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Google explains whether some industries can get away with focusing on search and ignore GEO altogether. The post Google Answers If Some Sit...

Google's August spam update rolls out as generative UI reaches AI Overviews, websites get a new button, and Reddit's ChatGPT citatio...

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Citation tools answer a different question than rank trackers did: not why you appeared, but whether the phrase you're chasing has alrea...

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Search Console records what people say to AI Mode. Here's how to pull those fragments out and sort them into seven buckets. The post Th...

Google's research shows that LLMs struggle to recall facts when questions reverse the usual subject/object entity order. The post Googl...

Google Analytics adds campaign benchmarking, new data on ChatGPT's index search index, and Google refiles its SerpApi claims with new te...

Anthropic offers more details about its watermark including how it can be defeated. The post Anthropic Reveals What The Watermark Is And Ho...

One company measures the bot problem, frames it, and sells the fix. Cloudflare now owns both the meter and the valve. Check your own logs. ...

ChatGPT names brands in its own search queries before it fetches anything. Being in that query is worth 33 times more. The post ChatGPT Alr...

Practitioners value AI visibility data highly and won't fund the platforms selling it. New survey data on what's actually blocking t...

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Thin health content was always risky. With AI Overviews answering most medical queries, it's now invisible. Here's what earns citati...

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New data finds no difference in how OpenAI's in-house search index served licensed and unlicensed sites. The post ChatGPT’s Search Inde...

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TransUnion's survey of 100 marketing leaders shows AI search blind spots mirror walled garden measurement gaps. Frame GEO as a company-w...

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Can you remove negative content from Google? Uncover the truth about suppression and overcoming unfavorable online articles. The post How T...

AI's impact outpaced our ability to measure it in H1 2026. Indig's citation data, agent share shifts, and the intelligence-versus-ag...

AI search only feels like a new sport to the people who were never really training. Here's what actually changed, and what didn't. ...

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Unlock the AEO playbook and discover how to stay visible in an AI-driven search landscape and earn valuable citations. The post The AEO Pla...

Impression share ran the auction years. Citation share runs this one. A 90-day sprint for measuring and winning AI search visibility. The p...

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Google loses Jeff Dean, who helped build Google Search and AI, replaced by DeepMind's Demis Hassabis as Chief Scientist. The post Googl...

Articles alone stopped being a viable product. A discoverability framework for publishers: passive, active, owned – plus the intent-led jour...

Search volume told you what people want to know. It no longer tells you whether they need you after AI answers. Click Worthiness does. The ...

Citations, sentiment, and LLM referral traffic make poor KPIs. Here are the AI visibility metrics that actually connect to leads, pipeline, ...

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Kris Jones says one word decides whether AI recommends your brand: synthesis. Here's what that means for where you spend next quarter...

Google's updated crawl budget documentation recommends serving a 304 response code to Googlebot for pages that haven't changed. The...

Listing inconsistencies, review language, and third-party citations now decide whether AI assistants name your business. Fix them in this or...

The European Commission's AI transparency law that has taken effect contains four exemptions from its AI labeling requirements. The pos...

Google's updated documentation refresh shows where to focus on when updating your own content for SEO. The post Google’s Documentation ...

Google's AI search opt-out is rolling out as Top Stories appear inside AI Overviews. What the control covers and what businesses can mea...