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Googlebot does not crawl every page on your site every day. It works within…
Read on Oncrawl →Canva made this painfully clear: they gave 5,000 employees a full week to explore AI, and most couldn’t figure out how to start. No surprise there, most vibe-coding tools expect you to manage files,…
Read on Ahrefs Blog →When we first published this on July 15, we were working from three days of ChatGPT ads data. Revisiting the data this week, our main takeaways haven't changed, but ecosystem is evolving. Share of…
Read on Seer Interactive →On the one hand, Google says they don’t care whether AI is used for content creation, as long as the content isn’t designed “with the primary purpose of manipulating ranking in search results.” On…
Read on Ahrefs Blog →Google shared some interesting information about the future of Search and AI in their most recent earnings call. While many are focusing on the first negative cash flow since their IPO 20 years ago,…
Read on Marie Haynes →Does recency still matter in AI search? How much?
Read on Seer Interactive →Every week brings a new acronym, a new era, a new thing you are supposedly already too late for. Some of it changes how we work, but a lot of it is—let’s be honest—noise. Well, fear not. I’ve curated…
Read on Ahrefs Blog →Before someone ever lands on your website, an AI assistant may have already explained what your product does, compared it with competitors, and helped them decide whether you’re worth considering. By…
Read on Ahrefs Blog →Discover how the Lumar MCP server connects your AI assistant to Lumar, enabling faster SEO audits, AI Visibility analysis and workflow automation.
Read on Lumar →This blog was originally published on March 3, 2025 and updated on July 22, 2026. Is That "Web Visitor" an Agent or a Human? Back in January 2025, OpenAI’s Operator became the first true "AI agent"…
Read on Seer Interactive →Discover how college students can use Google AI tools, like Gemini and AI Mode, to prep for grad school, internships and fall courses.
Read on Google Blog — Search →Digital PR is the single most important strategy to win in AI search. A study by Muck Rack found that 84% of AI citations come from earned media, third-party sources like editorial coverage, reviews,…
Ranking & Algorithms AI Search & Visibility
Read on Backlinko →Community and social sharing platforms have shifted significantly over the years, and older SEO advice about specific platforms is often outdated even when the underlying strategic principle remains…
Read on SEO-Serps Blog →Search engine patents occasionally circulate widely in SEO discussions, often accompanied by bold claims about newly "discovered" ranking factors. Understanding what patents actually represent —…
Read on SEO-Serps Blog →Advertising and promotional pop-ups are legitimate, often necessary revenue and conversion tools, but implemented poorly, they carry genuine SEO risk through both direct page experience penalties and…
Read on SEO-Serps Blog →Not every keyword that brings traffic brings revenue. If your content is monetized through ads, affiliate links, or your own products, the keywords you target should be chosen with monetization in…
Read on SEO-Serps Blog →Not every page on a site needs to be — or should be — indexed and competing for search visibility. Understanding when strategic noindexing genuinely helps versus when it's unnecessary or…
Ranking & Algorithms Crawling & Indexing
Read on SEO-Serps Blog →Ecommerce sites with large catalogs face a genuine tension: writing fully unique descriptions for every product takes significant time, but generic manufacturer descriptions duplicated across many…
Read on SEO-Serps Blog →Not every SEO improvement requires a months-long content strategy. Some fixes take an hour or less and produce a measurable lift. Here are ten you can realistically knock out today.
Read on SEO-Serps Blog →You don't need an expensive suite to do solid SEO work. A well-chosen set of free tools covers keyword research, technical audits, on-page optimization, and monitoring — everything most sites need…
Read on SEO-Serps Blog →Hotlinking — embedding an image on your own page by linking directly to its file on another site's server, rather than hosting your own copy — might seem like a convenient shortcut, but it…
Read on SEO-Serps Blog →Negative SEO refers to deliberate attempts by a third party to harm a competitor's rankings through manipulative tactics aimed at their site, rather than improving one's own. It's less common than…
Read on SEO-Serps Blog →Meta descriptions don't directly influence rankings, but they're one of the most direct levers you have over click-through rate — and click-through rate, in turn, meaningfully affects how much…
Ranking & Algorithms Measurement
Read on SEO-Serps Blog →Crawl budget refers to the finite amount of attention and resources a search engine allocates to crawling any given site within a given period. For small sites this is rarely a limiting factor, but…
Read on SEO-Serps Blog →TL;DR: Bryan Gunawan, an intern in Seer's AI Optimization Academy, made 5 targeted changes to an existing Seer blog post and took it from under 100 impressions to a peak of 1,195 in a matter of…
Read on Seer Interactive →A session in partnership with Sitebulb
Read on SearchPilot →Nearly two years since a judge ruled Google an illegal monopolist. Total changes Google has had to make so far: zero. That's what getting away with it looks like. The SEARCH Act can end it now.
Read on DuckDuckGo →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…
Read on Marie Haynes →College students are eager to turn their dull dorm rooms into cozy spaces. Here are the Google Search trends we’re seeing.
Read on Google Blog — Search →Whether you're decorating, refreshing your wardrobe or picking up last-minute essentials, these shopping tools make all the difference.
Read on Google Blog — Search →TL; DR Brands investing in creator ads may not be taking the right actions to see their desired results The industry is focused on helping brands find the right creator, when the real problem is…
Read on Seer Interactive →You’ll be able to securely link and interact with your go-to services directly in AI Mode.
Read on Google Blog — Search →Who doesn’t love a good mystery? I've been thinking about the conundrum that is zero-click search a lot lately, partly because of Rand Fishkin's recent study showing that less than one-third of…
Read on Seer Interactive →For years, site architecture served its purpose and served it well: help search engines…
Read on Oncrawl →BAT Roadmap 4.0 evolves the Basic Attention Token, Brave Rewards, and Brave Creators for the transactional attention economy, introducing agentic payments, a unified Brave Wallet, the BravePay…
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