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Google quietly updated Search Terms reporting for AI Mode, AI Overviews, Lens, and autocomplete. Here’s why advertisers may be concerned about interpreted queries. 🏷️ `AI overview`
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Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch told teams to plan as if search traffic will be zero after three years of forecasts that underestimated actual declines.
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A Liquid Web rebrand of StellarWP plugins triggered backlash after users reported missing pages, login issues, and license confusion.
Reddit: r/SEO
Running SEO for a travel brand. Around April 13–14, we published ~25–30 programmatically generated pages with thin content. Shortly after, deindexed pages in GSC jumped from ~500 to 1,000 — and have now climbed to 5,000+. Could Google have treated the thin programma... 🏷️ `c …
Reddit: r/SEO
After several years of declining search traffic, Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch has directed all the company's brands to operate as if search traffic to their properties will be zero. He says the era of turning search and social media traffic into profitable businesses i... 🏷️ `A …
Reddit: r/TechSEO
I've been reviewing server logs lately (trying not to make it a time sink) and noticed a huge uptick in bots I barely recognize. ChatGPT, Claude, various Googlebot-like user agents that don't resolve properly. Some of them hammer old URLs and parameter-heavy pages. Th... 🏷️ `c …
Reddit: r/SEO
I created a sports website about a year ago, and I’m honestly at a loss right now. The site publishes a lot of daily content: daily articles, game previews, betting/stat previews, and daily data reports. Some of the data report pages are mostly numbers, tables, record... 🏷️ `i …
Ahrefs Blog
AI cited pages were almost three times more likely to have JSON-LD than non-cited pages. That’s a big gap, and the kind of stat that gets shared in LinkedIn carousels and conference slides as proof that schema is an AI…Read more ›</div... 🏷️ `schema` …
Reddit: r/bigseo
Google wrote: A logging error is causing a decrease in clicks and impressions for the Discover report from May 7 until May 8, 2026. You may notice a decrease in clicks and impressions in the Discover performance report. This issue affects data logging only. <!... …
Reddit: r/SEO
https://lilyraynyc.substack.com/p/it-works-until-it-doesnt-ai-content-risks Lily Ray have been monitoring more than 220 websites that were publicly identified, either by themselv... …
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Discover the importance of AI in reviews and brand visibility. Learn how AI tools affect perceptions in our latest review. 🏷️ `AI overview`
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The difference between durable expertise and replaceable tactics has never mattered more for HubSpot partner agencies. Here's how to tell which one you're selling.
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Optimization and legibility are not the same thing. Adobe's 2026 AI traffic data shows which one actually drives the 393% growth in AI-referred retail conversions.
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Google's ALDRIFT framework "opens exciting avenues" toward AI answers that do more than sound plausible.
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
SEO fails when it can’t compete for resources. Learn how to win above the “IT line of death.”