…

What is the difference between the offset and offset_token parameters?

Getting Started

While working with сertain DataForSEO endpoints (like Top Searches or Business Listings Search, for example) you may have encountered offset and offset_token parameters in the documentation. Both parameters have a similar function – they allow for retrieving results from our…

Connecting DataForSEO MCP Server to your n8n workflows

DataForSEO MCPIntegrationsn8n

In this guide, we’ll walk through the installation and configuration of the DataForSEO MCP Server in n8n step by step. Let’s get started! ➤ Already have a local n8n instance? Start at step 4. ➤ Working in cloud n8n? Jump…

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…

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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…

Uncrawlable Resources Data Added to On-Page API

Uncrawlable Resources Data Added to On-Page API

On-Page API

This update to the On-Page API brings greater clarity to your crawl results and improves reporting accuracy. We’ve added a new endpoint and expanded summary data, giving you more precise insight into the resources that don’t meet expected crawl conditions….

Postmortem: Isolated DataForSEO WordPress Incident on March 27

Announcement

Following the isolated incident affecting the DataForSEO website and its WordPress admin panel on March 26, and now that the root causes of this situation have been fully resolved, we would like to share the details about what happened, how…

Reasoning Support in LLM Responses: ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini

Reasoning Support in LLM Responses: ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini

AI Optimization API

We’re excited to announce that the LLM Responses API now supports reasoning for specific models. Now, you can explore the step-by-step thought process of popular LLMs and gain deeper insights into their behavior. What’s new Here are key changes we…

More Product Details in ChatGPT LLM Scraper API

More Product Details in ChatGPT LLM Scraper API

AI Optimization API

Gain deeper insights into product visibility in AI-generated shopping results with the new fields added to the ChatGPT Products element in LLM Scraper API. These additions provide richer product metadata and merchant-level information. What’s new The following fields are now…

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