SEO platform for publishers and news websites
Pi Datametrics helps news and media organisations understand how audiences discover their stories across AI, conversational, and traditional search. Track visibility in real time, benchmark competitors, and uncover opportunities to grow readership, engagement, and revenue.
+70% increase in page-one visibility
One global publisher used Pi’s Optimize Now to push its highest-potential content above the fold during a three-month campaign. Weekly AI-driven recommendations helped achieve a 70% uplift in page-one visibility, with 32% of content moving into position one and a measurable increase in affiliate revenue.
+25% increase in subscriptions driven by organic search
A national media organisation used Pi Datametrics to align editorial, SEO and commercial teams around audience intent. By tracking search visibility in real time and optimising for high-impact topics, the business now attributes one in four new subscriptions to organic search.
+61% increase in organic visibility
A consumer publisher used Pi’s Market Intelligence to benchmark category performance and identify missed opportunities. The team prioritised optimisation across key product categories, resulting in a 61% increase in organic visibility and measurable growth in engagement and conversions.
Stay visible in fast-moving search environments
News and media organizations use Pi to track performance across SERP features, from Google News and Top Stories to AI search experiences and emerging conversational results. Editorial and SEO teams can see how stories surface in real time, adapt coverage to trending topics, and maintain visibility in a constantly shifting search landscape.
Benchmark media performance across every category
Pi helps publishers benchmark visibility across categories from news and politics to lifestyle and commerce. Track how competitors perform across AI and traditional search, identify new entrants gaining ground and uncover opportunities to expand audience reach.
"A powerful and flexible search insights platform"
What do you like best about Pi Datametrics?
Pi Datametric's SERP feature reporting and evolutions in the AI/LLM tracking space continue to make them a market leader and invaluable for any business operating in a space being disrupted by these new technologies.
Optimize editorial content for authority and trust
Editorial teams use Pi’s Optimize Now to enhance the performance of articles and commerce-led content. It assesses content quality and alignment with Google’s Helpful Content Guidelines and E-E-A-T principles, helping publishers strengthen authority, relevance, and trust. Teams can prioritize and refine their highest-value pieces ahead of peak periods to drive sustained growth in visibility and revenue.
Strengthen internal linking across news ecosystems
Pi’s Optimize Now also surfaces internal linking opportunities and recommended anchor text to help publishers connect related articles, improve crawlability, and distribute authority across large content portfolios. Editorial teams can action prioritized suggestions to resolve internal competition before it impacts performance and keep high-value stories visible.
"A really useful tool for staying on top of your SEO projects"
What do you like best about Pi Datametrics?
Seeing our visibility in AI Overviews over the last months has been eye opening and really useful. I am really enjoying the new content optimisation feature and the feature visibility timeline. The content optimisation tool gives me so many new ideas for our blog strategy. Additionally, it is a lot easier to analyse traffic losses/gains with the feature visibility tool. Also the daily reporting we have is crucial to our strategy.
Forecast and plan around trending topics
With Pi Search Trends, publishers can identify rising topics, seasonal peaks, and emerging reader interests. Use these insights to guide editorial planning, content calendars, and affiliate campaigns based on real search demand.
Resolve content conflicts across publishing networks
Large publishing sites often face overlapping coverage across multiple verticals. Pi’s Conflict Detection helps teams spot and resolve internal competition before it dilutes performance, ensuring every article supports overall visibility and authority.
"Useful ranking tracking tool"
What do you like best about Pi Datametrics?
Pi is a great tool that is constantly being improved to match the fast changing innovations in search. It's super useful for rankings tracking and opportunities discovery.
FAQs: Publishing and News SEO
SEO in publishing focuses on helping news and media organizations make their content discoverable in search results. It ensures that stories, articles, and multimedia assets reach readers at the moment of interest.
For publishers, SEO is no longer only about headlines and keywords. It now includes optimizing for AI search, Google’s AI Overviews, and conversational results where audiences consume information in new ways.
Pi Datametrics gives publishers visibility across every type of search experience, helping editorial and commercial teams understand performance, uncover opportunities, and grow audience engagement.
A publishing SEO platform helps media and editorial teams track visibility across topics, measure performance by author or section, and connect audience reach to commercial outcomes.
Pi Datametrics is the publishing SEO platform that delivers AI-era visibility, tracking where publishers appear across search, AI-generated answers, and conversation-driven results. It also helps teams resolve internal content conflicts and measure performance over time.
A newspaper SEO platform supports news publishers in managing fast-moving, high-volume content. It provides insight into how stories perform in real time and how they compare to competitor coverage.
Pi Datametrics gives newsroom and commercial teams live visibility data, showing which topics and story types drive engagement and where competitors are gaining traction.
Newspaper SEO is the practice of optimizing digital news articles to appear prominently in search results. It includes headline optimization, structured data, keyword targeting, and visibility tracking across breaking and evergreen content.
Pi Datametrics helps newspapers stay visible in a competitive landscape by monitoring search features, AI Overviews, and real-time visibility trends, ensuring content continues to surface for readers and subscribers.
Publishing SEO is the broader discipline of optimizing all publishing content types, from articles to videos, to reach audiences through search engines and AI-driven discovery platforms.
With Pi Datametrics, publishers can track performance across multiple titles, regions, and content verticals, identifying where visibility drives traffic, subscriptions, and ad revenue.
Leading news and publishing organizations choose Pi Datametrics because it:
- Tracks visibility across AI, LLM, and traditional search in real time
- Surfaces competitor performance across breaking news and evergreen topics
- Detects content conflicts and duplication across large editorial networks
- Connects search visibility to audience growth and commercial outcomes
- Helps editorial teams prioritize stories with the greatest impact potential
Pi enables publishers to align editorial, audience development, and SEO teams around a single source of truth for visibility and growth.
The features highlighted on this page represent just part of Pi’s broader enterprise SEO platform. Explore the full SEO Platform to see how all Pi tools work together in one platform, giving a holistic view across AI and traditional search.
A trusted SEO platform for publishers and media brands
Understand how your content performs across Top Stories, Google News, and AI search. Pi Datametrics gives editorial and SEO teams the insights to grow visibility, engagement, and revenue across every vertical.
