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Google Adds Post View Counts To Business Profiles
Google says Business Profile post view counts are rolling out globally for posts published in the past 18 months, combining views from Search and Maps.
Everyone Is Quoting The Same Number And Getting Different Answers
Publishers are blocking AI crawlers on a metric whose denominator is missing an unknown share of referrals.
How Local Businesses Can Build Visibility In AI Search
Moz leaders Jonathan Berthold and Kevin Chen explain how listings, reviews, mentions, and social activity shape local recommendations in AI search.
Google DeepMind Develops New AI Search Ranking Model
Google DeepMind researchers test Autoregressive Ranking (ARR), a unified model that can replace current retrieval and ranking methods.
5 AI Models, 4 Signals: What 120K Mentions Reveal About Multi-Location SEO
Explore how multi-location businesses can optimize for AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini. Learn the key factors for success.
ChatGPT, Gemini & Claude Lead AI Visibility, Is It Time To Stop Tracking Perplexity?
Giving Perplexity less weight in AI search tracking can prevent distorted visibility scores without erasing useful competitive signals.
New Google Guide To Regional Search Features & Eligibility
Google added documentation mapping regional Search features in the EEA, Türkiye, and South Africa, with eligibility and participation steps.
How AI Is Reshaping Search Intent – What 2 Studies Reveal
Search intent is fracturing across AI Mode, video platforms, and zero-click results and Google’s own metrics reveal what actually earns clicks now.
Brands Are Tracking AI Visibility, But Are They Measuring The Right Things?
AI visibility tools track brand mentions and citations, but marketers need outcome data to know what those movements mean and what to do next.
Google Rolls Out Redesigned Search Results Across The EEA
Google rolled out redesigned Search results in the EEA, reworking aggregator units and adding supplier units for hotel, flight, transport, and product queries.
UK Site Loses 98% Of News Search Visibility After .com Move
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 old one lost.
Google Says Old Low-Value Pages May Affect Site Recovery
John Mueller says Google’s systems may still judge a site by its old low-value programmatic pages, and that showing value again takes time and effort.
InMotion Cloud Debuts Fixed-Price Managed Cloud
InMotion Cloud launches a fixed-price Managed Private Cloud built on bare metal, with predictable monthly rates, fixed egress, and U.S.-based support.
Harvard Found The Public Has Little Objection To AI Taking Search Marketers’ Jobs
Harvard scored 940 occupations on how morally objectionable the public finds automating them. Search marketing scored low at 2.31 out of 7
Your Biggest AI Search Risk Is Conflicting Information About Your Brand
Publishing more content won’t fix what AI gets wrong about your brand. Too many versions of the truth is the real problem.
Search Console AI Reports Go Global, Mueller On Recovery – SEO Pulse
Google says Search Console AI reports are now worldwide, and John Mueller weighs in on recovery timing, markdown for AI crawlers, and sitemap cache-busting.
Getting Your Product Into ChatGPT Isn’t The Hard Part, Getting It Through Checkout Is
Getting surfaced in ChatGPT is the easy half. Three checks every retailer should run before connecting a fourth agentic commerce protocol.
People Aren’t Leaving Google For AI. They’re Using Both
Research shows how people can keep using Google while making fewer traditional searches and clicking through to fewer websites.
Google’s New Weather AI In Search Continues Shift Away From 10 Blue Links
Google’s latest Search integration is another step to a future where users get things done without traditional search results.
When AI Has Nothing On Your Company, It Describes Someone Else
Publishing more content won’t fix AI substitution. Retrieval repeats the same popularity bias that thinned your presence in the weights.
Should I Block AI Crawlers At Robots.txt Or Server Level? – Ask An SEO
Robots.txt relies on bot compliance, while WAF, CDN, and server-level blocks enforce it. A breakdown of which layer stops AI crawlers for good.
Google Says Ranking Recovery Takes Months After SEO Issues Are Fixed
Google explains why fixing what caused a ranking drop doesn’t necessarily mean rankings will come back anytime soon.
Google Responds To Sitemap SEO Technique That Forces Daily Crawling
Google’s Mueller comments on a sitemap SEO method that forces search engines to crawl and index web pages every day.
The Next AI Protocol Won’t Save Your SEO Strategy
Publishing a format is not the same as possessing the knowledge. Bill Hunt on why knowledge architecture outlasts every AI protocol.
Entities Are The Foundation Of Modern SEO
GEO is just entity SEO with a new name. The foundations haven’t changed in 15 years, but most brands still ignore them.
Google DeepMind Says Gemini Is Evolving From Chatbot To AI Agent
Interview with head of Google DeepMind explains how Gemini is moving beyond answers toward AI that can use tools and accomplish tasks.
The Technical Signals AI Search Uses That Most SEOs Still Aren’t Optimizing
Getting cited in AI responses is the easy part. Our audit of 50 major websites shows where real AI readiness begins.
Google Details Who Can License Its Search Data In Europe
Google published eligibility rules, samples, and key dates for licensing ranking, query, click, and view data from EEA Search under the EU’s Digital Markets Act.
Schema For AI Citations: How To Become A Trusted Source
Schema is not a magic ranking switch. Loren Baker explains how consistent structured data strengthens entity trust across local, ecommerce, and author-driven content.
How We Earned 1,000+ Links For GEO/SEO
Kevin Rowe broke down the digital PR system behind 1,000+ earned citations, which data stories journalists cover, and how research wins AI Overviews spots.