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Why Most New Blog Posts Never Reach Page One (and What the Few That Do Have in Common) Ahrefs, the SEO software company, tracked a large sample of newly published pages for a full year and counted how many reached Google's top ten for at least one keyword. Depending on how the sample was filtered, the answer was between 1.74% and 6.11%. Pick whichever figure you prefer. Either way, the typical new post spends its first year outside the top ten. ahrefs That is discouraging enough, but the pages that do break through now face a second problem. Pew Research found that people click a regular search result in about 8% of visits when Google shows an AI summary, against 15% when it doesn't. Ahrefs, using December 2025 data, found that an AI Overview goes along with a 58% lower click-through rate for the page in first position. Seer Interactive saw click rates edge back up in early 2026 and describes that as stabilization rather than recovery. Study Confirms Google AI O...
