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AI can read most webpages just fine without a single line of schema. Large…
Read on Oncrawl →Andrew Shotland & Mark Kabana join us fresh off Brighton SEO for a wide-ranging, no-fixed-agenda convo about what the conference said about local's place in the industry, why a single search rank is…
Read on Near Media →I like making bets about the future. Not because I think I am especially good at predicting it, but because writing down exactly what you think will happen forces you to be more precise.
Read on SearchPilot →Every rigorous SEO test needs a single primary metric. For us that's usually organic sessions to the tested pages, because it's high-volume enough to reach statistical confidence and close enough to…
Read on SearchPilot →Search profile updates help publishers better highlight their content and connect with their audiences.
Read on Google Blog — Search →Good news for publishers, you can manage multiple profiles from one login.
Read on Search Engine Land →OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT Ads with conversational Sponsored Agents, AI-powered campaign tools and new 3rd party integrations.
Read on Search Engine Land →Your next search competitor may be an AI's shortlist. GEO addresses what it takes to get cited, recommended, or selected by AI systems.
Read on Search Engine Land →Google Ads’ new Spend Benchmarks report shows advertisers how their budgets and clicks compare with similar businesses
Read on Search Engine Land →Google’s agentic commerce updates give advertisers new ways to boost AI visibility, engage shoppers and turn discovery into sales.
Ranking & Algorithms Paid Search E-commerce
Read on Search Engine Land →What customers complain about can reveal what they value. Use those insights to find stronger PPC messages to test.
Read on Search Engine Land →See how to audit entity recognition, uncover competitor advantages, and strengthen your brand's visibility. Join us for the next SMX Now.
Read on Search Engine Land →Some search shifts are already affecting ecommerce performance. Others remain mostly hype. Here's what the latest data reveals.
Read on Search Engine Land →Your team doesn't need to build every AI workflow. Decide what to automate in-house, buy from a vendor, or outsource.
Read on Search Engine Land →It's happening! We are absolutely pumped that we're just about two weeks away from Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026! From September 30 to October 2, 2026, the Google Search Central team is…
Read on Google Search Central →Paid search veteran Matt Van Wagner reflects on 20 years of Google Ads, lost PPC tactics, rising automation and more
Read on Search Engine Land →Six experts. Six myths about how search engines and AI systems actually work, and…
Read on Oncrawl →Your content may be useful and relevant, but that doesn’t guarantee it will be seen. Use this practical GEO diagnostic checklist to investigate what may be limiting your content's visibility in AI…
Read on Lumar →Remember back in March when we told our Indian community to "sit tight" while we figured out the APAC event calendar? Hopefully, you didn't take that too literally, because sitting tight for six…
Read on Google Search Central →I turned my 15-year archive of Google algorithm updates into an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at algo.mariehaynes.com. Here is how it was built, the architecture behind it, and how you…
Read on Marie Haynes →We take a first look at new consumer-journey research Near Media ran for Lastmile Retail, work through the EU's DMA self-preferencing decision, an audit of Google's hotel results in Europe versus the…
Read on Near Media →TL;DR If your performance numbers are down, your single-axis maturity model might be telling you to solve for the wrong problem A true framework should factor in two variables: what the market is…
Read on Seer Interactive →Search can help runners get race-day ready with registration alerts, tailored training plans, and more.
Read on Google Blog — Search →You’re looking at a page that should be performing better, and you want answers fast. Maybe it’s a product page that slipped in rankings, a competitor’s post outranking yours, or a client page that…
Read on Backlinko →Traditional ranking metrics can only tell us so much about GEO performance. In this article, we explore what a GEO analytics stack could look like, with layers covering candidate page selection to…
Ranking & Algorithms Measurement AI Search & Visibility
Read on Lumar →We’re packing our bags for our 4th trip to San Diego, heading back to one of our favourite events of the year: brightonSEO San Diego. This year’s edition takes place on the 15th and 16th September,…
Read on Screaming Frog →Technical SEO has a direct line to revenue, but not every website needs a…
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Read on Google Search Central →Теперь интернет-магазины и сайты услуг могут сами решать, сколько баллов Плюса получат пользователи за опубликованный отзыв: 40,100,150 или 200. Раньше ставка была фиксированная — 40 баллов.Новая…
Read on Yandex Webmaster (RU) →TL;DR Claude’s watermark only flags that Claude was “likely involved,” so it can’t tell a fully AI-drafted piece from a human draft Claude lightly edited It’s an EU compliance requirement (Code of…
Read on Seer Interactive →WeatherNext 3, our most advanced global weather AI model, is now in Search, Gemini, Maps, Google Maps Platform, and Cloud.
Read on Google DeepMind →Participants in a hackathon hosted by popular AI newsletter AlphaSignal used the Brave Search API to build an autonomous agent, and get that agent to reliably act in the real world.
Read on Brave Search →Damian Rollison, Senior Director of Market Insights at SOCi, joins us to walk through SOCi's third annual consumer study whose headline finding is that local discovery no longer runs in a straight…
Read on Near Media →TL;DR AI is more than just a summary or synthesis tool for project managers, and the best PMs will use it to become a better strategic partner PMs can use AI to spot ongoing friction and pinpoint the…
Read on Seer Interactive →Authority can influence whether a source is considered in generative search, but its role varies depending on the query. Explore how authority appears to work in GEO, which signals may contribute to…
Read on Lumar →New tests on macOS show Brave for desktop outperforms Chrome, Edge, and Firefox in page-load speed, CPU, memory, energy, and network use. This post includes the full methodology and results.
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