Try GOLD - Free

Staying a step ahead

Financial Express Lucknow

|

August 20, 2025

How SEO strategies need to adapt to new search behaviours

- NEERAJ SANCHETI

NOT LONG AGO, SEO was a straightforward game: find the right keywords, publish optimised content, build backlinks, and climb the ranks. Land in the top three, and the traffic rolled in. Simple. Celebratory.

AI has rewritten the rules. Search behaviour has changed. The internet is flooded with AI-written content. Traditional SEO strategy is failing big time with organic traffic down by 15-25% as per a recent survey by Bain. Most CMOs are still grappling with how to adapt their SEO strategies to today's fragmented search behaviour.

Google still commands a little less than 90% of global search traffic. But it's no longer the only gatekeeper. ChatGPT is clocking nearly 122.6 million daily active users as of May 2025, and it's growing every month. Other platforms like Gemini, Perplexity and Claude are catching up fast.

MORE STORIES FROM Financial Express Lucknow

Financial Express Lucknow

The role of language in shaping identity

China’s new gender-neutral pronoun is part of a global linguistic shift

time to read

3 mins

January 11, 2026

Financial Express Lucknow

Democracy in decay

How the ideals of the Constitution fail to percolate down to the masses

time to read

2 mins

January 11, 2026

Financial Express Lucknow

India, EU express strong will to conclude FTA early

TRADE TALK

time to read

2 mins

January 11, 2026

Financial Express Lucknow

Budget likely to focus on debt goals & fiscal deficit

More investment, efficiency for high growth: EAC head 'Strong turnaround for banking'

time to read

1 min

January 11, 2026

Financial Express Lucknow

Tradition with a twist

Piyush Mohnani, marketing head of fashion brand Asuka Couture.

time to read

3 mins

January 11, 2026

Financial Express Lucknow

A new sheriff in town

TWO HUNDRED YEARS after the Monroe Doctrine was declared by the 5th President of the United States, and despite the widespread doubt about its power and efficacy, the doctrine was invoked by the 47th President of the United States.

time to read

3 mins

January 11, 2026

Financial Express Lucknow

Moroccan cave fossils yield a missing link in human origins

The new finding has a potential to revise theories on early human evolution

time to read

4 mins

January 11, 2026

Financial Express Lucknow

DIY URBANISM

How residents are cleaning, greening and reclaiming their cities, one filthy river, dumping ground, or neglected corner at a time

time to read

3 mins

January 11, 2026

Financial Express Lucknow

Greenland’s party leaders dismiss US control proposal

GREENLAND'S PARTY LEADERS have rejected President Donald Trump’s repeated calls for the US to take control of the island, saying that Greenland’s future must be decided by its people.

time to read

1 min

January 11, 2026

Financial Express Lucknow

Scientists find oldest poison residues on 60,000-year-old arrows

The poison hints at how far back in history humans have been using it for survival

time to read

2 mins

January 11, 2026

Listen

Translate

Share

-
+

Change font size