Everyone Is Quoting The Same Number And Getting Different Answers via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Publishers are blocking AI crawlers on a metric whose denominator is missing an unknown share of referrals. `crawl`
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Friday, September 11, 2026
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Is Your Local SEO Strategy Ready For Google’s Next AI Updates? [Webinar] via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Google & Uberall go live on Sept 24, sharing what comes next in Google Search and five local marketing strategy fixes that get locations recommended. `local SEO`
What Wikipedia Reveals About AI Overviews And Web Traffic via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
A University of Washington paper estimates AI Overviews reduced search referrals to Wikipedia by about 5%, a metric Google disputes. `AI overview`
Google Launches Meridian GeoX Globally via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Google launches Meridian GeoX globally, giving marketers new ways to run geo experiments and bring incrementality results into marketing mix modeling.
YouTube Gives You Feedback On Shorts Before Publishing via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
YouTube is expanding Get Feedback, a tool that reviews a Shorts before publishing, to U.S. users
How Do I Keep Control As Platforms Automate My Account? – Ask A PPC via @sejournal, @navahf
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Keep AI-driven PPC accountable with transparent reporting, brand-safe creative guardrails, and campaign structures that preserve performance without surrendering control.
Google Adds Post View Counts To Business Profiles via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Google says Business Profile post view counts are rolling out globally for posts published in the past 18 months, combining views from Search and Maps.
Internal links: ultimate guide + strategies
SEMrush Blog
Internal links help users, search engines, and AI crawlers understand your site. Here‘s how to fix issues holding you back. `crawl` · `internal link`
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Watch This Week
3New AI Search & SEO KPIs: 4 Signals That Guide Real Decisions [Watch Now] via @sejournal, @lorenbaker
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Stas Levitan of LightSite AI explains four first-party signals marketers can use to connect AI bot attention with human traffic and better SEO decisions.
Google Says The Old Position 1-10 Is Hard To Map For Site Owners on r/SEO
Reddit: r/SEO
u/johnmu said: Google's John Mueller responded to questions about how impressions are counted for Generative AI in Google Search Console. Google has a help document that explains that, and John just reiterated that. But what he added was that "the old ... `AI overview`
Using DMCA complaints to remove competitors?
Reddit: r/SEO
So I received an email from Google this morning that one of my pages was reported for copyright infringement. I have a lot of UGC so this in itself is not entirely impossible and although fairly rare, I do investigate when such reports come through. But this specific report... …
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3How to build your first AI SEO agent (full walk-through)
SEMrush Blog
Learn how to build an AI SEO agent from scratch to automate important tasks like keyword research and topic clustering.
How to do keyword research with Claude and Semrush
SEMrush Blog
Learn how to use Claude and the Semrush MCP to find keyword ideas based on what your audience is saying.
What is zero-click marketing? How to execute and measure it
SEMrush Blog
Zero-click marketing is a content strategy for delivering value without requiring clicks to other pages.
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1I want to take Bing Webmaster Tools seriously but then it gives me this report...
Reddit: r/SEO
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