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Clicks Are Down 42%, LinkedIn Reach Down 47% But You’re Raging At The Wrong Target
LinkedIn reach and Google clicks are collapsing, but Tony Uphoff argues SEO pros are diagnosing structural disruption as decline, and prescribing the wrong fix.
InMotion Hosting Launches Tiered Agency Partner Program
InMotion Hosting launches a tiered Agency Partner Program helping digital agencies earn recurring revenue, access client leads, receive hosting discounts, and simplify account management.
How To Track Google AI Mode Traffic In Search Console
Search Console hides AI Mode query data by default. This breakdown compares four extraction methods, including a free ML-powered tool.
Google Answers Why Spam Updates Need To Happen
Why does Google have spam updates every once in a while? Google’s John Mueller answers that question and explains the reason why Google doesn’t just...
Google Answers Why Search Updates Aren’t Announced Right Away
Google’s John Mueller explains why updates aren’t announced earlier when rankings are already bouncing around.
Everyone Is Negotiating With Google While Meta Reads The Web For Free
The machine-access fight is aimed at Google. Meta reads more, returns almost nothing, and no one is asking it to stop.
Google Begins Rolling Out The August 2026 Spam Update
Google has begun rolling out the August 2026 spam update, applying globally and to all languages, its third one this year.
Why Search Volume Is Screening Out Your Best Content Opportunities
AI assistants turn contextual prompts into multiple queries, making buyer decisions and sub-questions more valuable content targets than raw keyword volume.
9 AI Search Myths, Debunked by 15 Million Data Points
Unveil the truth about AI search with interesting findings from 15 million data points. Learn what really influences rankings.
What We Can Learn From Evolving ChatGPT Fan-Out Queries
ChatGPT’s search behavior is starting to look like E-E-A-T. Here’s the data behind that theory, and what to do about it.
The AI Conversations Leaking Into Your Search Console
Search Console records what people say to AI Mode. Here’s how to pull those fragments out and sort them into seven buckets.
AI Assistants Are Choosing Local Businesses For Your Customers
AI assistants narrow local searches before customers reach a website. See how Google builds those answers and which local signals businesses can optimize.
Google: Subject/Object Entity Order Affects AI Answers
Google’s research shows that LLMs struggle to recall facts when questions reverse the usual subject/object entity order.
ChatGPT’s Index, GA Benchmarks, Google Refiles Complaint – SEO Pulse
Google Analytics adds campaign benchmarking, new data on ChatGPT’s index search index, and Google refiles its SerpApi claims with new terms.
Anthropic Reveals What The Watermark Is And How It Can Be Defeated
Anthropic offers more details about its watermark including how it can be defeated.
Cloudflare: Machine Traffic Could Hit 1,000x Human Traffic In 5 Years
One company measures the bot problem, frames it, and sells the fix. Cloudflare now owns both the meter and the valve. Check your own logs.
ChatGPT Already Knows Who’s In The Running Before It Searches
ChatGPT names brands in its own search queries before it fetches anything. Being in that query is worth 33 times more.
The GEO Trust Gap: SEOs Want The Data, But Not The Platforms Selling It
Practitioners value AI visibility data highly and won’t fund the platforms selling it. New survey data on what’s actually blocking the category.
How Do I Know If AI Overviews Are Taking Clicks From My Site And What Can I Do About It? – Ask An SEO
Stable rankings, stable impressions, falling CTR: the signature of AI Overview click loss. Learn to spot it and decide what’s worth recovering.
How To Create YMYL Content That Gets Cited In AI Search
Thin health content was always risky. With AI Overviews answering most medical queries, it’s now invisible. Here’s what earns citations instead.
Cloudflare Gives AI Agents Wallets That Pay For What They Access
Cloudflare announced wallets and optional identity handles for AI agents on August 4, extending paid access past crawlers to any caller and any resource.
ChatGPT’s Search Index Serves Small Sites Too, Data Shows
New data finds no difference in how OpenAI’s in-house search index served licensed and unlicensed sites.
The Metric Most SEOs Are Still Not Measuring In The Age Of AI
AI answers now shape choices before anyone reaches your site. Measuring alignment with decision drivers matters more than measuring the clicks that follow.
Organic Traffic Dropped? What to Tell Clients & the AI Visibility Metrics to Report Instead
Is your organic traffic dropped? Learn the reasons behind this common issue affecting many agencies today.
What TransUnion’s AI Research Reveals About How Brands Actually Get Cited
TransUnion’s survey of 100 marketing leaders shows AI search blind spots mirror walled garden measurement gaps. Frame GEO as a company-wide problem to get funded.
Common Crawl Published A Manual For Being Visible To AI, I Automated It
Check captures, robots.txt history, block fingerprints and a live CCBot probe for any domain, free, straight from Common Crawl’s own archives.
How To Remove Negative Content From Google Before AI Answers Cite It
Can you remove negative content from Google? Uncover the truth about suppression and overcoming unfavorable online articles.
AI’s Impact Is Outrunning Measurement: The Trust And Attribution Gap Facing Brands
AI’s impact outpaced our ability to measure it in H1 2026. Indig’s citation data, agent share shifts, and the intelligence-versus-agency split explain what changes next.
AI Search Only Feels New If Your SEO Was Shallow
AI search only feels like a new sport to the people who were never really training. Here’s what actually changed, and what didn’t.
Gen Z Now Treats Claude And OpenAI Like Consumer Brands, But Trust Is Still An Issue
YouGov data shows Claude and OpenAI doubling Gen Z consideration while U.S. trust in AI assistants sits at 28%, a gap that reshapes GEO plans.