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Search Console Uses Block Flattening For AIOs, Forget Position & Focus On Outcomes
Block flattening can make weak AI Overview visibility look like a top ranking, so measure visits and conversions to assess search performance.
Google Announces New Query Fan-Out Framework: R4T-Diffusion
Google announced a new query fan-out framework that is described as ready for production-scale search.
Google Search Decline Steepened To 40% YoY For Publishers
A report finds Google Search and Discover declines got steeper for publishers, while direct, internal, and dark social grew.
ChatGPT Ads And GEO: Where Paid And Earned AI Visibility Fit Together
OpenAI and Go Fish Digital unpack ChatGPT ads, earned AI visibility, practical GEO measurement, and what marketers can test next.
AI Agents Will Game Your SEO Metrics, MIT & Stanford Research Points To The Risk
AI agents find the cheapest route to any target you set. Research from MIT and Stanford shows why SEO teams need metrics agents can’t fake.
Baidu Now Measures AI Citations: Here’s What SEOs Should (And Shouldn’t) Read Into It
Baidu’s new AI CTR divides clicks by citations, not impressions. Here’s why that matters and what else the AI Traffic Analysis report will show.
3 Steps To Win B2B Brand Consideration, Day Zero Decides The Shortlist
Buying groups arrive with vendors already chosen. AEO cannot fix a shortlist formed months earlier. Three steps to build brand consideration before research begins.
Job Boards Say Google Indexing API Requests Get No Response
Job site operators report months-long waits for Google Indexing API approval, with no stated review timeframe in Google’s documentation.
International SEO For Publishers: How To Succeed Across Borders
A single .com works for The Guardian because of brand power. For most news publishers, separate country-code domains are the strategy that holds up.
How To Find The Sources Shaping AI Answers In Your Industry
Trendos’ Gintare Rimolaityte explains how to map AI citation sources by industry and engine, identify competitor gaps, and turn an audit into content and outreach...
Agentic Commerce Is Not The Next Voice Shopping, But It Is Still Unproven
Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Stripe name no live merchant. Google names three. Here is what the agentic commerce documentation still refuses to say.
How To Build Local Pages AI Systems Can Find And Trust
AI ranks passages, reads alt text, and cites whatever numbers you publish. Practical rules for local service pages from SEJ Live.
Research Shows Google AI Mode Sends Less Clicks & Is A Poor User Experience
Is Google lying about AI Search? New research shows AI Mode decreases clicks and it gives a poor user experience.
SEO For Paws Live Stream Conference: Free Tickets & Big Names For A Good Cause
SEO For Paws is back with Barry Schwartz, Glenn Gabe, and a lineup of search experts talking about search in the AI era.
Google AI Payment Pilot, Search Profiles At 10,000 – SEO Pulse
Google is testing payments for content contributing to AI answers, Mueller says AI position data is hard to report, and Cloudflare splits training from search.
Checking A Page Is Part Of A Retrieval Pipeline For AI
No GSC for ChatGPT? Paste a distinctive snippet into a chatbot and ask for exact matches. If your URL comes back, retrieval isn’t your problem.
Google Adds Local Businesses To EEA Search Result Units
Google updated its Search documentation to add local business queries to the two result units rolled out in the EEA for directories and direct providers.
Your Brand Needs An AI Accountability Document, A School District Beat Big Tech To It
Turn AI guardrails into search assets with a school district’s template for published policies, named reviewers, and clear data protections.
Cloudflare Will Write Your Robots.txt, And It Has A Point
Bot Preference Sync sets AI crawler policy per category, not per crawler. Allow GPTBot and block Bytespider, and no setting describes what you do.
The State Of Search In An AI World: What Marketing Leaders Need To Know Now
Is a traffic decline actually hurting your business? Our State of Search 2027 shows how to tell and where to invest next.
Google Responds To Cross-Domain Canonical De-Indexing Report
Google’s John Mueller explains how publishers can catch site problems before they become an indexing crisis.
Google Updates Mediapartners-Google Crawler Guidance: Less About AdSense
Google expanded their Mediapartners-Google guidance to make it about more than just AdSense.
I Made My Website Charge AI Agents A Penny Per Page, Then I Watched Claude Pay It
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Googlebot won’t pay your price yet. Charge now and you lose citations. Here’s what to decide before the dashboard toggle arrives.
Does My Product Page Copy Still Matter If Agents Read Feeds And Schema? – Ask An SEO
Product page copy builds shopper trust and fills gaps in AI feeds, giving customers the details they need to buy.
3 Predictions For 2027, And Why You Won’t Be Able To Check Them
The surface that ranks and the surface that earns are decoupling. Three predictions for Google in 2027, plus one about whether you’ll know.
Google Search Profile Badges Expose The Publisher Traffic Crisis
Google published guidance for adding a Search profile badge as Search becomes a destination for following creators and publisher.
It Was There A Minute Ago
A model can know the right answer and still defer to a wrong tool result. What does that mean for your visibility report?
Google Search Profiles Now Available At 10,000 Followers
Google lowers Search profile eligibility to 10,000 followers for U.S. websites and creators, with new account tools and updated article displays.
MIT, Anthropic & OpenAI Sent The Same Warning, Get Your Evidence House In Order Now
Three AI warnings landed in five days. Nicholas Carr described the pattern in 2008, and it changes how you plan next quarter.
Ex-Googler Jeff Dean Explains Design Choices Behind Gemini
Ex-Googler Jeff Dean shares insights from Gemini’s development and the approach he uses to discover promising new ideas.