This week’s SEO Pulse covers expanded Search Console social reporting, Ahrefs’ AI-content ranking analysis, AI opt-out implications, and met...

Google said that spammed search box pages may become a site quality issue and dealt with as if they were hacked. The post Google May Treat ...

WP Engine announced Commerce Connect, a safe way for fast-growth brands to modernize and scale while preserving design, SEO, and user experi...

New Similarweb figures reveal how narrowly ChatGPT distributes its outbound clicks, and what that concentration means for publishers chasing...

Eight weeks of AI Overviews data in Search Console reveals impressions without clicks, inflated position-one rankings, and misleading averag...

A language model has no node to feed. Here's why on-site entity work moves Google's graph and never touches what the model learned. ...

Five articles explain why AI citations fluctuate, where they come from, what makes them persist, and how to audit content for stronger AI vi...

Treat Europe as one Google market, and you'll miss Seznam, Ecosia, Zalando, and a regulatory layer that can close a door overnight. The...

Google is putting Top Stories carousels inside AI Overviews, raising the stakes on its new AI opt-out setting in Search Console. The post A...

Is Google still a search engine? Its Q2 2026 earnings call suggests the answer is changing, and website owners should plan accordingly. The...

Google's DMCA case against scraper SerpApi collapsed because SearchGuard protects ad revenue, not copyright. The same reasoning weakens ...

Agentic protocols are multiplying with no consensus standard in sight. Own the layers underneath instead of chasing a winner. The post Why ...

Shared Claude chats showed up in Google. We checked the pages and found a noindex header sitting behind a robots.txt block that keeps Google...

AI sends barely any traffic, but the traffic it sends is twice as engaged. Here's why publishers should care. The post How Publishers C...

Before your next AI video goes live: Audit disclosure against YouTube's actual policy, produce below the ceiling, and name the human dec...

Google may be penalizing AI-generated content under an expanded definition of thin content. The post Google May Be Penalizing AI-Generated ...

Google expanded its review snippet documentation with new ways content can trigger a manual action. The post Google Expands Review Guidelin...

AI bot paywalls are framed as new income. The real question is which AI answers you're willing to disappear from. The post Charging AI ...

Alphabet detailed Search revenue to the decimal. Google described web traffic in three kinds of unverifiable claims. Q2 widened the gap. Th...

Google's John Mueller explains a robots.txt quirk that can cause Googlebot to ignore robots.txt rules. The post Google Says Why It May ...

GatherUp's Annie Jackson and Jason Wertham show how to audit what ChatGPT and AI Overviews say about your locations, and which inputs ch...

Stop measuring creator partnerships by view counts. The value shows up downstream, in traffic, AI citations, and conversions your dashboard ...

A court dismisses Google's DMCA claims against SerpApi, the EU fines Google €890 million, major publishers weigh leaving Google, and Sea...

OpenAI killed Atlas because AI browsers were always a workaround. The real fix is a website machines can actually read. The post AI Browser...

Waiting for ChatGPT to prove your ROI? The not-provided lesson says stop. Here's the measurement work you can own instead. The post Goo...

Alphabet's Q2 Search revenue rose 17% to $63.27 billion, its first easing after four quarters of acceleration. Google credited retail an...

Does Google penalize AI content? Get answers on GEO, answer engine optimization, and the content personalization signals that convert. Watch...

AI doesn't reward the best-optimized page. It rewards the highest-confidence evidence. Bill Hunt explains how organizations earn that co...

Anthropic's Claude Cowork can turn a video of a person doing a task into a skill so that it can do it too. The post Anthropic’s Claude ...

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Agentic commerce is here. Your next SEO win may be less about better content, more about being the easiest product for an agent to buy. The...

Discover how marketing agencies can transform their content strategy and boost client retention in the age of AI. The post AI Content Marke...

EU binding rules require Google to share anonymized Search data with eligible rival engines and search-enabled AI chatbots. The post Google...

Wrong postcodes, closed-business claims, invented services: what vendor tests reveal about AI answers, and how to audit yours across five pl...

Is it a technical issue or a quality problem? A step-by-step look at why Google crawled your pages but refused to index them. The post Why ...

AI visibility tools count citations. Citations aren't recommendations. Here's what to measure instead, and why the gap keeps widenin...

Google's Mueller explained how an "are you a bot" screen can push a site's pages out of Google, and get another site picke...

Google's NotebookLM rebrand may expose websites to more AI scraping with zero attribution unless site owners take action right now. The...

Apple Maps ads ban home services, crypto ATMs, and bail bonds. Learn which businesses qualify and how advertisers can prepare for the rollou...

Google's John Mueller says that overall site quality is more than just text. How users experience the page can define quality, too. The...

A contract built around activity always rewards more activity. Here's how to renegotiate your agency SOW around judgment and verified re...

Learn why Reddit is essential for AI citation strategies. Discover how it impacts search visibility and business recommendations. The post ...

The fingerprint you pressed into Google's ranking systems now feeds the AI answers on top of them. Here's where it persists and goes...

The new Search Console social tracking hides AI click loss and turns your verified profiles into free training data for Google's models....

CRO pages and SEO pages have different jobs. Define each page's purpose, set boundaries, and both traffic and revenue can grow. The pos...

Google's Mueller says long A/B tests won't result in SEO demotions, contradicting official guidance that says they may be considered...

John Mueller responded to a plan to hide homepage links from Google in hopes only one internal anchor text would count, known as "first...

Gain valuable insights on search attention and learn how to track performance beyond traditional click metrics in our new podcast episode. ...

Mass programmatic AI content breaks Google's crawl ecosystem and indexing thresholds in ways most teams never anticipate until rankings ...

Do individuals hold all the power in publishing now? Why the reverse halo effect is reshaping content strategy for every brand in search. T...

Want to win the AI citation game? Build for the click-through moment, not just the citation. Here's where to start. The post Only 28% O...

Overwhelmed by agentic web acronyms? Map each protocol to the problem it solves before deciding which ones deserve your attention. The post...

WebMCP gives AI agents named tools to call, and a clean route for prompt injection. Here's what Chrome says to lock down first. The pos...

AI visibility numbers move between runs, so a single reading can mislead. A new paper offers a stopping rule for when rankings are finally t...

Google updated its canonicalization troubleshooting guide with new guidance on how long pages can stay in a duplicate cluster after you fix ...

Some Google Business Profile dashboards show “no reviews yet” even though public review counts remain visible on the live listing. The ...

Google rolls out Search Console reports for social posts, updates product markup guidance, and warns against building separate markdown page...

Most enterprise brands are invisible to AI models right now. That gap is closing fast, and the brands moving first will hold the ground. Th...

For website owners chasing AI visibility: LLMs.txt answers who you are. WebMCP answers what your site can do. The post The Agentic Web Is S...

Source bias, retrieval collapse, model collapse: three documented mechanisms that explain AI search's strangest behavior, and where to p...

Google's new Category and Sale Duration structured data properties give merchants a way to rank more precise product data. The post Goo...

Google's Nick Fox said Search saw its highest usage on record during Argentina's comeback win over Egypt at the World Cup. The post...

Search marketer Tom Critchlow says AI Search is exposing the question of whether SEO still owns GEO outcomes. The post AI Search Is Exposin...

Open AI Overview rankings won't change the work. What a machine can read, parse, and verify on your site is what matters now. The post ...

Explore why listicles may recommend your competitors instead of your product, revealing new tactics in AI search strategy. The post AI Sear...

Last year, 2.5% of Writesonic’s leads came from AI search. As of March, 35% do. Samanyou Garg, Founder and CEO of Writesonic, showed the sys...

Learn how multi-location brands fix complex marketing & GBP challenges with an AI layer and a 4-step local optimization framework. The ...

A dropped zero in Clovion's AI visibility study hid numbers far more alarming than published. Here's what the corrected data means f...

Google's OKF and ARD specs are making noise, but HTML still runs discovery. Here's what actually matters for SEO in the new agentic-...

Build your own AI-ready knowledge system with insights from Marie Haynes on using Google’s Open Knowledge Format for search and automation. ...

Google's John Mueller responded to an SEO using LLMs-Author.txt to separate themself from others with the same name. The post Google An...

Google's Open Knowledge Format turns your website's ideas into a linked graph agents can traverse. Here's what that means for ho...

Apple's WebKit announced a new MCP server for Safari that enables AI-based website debugging for SEO and Core Web Vitals. The post Safa...

Google filed AI visibility under search. Stop treating it as a separate workstream with its own budget and its own quarterly report. The po...

John Mueller points to a Google case study showing how customizable layouts can skew which element the browser measures as LCP, plus the fix...

Google Search now takes searchers directly to a domain's AMP host pages, ending the viewer/cache serving path. AMP still ranks as normal...

Google rewrites meta descriptions. Here is what you can do to take back control of those snippets. The post The Absolute Best Way To Write ...

Cloudflare now lets all sites manage AI crawlers as Search, Agent, or Training, with Sept. 15 defaults that can block Googlebot for sites bl...

Bing’s latest AI reporting confirms that rankings and citations measure different outcomes, requiring new visibility strategies across AI se...

Google's DMCA Crisis is turning a copyright protection system into a tool that bad actors can use against publishers. The post Google’s...

AI bots drain server resources and scrape IP, but blocking them risks invisibility in LLM answers. Here is how to decide. The post Should I...

Fabrice Canel, the Principal Product Manager who led Bing's crawling and indexing team and championed IndexNow, has announced his retire...

WPVibe WordPress plugin makes it easy to connect virtually any AI to your WordPress site and safely edit virtually anything. The post New W...

Website owners: Apple and Google both shipped phone agents this month. Only Google's visits your site to act. Here's what that deman...