The stories about Ranking & Algorithms from this period, ranked by likely impact on a single site.
Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.
Incident began at 2026-09-24 09:15 and ended at 2026-10-08 01:00 (all times are US/Pacific).The rollout was complete as of October 8, 2026. Affected products: Ranking
Ranking & Algorithms
Garrett French, James Wirth and Valerie Cecil of Citation Labs talk to us about how they measure AI visibility across six layers, build the prompts worth tracking, and replace the stale facts AI…
Ranking & Algorithms AI Search & Visibility
Learn the four types of keywords in SEO and how to optimize your content to rank for each type of keyword.
Ranking & Algorithms
That puts AI ahead of YouTube as a source of signups, and second only to Google. If we’d relied on our referral traffic alone, we’d have badly undersold it. Most AI influence happens out of sight. A…
Ranking & Algorithms Measurement
Assembled from our own archive of 1,107 stories, which currently runs from 4 October 2023. Ranking is by the impact score described on the front page — an estimate of how much a story is likely to affect one website, not a measure of how much attention it got.
The archive only holds what it has seen. Periods before it started are empty rather than quiet, and it gets more complete every week it runs.
