Search Engine Journal★ Featured
ChatGPT is now a very large online search engine under the EU Digital Services Act after OpenAI reported about 159.1 million average monthly search recipients.
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Rank Math paused its controversial feature, acknowledge a serious consent failure, and explains why it's coming back.
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
FTC and 22 states sued Amazon over alleged changes to its ad auctions that the agency says overcharged advertisers by more than $20 billion.
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
WordPress announced an initiative to scale security as AI makes it easier for criminal to find and exploit vulnerabilities.
Reddit: r/SEO
My buddy asked me to build a new website for their mental health practice since the old one was a 2-page GoDaddy Airo site. The old site had a homepage and a services page, both very sparse. I mean less than a paragraph per service, and only three services listed. I rebuilt ... …
Reddit: r/SEO
No links in this post, per rule 2. Fetch the robots file on each domain yourself and grep for GPTBot if you want to verify any of it. What I found today: Flat Disallow for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, CCBot and Google-Extended: LinkedIn Instagram ... …
Google Search Status
The rollout was complete as of August 21, 2026.
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Google says Search Console's generative AI performance reports, which track AI Overviews and AI Mode impressions, have now rolled out to all sites worldwide. `AI overview`
Ahrefs Blog
Yes, every one. We have even built a Letaido pipeline that can research, outline, draft, and fact-check a nearly publish-ready article in six to twelve minutes. In theory, it could produce tens of thousands of articles. (It could… but that’s … Read more ›
SEMrush Blog
Relevant SEO KPIs to track include AI visibility, keyword rankings, organic traffic, and brand mentions.
Reddit: r/SEO
In early August, Google was testing requiring searchers to sign in to verify they are humans to continue to see search results. Now, Google is testing a similar feature without requiring you to sign in, but instead, Google is asking you to click a "Continu...
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Schema is not a magic ranking switch. Loren Baker explains how consistent structured data strengthens entity trust across local, ecommerce, and author-driven content. `structured data` · `schema`
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Kevin Rowe broke down the digital PR system behind 1,000+ earned citations, which data stories journalists cover, and how research wins AI Overviews spots. `AI overview`
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Three role changes and a budget rebalance can move a marketing team from invisible to cited in AI search results, no new headcount required.
Ahrefs Blog
The most prominent domain was Reddit.com, which showed up in 87.8% of SERPs (83.9% worldwide), with an average of 1.29 link appearances. Along with Ahrefs’ data scientist Xibeijia Guan, I set out to uncover how prominent other sites were, whether … Read more ›
SEMrush Blog
Rank in ChatGPT search by making your content easy for AI systems to extract and by building off-site consensus.