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Search Engine Journal
AI visibility tools count citations. Citations aren't recommendations. Here's what to measure instead, and why the gap keeps widening. The post How To Measure AI Search Visibility appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Google may have released yet another unconfirmed Google search ranking update this weekend. I am seeing some signs of ranking movement from the third-party Google tracking tools and the SEO chatter spiked a bit this weekend.
Search Engine Journal
Google's Mueller explained how an "are you a bot" screen can push a site's pages out of Google, and get another site picked as canonical. The post “Are You A Bot” Screens Can Get Your Pages Dropped By Google appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Google's John Mueller explained what happens when you click Validate Fix in Search Console, and when the button is worth using. The post When To Use Search Console’s ‘Validate Fix,’ According To Google appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Google's NotebookLM rebrand may expose websites to more AI scraping with zero attribution unless site owners take action right now. The post Google NotebookLM Rebrand May Expose Your Site To More AI Scraping appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Google's Nick Fox said AI features in Search send billions of clicks to websites weekly, alongside Google's daily count. Neither figure can be checked. The post Google Puts A Number On AI Search Clicks, Without The Data appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Publishers allege works supplied to Google Books, Play Books and Scholar were used to train Gemini without permission. No court has ruled on the claims. The post Google Faces Class Action Over Books Used To Train Gemini appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Apple Maps ads ban home services, crypto ATMs, and bail bonds. Learn which businesses qualify and how advertisers can prepare for the rollout. The post Apple Maps Ads Ban Home Services, Crypto ATMs, Bail Bonds appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Google rolls out Search Console reports for social posts, updates product markup guidance, and warns against building separate markdown pages for AI. The post Google On Canonical Fixes; Mueller On Hidden Links And A/B Tests – SEO Pulse appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Google's John Mueller says that overall site quality is more than just text. How users experience the page can define quality, too. The post Google Explains SEO Connection Of Site Quality To Non-Indexed Pages appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Semrush Blog
Learn how to measure your AI share of voice in AI search with Semrush, so you can start improving it.
Search Engine Journal
A contract built around activity always rewards more activity. Here's how to renegotiate your agency SOW around judgment and verified revenue instead. The post Avinash Kaushik Says Renegotiate Now – SEO Fees 25% To 75% Lower appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Semrush Blog
Learn what link building involves and how it improves your visibility in search engines and AI systems.
Seroundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...
Seroundtable
This week, we saw some Google Search ranking volatility around July 11th, so I called it the 7-Eleven update. Bing said it does not do one-off search penalties because it is not scalable. Google Images celebrated its 25th anniversary...
Seroundtable
The PPC community has been going wild over the change that is coming to Google Ads around bidding for campaigns limited by budget on August 18th. There is some belief that this is going to be a broader smart bidding update than what Google communicated.
Seroundtable
Google has removed its help document named "Make OpenTable reservations in Google Maps" yesterday. It looks like that implies that Google Maps removed the integration it has with restaurant listings and making reservations with OpenTable.
Seroundtable
As many of you know, Google has user-triggered fetchers including Google-NotebookLM. But with NotebookLM being renamed to Gemini Notebook, Google had to update the user agent name of Google-NotebookLM to Google-GeminiNotebook.
Seroundtable
Google has updated the help document named How to fix: Google StoreBot crawler can't access your in-store product page. The document has a number of big updates with a lot of clarifications including the user-agents, checking robots.txt, blocking IP addresses, page speed issues, reprocessing and how
Seroundtable
Microsoft Bing is testing using a black colored magnifying glass in the search bar and box. This is instead of a gray or black outlined icon, the test is a fully colored in icon.
Abondance
On the agenda of this July 2026 Reactor edition: We warmly thank our 5 authors for their responsiveness and especially the quality of the articles published: Matthieu, Amaury, Frédéric, Clément and Alexis! As a bonus: as usual, this new edition also welcomes our vigil
Moz Blog
Learn how to build AI citations and rank in ChatGPT and Gemini. Charlie Marchant explains how to research prompts, analyze sources, and use proactive outreach to get your brand referenced in AI answers.
Search Engine Journal
Google said it expected Gemini 3.5 Pro to roll out by now. It hasn't shipped, and Bloomberg reports coding is part the delay. The post Gemini 3.5 Pro Delayed Over Coding, Bloomberg Reports appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Learn why Reddit is essential for AI citation strategies. Discover how it impacts search visibility and business recommendations. The post AI Search Cites Reddit: 5 Proven Plays To Boost Multi-Location Visibility appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Marie Haynes
I have had a number of site owners reach out to ask for help with indexing issues lately. In most cases, I am finding that Google has classified their pages as “crawled-not currently indexed” in the page indexing report in Google Search Console. In almost every case I’ve examined these pages have qu
Search Engine Journal
Google is starting to roll out connected apps in AI Mode, so you can send tasks to services like Canva from a search. The post Google Starts Rolling Out Connected Apps In AI Mode Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Aleyda Solis
Which pages help ChatGPT and Google AI Mode build their SaaS related answers? Which third-party sources reinforce those answers? And once a user (or increasingly an AI agent) decides to continue, where does the measurable referral actually go? To answer these questions, I analyzed 15 leading SaaS br
iPullRank
Let’s be honest about where most marketing teams are right now. Traffic is disappearing in ways that are hard to explain in a report, attribution is getting confusing, and AI platforms are recommending competitors in categories where you’ve spent years building authority. Nobody asked for this (or
Search Engine Journal
The fingerprint you pressed into Google's ranking systems now feeds the AI answers on top of them. Here's where it persists and goes dark. The post Do The Answer Engines Keep Your Fingerprint, Or Do They Start Fresh Every Time? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Ahrefs Blog
That’s the free-tools SEO strategy: instead of writing another guide, you build a small, genuinely useful tool, put it on a page, and let it rank for a query that has huge demand and almost no good competition. Done right,…Read more ›
Search Engine Journal
AI SEO that prioritizes content that is specific may be a key to getting cited by AI search engines. The post AI SEO: Writing That’s Specific May Get Cited More appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
The new Search Console social tracking hides AI click loss and turns your verified profiles into free training data for Google's models. The post Google Is Using Social Media Signals To Mask AI Search Click Loss appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Search Engine Journal
CRO pages and SEO pages have different jobs. Define each page's purpose, set boundaries, and both traffic and revenue can grow. The post How Do I Split Pages Between Brand Building & Converting? – Ask An SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Google's John Mueller and Martin Splitt spoke about the Google Search Console indexing report in its latest Search Off the Record podcast. One item was on how quality issues, including low-quality AI-generated content, can result in those pages not being trusted and not being indexed by Google. That
Seroundtable
Apple has posted new Apple Maps policies where it now says it is prohibiting home services, such as plumbing, electrical, locksmith, HVAC, pest control, roofing, or general contracting services. It also says bail bonds, cryptocurrency ATMs and some medical services are also banned from Apple Maps Ad
Seroundtable
Google Ads updated its Performance Max product level reporting back on June 15th. This report now uses data from all Performance Max networks, rather than the subset it previously pulled from.
Seroundtable
Google sent out an email to those who use the Google Manufacturer Center to remind them that the ability to manually add or update products directly in Manufacturer Center has been removed. Instead, Google said use the Manufacturer Center API or upload a product file.
Seroundtable
Gary Illyes from Google said that you are better off not using a lastmod date in your XML Sitemap if those dates are wrong. He said on Bluesky, "probably better off without the lastmods. at least you save a few bytes."
Seroundtable
Google announced it will consolidate and merge the Shopping ads and free listings policies into a single Shopping policy sometime in September 2026. Keep in mind, there may be specific ads or free listing policies listed in that consolidated policy document, where some policies only apply to ads and
Seroundtable
Google just sent out an email to Google Ads advertisers noting that it will turn on local inventory ads by default in your Shopping campaigns. Google added that you can change this setting by August 31st by using the "inventory filter" instead of the "Local products" setting.
Search Engine Journal
Google is connecting Calendar to Personal Intelligence in AI Mode, allowing it to add events and factor your schedule into responses. The post Google Brings Calendar To Personal Intelligence In AI Mode appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Phone call data breaks out AI referrals for the first time. Calls from ChatGPT become leads more often than any other channel, but convert average. The post ChatGPT Calls Turn Into Leads More Often: Invoca Report appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Long doesn't mean valuable. Google normalizes for length. Here's what its information gain patent says actually moves the needle. The post How Google May ‘Understand’ Unique Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Semrush Blog
AI doesn‘t just rank pages. It forms an understanding of your brand. Here‘s why brand positioning has become a critical factor in AI visibility.
Search Engine Journal
Google's Mueller says long A/B tests won't result in SEO demotions, contradicting official guidance that says they may be considered deceptive. The post Google Says No SEO Penalty For Year-Long A/B Tests? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
GA4's AI Assistant channel fragments traffic from a single source into three separate channels, making your AI referral numbers quietly wrong. The post GA4’s AI Assistant Channel Undercounts Your AI Traffic: How To Build One That Doesn’t appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Semrush Blog
See how AI search decides which local business to recommend, and how to become the one it names.
Seroundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google Image Search turned 25 years old and with that...
Search Engine Journal
CFOs focus on revenue impact over vanity metrics. Discover the essential PPC measurements that resonate with executives. The post The PPC Metrics Your CFO Actually Cares About (And How To Report Them) appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Google Image Search turned 25 years old and to celebrate, Google revamped the Google Image Search home page. Instead of a clean image search box, Google added an image gallery and placed a search bar at the top of the page.
Seroundtable
Google AI Overviews can now generate AI images based on your questions, directly in the AI Overview response in Google Search. Google wrote, "To help bring those unique ideas to life, we're bringing image generation directly into AI Overviews in Search."
Seroundtable
OpenAI added more features to ChatGPT Ads Manager, the ability to exclude your ads from showing based on geo-location and/or audience lists. ChatGPT Ads Manager continues to rapidly add new advertising features to its ad platform.
Seroundtable
Google has confirmed that it is testing the hide and show sponsored results within the Google Shopping search results interface. Google launched the hide/show sponsored results in the main search results last October and is now testing this feature within Google Shopping.
Seroundtable
Google's John Mueller noted that if your A/B tests are "significantly different" from one and the other, then that "could be visible in search results too." He also said, "Depending on your setup, what might happen is that one or the other version is used for indexing."
Seroundtable
Google announced it is no longer allowing the advertisement of prediction markets contracts and related products ads in Michigan and New York. Plus, Google also expanded Google Shopping ads and free listings eligibility to more countries.
Abondance
Sponsored content The incidents that have affected major players in the Internet infrastructure in recent years have reminded us of the extent to which the web is based on a set of interdependent services. Whether it is a CDN, a cloud provider, a DNS service or a proxy, the failure of a
Moz Blog
Unlock higher brand visibility, more topical authority, and increased discoverability with a unified PR and SEO strategy. Learn how to break down silos, align your goals, and maximize your brand reach with practical tips.
Search Engine Journal
John Mueller responded to a plan to hide homepage links from Google in hopes only one internal anchor text would count, known as "first-link priority." The post Google’s Mueller On First Link Priority & Link Obfuscation appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
TikTok will test detection for accounts posting AI-generated spam in politics, financial advice, and medical content, and has joined C2PA's steering committee. The post TikTok Targets AI-Generated Spam Accounts In High-Risk Topics appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Google is adding AI image generation to AI Overviews and rolling out a redesigned Google Images homepage. Both start rolling out over the coming weeks. The post Google Adds Image Generation To AI Overviews, Revamps Images appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Ahrefs Blog
If you’re one of the named brands, you win. If you’re not, you never knew the conversation happened. Optimizing for that is called AEO (or if you prefer, GEO.) This is now part of SEO and/or the marketing team’s…Read more ›
Abondance
Ce qu'il faut retenir : Atlas, le navigateur IA d'OpenAI lancé en octobre 2025, sera définitivement arrêté le 9 août 2026, soit moins d'un an après son lancement. Ses fonctionnalités de navigation assistée par IA ne disparaissent pas mais sont absorbées par ChatGPT Work, une plateforme de bureau qui
Search Engine Journal
Gain valuable insights on search attention and learn how to track performance beyond traditional click metrics in our new podcast episode. The post Where Search Attention Is Going & How To Measure It appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Mass programmatic AI content breaks Google's crawl ecosystem and indexing thresholds in ways most teams never anticipate until rankings collapse. The post Scaled AI Content Often Fails & Google’s Crawl Economics Explain Why appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Ahrefs Blog
So, after years of hearing the same message, people started associating AI-generated content with low-effort, mass-produced slop. AI-assisted content earned a bad reputation before it had a chance to mature. This article is my attempt to reset the conversation. I’ll…Read more ›
Seroundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Search Engine Journal
The shortlist economy is here: AI agents hand buyers three to five options. Here's how to make sure you're on it. The post Surviving The Impression Squeeze: How Agentic Commerce Is Changing Google Ads In 2026 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Semrush Blog
Audience research helps you understand your ideal customers. Here’s a breakdown and how to do it.
Semrush Blog
Keyword cannibalization occurs when pages on a site target the same keyword. They can affect your rankings and AI citations. Here’s how to fix them.
Abondance
L’article "Goossips SEO : Cloudflare & Robots.txt" a été publié sur le site Abondance.
Seroundtable
Google Ads has posted that it has (1) expanded its alcohol policy to expand the approved geographic locations and (2) updated the gambling and games policy to expand the certification requirements to all categories under this policy.
Seroundtable
Google Ads is now asking you to note a justification for when you request the removal of access for a user in your Google Ads account. Then that request is sent to another administrator for approval, with the justification you entered.
Seroundtable
OpenAI made a number of clarification changes to its crawler help documentation to say that version number of the user-agent string may be updated and it may use a user-agent string with an additional robots.txt marker.
Seroundtable
Google Merchant Center is rolling out a beta AI Performance report that shares how well your products are performing within AI Mode and AI Overviews. Google wrote this report "specifically revealing your performance on AI Mode and AI Overviews."
Seroundtable
OpenAI has added new metrics to the ChatGPT Ads manager advertiser control center. The new metrics include Attributed Sales Value and Sales ROAS.
Seroundtable
Google has updated its Google crawlers help documentation to fix a typo under the Google-InspectionTool user agent string. In short, Google had a semicolon as part of the Google-InspectionTool user agent string and it should not have been there, so Google removed the semicolon.
Search Engine Journal
Google's Ginny Marvin explains AI Search eligibility, Qualified Future Conversions, and Creator Partnerships, adding context to key Google Marketing Live announcements. The post Google’s Marvin Clarifies AI Search and Qualified Future Conversions appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
A new research paper compares how often ChatGPT and Google send people to websites, and what wider ChatGPT access did to search. The post ChatGPT Access Tied To 9% Drop In Traditional Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Google Ads adds AI disclosure labels for third-party creative. Learn how the new transparency requirements affect advertisers and campaign workflows. The post Google Ads Requires Disclosure For AI-Generated Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Do individuals hold all the power in publishing now? Why the reverse halo effect is reshaping content strategy for every brand in search. The post Evergreen Content Is Over – The Individual Is The Only Strategy Left appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Want to win the AI citation game? Build for the click-through moment, not just the citation. Here's where to start. The post Only 28% Of Americans Trust AI Search – And That Gap Is Your SEO Opening appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Seroundtable
Google Ads email support option seems broken right now, when you try to use it, you get a notice that reads in red, "Something went wrong. Please try again."
Search Engine Journal
Overwhelmed by agentic web acronyms? Map each protocol to the problem it solves before deciding which ones deserve your attention. The post AI Agent Standards: What Do We Need To Know? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
We may have had another unconfirmed Google Search ranking update around July 11th, which I will call the 7-Eleven update. It has been an unusual time since the completion of the June 2026 spam update, where I was on the verge of covering a few unconfrimed updates but it seems the chatter in the SEO
Abondance
Bottom Line: After a content fix, it can take up to two weeks for Google to pull a page out of a duplicate cluster. This delay concerns only content corrections, not redirects, rel="canonical" tags or server configuration errors, which
Seroundtable
Google has updated its canonical help document to say "Do include a rel="canonical" link on the canonical page itself (also known as a self-referential canonical)." The advice is not new to Google's communication but it was just added to the help document.
Seroundtable
Google Ads now lets you see ad previews by filtering by assets, plus you can preview examples of text customizations and final URL expansion directly within the Google Ads advertiser console.
Seroundtable
Krishna Madhavan, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, said that Bing does not do one-off search penalties because it is not scalable. Instead, Bing will build a spam algorithm to detect the type of spam it is and unleash it on its index to pick up on not just one site doing that, but as ma
Seroundtable
Google is testing a slight update to the sticky sponsored results interface that it tested back in September 2024. Note: A version of this was launched in October 2025, but this interface has a thinner and smaller sponsored label and uses curved borders.
Seroundtable
Google Ads has updated the conversion actions overview statuses it shows in the Google Ads user interface. Now there is misconfigured, awaiting conversions and even removed as new statuses, that replaced inactive, no recent conversions and other.
Seroundtable
A few weeks ago we reported on a new Google Business Profiles help document change that talks about the Collected Info action. Well, I have not seen it live yet and most have not, but we have a screenshot of what it looks like when it does go live.
Search Engine Journal
WebMCP gives AI agents named tools to call, and a clean route for prompt injection. Here's what Chrome says to lock down first. The post The WebMCP Tools You Expose To Agents Can Be Used To Hijack Them appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
AI visibility numbers move between runs, so a single reading can mislead. A new paper offers a stopping rule for when rankings are finally trustworthy. The post AI Visibility Rankings Aren’t Stable – New Research Shows It’s Mostly Statistical Noise appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Google updated its canonicalization troubleshooting guide with new guidance on how long pages can stay in a duplicate cluster after you fix the content. The post Google Says Canonical Re-Evaluation Can Take Up to Two Weeks appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
The WordPress 7.0.1 maintenance release improves PHP compatibility and contains a bug fix to a security-related function. The post WordPress 7.0.1 Maintenance Release Contains 31 Bug Fixes appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Some Google Business Profile dashboards show “no reviews yet” even though public review counts remain visible on the live listing. The post Google Business Profiles Showing Empty Review Dashboards appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Semrush Blog
Google Search Console now shows how your Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube content performs in Google Search.
Search Engine Journal
Google rolls out Search Console reports for social posts, updates product markup guidance, and warns against building separate markdown pages for AI. The post Google Adds Social Reporting; Mueller Warns Against Markdown – SEO Pulse appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Abondance
What to remember: Google adds a “How this ad was created” section in the My Ad Center panel, accessible via the three-dot menu or the ad information icon displayed on Search, YouTube and Discover Ads created with Google's generative AI tools
Search Engine Journal
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 post Free AI Citations Won’t Last. I’ve Watched Google Fence Off A Wide Open Field Before appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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