# Monitor, test, and adjust – with Julia-Carolin Zeng

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Podcast: [SEO in 2026](https://stenobird.com/podcast/seo-in-2026-4529445)
Published: 2026-06-01T08:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://majestic.com/seo-in-2026/julia-carolin-zeng
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## Resource

Julia-Carolin Zeng shares some of the key areas that you should be continually monitoring in order to know what to adjust. Julia says: “Monitoring, testing, and adjusting. The search landscape will keep on changing. What we've seen so far in 2025 is nothing yet.” How is the search landscape continuing to change? “Right now, the buzzword in SEO is the ‘great decoupling’, where we see impressions going up and clicks going down. I see it more as a democratisation of the search landscape, with new players in the field now. Google is suddenly getting a lot of competition because people don’t just perform their searches on Google or Bing anymore, as they did historically. There are now all these LLMs out there like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, etc. Google has expanded the AI overviews. They've rolled out AI Mode. I've also suddenly seen quite a significant amount of traffic from Yahoo for some of my clients. We don't yet know where that's coming from. Then there's still DuckDuckGo and Ecosia out there. However, ChatGPT seems to have become the big competitor to Google, even though the actions and searches that are performed in those places aren't exactly equivalent. We've seen a democratisation there, because Google is not the default for everything related to search anymore.”

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