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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
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I know I just reported on an unconfirmed Google Search ranking update from this past Saturday, October 24th. But I am now seeing a larger spike in volatility, along with an increase in SEO community…
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This past Saturday, October 24th, we saw some significant ranking volatility captured by many of the third-party Google tracking tools. There was also some heavy chatter within the SEO industry about…
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An AI search strategy starts with diagnosis. Rewriting content won‘t help if AI can‘t reach your site or keeps describing your brand wrong.
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Check whether search engines can find and understand your images, and spot technical issues that limit their visibility in multimodal search.
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Key takeaways: Treat citation volatility as normal. It seems to be a built-in trait of AI answers, and it may change significantly with model updates. So, aim to appear more often over time, not to…
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Google says missing pages aren't a ranking threat, but what visitors encounter after a 404 can matter to a business.
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Understand why Google can serve unindexed hreflang URLs and why market pages need unique local value to stand out in AI search.
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Ask ChatGPT the same question today and tomorrow, and you will often get two different answers. Sometimes your brand is mentioned, sometimes it isn’t. So can AI visibility be measured at all? It can…
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The best free SEO tools include Keyword Magic Tool, Position Tracking, and Ubersuggest.
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Learn how Semrush is addressing “poisoned” Google Search results, validating ranking data, and investing in visibility for users.
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Garrett French, Valerie Cecil and James Wirth of Citation Labs tell Greg Sterling and Mike Blumenthal how a link-building agency rebuilt itself for AI visibility: satellite comparison sites, query…
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