Google AI Overviews shows fast growth across nine industries, now triggering AI Search in nearly half of all search queries.
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Google AI Overviews shows fast growth across nine industries, now triggering AI Search in nearly half of all search queries.
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This week’s SEO Pulse highlights evolving AI link formats, cross-language sourcing biases in ChatGPT, and mounting pressure on traditional organic traffic.
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Google’s February Discover core update is complete after a roughly 22-day rollout. Early data suggests fewer domains in top slots.
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Bing rewrote its webmaster guidelines to cover Copilot grounding, meta directive controls for AI answers, and a softened stance on AI-generated content.
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This week’s PPC Pulse recaps Google’s evolving Search asset guidance, revised budget pacing behavior, and Microsoft’s rollout of self-serve negative lists for PMax.
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Search isn’t disappearing, but the habit is changing. This article breaks down why agents are replacing browsing with delegation.
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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 special guests, to help you master AI search visibility this year. This is SEJ Live, a new series we’ve been building behind the scenes, and I couldn’t be more excited to see it come to life. Here’s why this matters right now: I’m seeing a huge disconnect between leadership and the marketing teams doing the work. Leadership wants performance yesterday, but those with their feet on the ground know that customer behaviors have changed. The […]
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Lack of support for an independent WordPress plugin and theme repository leads Joost de Valk to step away.
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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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Researchers compared two ways to improve rankings in LLMs: Shadow Model and Query-based solutions.
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