SEO研究文章与诊断观察

In the Chinese-language Google SEO field, choosing the right service provider is harder than learning SEO itself. Google Search Console data shows that the vendor-selection series on Tianwen SEO Research is the only section of the site with steady, genuine impressions and search queries (pages such as How to Choose a Foreign Trade Website Building […]

Liu Yu · Tianwen SEO Research Notebook AI Chatbots Talked 57.5% of Buyers Out of Buying: What Exporters Need to Know Before buyers contact you, they have already gone and asked AI. That round of questions and answers may lead them to order, or it may make them give up outright. You are not in […]

Google Index Check: site: Command Pitfalls, Correct GSC Usage, and Diagnosing Why Pages Aren’t Indexed Checking Google’s index is the most basic and most misunderstood step in troubleshooting indexing problems on an independent foreign-trade site. When many site owners can’t find their site on Google, their first instinct is to type site:www.yoursite.com—a habit carried over […]

Liu Yu · Tianwen SEO Research Notes B2B Manufacturing Visibility in AI Search: What the Data Shows and What to Do Search terms in manufacturing do not look like the ones in consumer markets. They are technical, specific, and low in volume, but each one sits right against a purchasing decision. Whoever writes those terms […]

Google Search Console Tutorial: GSC Verification, Sitemap Submission, Performance Reports, and Troubleshooting Common Issues Google Search Console (GSC) is a free SEO tool provided by Google, and the Google official tool that foreign-trade website operators use most frequently in their daily work. It provides Google’s crawl, index, and search performance data for a website directly, […]

Liu Yu · Tianwen SEO Research Notebook AI Overviews Have Reached Commercial Terms: What to Do When Your Buying Keywords Get Covered AI summaries started out eating only “what is” questions. Now they are eating “who is best, how much does it cost, how do I choose.” When your buying keywords get covered, the most […]

The Core Logic of Google Rankings: How Google Decides Who Ranks First Before you start, get clear on the basic Google ranking process: crawling → indexing → ranking. Google first discovers your page (crawling), stores it in its database (indexing), and then, when a user searches, picks the most relevant pages from the index and […]

刘宇 · Tianwen SEO Research notebook How to Track ChatGPT Referral Traffic: A Low-Cost Approach The hardest part of AI referral traffic is not that there is little of it — it is that it often hides. It may be recorded as direct traffic, and it may land on a page you never expected. Learn […]

Google Ranking Check: Five Methods for Checking Rankings in 2026 Compared (Free + Paid) In the course of doing Google SEO, you ask yourself one question almost every day: where does my website rank? But “checking rankings” is more complicated than most people think. Is the data GSC gives you accurate? How much difference is […]

Liu Yu · Tianwen SEO Research notebook How AI Describes Your Brand: A Low-Cost Approach to Sentiment Monitoring AI mentioning you and AI recommending you are two different things; recommending you and getting you right are two more. What sentiment monitoring should do is record these three separately, rather than piling them into one favorability […]

There are three most common types of vanity metrics in SEO monthly reports: looking only at index count, looking only at article word count, and looking only at tool scores. They are not entirely useless, but they cannot stand alone as results. When an export website reviews Google SEO and GEO performance, what a monthly […]

How to Choose a Foreign Trade Website Development Company: Quotes, Technical Evaluation and Pitfall Checklist (2026) When a foreign trade company wants to build its own independent website, the first step is usually searching for “foreign trade website development company.” But the market is messy: some quote two thousand, others open at fifty thousand; some […]

Liu Yu · Tianwen SEO Research Notebook What Is an SEO Agent? What It Can and Cannot Do for a Foreign-Trade Site The word “Agent” has been used to the point of exhaustion. Strip away the packaging and it is just a program that calls its own tools and loops through its own work. It […]

The vanity metrics that turn up most often in a GEO monthly report are AI screenshots, overall tool scores, brand mention counts, indexed page counts, article word counts, and “we did a lot this month.” These materials can go into the appendix, but they cannot be presented directly as results. A monthly report that is […]

Google Ads Campaign Tutorial — this is one of the most-searched Google Ads terms among Chinese exporters and cross-border independent-site sellers. Starting from what Google Ads is, this article ties together account setup options, account structure, the six-step launch process, budgets and bidding, ad type selection, common pitfalls, competitor analysis, and weekly reviews into a […]

Liu Yu · Tianwen SEO Research Notebook What Is llms.txt: Should You Write Instructions for AI Crawlers Every so often a new thing appears that you are told you cannot afford to skip, and llms.txt is the latest one. My approach is to look at the evidence first and then decide how much time to […]

Google SEO company promising to get you to the first page — is that credible? First look at what it means by “first page.” If it is only analyzing opportunities, breaking down competitive difficulty, and explaining what actions can be taken, that can be discussed. If it directly writes a specific keyword, a specific position, […]

How to start cross-border e-commerce—this is one of the most-searched questions among exporters, yet the answers online are the most scattered. This article first explains what cross-border e-commerce is, then connects the two paths—marketplaces and independent sites—into a complete tutorial you can follow step by step, covering product selection, site building, customer acquisition, and review. […]

Liu Yu · Tianwen SEO Research Notebook How to Build an AI Visibility Dashboard Without Buying Expensive Tools The most common mistake with a dashboard isn’t having too little data; it’s filling it with numbers that can rise without meaning anything. My spreadsheet has only five blocks, and each one points to a specific action. […]

Can a GEO company’s promise about AI recommendations be trusted? You have to unpack it first. If it says it can improve a page’s citability, unify the brand entity, fill in official evidence, and set up query monitoring, those are worth discussing. If it says a specific question will definitely cite your site, a specific […]

On August 6, 2026, Search Engine Roundtable reported a new phenomenon in Google Search Console: AI Mode follow-up questions show up in the Performance report as short queries like ”yes” and ”go on”, and John Mueller also confirmed on LinkedIn that impressions, position, and click data for AI Overviews and AI Mode are all counted […]

Tianwen SEO Research · AI Search Measurement Notes Can AI Search Traffic Attribution Actually Be Done: How Far It Can Go Today When a company name shows up in an AI answer, the boss asks right away: how many inquiries did it actually bring in? After checking my research records and the current analytics documentation, […]

Are free AI search visibility tool plans enough? When you need paid monitoring — articles like this supplement review points and long-tail demand. The core conclusion: look at search intent and project stage first, then decide whether the work is diagnosis, service selection, quote evaluation, risk identification, or tool monitoring. This page does not publish […]

From late July to early August 2026, AI Overviews became a hot topic almost overnight: data from thekeyword.co shows that AI Overviews now appear in roughly 43% of Google searches; TechCrunch reports that Google’s AI search is rapidly becoming the default experience; after its earnings call, Reddit’s CEO publicly questioned whether AI Overviews can replace […]