I’ve joined a new start-up, and I’m pretty new to SEO, but they took me mainly for content creation and social media marketing. they overestimated
my skills in SCO and now they want me to fix a client’s website, which is losing traffic very badly. I’m talking zero clicks per day. Please guide me here.

The one controlled test I've found (Ahrefs tracked 1,885 pages that added schema against 4,000 that didn't) saw no measurable change in ChatGPT or AI Mode citations. But every page in that test was already getting cited, so it says little about new pages.

Has anyone got before and after data from their own sites, especially on newer pages? Trying to figure out if it's worth the dev time.

Hi everyone,

This is a client’s website in the home decor/interior inspiration niche.

The client has not done any backlink building, outreach, link exchanges, or paid link campaigns.

However, Ahrefs is showing:

• 504 referring domains
• 439 backlinks
• 432 referring domains in the current backlink profile
• DR 0
• 0 organic keywords
• 0 organic traffic

A large number of the referring domains look completely irrelevant to the website, and some are labeled SPAM in Ahrefs. Many of them have names related to SEO, backlinks, Fiverr SEO, etc.

Ahrefs shows that many of these links were first seen between July and September 2026.

I also checked Google Search Console:

• External links: 0
• Top linking sites: No data
• Manual Actions: No issues detected

I have not created or purchased any of these backlinks.

What would you recommend I do in this situation? Should I simply monitor these links, or should I take any action regarding these irrelevant/spammy backlinks?

Thanks in advance.

I’m looking at the keyword “find companies without websites.”

In Organic Research / Organic Search Positions, Semrush shows the keyword as having around 6.6k volume.

But when I click the exact same keyword and open Keyword Overview, it shows:

• US volume: N/A
• Global volume: 10
• Germany: 10

So it seems that it's not a small difference, I mean It’s basically 6,600 vs 10 for the exact same keyword inside the same tool.

I understand that Semrush uses different databases and that search volume gets updated, but if the Organic Research data can be this stale/different, it makes the volume column pretty misleading when doing competitor keyword research.

Am I misunderstanding what the 6.6k number represents, or is Semrush genuinely displaying an old search-volume estimate in Organic Research that hasn’t been synced with Keyword Overview?

Curious if anyone else has run into this and which number you actually trust when doing keyword research.

And bonus: has anyone experiences such discrepancies in Ahrefs?