Search Engine Journal★ Featured
A step-by-step process for building an SEO content roadmap that accounts for AI Overviews, from keyword gaps to a prioritized, citation-ready plan. `AI overview`
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Gemini's new UTM parameters give site owners clearer attribution for traffic coming from Google's AI platform.
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
AI changed the buyer in 18 months. Most businesses still run on 12-month plans. Here's where the gap shows up and why it keeps widening.
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
YouTube is updating recommendations to favor original Shorts and reduce reach for channels that mainly re-upload others' clips without significant changes.
Reddit: r/SEO
Google: Manually Factcheck & Review AI-Generated Content For Accuracy Google has updated Google Search's " guidance on using generative AI content on your website " document to tell those who use AI-generated content to "manually factcheck an... `google updat …
Google Search Status
Released the September 2026 spam update , which applies globally and to all languages. The rollout may take up to two weeks to complete.
SEMrush Blog
Google’s September 2026 spam update may take up to two weeks to roll out, making ranking drops harder to diagnose.
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Google's AI Mode monitoring and OpenAI's dots keep requests active, with different tasks, sources, controls, and questions about site visibility.
Ahrefs Blog
But easier to build doesn’t necessarily mean easier to optimize. WordPress and other CMSs quietly handle many SEO basics through plugins and built-in functionality, from canonicals and sitemaps to redirects, metadata, schema, and 404 handling. With a static site, much … Re …
Reddit: r/SEO
I’m looking for some advice from people who have experience with SEO for large healthcare or hospital system websites. Using a throwaway account so I dont get flooded with emails and calls later. I’m fairly new to the deeper side of SEO and am helping with a hospital system ... …
Reddit: r/SEO
I'm in the process of setting up several Claude agents to monitor my SEO, flag concerns and propose solutions. I've kind of got it organized, but still feels clunky, mainly because Claud can't connect to GSC, but only to AHREFs. Curious if anyone else out there has some prom... …
Ahrefs Blog
That prompted us to investigate AI Overviews for branded searches on a larger scale. We found that AI Overviews now appear for 83% of branded queries, potentially reducing clicks to brands’ own websites and giving third-party sources like Wikipedia, YouTube … Read more  …
Ahrefs Blog
Your brand might be missing from important conversations, losing recommendations to competitors, associated with the wrong topics, or described using outdated information. AI assistants may even struggle to access your content in the first place. Each of these problems needs R …
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Google's people-first content guidance now warns site owners against fabricated author profiles, a form of deception its rater guidelines already described. `helpful content`
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Google has data, chips and cash to lead in AI. The real question is whether it will disrupt the Search business that pays for everything.
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Google's guidance on AI-generated content now says to fact-check it by hand before publishing, and the review extends to titles, alt text, and other metadata.
Reddit: r/SEO
I’m working on a search baseline for an ecommerce client, and one thing I’ve struggled to separate is: product discovery that starts visually vs normal text search. Google adding Web > Multimodal in Search Console is useful because we can now isolate traffic coming ... …
Ahrefs Blog
35 practical ways to use Claude Code for SEO, from content briefs and Search Console analysis to internal linking and technical fixes, with real examples. Read more › `internal link`