Phone call data breaks out AI referrals for the first time. Calls from ChatGPT become leads more often than any other channel, but convert average. The post ChatGPT Calls Turn Into Leads More Often: Invoca Report appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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John Mueller responded to a plan to hide homepage links from Google in hopes only one internal anchor text would count, known as "first-link priority." The post Google’s Mueller On First Link Priority & Link Obfuscation appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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