Is SEO Dead? What Zero-Click Search Actually Changed
SEO is not dead. Zero-click search changed the payout, not the mechanism. Google still ranks pages, and AI Overviews still pull their sources from…
July 27, 2026Written by the people who run the engagements. Where our industry is overclaiming, we say so, including when the overclaim would be convenient for us.
SEO is not dead. Zero-click search changed the payout, not the mechanism. Google still ranks pages, and AI Overviews still pull their sources from…
July 27, 2026
Ranked “Best X” pages are the highest-return content format in 2026, because they win the queries AI cannot finish. Head-to-head comparisons support them; the…
July 26, 2026
Zero-click search ends without a click to any website. Declining clicks do not prove declining SEO performance. Google answers the query on the results…
July 25, 2026
SEO is not dead. The optimization target split. For twenty years there was one target: rank in a list, earn a click. In 2026…
July 24, 2026
Key Takeaways AI Overviews and zero-click search have cut the return on purely informational content. The click that funded that investment is gone. Move…
July 23, 2026
Branded search comes from users who already know your company. Non-branded search comes from users who do not. The two halves answer different questions,…
July 22, 2026
Rising impressions with falling clicks is the pattern I get asked about more than any other. It is usually not a penalty. Your pages…
July 21, 2026Model behaviour changes, what we have measured, and what we got wrong.