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Google Says Canonical Re-Evaluation Can Take Up to Two Weeks
Google updated its canonicalization troubleshooting guide with new guidance on how long pages can stay in a duplicate cluster after you fix the content.
Google Business Profiles Showing Empty Review Dashboards
Some Google Business Profile dashboards show “no reviews yet” even though public review counts remain visible on the live listing.
Google Adds Social Reporting; Mueller Warns Against Markdown – SEO Pulse
Google rolls out Search Console reports for social posts, updates product markup guidance, and warns against building separate markdown pages for AI.
Free AI Citations Won’t Last. I’ve Watched Google Fence Off A Wide Open Field Before
Most enterprise brands are invisible to AI models right now. That gap is closing fast, and the brands moving first will hold the ground.
The Agentic Web Is Splitting Into Two Bets: Identity And Capability
For website owners chasing AI visibility: LLMs.txt answers who you are. WebMCP answers what your site can do.
The Web Is Eating Itself And Your Metrics Look Fine
Source bias, retrieval collapse, model collapse: three documented mechanisms that explain AI search’s strangest behavior, and where to place your bet.
Google’s New Merchant Listing Structured Data Improves SEO
Google’s new Category and Sale Duration structured data properties give merchants a way to rank more precise product data.
Google Search Hits All-Time Usage Record During World Cup
Google’s Nick Fox said Search saw its highest usage on record during Argentina’s comeback win over Egypt at the World Cup.
AI Search Is Exposing SEO’s Risk Of Losing Ownership Of GEO Outcomes
Search marketer Tom Critchlow says AI Search is exposing the question of whether SEO still owns GEO outcomes.
Reclaiming Brand Sovereignty In The AI Era
Stop publishing more content. Start organizing knowledge into a machine-readable layer every AI, protocol, and interface can consume.
An Easy Digital PR Strategy For AI SEO
Marketing a brand online for AI Search can be easier than you think. Here’s a strategy to get you started.
You Can’t See How AI Ranks You, So Build What It Can Read
Open AI Overview rankings won’t change the work. What a machine can read, parse, and verify on your site is what matters now.
AI Search: Is Your Content Strategy Accidentally Recommending Your Competitors?
Explore why listicles may recommend your competitors instead of your product, revealing new tactics in AI search strategy.
SEO Study: 5 Lessons From Running AI Agents Across Every Search
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 system...
Local Marketing Is Too Complex: What the Data Says & What To Do
Learn how multi-location brands fix complex marketing & GBP challenges with an AI layer and a 4-step local optimization framework.
62% Of AI Brand Recommendations Vanish After One Buyer Question – New Data
A dropped zero in Clovion’s AI visibility study hid numbers far more alarming than published. Here’s what the corrected data means for brand strategy.
Google On Using Markdown For AI SEO
Google’s John Mueller responds to the trend of creating a set of markdown pages to mirror HTML content for AI SEO.
The Web Is Growing A Second Layer – Almost A Third Head
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-web stack.
Build An OKF Brain Like Mine!
Build your own AI-ready knowledge system with insights from Marie Haynes on using Google’s Open Knowledge Format for search and automation.
Google Answers Question About LLMs-Author.txt For SEO
Google’s John Mueller responded to an SEO using LLMs-Author.txt to separate themself from others with the same name.
Google’s Open Knowledge Format Could Work For Websites, Too
Google’s Open Knowledge Format turns your website’s ideas into a linked graph agents can traverse. Here’s what that means for how machines understand your site.
Safari’s New MCP Server Lets AI Debug Your Core Web Vitals To Improve SEO
Apple’s WebKit announced a new MCP server for Safari that enables AI-based website debugging for SEO and Core Web Vitals.
Google Put AI Visibility Inside The SEO Tool On Purpose
Google filed AI visibility under search. Stop treating it as a separate workstream with its own budget and its own quarterly report.
Lighthouse Fails Your Llms.txt Without Markdown Links
Six audits. One failure. The fix took five minutes. Here’s what Lighthouse 13.3’s Agentic Browsing category actually tells you, and what it doesn’t.
Where Clicks Go, What Agents Skip, Who’s Leaving Bing – SEO Pulse
Where AI Overview clicks go, what agents skip on sites they can’t read, and who’s leaving Bing, plus the rest of the week’s search news.
AI Search Is Nothing Without SEO & It Knows It
Technical SEO now sits at the center of AI search readiness, giving LLMs the structure and signals they need to retrieve and cite content.
Google’s Mueller Flags A Case On Why LCP Fixes Miss the Target
John Mueller points to a Google case study showing how customizable layouts can skew which element the browser measures as LCP, plus the fixes.
Google Ends Cache-Served AMP Pages In Search
Google Search now takes searchers directly to a domain’s AMP host pages, ending the viewer/cache serving path. AMP still ranks as normal.
Cloudflare’s AI Crawler Rules Can Block Googlebot
Cloudflare now lets all sites manage AI crawlers as Search, Agent, or Training, with Sept. 15 defaults that can block Googlebot for sites blocking training.
Microsoft Just Proved A Point About Search Today
Bing’s latest AI reporting confirms that rankings and citations measure different outcomes, requiring new visibility strategies across AI search.