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Google's new system for catching AI content spam has already been deployed. This is why it may be a part of Google's Spam Update. T...

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Job site operators report months-long waits for Google Indexing API approval, with no stated review timeframe in Google’s documentation. Th...

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Trendos' Gintare Rimolaityte explains how to map AI citation sources by industry and engine, identify competitor gaps, and turn an audit...

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AI ranks passages, reads alt text, and cites whatever numbers you publish. Practical rules for local service pages from SEJ Live. The post ...

Is Google lying about AI Search? New research shows AI Mode decreases clicks and it gives a poor user experience. The post Research Shows G...

Google is testing payments for content contributing to AI answers, Mueller says AI position data is hard to report, and Cloudflare splits tr...

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Google's John Mueller explains how publishers can catch site problems before they become an indexing crisis. The post Google Responds T...

Google expanded their Mediapartners-Google guidance to make it about more than just AdSense. The post Google Updates Mediapartners-Google C...

GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Googlebot won't pay your price yet. Charge now and you lose citations. Here's what to decide before the dashb...

Product page copy builds shopper trust and fills gaps in AI feeds, giving customers the details they need to buy. The post Does My Product ...

The surface that ranks and the surface that earns are decoupling. Three predictions for Google in 2027, plus one about whether you'll kn...

Google published guidance for adding a Search profile badge as Search becomes a destination for following creators and publisher. The post ...

A model can know the right answer and still defer to a wrong tool result. What does that mean for your visibility report? The post It Was T...

Three AI warnings landed in five days. Nicholas Carr described the pattern in 2008, and it changes how you plan next quarter. The post MIT,...

Ex-Googler Jeff Dean shares insights from Gemini's development and the approach he uses to discover promising new ideas. The post Ex-Go...

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Meta published two Muse documents on the same day. One never mentions risk, attack, or prompt injection. The other uses them 39 times. The ...

Anthropic shares prompting upgrades that save tokens, improve how AI writes, code more efficiently, and handle longer tasks. The post Anthr...

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Google admits that Search Console's AI search reporting does not adequately reflect AI search positioning data for SEO. The post Google...

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SEO For Paws is back with Barry Schwartz, Glenn Gabe, and a lineup of search experts talking about search in the AI era. The post SEO For P...

A University of Washington paper estimates AI Overviews reduced search referrals to Wikipedia by about 5%, a metric Google disputes. The po...

Stas Levitan of LightSite AI explains four first-party signals marketers can use to connect AI bot attention with human traffic and better S...

Google says Business Profile post view counts are rolling out globally for posts published in the past 18 months, combining views from Searc...

Publishers are blocking AI crawlers on a metric whose denominator is missing an unknown share of referrals. The post Everyone Is Quoting Th...

Google DeepMind researchers test Autoregressive Ranking (ARR), a unified model that can replace current retrieval and ranking methods. The ...

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Giving Perplexity less weight in AI search tracking can prevent distorted visibility scores without erasing useful competitive signals. The...

Google rolled out redesigned Search results in the EEA, reworking aggregator units and adding supplier units for hotel, flight, transport, a...

A UK news site's trending-query visibility collapsed after moving from .co.uk to .com, and the new domain didn't pick up what the ol...

InMotion Cloud launches a fixed-price Managed Private Cloud built on bare metal, with predictable monthly rates, fixed egress, and U.S.-base...

Harvard scored 940 occupations on how morally objectionable the public finds automating them. Search marketing scored low at 2.31 out of 7 ...

Publishing more content won't fix what AI gets wrong about your brand. Too many versions of the truth is the real problem. The post You...

Google says Search Console AI reports are now worldwide, and John Mueller weighs in on recovery timing, markdown for AI crawlers, and sitema...

Getting surfaced in ChatGPT is the easy half. Three checks every retailer should run before connecting a fourth agentic commerce protocol. ...

Research shows how people can keep using Google while making fewer traditional searches and clicking through to fewer websites. The post Pe...

Google's latest Search integration is another step to a future where users get things done without traditional search results. The post...

Robots.txt relies on bot compliance, while WAF, CDN, and server-level blocks enforce it. A breakdown of which layer stops AI crawlers for go...

Google explains why fixing what caused a ranking drop doesn’t necessarily mean rankings will come back anytime soon. The post Google Says R...

Google's Mueller comments on a sitemap SEO method that forces search engines to crawl and index web pages every day. The post Google Re...

Publishing a format is not the same as possessing the knowledge. Bill Hunt on why knowledge architecture outlasts every AI protocol. The po...

GEO is just entity SEO with a new name. The foundations haven't changed in 15 years, but most brands still ignore them. The post Entiti...

Interview with head of Google DeepMind explains how Gemini is moving beyond answers toward AI that can use tools and accomplish tasks. The ...

Getting cited in AI responses is the easy part. Our audit of 50 major websites shows where real AI readiness begins. The post The Technical...

Google published eligibility rules, samples, and key dates for licensing ranking, query, click, and view data from EEA Search under the EU...

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