SEMRush
Keyword cannibalization: How to find, fix, and prevent itKeyword cannibalization occurs when pages on a site target the same keyword. They can affect your rankings and AI citations. Here’s how to fix them.
How Cardmarket wins search by knowing its community better than anyoneHow Cardmarket built a community-first SEO strategy that drove steady organic growth, stronger AI visibility, and 200% growth in AI-referred sessions.
What is SEO? A complete guide to search engine optimizationSEO is how you earn visibility in search results and AI answers. Learn how to start in this guide.
Ecommerce AI SEO: How to optimize online stores for LLMsLearn to optimize your ecommerce store for AI search & agentic commerce to drive visibility and sales.
What is video SEO? How to optimize for YouTube, Google & AIVideo SEO is a strategy to help videos earn YouTube engagement, visibility on Google, and AI citations.
What are URL parameters? A guide on how to use themURL parameters are extra pieces of information added to the end of a URL. Here’s how to use them.
Google E-E-A-T: What it is & how it affects SEOE-E-A-T is the framework Google‘s Quality Raters use to assess content that appears in search results.
Robbie Richards
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Matthew Woodward
Marie Haynes
Build an OKF brain like mine!Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working on my own OKF structure. I’ve…
The Open Knowledge Format (OKF from Google is a new layer for agentsGoogle just published documentation on what they're calling the Open Knowledge Format (OKF. It represents a standardized way for agents to access knowledge via very simple directories of Markdown files. While storing files in Markdown is nothing new, Google is…
kaiserthesage
Webmaster World
Distilled
Yoast
SEO for musicians: get found, grow fans, increase streamsImagine writing a melody so catchy that people hum it for years. Now imagine that same song blowing up on TikTok or Instagram, only for listeners to remember the trend, the dance, or the sound, but not the artist behind…
The complete guide to building a website with AI: From prompt to publishDo you know HTML, CSS, or JavaScript? A decade ago, not knowing how to code meant that building a website was expensive or time-consuming. Today, AI website builders have changed that. With just a few prompts, you can generate a…
Got an old website? Update it and refresh your SEOHas your website seen better days, and are you looking to restore it to its former glory? Look no further. We will help you get your site up to today’s standards and make that splash online. We cover all the…
Yoast SEO now works with Elementor’s new atomic editorElementor recently introduced a new way to build pages, called the atomic editor. If you’d switched to it, you may have noticed something annoying: Yoast SEO couldn’t see your content. Your text length, keyphrase checks, and readability results came back…
The June 2026 SEO Update by Yoast recapEach month, we host the SEO update by Yoast covering the latest in search and AI. In this edition, Carolyn Shelby and Alex Moss discussed Google’s evolving stance on AI-driven search, publisher controls in the UK, and how to navigate…
The SEO Update by Yoast – August 2026Join Carolyn Shelby and Alex Moss for the latest SEO insights that matter. The post The SEO Update by Yoast – August 2026 appeared first on Yoast.
Foodblogger Q&A: Google updates, AI search, and what actually matters for your blog in 2026Join Carolyn Shelby, Samah Nasr, and Areej AbuAli for a community chat on learning, support, and growth in SEO. The post Foodblogger Q&A: Google updates, AI search, and what actually matters for your blog in 2026 appeared first on Yoast.
Go Fish Digital
SEO vs GEO vs AEO: What They Are, Differences & How To Use ThemSearch is changing, and so is the way brands earn visibility. While traditional SEO is still essential, AI-powered platforms like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews are creating […] The post SEO vs GEO vs AEO: What They…
What High-Performing Creative Actually Looks Like Right NowFor a long time, “great creative” and “performance creative” occupied separate rooms in the marketing house. Brand and creative teams made beautiful, considered work that told a story. Performance teams […] The post What High-Performing Creative Actually Looks Like Right…
Your Product Feed Is Your LLM Resume: How Enterprise Retailers Get Recommended in ChatGPT + Google AI ShoppingYour Google Merchant Center account is healthy. Your bids are competitive. Your catalog is live. And you are still not appearing in ChatGPT shopping results or Google AI Overviews. The […] The post Your Product Feed Is Your LLM Resume:…
Why Your Ads Get Clicks but Don’t ConvertYou paid for that click. It should have a fighting chance to convert. When click-through rate climbs while conversion rate stays flat, the gap is almost always the same: the […] The post Why Your Ads Get Clicks but Don’t…
How Search Intent Turns SEO Visibility Into ConversionsSEO and GEO are working. Brands are showing up in more places — search results, AI answers, citation panels — than they ever have. That visibility is earned and it […] The post How Search Intent Turns SEO Visibility Into…
How DMOs Can Communicate Their Value to Gen Z Meeting PlannersThe latest generation of meeting and event planners out there don’t know your destination marketing organization (DMO even exists. But don’t be too alarmed. These planners aren’t overlooking DMOs because […] The post How DMOs Can Communicate Their Value to…
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Portent
Local Search
GSQi
Reddit’s AI Translations Finally Drop Heavily In Google And AI Search With The May 2026 Core Update and June 2026 Spam UpdateReddit’s recent post about fighting spam was a bit suspect to me timing-wise, so I dug into the search visibility of its AI translations again. And yep, they finally starting dropping in Google and downstream in AI Search platforms like…
Surging in ChatGPT, Dead in Google – The curious case of a YMYL site with no search visibility in Google, but cited like crazy in ChatGPTDoes this case prove you can perform well in ChatGPT without strong Google rankings or does it prove you still need strong organic search performance? Follow me down the rabbit hole to learn how a YMYL site is being cited…
Core Roars Back – Interesting Cases and Findings From Google’s May 2026 Broad Core UpdateNot long after the March 2026 broad core update completed, we had another core update to deal with. And this one was much more powerful than the March update… The May 2026 broad core update started rolling out on May…
Back Button Hijack Watch – How 25 publishers that were ‘back button hijacking’ responded after Google announced a new spam policyOn April 13, 2026 Google announced a new spam policy for “back button hijacking”. That’s when a site owner inhibits users from returning to the last page they visited from in an attempt to trick them into remaining on their…
Global Growth Gone Wild: Reddit’s AI Translations Continue To Expand And Boom (One Year LaterAfter writing a two-part series last year about Reddit heavily scaling AI-translated content, I wanted to check in to see how things were going now. Below, I’ll cover how Reddit’s AI translation project is firing on all cylinders and how…
When “Mt. AI” crumbles, ChatGPT can follow [Case Study]A recent manual action provides a great view of how scaling via AI-generated content can yield a huge drop in Google’s 10-blue links, AI Overviews, and AI Mode. But as you’ll see below, ChatGPT citations can drop heavily as well.…
Stone Temple
SE Round Table
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 14, 2026Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Google Ads Expands Alcohol, Gambling & Games PolicyGoogle Ads has posted that it has (1 expanded its alcohol policy to expand the approved geographic locations and (2 updated the gambling and games policy to expand the certification requirements to all categories under this policy.
Google Ads Asks For Justification When Requesting Removal Of AccessGoogle Ads is now asking you to note a justification for when you request the removal of access for a user in your Google Ads account. Then that request is sent to another administrator for approval, with the justification you…
OpenAI Crawlers Can Update Its User Agent StringOpenAI made a number of clarification changes to its crawler help documentation to say that version number of the user-agent string may be updated and it may use a user-agent string with an additional robots.txt marker.
Google Merchant Center AI Performance Insights For AI Mode & AI OverviewsGoogle Merchant Center is rolling out a beta AI Performance report that shares how well your products are performing within AI Mode and AI Overviews. Google wrote this report "specifically revealing your performance on AI Mode and AI Overviews."
ChatGPT Ads Manager Gains Attributed Sales Value & Sales ROAS & ProductsOpenAI has added new metrics to the ChatGPT Ads manager advertiser control center. The new metrics include Attributed Sales Value and Sales ROAS.
Google Fixes Google-InspectionTool User Agent String In Help DocGoogle has updated its Google crawlers help documentation to fix a typo under the Google-InspectionTool user agent string. In short, Google had a semicolon as part of the Google-InspectionTool user agent string and it should not have been there, so…
Search Engine Land
Google Blog
See how content from social and video platforms performs on Google SearchContent creators and publishers use many channels beyond their own websites to reach their audiences. As people gravitate toward firsthand perspectives and different content formats, we want to make it easier for site owners and creators—even those without their own…
Search Central Deep Dive Europe 2026: Apparently we're going to BarcelonaWe're excited to officially announce the next stop for Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026! Mark your calendars: based directly on your feedback, we're headed to Barcelona, Spain, from September 30 to October 2, 2026.
Help Us Pick the Next Stop in Europe for Search Central Live Deep Dive 2026!As we mentioned a few months ago, we are bringing the Search Central Live Deep Dive format to the EMEA region. This SCL format requires finding the absolute best home for the event—a place where all of you can truly…
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SEJ
Google’s Mueller On First Link Priority & Link Obfuscation via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern NewJohn Mueller responded to a plan to hide homepage links from Google in hopes only one internal anchor text would count, known as "first-link priority." The post Google’s Mueller On First Link Priority & Link Obfuscation appeared first on Search…
TikTok Targets AI-Generated Spam Accounts In High-Risk Topics via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern NewTikTok will test detection for accounts posting AI-generated spam in politics, financial advice, and medical content, and has joined C2PA's steering committee. The post TikTok Targets AI-Generated Spam Accounts In High-Risk Topics appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google Adds Image Generation To AI Overviews, Revamps Images via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern NewGoogle is adding AI image generation to AI Overviews and rolling out a redesigned Google Images homepage. Both start rolling out over the coming weeks. The post Google Adds Image Generation To AI Overviews, Revamps Images appeared first on Search…
Where Search Attention Is Going & How To Measure It via @sejournal, @MattGSouthernGain valuable insights on search attention and learn how to track performance beyond traditional click metrics in our new podcast episode. The post Where Search Attention Is Going & How To Measure It appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Scaled AI Content Often Fails & Google’s Crawl Economics Explain Why via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRWMass programmatic AI content breaks Google's crawl ecosystem and indexing thresholds in ways most teams never anticipate until rankings collapse. The post Scaled AI Content Often Fails & Google’s Crawl Economics Explain Why appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Surviving The Impression Squeeze: How Agentic Commerce Is Changing Google Ads In 2026 via @sejournal, @siliconvallaeysThe shortlist economy is here: AI agents hand buyers three to five options. Here's how to make sure you're on it. The post Surviving The Impression Squeeze: How Agentic Commerce Is Changing Google Ads In 2026 appeared first on Search…
Google’s Marvin Clarifies AI Search and Qualified Future Conversions via @sejournal, @brookeosmundsonGoogle's Ginny Marvin explains AI Search eligibility, Qualified Future Conversions, and Creator Partnerships, adding context to key Google Marketing Live announcements. The post Google’s Marvin Clarifies AI Search and Qualified Future Conversions appeared first on Search Engine Journal.