Q3 2026 Search Report

NEW RESEARCH: AI recommends the brands it already cites.

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Jason White, Victorious' Director of Search

Jason White

Director of Search Jason White is an SEO leader with two decades of experience building and scaling organic growth programs across both agency and in-house environments. He helms Victorious' SEO and Content Strategy teams and supports client growth through integrated SEO and AEO strategies centered on entities.

Recent Posts

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Search tools show plenty of keywords with no recorded volume, and many of them still deserve a spot in your strategy. This guide breaks down when zero-volume keywords belong on your content calendar, how to group and find them, and why AI search is making them matter more.

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SEO backlinks signal topical authority and impact where a page lands in search results. But what are backlinks, exactly? And, why are backlinks important to Google? Read on for a breakdown of the essential strategy behind backlink building.

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Learn how to find, analyze, and prioritize keywords your customers search for, including the sub-questions AI Overviews and AI Mode now answer directly. This guide covers free and paid tools, plus the business-value test that keeps you from chasing traffic that never converts.

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Ecommerce SEO tools cover three jobs. Some handle catalog-wide SEO, some manage product feeds and schema, and a newer group tracks whether AI-generated answers cite your products at all. Here's which tools cover which job, plus current pricing.

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Feeling torn between SEO and GEO? Think you could be falling behind as others start to optimize for AI search engines? Keep reading before making changes to your SEO strategy.

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If your website serves a global community, you’ll want to use hreflang tags to help search engines deliver localized content for all of your users.

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Technical SEO metrics show whether search engines can find, crawl, and index your pages. Learn which four to track, what a passing Core Web Vitals score looks like, and where to read each number in Google's free tools.

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Calculate your Black Friday SEO lead time with one formula instead of a guess, then build evergreen holiday landing pages that earn backlinks and AI Overview citations year after year. Five tactics, starting with the exact math for your own start date.

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Query fan-out breaks one search into several related questions AI systems run at once, then builds an answer from whatever addresses each. Learn how to structure content so it can be cited across that full set, not just the original query.

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Dofollow, nofollow, sponsored, UGC…not all backlinks are created equal. Get the low down on what it all means and which links will help your SEO and boost your organic search rankings.

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Product schema turns your product pages into eligible rich snippets showing price, availability, and ratings straight in search results. This guide walks through JSON-LD implementation step by step, including shipping and return-policy schema, a required-versus-recommended property table, and three ready-to-use code examples for different product types.

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You’ve probably heard a lot about domain authority, but maybe you’re not sure exactly what domain ranking is and how page authority compares to website domain authority. If you’re wondering why it matters for SEO, read on to learn more about DA Scores.

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