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Google’s Titans And MIRAS: Significant Advancement In Long-Context AI
Google’s Titans architecture and MIRAS framework enable AI to handle massive amounts of data and work faster.
Google’s AI Generated Landing Page Patent Is Limited To Shopping & Ads
Google’s AI landing page generator patent is limited to low conversion shopping pages, product feeds and advertising.
Google Clarifies How It Picks Thumbnails For Search, Discover
Google updated its Image SEO and Discover documentation to explain how schema markup and the og:image meta tag influence thumbnail selection.
Information Retrieval Part 4 (Sigh): Grounding & RAG
Explore information retrieval grounding and retrieval augmented generation to enhance LLM outputs with trustworthy sources.
New “Voiceprint” Claude Plugin Clones Your Writing Style
Voiceprint Claude plugin clones your writing style based on five writing samples. Works with any SKILL.md-compatible tool.
What AI Sees When It Visits Your Website (And How To Fix It)
Learn how AI bots interpret your content and affect customer perceptions. Optimize your website for the evolving world of AI.
Google AI Overviews Surges Across 9 Industries
Google AI Overviews shows fast growth across nine industries, now triggering AI Search in nearly half of all search queries.
Google’s Discover Core Update Finishes Rolling Out
Google’s February Discover core update is complete after a roughly 22-day rollout. Early data suggests fewer domains in top slots.
Discover Core Update Data, Sitemap Tips & AI Risks – SEO Pulse
This week’s SEO Pulse highlights evolving AI link formats, cross-language sourcing biases in ChatGPT, and mounting pressure on traditional organic traffic.
Google Explains Why Its Crawler Ignores Your Resource Hints
Google’s Gary Illyes clarifies why resource hints do not influence Googlebot’s crawling behavior, and notes that HTML validity is not a ranking factor.
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We’re Bringing The SEJ Newsroom To You, Live [Free Event]
We’re bringing the SEJ newsroom to a screen near you. On March 11 from 12–3pm ET, we’ve gathered our own search experts, alongside some very...
When Google Is No Longer A Verb: Search Becoming Infrastructure
Search isn’t disappearing, but the habit is changing. This article breaks down why agents are replacing browsing with delegation.
How Researchers Reverse-Engineered LLMs For A Ranking Experiment
Researchers compared two ways to improve rankings in LLMs: Shadow Model and Query-based solutions.
From Visibility Engineering To Preference Engineering: The Rise Of The Infinite Tail
See why the infinite tail demands narrower focus, stronger entity signals, and deeper topical coverage.
Google To Test Search Changes In EU After DMA Charges, Per Report
Google is preparing to test search result changes in the EU that would show rival vertical search services alongside its own results
The New Off-Page SEO Playbook: Links, Mentions & AI Visibility
Explore off-page SEO strategies to boost your rankings and enhance brand visibility in AI-driven search results.
AI-SEO Is A Change Management Problem
Don’t let AI SEO fail in the boardroom. Align leadership, metrics, and ownership before scaling tactics.
Local GEO & AI Search: A 90-Day Plan to Make Every Location AI-Ready
Learn how to boost visibility for each location in your network. A practical 90 Day Plan can make your brand AI-ready.
Web Almanac Data Reveals CMS Plugins Are Setting Technical SEO Standards (Not SEOs)
Technical SEO “best practices” increasingly reflect CMS and plugin defaults, not individual site decisions, according to 2025 HTTP Archive analysis.
Google Discover Update: Early Data Shows Fewer Domains In US
Early third-party tracking data offers a first look at how Google’s February Discover core update is changing what users see in their feeds.
4 Sites That Recovered From Google’s December 2025 Core Update – What They Changed
Discover how the December 2025 core update impacted 4 sites and the factors that contributed to their improvement.
Agentic Commerce Optimization: A Technical Guide To Prepare For Google’s UCP
As AI Mode enables on-platform transactions, ecommerce visibility now depends on schema completeness, feed accuracy, and third-party validation.
SEO Fundamental: Google Explains Why It May Not Use A Sitemap
Google’s John Mueller points to site content as the reason for Search Console sitemap error messages
Information Retrieval Part 3: Vectorization And Transformers (Not The Film)
A practical explanation of vector space models, transformers, and cosine similarity, and what modern information retrieval means for SEO and AI search.
Google AI Mode Link Update, Click Share Data & ChatGPT Fan-Outs – SEO Pulse
The latest SEO Pulse examines how AI interfaces reshape link visibility, redirect clicks, and filter sources before rankings apply.
35-Year SEO Veteran: Great SEO Is Good GEO — But Not Everyone’s Been Doing Great SEO
Dive into the discussions around SEO adaptations and LLM impact on the industry with host Shelley Walsh and industry veteran Grant Simmons.
Are Citations In AI Search Affected By Google Organic Visibility Changes?
An analysis of 11 impacted sites reveals a strong correlation between Google visibility losses and declining AI search citations, with ChatGPT hit hardest.
Enterprise SEO Operating Models That Scale In 2026 And Beyond
Move SEO upstream into leadership decisions to safeguard visibility, enforce standards, and scale sustainable search performance.
5 Ways Emerging Businesses Can Show up in ChatGPT, Gemini & Perplexity
AI models default to familiar brands. What makes them mention your company instead of a bigger or more established competitor?
4 Pillars To Turn Your “Sticky-Taped” Tech Stack Into a Modern Publishing Engine
Discover how a modern publishing engine can eliminate the issues of legacy CMS and drive sustainable growth for media companies.