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As LLMs continue to grow, optimizing brand visibility in AI-generated responses is becoming increasingly important. Consumers are turning to these models for answers, recommendations, recipes, vacations, and nearly everything else imaginable.
But what happens if your brand isn’t included in those responses? Can you influence the outcome? And what are some proven ways to improve your brand’s inclusion and visibility?
That’s where structured experimentation comes in. Prompt-level SEO requires more than assumptions or one-off wins. It requires repeatable testing frameworks that help isolate what actually influences LLM responses.
Build prompt-level SEO tests with a hypothesis framework
There are countless recommendations on how to improve your LLM presence. Experimentation is key to discovering what works for your industry and brand.
Hypothesis-driven testing is the way we structure these tests for our brands. It breaks things down in a structured way that can be replicated across tests and situations.
This framework creates a common approach to testing and helps you quickly understand the test and its outputs. The structure consists of three main pieces: if, then, because.
If: This part provides the hypothesis: what is the test action?
“If we include more detailed product specifications in our content.”
Then: What will happen once the “if” section is completed? The outcome.
“Then we’ll see our brand get included in more product-specific prompts.”
Because: This is why you believe this will occur. What is the theory behind this test?
“Because LLMs value detailed and specific information in their prompt responses.”
This framework requires some basic fundamentals that ensure you’re thinking through the test. It also allows you to go back later and validate whether you have tested these specific elements in the past and what the premises, theories, and outcomes were.
This helps because, as things change, the test elements may still be valid simply because the world shifts — changing the “because” section.
Key considerations before running prompt-level SEO tests
Before we get to the recommendations for testing best practices, here are some considerations when running these tests:
Model updates: These models are updated constantly. As some models move from 4.1 to 4.2, it’s time to revisit those results. How did the model change the inputs and outputs?
Prompt drift: Have you ever run the exact same prompt twice in a day or on consecutive days? Often, the results change. Therefore, running the prompt more than once and on consecutive days to evaluate the outcome is important to get a true baseline. This is no different from personalized search results. Brands get comfortable with the variance, but some averages surface and become the benchmark. Prompt testing works much the same way.
Now that you have the framework of the test, let’s think about the core elements of tests that can be used in prompt-specific testing.
How to isolate variables: A methodological approach
Designing a reliable prompt-level SEO experiment requires isolating a single causal variable. This is crucial for confidently attributing changes in LLM response inclusion or position to a specific action.
1. Content changes
When testing content modifications, the variable must be surgical. A common pitfall is changing too much at once (e.g., updating a product description and the page’s schema).
Best practice — The single-paragraph swap: Focus on modifying a single, targeted piece of text on the page, such as a product description, FAQ answer, or a specific feature bullet point.
Methodology: For true isolation, implement A/B testing with a control page containing the original content and a test page containing the modified content. The prompt should be designed to target the specific information you changed. Measure the brand’s inclusion rate and position-in-response over a defined period (e.g., seven days – keep in mind these models are moving at a variety of speeds. This work, much like SEO, isn’t a microwave, but more like an oven).
2. Structured data
Structured data (schema) provides explicit signals to both search engines and LLM ingestion layers. Testing this requires treating the schema update as the only change to the page.
Variable isolation: Test adding new properties (e.g., brand, model, and offer details) without altering the visible HTML text. This isolates the impact of the machine-readable layer.
Specific experiment — FAQ schema: A highly effective experiment is adding FAQ schema to pages that already have Q&A sections in their HTML, isolating the effect of the explicit schema markup on LLM ingestion. Our work with brands has demonstrated that adding FAQ schema to pages with Q&A sections makes those sections easier for LLMs to ingest.
3. Before-and-after prompt testing
This process involves establishing a stringent baseline, making the change, and then repeating the prompt query. This is an essential control method in lieu of true A/B testing on the LLM itself.
Protocol
Phase 1 (baseline): Execute a set of 5-10 target prompts daily for seven consecutive days to establish a true average of inclusion and position-in-response, accounting for prompt drift.
Action: Deploy the isolated change (e.g., content or schema update).
Phase 2 (measurement): Re-run the exact same set of prompts daily for the next seven days.
Analysis: Compare the average inclusion rate and position of Phase 1 versus Phase 2. This method is central to initial presence score analyses, such as using three buckets of 25 keywords and prompts for a total of 75 queries.
With the speed of model evolution and the lack of detailed model insights, it’s difficult to ensure reproducibility of results. However, the goal is to move beyond simple “it worked once” findings to build a durable methodology.
Mandatory frameworks
Ensure every test is documented using the “if, then, because” hypothesis structure. This archives the premise, action, and expected outcome, allowing future teams to quickly validate whether a test remains relevant as LLMs evolve.
Technical integrity
Version control: Document the specific model and version used for testing (e.g., “Gemini 4.1.2”). This allows for easy comparison when a model update occurs.
Prompt libraries: Maintain an organized, time-stamped repository of the exact prompt queries used for baseline and measurement phases. This repository should track inclusion rate, position-in-response, and sentiment/framing for each query.
Infrastructure consistency
Define the testing environment (e.g., clear browser cache, no login state) and, where possible, use APIs or synthetic testing platforms to remove the impact of personalization and location bias, which is analogous to controlling for personalized search results in traditional SEO.
The key to prompt-level SEO is rigorous methodology. By adopting a hypothesis-driven approach, surgically isolating variables (content, entities, schema), and establishing strict before-and-after testing protocols, you can confidently move past speculation.
The path to influencing LLM responses is paved with controlled, documented, and reproducible experiments.
For the best part of two decades, we had a clear and accepted mandate: Get your brand to the top of the search results page. The problem was understood, the success metrics were agreed upon, and a supporting ensemble of tools, talent, and tactics was built around solving it.
Rankings were the scoreboard. Position 1 meant visibility. Traffic followed, and a brand’s value seemed to follow it.
It’s this core premise that is now under serious renegotiation with the search landscape changing more in the past 18 months than in the previous 10 years combined:
AI Overviews are absorbing queries that previously generated clicks.
AI/LLM platforms are becoming the first stop for research and decision-making.
Zero-click is no longer a niche concern. It’s increasingly becoming the default.
What’s required now isn’t a new set of tactics. It’s a fundamental change in mindset. This is the SEO problem of 2026. Let me show you why recognition is your new goal and how to earn it.
The world changed faster than we did
SEO has always been a discipline that chases the algorithm.
We reverse-engineered signals, built strategies around them, and then scrambled to adapt when they shifted. Yes, there has always been the argument that if you cater your content to humans, you typically perform well.
That said, there have been obvious shifts in the types of content that resonate with the algorithm and those that don’t, dictated by changes to the Google algorithm at specific times.
It was never a perfect or complete system; anyone who worked through (or has since learned about) the Panda and Penguin years will tell you the algorithm was always a shifting target. But the fundamentals remained stable. Aim to rank well, get found, win.
The shift we’re living through now isn’t a Google core update. Instead, we’re experiencing a structural change in how information is surfaced, interacted with, and ultimately trusted.
AI has fundamentally transformed what searchers see
There’s a mental model baked into traditional SEO: If you’re at the top of the SERP, you’re visible. That model was accurate for a long time. But it isn’t now.
AI and LLM platforms — whether Google’s own generative features or external tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Claude — don’t crawl the SERP and pick from the top results. They build understanding from training data, citation patterns, entity relationships in knowledge graphs, and signals about who is genuinely considered authoritative on a given topic.
A high-ranking page can be largely invisible to these systems if the brand behind it hasn’t established recognition and preference (a.k.a., the quality of being known, cited, and trusted beyond its own domain).
If your instinct is to treat it like another algorithm update, to find the new signals, maybe even game the new system, you are missing how dramatically the search landscape has shifted.
Think about it this way:
A brand can rank No. 1 for vital trophy keywords.
Their domain authority is strong.
Their technical SEO is clean, meeting best practices.
Their content team publishes weekly.
Their link profile is healthy.
By every traditional metric, this brand would be seen as winning. And yet, when their potential customers ask an AI or LLM platform which brand solutions to consider in their category, this brand doesn’t come up.
When Google’s AI Overview summarizes the landscape, it cites three competitors. When a journalist writes a roundup and asks an LLM to help research it, this brand is invisible.
They rank. Yet it’s as if they don’t exist — because ranking well doesn’t solve for recognition.
Even if the dashboards still report rankings and the tools still track positions one through ten, optimizing for a metric that’s losing its meaning is no longer a viable strategy.
User behavior is also changing
A growing share of search journeys now end before a user ever clicks a result, because they get the information they need without having to click through.
AI Overviews takes the majority of the headlines for this, but there has also been a huge shift in the SERP towards featured snippet expansions. This is further amplified by the adoption of LLM-powered assistants that surface direct answers outside the traditional search environment.
Meanwhile, queries are increasingly conversational, with more and more users asking AI tools questions the way they’d ask a knowledgeable colleague or trusted friend, and they’re expecting thorough, contextualized, and personalized answers rather than a list of blue links.
In this world, the question your SEO strategy needs to answer is no longer “how do I rank?”, it’s “Is my brand the preferred option in the conversation?”
And these are absolutely different questions that require different answers.
How AI ‘chooses’ brands to recognize
Think about how an AI model decides what to say when someone asks, “What’s the best CRM for a small B2B team?” It doesn’t run a Google search and summarize the top result. It draws on patterns it sees throughout the knowledge at its disposal:
Training data.
Industry publications.
Reviews.
Expert commentary.
Forum discussions.
Solution comparisons.
The brands that appear in that answer are the ones that have accumulated recognition across the broader landscape, not just the one that ranks.
This is becoming an invisible tax on brands that have focused exclusively on rankings. They may dominate the SERP today. But in the AI-mediated version of that same query, they’re absent.
“Recognition” doesn’t have to be a vague brand concept. It has specific, measurable components. Let’s break them down.
Brand awareness across the search universe
This is the most basic layer. Does your brand name appear, in context, across the search universe?
Not just on your own domain, but in industry publications, analyst reports, user reviews, forum discussions, podcast transcripts, and news coverage. You must also consider where audiences are spending time, because they are developing brand awareness on social-search destinations, too.
AI and LLM platforms are increasingly trained on and drawing from the wider internet when answering questions. Certain domains are massively outperforming others in terms of citations from these platforms, Semrush found.
If your brand is only present on your own website, you’re harder to find and aren’t in the platforms’ go-to sources.
Topical authority
This goes beyond keyword rankings. Topical authority means that when a given subject area comes up, your brand is consistently associated with it — not just by Google’s algorithms, but by writers, analysts, content creators, and communities.
It’s the difference between a site that covers a topic and a brand that owns the conversation in people’s minds who discuss it.
The signal here isn’t domain authority. It’s authority, trust, and relevance (a.k.a., preference). You are asking, “Does our brand appear alongside the recognized leaders in our space?” and “When people discuss an essential topic, are we in the conversation?”
This is the most technical layer and the one most often overlooked. An “entity” in SEO terms is a clearly defined, consistently described “thing.” This could be:
Your company.
Your product.
Key voice or person.
Key topic or conversation.
Put simply, it’s something that knowledge systems can reliably identify and categorize.
If your brand’s description varies across your site, your Wikipedia page (if you have one), your Google Business Profile, your Crunchbase entry, and your LinkedIn page, you create ambiguity for every system.
This is as confusing for your human audience as it is for the AI/LLM layer trying to understand who you are and what you do.
Entity clarity means having a canonical, consistent answer to the questions:
What is this company?
What does it do?
Who does it serve?
How is it different?
Brands with strong entity clarity get pulled into knowledge graphs. They get cited. They get recognized.
6 things to get you started on the path to recognition
True recognition cannot be built overnight. Instead, your focus is on engineering discovery that develops recognition over time. With that in mind, here are six ways to begin the process:
1. Audit your entity presence
Go and look at how your brand is described in the places that matter:
Google’s Knowledge Panel.
Wikipedia (if applicable).
Wikidata.
Social media conversations.
Key person/business LinkedIn profiles.
Your own “About” page.
You should be asking if the messaging here is consistent. If your homepage describes you as “an AI-powered B2B sales platform” while the content you discuss and share on your YouTube says “CRM software for startups,” you have an entity problem.
2. Fix the inconsistencies
Write a canonical description of your company — one clear, accurate, jargon-free paragraph — and work to get it reflected everywhere. Then mold the content format to the needs of the various platforms you want to show up on.
Alongside this, decide which conversations are most important to your brand and consistently look to own these topics. This is part engineering discovery, but it’s also developing your entity and the topics that contribute to that.
There’s a difference between content that ranks on a SERP and content that gets cited.
Ranking content is optimized around keywords, and too often, content has become homogenized in trying to meet the expectations of an algorithm so that you can rank.
Citable content, on the other hand, is original, specific, and useful enough that other people (and AI/LLM platforms) want to reference it. Citable content is strong enough that your audience feels like they miss an integral part of a conversation by not featuring or citing the asset or source.
Think original research and surveys, clear and ownable frameworks or methodologies, definitions that don’t yet exist clearly in your space, and data that journalists, analysts, creators, and bloggers actually want to quote or build upon.
If the only content on your site are search-optimized blog posts, ask yourself:
Is there anything here that a writer at a key niche publication or a researcher at a relevant public body would want to cite?
Is there anything that a content creator would want to build upon or explore further?
If the answer is no, that’s the gap to close.
4. Build off-site recognition deliberately
This isn’t about traditional link building. It’s about building presence in the right conversations, be that industry publications, podcasts, analyst briefings, conference talks, social content, or community forums.
Every time your brand name appears in a meaningful context outside your own domain, you’re building the recognition signal that AI and LLMs draw on and that resonates with humans in the journey.
Prioritize quality of context over volume. A single, substantive mention in a respected publication is worth more than fifty low-quality directory listings.
5. Optimize for clarity and intent
A keyword is a moment. Intent is a journey. Traditional SEO has trained us to think in snapshots: a user types a query, we rank for it, we win.
But a real buying journey in 2026 looks nothing like that. It might start with a conversational AI query, move through a Reddit thread, surface a YouTube comparison, hit a review platform, and only then arrive at a branded search. The keyword at any single point is almost beside the point.
What matters is whether your brand shows up meaningfully across the full arc of that journey — not just at the moment someone is ready to convert.
Start by mapping intent honestly.
What is someone actually trying to understand when they enter your space?
What does the journey from problem-aware to solution-decided look like for your customer?
Then audit where your brand is present, absent, or ambiguous across it.
The second part is clarity. As search becomes more conversational and AI-mediated, the brands that get surfaced are those that clearly communicate what they do, who they serve, and why they’re the right choice — consistently across every touchpoint.
Vague positioning might survive a keyword-match algorithm. It won’t survive a language model deciding whether your brand is the right answer to a specific human question.
Be specific and consistent. Make sure your description holds up whether someone finds you on your own site, in a third-party review, or in an AI-generated summary.
Your current reporting probably tracks keyword rankings, organic traffic, and backlinks. I would argue that this should continue, but there should be a shift in the importance of these metrics versus the following signal:
[Brand] search volume: Are more people searching directly for you?
[Brand] + [Intent or Keyword]: Are more people associating you with specific topics?
Unlinked mentions: Is your brand name appearing in content that doesn’t link to you?
You can then use the following alongside these and begin to further understand if your brand is being recognized:
Increase in referral traffic.
Increase in direct traffic.
Increase in quality of traffic (measured in longer sessions, per user increase in pages viewed, purchases earlier in the journey).
This will then allow you to look towards the most important SEO metric there should ever be: revenue. Especially if you can assess and report on the development of average order value (AOV) and lifetime value (LTV) or the specific values of the pages that have seen higher traffic because of an increase in unlinked mentions and/or brand searches.
When you begin to think about these considerations, the most important shift isn’t adding new metrics to your dashboard. It’s changing what you treat as the primary signal.
Branded search volume, specifically branded search paired with intent, is one of the clearest indicators of genuine preference in the user journey and also the competitive landscape.
Someone searching for you by name, combined with a buying signal, isn’t discovering you. They’ve already decided you’re worth considering. That’s recognition doing its job.
The goal is to grow that signal deliberately, and then make sure that when someone arrives with that intent, you meet it head on.
A branded intent search that lands on a generic homepage is a wasted moment. These users are telling you exactly what they need. Your job as an SEO in 2026 is to have already built the page, the answer, the experience that closes the gap.
The supporting metrics — unlinked mentions, referral traffic, direct traffic, AOV, LTV — all tell you whether recognition is compounding into something commercially meaningful.
And that’s ultimately the conversation that needs to happen in every boardroom and strategy session: Recognition isn’t a brand vanity play, it’s a revenue strategy.
Rankings as the primary focus have gotten us so far. Recognition, with a view and monitoring mindset on the signals identified here, is what takes us, the SEO’s role and importance to brands further than ever before.
Get ready for a longer game with a bigger potential to win
Here’s the uncomfortable truth about the recognition-first approach: It’s slower.
You can’t optimize your way to being well-known in the same way you can optimize your way to a ranking — and I think it’s what’s most intimidating to SEOs.
Recognition compounds over time, developed through consistent presence, genuine authoritativeness, relevance, and the slow accumulation of trustworthiness. But that’s also what makes it durable.
Rankings fluctuate with every algorithm update, and the value of a No. 1 ranking is seemingly shrinking with every update due to the continued and increasing number of SERP features and AI/LLM integrations into the SERP.
Recognition, though, once established, is much harder to displace. To own AI-mediated search in the coming years, spend this period building something that AI systems — and the increasing number of humans utilizing them — genuinely recognize as authoritative.
The No. 1 ranking is a vanity metric if it ends up below the fold, stuck under a SERP of AI/LLM integrations and SERP features — ultimately ensuring nobody knows who you are.
Start building recognition. Your appearance in those top-of-page SERP features and AI/LLM integrations will follow.
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Improving technical SEO on your site may not be enough to move the needle these days.
Once a site reaches technical parity with its competitors — the point at which a proper infrastructure no longer gives you an advantage — Google shifts its ranking criteria toward relevance. And relevance is determined by aligning with search intent.
Let’s talk about how to make your site more relevant.
Why an intent mismatch may be suppressing your site’s performance
An intent mismatch occurs when the copy on a page doesn’t match what the user is expecting to find on it. This happens when pages aren’t relevant to a topic or have mismatched signals.
This generates poor behavior signals — users click through from a SERP, see that the page doesn’t answer their need, and leave. Google interprets these signals as evidence that the page doesn’t satisfy the query.
This can lead to a decline in rankings, which means fewer users see the page, which means the behavioral signals worsen. It’s a feedback loop that technical SEO alone can’t resolve.
Technical SEO improvements may no longer make a difference
In the early stages of implementing an SEO strategy, the needle can move quickly. If a site is operating below the technical baseline needed for Google to properly evaluate it, applying simple fixes — such as fixed crawl errors, resolved duplicate content issues, improved page speed, and adding schema — can produce big gains.
However, after these changes, your site’s technical foundations are now comparable to those of your main competitors — you hit a ceiling. Now, Google isn’t ranking pages based on which ones it can access the easiest, but on those that best satisfy the user’s query.
Your technical infrastructure, or lack thereof, no longer disadvantages you, but now the rules of the ranking game have changed.
This is where intent alignment becomes the primary lever for improvement.
Signals that reinforce search intent
Elements that have an impact on a page’s intent, and how Google decides whether the intent matches the page, include:
Click-through rate.
Engagement signals.
Core Web Vitals.
Schema type.
Internal linking anchor texts.
URL structure.
Click-through rate (CTR)
Click-through rate can be determined by your title tag, meta description, URL structure, and schema. It is also measured against intent.
For example, if your title tag is optimized for a keyword but doesn’t match the user’s query, your CTR will drop. Google treats a low CTR as a relevance signal and adjusts rankings accordingly.
Engagement rate
Time-on-page, scroll depth, and interaction rates can suffer when intent doesn’t align with a page.
If a user is searching to purchase something but lands on a how-to guide, they may exit that page within seconds. The same can be said of a user looking for an emergency plumber who lands on a page without a phone number.
Engagement signals feed directly into how Google evaluates a page’s usefulness for a given query.
Core Web Vitals (CWV)
The three Core Web Vitals — Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Interaction to Next Paint (INP), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) — determine page loading speed.
A transactional page that loads slowly suffers more than a slow-loading informational article. With the transactional page, the user is ready to buy and their patience is minimal, whereas a reader in research mode can tolerate a longer wait.
CWV thresholds matter everywhere, but their impact on conversion and bounce behavior is greater on high-intent pages.
Schema type
Schema markup tells Google explicitly what type of content is on a page. Generally:
Article/HowTo is informational.
Product is transactional.
FAQ is informational and commercial.
Local business/event is navigational.
When schema type contradicts the content on a page, Google gets a conflicting signal, resulting in a traffic drop.
Internal linking anchor texts
The anchor text of internal links tells Google about the page that’s being linked to, including its intent.
If a transactional landing page receives internal links with informational anchor text — “learn more about X,” rather than “get a quote for X” or “buy X” — the intent signal Google receives about that page’s purpose gets diluted.
URL structure
Google uses URL patterns to infer page type.
For example, URLs sitting under /blog/ are treated with informational bias. A product or service page buried under a blog path fights against that structural expectation, regardless of its content, and it may not rank well.
Cannibalization and canonicalization
If your site has multiple pages targeting the same keyword but with different intents, neither is likely to rank well. They compete against each other and dilute the signal Google receives.
To fix, use canonical tags to clearly signal which page is the preferred one for a given keyword, consolidate or redirect competing pages where appropriate, and ensure your internal linking reinforces the canonical choice.
Here’s an example of a common intent mismatch and some steps to audit your content and fix it.
What an intent mismatch looks like
For example, if a user searches for “financial analysis software,” they’re looking to buy software. The keyword phrase is highly transactional.
But if your site targets this keyword phrase for an informational blog post that explains how a person can complete a financial analysis report themselves, this creates a mismatch.
The user is looking for a product that does the analysis for them, which means they want to compare features, understand pricing, see integrations, or book a demo.
The keyword phrase should be applied to a dedicated product or landing page that clearly outlines functionality, benefits, use cases, and pricing. This would align more with the user’s needs, resulting in more inquiries, leads, and conversions.
Identify the intent of your pages
To fix intent mismatches, to start, compile a list of the top performing keywords that best describe your business and manually check the Google rankings for each.
This initial research will tell you exactly what type of page and copy you should have for these keywords. For example:
Knowledge panels, AI Overviews, and People Also Ask boxes usually appear for informational searches.
Paid results usually suggest commercial intent.
Shopping feeds suggest a transactional keyword.
Next, add the keywords to a spreadsheet and add a column for intent. Work down the list, adding whether you think the page is informational, commercial, transactional, or navigational.
You can then create another column that states the type of page that will rank well:
Informational: Blog or resource content.
Commercial: Service or landing pages.
Transactional: Collection, category, or product pages.
Navigational: Brand, specific service, or specific location pages.
See what your competitors are doing
Research your competitors’ pages for the keywords you’re targeting. Analyze and note what they have that your pages don’t have.
They may have:
Tables.
Comparisons.
Calculators.
Tools.
FAQs.
Reviews.
Step-by-steps.
Images.
Videos.
And more.
Consider how to improve your own pages to match theirs.
Measure your page’s performance based on intent metrics
Once you’ve made changes to your pages, track their performance to see whether they helped. Look at:
Clicks and impressions for intent-aligned keywords.
Rankings for core target queries.
Time on page.
Conversion rates, particularly those of previously underperforming pages.
Technical SEO still plays a decisive role
Technical SEO is still important, especially for complex, enterprise-scale sites. Here are some ways that technical SEO work can still move the needle significantly, in ways that content optimization alone can’t.
Crawl budget management
An ecommerce site with thousands of URLs can have its crawl budget consumed by low-value pages before its allotment reaches high-intent category and product pages that you want to rank.
Cleaning up low-value pages is purely technical work and will ensure your crawl budget goes toward pages that count.
International site architecture
Technical SEO is crucial when handling international sites that contain pages in multiple languages.
A keyword that’s purely informational in one market may be transactional in another, reflecting different buyer behaviors and levels of market maturity. Hreflang implementation, regional subdomain or subdirectory structures, and URL strategies all affect whether the right page, with the right intent, reaches the right audience.
Log file analysis
A log file analysis will reveal which pages Google is successfully crawling and how frequently they are. For sites with intent alignment problems, Google often spends a disproportionate amount of attention crawling low-value or misaligned pages, while high-intent pages are visited infrequently.
For small sites with a clean structure and limited number of URLs, technical SEO can reach parity quickly, so the need to shift to intent alignment happens sooner. For large, complex sites, technical and intent work often need to happen in parallel.
Technical SEO is still important today — think of it as a foundation that the rest of the site sits on. Pages that can’t be crawled, indexed, or rendered correctly will be unable to rank, regardless of how well their content matches user intent.
Think of intent alignment as the ceiling — it’s what determines how high a technically sound page can rank, and whether it converts the traffic it earns.
Every page on a site should have a clearly defined intent, expressed in the right format, with the right content type. And they should also be supported by technical signals, be it schema, URL structure, relevant anchor text, etc., so that the page’s intent is constantly reinforced.
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What’s happening. According to Microsoft’s product liaison Navah Hopkins, advertisers can now build custom metrics using the full range of conversion data available in the platform.
This includes both all conversions and primary conversions, allowing marketers to align reporting more closely with their specific goals.
Why we care. Standard reporting often doesn’t reflect how businesses actually measure success. By expanding custom columns, Microsoft is enabling advertisers to create metrics that better reflect their own performance definitions — whether that’s based on lead quality, revenue or blended conversion actions.
This is especially useful for advertisers managing multiple conversion types or complex funnels.
More control over performance metrics. Advertisers can now create custom columns using ratios and combinations of metrics that matter most to them — such as cost per qualified lead, blended CPA or conversion rate based on primary goals.
Revenue and ROAS calculations will also reflect the values set at the conversion goal level, giving more accurate insights tied to business outcomes.
Between the lines. This update signals a shift toward more flexible, advertiser-defined measurement — rather than relying solely on platform-standard metrics.
It also reflects ongoing demand for better reporting customisation as campaigns become more automated and complex.
What to watch:
How advertisers use custom metrics to guide optimisation decisions
Whether this leads to more consistent reporting across teams and stakeholders
If similar flexibility expands across other areas of the platform
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When Valve launched the Steam Controller, the new gaming peripheral expectedly sold out within the first day of sales. Valve then promised stock was coming soon, stating that the demand for the controller was unexpected. Now, the gaming giant has confirmed that changes are coming to the Steam Controller ordering process in order to mitigate the high demand and limited supply. Starting on May 8 at 10:00 Pacific time (17:00 UTC), Valve will allow users to place a reservation for the Steam Controller on the usual store page, which will allow prospective buyers to reserve a spot in the queue. When the controller is back in stock, Valve will automatically place orders for reservation holders in the order they placed their reservations, and buyers will have 72 hours from the time they receive that order email to finalize their purchase through Steam.
Notably, Valve is restricting reservations to one controller per account, and those who have already purchased a Steam Controller will not be able to place reservations until further notice. It's also worth pointing out that Valve has added additional account conditions in order to prevent scalping. Steam accounts seeking to place a reservation will need to be in good standing and have made a purchase before April 27, 2026. Valve also confirmed that the US, Canada, the UK, EU, and Australia will be getting Steam Controller restocks next week—meaning May 11.
Keychron has been busy updating its mechanical keyboard line-up over the last few months switching to hyperefficient firmware and its updated Silk POM mechanical switches. Now, the Keychron Q11 gets the same treatment, with the Q11 Ultra being a much bigger improvement over the original Q11 than the other keyboards Keychron has recently updated. The reason for this is that Keychron's only split keyboard was the Q11, with no Max or Pro variants to add wireless connectivity into the mix. This time, though Keychron has gone one step further with the Q11 Ultra, not only eliminating the USB-C cable to the PC, but also making the two halves of the split keyboard communicate wirelessly as well. Keychron claims that the dual batteries in the Q11 Ultra are capable of delivering 300 hours on a single charge, and the keyboard connects via Bluetooth, 2.4 GHz, or via the USB-C cable on the left half. With 2.4 GHz and the wired connection, the polling rate can go as high as 8 kHz, even though that's hardly necessary for a mechanical switch. The Q11 Ultra is available for $239.99 from Keychron's online store.
The Q11 Ultra is a 75% split keyboard, meaning the keyboard splits in half for ergonomic purposes, although it still maintains the row staggered layout, so it should feel familiar for most users coming from a regular mechanical gaming keyboard. Despite the 75% layout, the Q11 Ultra has an additional five-key macro column on the left edge of the left side of the keyboard, and there are two programmable knobs—one on each half of the keyboard. The keyboard cases are constructed from CNC aluminium with an integrated top plate, and the keyboard uses double-shot PBT keycaps in Keychron's KSA profile. The Q11 Ultra is only available in black with blue accent keycaps, and it seems to miss out on the decorative bottom panel found on the likes of the Keychron Q1 Ultra. It comes with a choice of Keychron Silk POM Red (linear), Brown (tactile), and Banana (sharp tactile) switches, but the PCB is hot-swap compatible, so you can bring your own switches and keycaps if you don't like the stock experience. The Q11 Ultra has south-facing per-key RGB backlighting, which, along with the layout, is fully programmable in Keychron Launcher.
The Pixel 11 lineup is expected to launch later this year with Google’s Tensor G6, and if you thought that the company is shifting to an alternative like a flagship Snapdragon or MediaTek SoC to gain an upper hand against the competition, you assumed incorrectly. The Mountain View firm is sticking to its Tensor SoCs with the Pixel 12 family next year, with fresh details of the silicon showcased in the latest leak. Tensor G7 is being developed for Google’s Pixel 12, with a new leak revealing its codename to be Lajolla or LaJolla From the looks of it, Google […]
Today, French publisher Nacon finally hosted its Nacon Connect 2026 showcase event after it was postponed from its original date in March 2026. If you don't recall, it was postponed because Nacon filed for insolvency days after announcing the event, after its majority investor, Big Ben Interactive, failed to close its refinancing deal. Since then, Nacon has done its best to portray strength within its portfolio and for the future, claiming that "this is not the end," though that became increasingly difficult to believe as four of its subsidiary studios filed for insolvency, one of which shut down just last […]
Amidst a period of upheaval for the publisher, Nacon debuted its Nacon Connect 2026 showcase today, which included reveals of previously released titles coming to new platforms, new accessories from Nacon, and the reveal of new games, including Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Rageborn. Developed by Nacon's Montreal-based studio, Crea-ture, the studio behind the skateboarding simulator Session, this top-down action adventure set to arrive sometime in 2027 sees players swap between three forms: human, wolf, and werewolf. Rageborn will feature what Crea-ture president and creative director Lous Lamarche describes as more of a "Metroidvania" structure with its approach, in part because […]
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Ivanti is warning that a new security flaw impacting Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) has been explored in limited attacks in the wild.
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It allows "a remotely authenticated user with administrative access to achieve remote code
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An unknown group of hackers is breaking into systems previously breached by the cybercrime group TeamPCP. Once inside, the hackers immediately kick out TeamPCP and remove its hacking tools from the victims’ systems.
Melinda Lewison's departure raises questions about Bezos' support and involvement with the startup at a time when the Amazon founder is now apparently focused on robotics at his new startup, Project Prometheus.
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Advertisers are starting to push back on gaps in AI Max capabilities — particularly around landing page control — as Google continues its shift away from legacy Dynamic Search Ads (DSA).
What’s happening. In a LinkedIn exchange, digital marketing expert Gabriele Benedetti raised concerns about AI Max lacking the same level of URL-based targeting controls that DSA campaigns offered.
His point: DSA allowed advertisers to structure campaigns around website architecture — using categories, URL paths and page rules to guide where traffic lands. That level of control, he argued, is not yet fully replicated in AI Max.
Why we care. For many advertisers — especially those managing large or structured websites — aligning campaign structure with site architecture is key to performance. Losing granular control over landing destinations could impact relevance, user experience and ultimately conversion rates.
This highlights a broader tension in Google Ads today: automation vs control.
Google responds. Google Ads Liaison, Ginny Marvin responded, clarifying that AI Max does support several URL-based controls, including:
URL rules and combinations
Page feeds with custom labels
URL inclusions at ad group level and exclusions at campaign level
However, she acknowledged that not all DSA targeting rules are currently supported — such as “page contains” conditions.
Between the lines. Google is not removing control entirely — but it is reshaping how that control works. Instead of granular rule-building, advertisers are being pushed toward structured inputs like page feeds and labels that AI can interpret.
Migration reality check. For advertisers moving from DSA to AI Max, existing URL rules will carry over — but with limitations. Unsupported rules will remain active as read-only, meaning they’ll continue to function but cannot be edited.
That’s a temporary bridge, not a long-term solution.
What’s next. Google says it plans to expand controls further, including bringing content and title-based exclusions to the account level later this year.
This would complement AI Max’s existing “inventory-aware” features, which already exclude out-of-stock items automatically.
Bottom line. AI Max is evolving, but it’s not yet a full replacement for DSA when it comes to granular control — and advertisers are making that clear.
Xbox’s latest achievement update is now rolling out to players, bringing refreshed unlock animations, customizable visuals, hidden games support, and improved profile tracking for completed games.
It's Schrödinger's Xbox. Simultaneously dead, and simultaneously feeling more alive than ever. Despite mainstream negative sentiment towards Xbox and Microsoft in general, I've never been happier to be a gamer in this ecosystem. On paper, everything is better than ever, but fears for Xbox's long term viability as an ecosystem are clouding everything.
NuPhy's Berry profile is a low-profile keycap profile that mimics the popular Cherry profile that has become popular with mechanical keyboard enthusiasts and gamers alike, and NuPhy has just announced a new keycap set in its Berry keycap line-up. The new Berry profile Alchemical Manual keycap set is the seventh official Berry profile to launch out of NuPhy (the others being Beat Boy, Godzilla, Trackday, Obivion, BoW/WoB, and Peach Blossom), and it's by far the set with the most unorthodox design. The Alchemical Manuscripts Berry profile keycap set is available on the NuPhy online store for $59.95 for the whole 124-key set, which is compatible with keyboards anywhere from 60% to 100%. The set doesn't include an ISO enter key, however, so those outside the US may want to double-check compatibility.
The keycaps themselves are made from PBT with dye-sublimated legends, meaning that the legend and keycap texture should last a good long while, and the aesthetics of the set are based on a handwritten font style, "inspired by classical alchemy, occult symbols, and ancient manuscript diagrams," with an off-white color for the majority of the keycaps and earthy green, red, blue, orange, and brown accent and modifier keycaps. The set also includes a handful of alternative colors for certain keycaps as well as keycaps with rounded bottom corners for keyboards like the Node series. The keycaps are low-profile with an MX stem, so they will be compatible with both Gateron and Kailh Choc V2 low-profile switch standards, as long as the key spacing follows the MX standard and not Choc spacing.
The South Korean technology giant said it will make every effort to minimize the impact for existing customers, and is reviewing its support infrastructure for business partners. The decision won't affect Samsung's other divisions in the region, meaning they will continue to sell products such as smartphones and tablets as...
Revealed during the Nacon Connect 2026 showcase event, Cyanide Studios' next game following Styx: Blades of Greed, which released earlier this year. This time, Cyanide is once again bringing a classic character back into the spotlight, but this character is much more well-known than a sneaking goblin. Dracula: The Disciple is Cyanide's next game, and it delivers its own take on the gothic story, as this first-person puzzle game sees you slowly turn into the famous creature of the night. You play as Émile Valombres, a French archivist suffering from an incurable disease that he is desperate to rid himself […]
Valve's launch of its new Steam Controller (2026) went great for the company, in the sense that Valve sold a lot of controllers. The entire run of stock that Valve had set aside for launch completely sold out within half an hour, and while many players were able to grab a controller, plenty more were unable to, unless they paid double the price for one on eBay, as scalpers quickly threw listings online with massively marked-up prices. Thankfully, Valve is looking to combat that outcome with some changes to its process. Beginning tomorrow on May 8, 2026, at 10am PT […]
Cold Iron Studios released the first Aliens: Fireteam Elite game back in 2021 to a middling response. Most critics (Wccftech's Kai Tatsumoto included) agreed that it was an alright game overall but missed the mark in several ways. Three years later in July 2024, a major leak practically confirms that Cold Iron was getting another kick at the can with a sequel. Now, nearly two years after that, we finally get a look at Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, and it'll be in players' hands sooner than later with its arrival set for Summer 2026. Announced with a brief post on […]
Windows 11 will soon see boosted performance through a new feature that Microsoft is working on, called Low Latency Profile. Maxing Out CPU Clocks For Short Duration Could Help Speed Up Windows 11 Apps & UI Microsoft is actively working towards refining the user experience within its Windows 11 operating system. There have been talks about some major changes underway, which will help reduce bloat, cut back AI features, and also improve gaming performance. These changes are part of the "K2" project. While Microsoft hasn't shared any specific plans or timelines on when these improvements would roll out to end […]
The Trump administration is in early discussions about an executive order that would create a government review process for AI models before public release.
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Google is dropping the back button trigger for AdSense vignette ads on June 15, 2026 due to the new Google search penalty for back button hijacking. Google wrote, “Starting June 15, 2026, the browser back button will no longer trigger a vignette ad.”
What is changing. Google explained that the back button trigger will no longer work after June 15th. The “change will apply automatically for all publishers who have opted in to “Allow additional triggers for vignette ads” and will take effect across all supported browsers (including Chrome, Edge, and Opera).” Google added.
A Google spokesperson told me these same updates will apply to Ad Manager as well.
Why the change. Google explained that the Google Search team “recently introduced a new policy against “back button hijacking” — a practice where websites or scripts interfere with a user’s ability to navigate back to their previous page. To ensure our publishers remain compliant with these latest user experience and search quality guidelines, we are removing the trigger that shows a vignette ad when the user navigates backward from the suite of vignette ad triggers.”
This comes after the search community called this out to Google and Google is making the right change here. Of course, some publishers will not be happy because that trigger may have earned them a lot of money.
Why we care. If you currently have the allow additional triggers for vignette ads setting on with AdSense, keep in mind, one of the triggers, the back button trigger, will be disabled on June 15th. It may impact your earnings, but it will ensure that your site does not get penalized by the back button hijacking penalty.
PC motherboard sales are on track for some of the biggest corrections in recent times as manufacturers struggle with weak demand, according to a DigiTimes report. What began as AI data center expansion quickly started affecting consumer PC DIY endeavors, as severe silicon shortages across the industry drove DRAM and CPU demand so high that prices have increased significantly for DDR4 and DDR5 memory kits, while regular CPUs have also seen a large price increase. In response, PC motherboard makers are caught in the middle of this shortage, seeing their motherboard unit sales revised down significantly. The report notes that all Taiwanese motherboard makers have significantly lowered their 2026 shipment targets, with some experiencing more than a 25% decrease in projected unit sales.
Interestingly, it's not only CPU and memory shortages driving this lowered demand; there are indications that consumers have slowed down their NVIDIA GPU upgrade cycles, which is impacting new motherboard sales. Particularly with the "Blackwell" GPU generation, consumers began purchasing PCIe 5.0 motherboards to achieve the greatest performance increase. However, as these GPUs became rarer and more expensive due to the global DRAM shortage, consumers have become reluctant to upgrade. ASUS is projected to sell about 10 million motherboards in 2026, while MSI and GIGABYTE are now projecting sales of less than 10 million units each. This represents about a 25% yearly decrease from 2025 sales. The worst position is estimated for ASRock, which is expected to see a 30% decrease according to the report.
Synology today announced the launch of the RS6426xs+, RS4826xs+, and RS3626xs. These next-generation models deliver the performance and reliability required for enterprise backup, data management, and virtualization storage at scale.
"As IT environments continue to grow more complex, organizations' needs for reliable and versatile infrastructure that can be purposed dynamically continue to grow." said Peggy Weng, Product Manager at Synology. "These systems are designed to help businesses facilitate team collaboration and multi-site synchronization, protect production environment, or deploy virtualization storage for high performance workloads."
According to Windows Central, Microsoft is working on a new feature for Windows 11 called "Low Latency Profile," as part of the Windows K2 effort. This feature aims to make app launches noticeably faster by pushing the CPU core to its maximum boost frequency in very short bursts. Reportedly, this feature boosts the CPU to its maximum frequency for 1-3 seconds, resulting in noticeably smoother app launches during testing. When launching Microsoft applications like Edge and Outlook, known as "in-box" apps, the result is about a 40% faster application launch. Other applications, such as the Start Menu and context menus across the operating system, may be up to 70% faster. Overall, the Windows 11 operating system is expected to receive a significant performance boost, though at the cost of the CPU reaching its maximum frequency.
Currently, this feature within the Windows K2 effort is automatic, with no clear indication if it can be turned on or off. Running a CPU at its maximum frequency is somewhat unusual, as the purpose of an operating system is to minimize strain on the PC, leaving headroom for heavier applications to load. However, since the boost is only applied in short bursts of up to three seconds, it is expected that the performance benefits and overall smoothness will outweigh potential issues. These issues include elevated CPU frequency during lighter tasks and general OS usage, which could result in slightly higher temperatures overall. For laptop users, this might lead to faster battery drain, but it is likely that the Windows K2 effort will account for this, with minimal impact.
ASUS, global technology leader that provides the world's most innovative and intuitive devices, today announced their ASUS ExpertBook Ultra (B9406CAA), the new flagship and pinnacle of the ExpertBook portfolio, is now available for purchase on the ASUS Store. Engineered to define the future of mobile computing in the era of AI and designed for next-generation professionals and business leaders, the ExpertBook Ultra combines refined craftsmanship, powerful AI-accelerated performance, and enterprise-grade security in an ultralight form factor.
"As the most advanced ExpertBook to date, the ExpertBook Ultra is built to empower professionals who demand elegance without compromise," says Shawn Chang, General Manager, System Business Group, ASUS North America. "The device delivers mobility, intelligence, and reliability for modern, high-performance workflows."
The recently unveiled "wiz3D" project is designed to "resurrect" stereoscopic support in older games, allowing them to run with compatible goggles and other stereo display devices. The open-source tool acts as a stereoscopic 3D wrapper, injecting hooks into gaming APIs to generate real-time stereo 3D output on modern Windows systems....
The official announcement came on Wednesday via a dedicated Nintendo Direct livestream. Star Fox (2026) will launch on June 25 on the Switch 2, marking at least the fifth time the classic title has been remade or remastered by Nintendo over the past three decades.
In a series of health-focused announcements, Google has just rebranded the Fitbit app to Google Health, imbuing it with a dedicated AI health coach as well as the ability to work with any health tracker. The tech giant has also announced the $100 screenless Fitbit Air alongside a pricier special edition version. Google Health rebrand brings universal tracker compatibility and a dedicated AI health coach Google has just rebranded its Fitbit app to Google Health, replete with a more refined layout, customizable dashboards, and the ability to sync a variety of data, including health records. What's more, the new Google […]
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A Taiwanese company has announced its new PCIe AI accelerator card that can run 700B LLMs locally at just 240W, ending the need for large GPU clusters. Taiwanese Company Unveils Its PCIe AI Accelerator That Devalues Large-Scale AI Installations By Running 700B LLMs on A Single Card Skymizer, a Taiwan-based company specializing in AI software and hardware, has announced its brand new solution, the HTX301. The HTX301 is designed for On-Prem AI, offering a PCIe Add-in-Card design and offering large-scale levels of AI performance at sub-250W TDPs. Some of the highlights of the card include: The company says that the […]
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Google Ads introduces Journey-aware Bidding, Smart Bidding Exploration expansion, and new budget pacing updates for Search, Shopping, and Performance Max campaigns.
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Google is rolling out new AI-driven bidding and budgeting features across Search, Shopping and Performance Max — aimed at helping advertisers capture more demand without increasing manual effort.
What’s happening. Google is expanding its automation stack with updates like Journey-aware Bidding, Smart Bidding Exploration and demand-led budget pacing. Together, these changes are designed to help campaigns respond more dynamically to shifting consumer behaviour.
The focus: letting AI identify and act on opportunities advertisers may not see themselves.
Why we care. These updates aim to capture more conversions without increasing manual work, using AI to find new demand and optimise spend in real time. By improving how bids respond to full-funnel signals and how budgets adapt to peak demand, campaigns can become more efficient and less reliant on constant adjustments.
Ultimately, it’s about getting more value from the same budget while staying competitive in a fast-changing search landscape.
Smarter bidding gets more context. Journey-aware Bidding (beta) allows advertisers to feed more of the customer journey into optimisation, including non-biddable conversions. This gives Google AI a fuller picture of what leads to actual sales — not just initial actions like form fills.
At the same time, Smart Bidding Exploration is expanding beyond Search. Already delivering an average 27% increase in unique converting users, it will soon roll out to Performance Max and Shopping campaigns, helping advertisers tap into less obvious, incremental queries.
Budgets that follow demand. On the budgeting side, Google is building on its campaign total budgets feature, which allows advertisers to set spend across a defined period instead of relying on daily limits.
The next step is demand-led pacing — where AI automatically adjusts spend based on real-time demand, increasing budgets on high-opportunity days and pulling back during slower periods, without exceeding overall limits.
Advertisers using total budgets have already seen a reported 66% reduction in manual budget adjustments.
Why this is a big deal. Budget management has historically been one of the most manual parts of campaign optimisation. By automating pacing, Google is reducing the need for constant monitoring while aiming to improve efficiency.
What to watch:
How much control advertisers are willing to give up for automation
Whether incremental gains from exploration translate into profitable growth
How transparent these systems remain as they scale
JavaScript SEO should be a solved problem by now. It isn’t.
Ecommerce sites keep hitting the same crawling, rendering, and indexing issues they were five years ago, now stacked on top of headless builds, AI-powered recommendations, and frameworks that can hide critical content from Google.
These top ecommerce players have figured out how to ship fast, modern JavaScript without sacrificing organic visibility. Here are five lessons worth stealing.
1. Chewy uses JavaScript for UX
Chewy is one of the largest online retailers of pet food and supplies in the U.S. They use Next.js, a React framework for building websites with built-in support for server rendering, static generation, and full-stack development features.
Let’s look at a product page like the Benebone Wishbone Chew Toy.
Navigate to View Page Source and you’ll see the product title, description, pricing, reviews, Q&A, and breadcrumb navigation all present in the initial HTML. Googlebot can access it on the first pass, without waiting for rendering.
That’s important because if a web crawler like Googlebot encounters issues rendering your page, the important content can still be parsed on the first crawl. With the rise of AI chatbots, some of which still don’t render JavaScript, this has become even more important.
Not everything needs to be in the initial HTML, though. Without client-side JavaScript, the page would feel static and clunky.
Take the “Compare Similar Items” carousel. It’s loaded client-side, primarily there for shoppers. The internal links could offer some SEO benefit, but they’re not critical for indexing this page the way the title, description, and pricing are.
Chewy gets this balance right. The content that matters most for indexing is available on initial load. Client-side JavaScript enhances the experience rather than delivering the content that needs to be indexed.
Myprotein sells supplements, nutrition products, and some fitness apparel.
Their site is built on Astro, a content-first framework using Islands Architecture to ship zero JavaScript by default while supporting components from React, Vue, or Svelte.
Myprotein’s navigation is the part worth studying. It’s an important SEO area for ecommerce sites, and they get it right.
View the source on any Myprotein page and the navigation links (categories, dropdown items, and footer links) are all in the initial HTML response. Astro makes this possible through its island architecture.
The navigation ships as an interactive island, meaning Astro will hydrate it with JavaScript as soon as the browser is ready. But JavaScript makes the flyout menus interactive. It doesn’t create them.
These links are also proper <a> elements with href attributes, which is what crawlers like Googlebot need to discover and follow links. Avoid using JavaScript click handlers to simulate navigation, such as:
<div onclick="navigate(item.slug)">Clear Protein Drinks</div>
A crawler won’t follow that. Use a standard anchor element instead:
<a href="https://us.myprotein.com/c/nutrition/protein/clear-protein-drinks/">Clear Protein Drinks</a>
Not every site gets this right. When navigation depends entirely on client-side rendering, there’s a window where it’s invisible or empty.
Googlebot processes JavaScript in a separate rendering pass that can lag behind the initial crawl, which can mean delayed discovery of internal links critical for crawl efficiency and link equity distribution.
3. Harrods embeds structured data in the HTML
Harrods is a luxury department store selling fashion, beauty, and homeware.
Their site is built on Nuxt, a Vue framework for building websites with built-in routing, server rendering, and static generation, plus an opinionated project structure.
Their structured data is delivered in the initial HTML response. View the source on any product page and you’ll find structured data inside a <script type="application/ld+json"> element. The Product schema includes the product name, images, description, brand, and an Offer with price, currency, availability, and seller.
JSON-LD is the format Google recommends for structured data, and because it’s in the HTML response, Google can parse it on the first crawl pass without needing to render the page.
On JavaScript-powered sites, structured data can easily become a client-side dependency. If a framework fetches product data in the browser and generates JSON-LD from the response, that structured data only exists after JavaScript executes. The same is true for structured data injected through Google Tag Manager.
If markup is only added after the page loads, Google has to render the page to find it. Google has noted that dynamically generated Product markup can make Shopping crawls less frequent and less reliable, which matters when prices and availability change often.
By serving that structured data in the HTML directly, Harrods avoids this risk entirely.
4. Under Armour handles faceted navigation with JavaScript
Under Armour is a global sportswear brand selling athletic apparel, footwear, and accessories. Their site is built on Next.js, the same React framework Chewy uses.
A good place to see their JavaScript SEO in action is on category pages, where filters need to feel fast and interactive for shoppers, and be crawler-friendly.
Let’s look at the men’s shoes category page. When you apply a filter, say, selecting size 10, the product grid updates instantly without a full page reload. That’s client-side JavaScript updating the grid.
But the URL updates too. After selecting the filter, the URL becomes:
A shopper can copy that URL, send it to a friend, or bookmark it, and land right back on the same filtered view.
Notice what the URL isn’t:
Not a hash fragment (#size=10), which doesn’t get sent to the server and is ignored by Google.
Not a mess of bracketed query strings (?filters[0][size]=10).
Not a dynamic route artifact like /shoes/[category]/ leaking into the live URL.
It’s a clean, readable query string with named parameters.
Under Armour is using the Next.js router to update the URL as filters change. Under the hood, it wraps the browser’s History API and uses the pushState() method to update the address bar without a reload.
When someone visits that same URL directly, the page loads with the filter already applied.
5. Manors Golf loads third-party scripts
Manors Golf sells golf apparel. Their site runs on Hydrogen, Shopify’s React-based framework for headless storefronts.
Hydrogen defers its own application scripts automatically since they load as ES modules. However, third-party scripts are the developer’s responsibility. On an ecommerce site, that can be a long list: reviews, chat, personalization, pixels, recommendations, payment scripts.
That matters for SEO in two ways. Render-blocking scripts hurt Core Web Vitals, most directly Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). They also give Googlebot more work to render the page, so it may get processed less reliably.
An external script (<script src="...">) without async or defer blocks HTML parsing. Async fetches in the background and runs when ready. Defer waits until parsing finishes.
Manors loads external scripts from 12 third-party domains, including Klaviyo, TikTok, Microsoft Clarity, and Gorgias.
A look at the Elements panel shows them all loading with async:
By loading third-party scripts with async, Manors keeps them from blocking the initial render. That protects LCP and reduces the work Google’s Web Rendering Service (WRS) has to do.
The balance between interactivity and crawlability
The issue isn’t that you’re using JavaScript. It’s what you’re using it for.
Googlebot can process JavaScript, but it’s slower and less reliable than reading HTML. The more your core content, structure, and navigation depend on JavaScript, the more room there is for things to go wrong.
The sites in this article all use JavaScript to enhance the experience rather than deliver it. Do that, and you won’t have to choose between a good user experience and good SEO.
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Google first announced Project Mariner back in December 2024. An extension for an experimental build of Chrome, Mariner could execute multi-step commands to browse websites, use Google search, retrieve specified information, go shopping, and more. Google positioned the agent as assisting with tasks that are usually tedious for humans.
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SpaceXAI, the combined company formed after SpaceX absorbed xAI earlier this year, announced that Anthropic will use compute capacity from Colossus 1, the Memphis data center Musk has repeatedly described as one of the world's largest AI supercomputers. The site offers more than 300 megawatts of new capacity and over...
In terms of scope, Resident Evil Requiem is not much different from its predecessors, but it seems like CAPCOM had to rein in the game's ambition at some point during development. Besides scrapping a Chapter 2, the development team seems to have done away with plenty of other features and mechanics, including investigation mechanics and systems that suggest there would be more interplay between the Grace and Leon segments. As reported by Dusk Golem on X, dataminers recently took a good look at the game's files and have made some very interesting discoveries. Among the scrapped features discovered are: While […]
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Search visibility no longer starts and ends with rankings. AI-driven search has changed where discovery happens — across Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and beyond.
Generative engine optimization (GEO) is how brands adapt, shaping how they’re retrieved and represented inside those systems.
Traditional SEO metrics miss a growing share of that visibility. Pages are now summarized, excerpted, and cited in environments where clicks are optional, and attribution is fragmented. When an AI-generated summary appears, users click traditional search results far less often — in one analysis, just 8% of the time.
That creates a measurement gap. Assessing this gap is where GEO metrics come in.
What visibility means in generative search
GEO focuses on whether AI systems can find, understand, and select your content when generating answers. In generative search, visibility is more than about being indexed or ranked. Your content must be used — cited, summarized, or incorporated — into AI responses.
GEO builds on SEO and AEO, shifting the focus from where content ranks to how clearly it can be interpreted and trusted in context.
In practice, that means optimizing for:
Extractability: Can this be easily summarized?
Credibility: Is this a trustworthy source to cite?
GEO performance shows up across a distinct set of signals that reflect presence, usage, and downstream impact.
1. AI citation frequency
AI citation frequency measures how often your brand, website, content, or experts are cited in AI-generated answers.
This is one of the clearest GEO metrics because it shows whether generative systems consider your content useful enough to reference.
Track citation frequency across:
Google AI Overviews.
Google AI Mode.
Perplexity.
ChatGPT search.
Gemini.
Copilot.
Claude, where source visibility is available.
Industry-specific AI tools and assistants.
Citation frequency should be tracked at the topic level, not only the domain level. A SaaS company, for example, may want to know whether it’s cited for “customer onboarding software,” “product adoption metrics,” and “best tools for reducing churn” separately.
The goal is repeatable citation across high-value topics.
2. Share of Model Voice (SOMV)
Share of Model Voice measures how often your brand appears in AI-generated answers compared with competitors.
Traditional share of voice tells you how visible a brand is across search, media, or advertising. Share of Model Voice applies that idea to AI responses.
A simple way to calculate it:
SOMV = Brand appearances across a prompt set ÷ Total answers generated for that prompt set
For example:
You analyze 100 relevant prompts.
Your brand appears in 28 of the resulting AI-generated answers.
Your Share of Model Voice is 28%.
This metric is especially useful for competitive categories because AI answers often compress the consideration set. A user doesn’t see 10 blue links. They may see three recommended vendors, two cited articles, or one synthesized answer.
That’s why relative presence matters more than absolute visibility.
3. Answer inclusion rate
Answer inclusion rate measures how often your owned content is used to generate an AI answer, regardless of whether the user clicks.
This differs from citation frequency. A brand may be mentioned without its content being cited. And a page may be used as supporting material even when the brand is not the central recommendation.
Track inclusion across informational, comparison, and decision-stage prompts.
For example, a B2B SaaS company in the SEO or analytics space might track prompts like:
Informational: “What is generative engine optimization?”
Exploratory: “How should brands measure AI search visibility?”
Comparison: “SEO vs GEO vs AEO”
Category-level: “Best GEO tools for B2B SaaS”
Decision-stage: “How do I evaluate GEO platforms?”
This metric helps identify which content formats are easiest for AI systems to retrieve and summarize.
In many cases, clear definitions, comparison tables, statistics pages, glossaries, and answer-first explainers perform better than broad thought leadership pages because they’re easier to extract and reuse.
4. Entity recognition and authority
Entity recognition measures how well AI systems understand who your brand is, what it does, and what topics it should be associated with.
This matters because generative systems don’t only match keywords. They interpret entities, relationships, topical authority, and corroborating signals.
Strong entity recognition means AI systems can accurately connect your brand to:
Your company name.
Products and services.
Founders or executives.
Authors and subject-matter experts.
Industry categories.
Locations.
Use cases.
Awards, partnerships, and third-party mentions.
Knowledge graph data.
Structured data.
Google’s guidance for AI features emphasizes that the same fundamentals still apply: make content accessible, maintain a strong page experience, and use structured data to help systems interpret what’s on the page.
In practice, inconsistencies across these signals make it harder for AI systems to reliably connect your brand to the right topics.
5. Sentiment in AI responses
Sentiment measures how AI systems describe your brand.
Tracking mentions isn’t enough. Brands also need to know whether AI-generated responses frame them as credible, outdated, expensive, risky, innovative, niche, enterprise-grade, beginner-friendly, or anything else.
You can monitor:
Positive, neutral, and negative descriptions.
Recurring adjectives or claims.
Incorrect comparisons.
Outdated product details.
Missing differentiators.
Reputation issues.
Hallucinated features or limitations.
This is where GEO overlaps with PR and brand management. AI-generated answers can shape perception before the user ever reaches your site.
6. Prompt coverage
Prompt coverage measures how many relevant prompts surface your brand. This is the GEO version of keyword coverage, but prompts are more conversational, specific, and intent-rich.
A strong prompt set should include:
Informational prompts.
Comparison prompts.
“Best” and “top” prompts.
Problem-aware prompts.
Solution-aware prompts.
Buyer-stage prompts.
Role-specific prompts.
Use-case prompts.
Local or industry-specific prompts.
Follow-up prompts.
For a cybersecurity company, “best cybersecurity platforms” is only part of the picture. Relevant prompts also look like:
“How do mid-market companies reduce phishing risk?”
“What tools help security teams manage vendor risk?”
“Compare managed detection and response providers.”
“What should a CISO look for in an incident response partner?”
Prompt coverage shows whether your brand is visible across the way people actually ask AI systems for help.
7. Content retrieval success rate
Content retrieval success rate measures how often AI systems pull from your owned content when answering relevant prompts. This is where it gets technical.
If your content isn’t crawlable, structured, fresh, or easy to parse, it may struggle to appear in generative outputs, regardless of subject-matter strength.
Conversion influence measures how visibility in AI-generated outputs contributes to downstream business outcomes. That connection isn’t always direct — and it’s rarely cleanly attributed.
A user may see your brand in an AI answer, search your name later, visit directly, ask a colleague, or convert through a paid retargeting path.
Still, brands should track directional signals:
AI referral traffic.
Assisted conversions.
Branded search lift.
Direct traffic changes.
Demo or lead quality from AI-referred sessions.
Returning visitors after AI visibility spikes.
Sales conversations mentioning ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or AI Overviews.
Pipeline influenced by AI-discovery queries.
AI search visitors convert at a 23x higher rate than traditional organic search visitors, even though AI traffic volume was much smaller, according to Ahrefs.
That’s the measurement nuance: AI search may drive fewer sessions, but the sessions that do occur can be higher-intent.
GEO measurement is still in its early stages, and no single platform captures the full picture. Most brands will need a mix of automated tools, manual audits, analytics configuration, and competitive testing.
Emerging GEO analytics platforms
A growing set of tools — from established SEO platforms to GEO-native products — now track how brands appear across AI-driven search experiences.
For example:
Semrush AI Toolkit surfaces visibility trends tied to AI-driven search.
SE Ranking AI Visibility Tracker monitors brand presence across AI-generated outputs.
Profound focuses on AI citation frequency, sentiment, and competitive visibility.
Peec AI tracks brand presence and representation across AI systems.
The category is still evolving, but early tools give brands a way to move from assumptions to actual visibility data.
Prompt testing frameworks
Manual prompt testing is still useful, especially when building a baseline. Create a controlled prompt set by topic, funnel stage, persona, and geography.
Run those prompts consistently across the same AI platforms. Capture:
Whether your brand appears.
Which competitors appear.
Which sources are cited.
How your brand is described.
Whether the answer is accurate.
Whether your owned content is cited.
Whether the answer changes across repeated tests.
Because AI answers can vary, single-prompt testing isn’t enough. Track patterns over time.
Analytics and logs
Use GA4, server logs, CRM fields, and referral data to identify traffic and conversions from AI platforms — particularly shifts in direct, branded, and assisted conversions.
Track known AI referrers, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, and other AI tools, where possible. Treat this as directional rather than complete, because many AI-influenced journeys show up as direct, branded search, or otherwise unattributed traffic.
Search Console and traditional SEO tools
Search Console still matters, even as clicks decline.
Impressions show whether content is being surfaced, while query data highlights where AI Overviews are absorbing demand, where branded search is increasing, and where content may need restructuring for answer inclusion.
Traditional SEO tools remain useful for technical health, content gaps, backlinks, keyword demand, and competitive research. GEO measurement builds on that foundation, tracking how content is surfaced in AI search.
How to build a GEO measurement framework
Start with a baseline. Choose 5-10 core topics you want AI systems to associate with your brand. For each, map prompts across the user journey. Then build a dashboard across four categories — and assign each to a clear action:
Visibility: Where do we show up?
AI citation frequency.
Share of Model Voice.
Prompt coverage.
Answer inclusion rate.
Accuracy and reputation: How are we represented?
Sentiment in AI responses.
Message consistency.
Misinformation or hallucination rate.
Competitive framing.
Technical and content: Can our content be used?
Content retrieval success rate.
Schema coverage.
Crawlability.
Freshness.
Entity consistency.
Business impact: Does it drive outcomes?
AI referral traffic.
Assisted conversions.
Branded search lift.
Direct traffic movement.
Lead quality.
Pipeline influenced by AI discovery.
Review these metrics together, not in isolation. Use them to decide what to update, expand, or deprioritize. Finally, connect the framework to business goals.
A publisher may prioritize citations and source inclusion. A B2B SaaS company may focus on category prompts and comparison visibility. An ecommerce brand may look at product recommendations, review sentiment, and visibility across discovery surfaces.
There’s no universal GEO dashboard — only the one that helps your team decide what to do next.
GEO metrics are only useful if they change what teams do next. Define the topics you want to be known for, track how those topics show up across AI systems, and use that data to decide what to update, expand, or deprioritize.
Treat visibility as a feedback loop. If your brand isn’t appearing, refine the content. If it’s appearing inconsistently, strengthen the signals around it. If it’s showing up but misrepresented, correct the source.
Over time, the advantage goes to teams that act on these signals consistently — not just the ones that track them.
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Bad week.
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Having an incident response retainer, or even a pre-approved external incident response firm, is not the same as being ready for an incident. A retainer means someone will answer the phone. Operational readiness determines whether that team can do meaningful work the moment they do.
That distinction matters far more than many organizations realize. In the first hours of a security incident
Many companies expand internationally by duplicating their U.S. website, translating the language, and keeping the same architecture, navigation, and content structure across markets.
Then performance drops. International versions may convert at half the rate of the original site or struggle to gain traction altogether.
The issue usually isn’t translation. It’s assuming users in different markets search, navigate, and evaluate information the same way.
Using insights from Google SERPs and LLMs, here’s how to localize website architecture and navigation for international SEO.
How to use Google to localize content
Google’s SERP interface is localized for individual markets. Each element — menu order, topic filters, questions, tags, AI structures — reflects learned user behavior.
For example, if you search for a topic or product in the UK and Italy, you’ll get different interfaces: The Italian site might show two shopping options, while the UK site puts images at position two. These aren’t arbitrary — they’re algorithmic predictions based on observed behavior in each specific region.
Google has already done the user research. You just have to extract the signals systematically. Every SERP element is optimized through behavioral data, for example:
Menu order reflects click-through analysis across millions of users.
Use these nine SERP interface elements to contain localization intelligence.
Menu order/filters reveal primary and secondary search intent. They are localized and dynamic — their order changes due to seasonalities, changes of intent, content behaviors, and breaking news.
Topic filters show hierarchical refinement patterns (2-3 levels deep). They are influenced by trends and seasonalities, and Google mixes classic search topics with shopping filters.
People Also Ask (PAA): Three levels are enough for discovering patterns and recurring entities through clustering.
People Also Search For (PASF) are similar to PAAs but are related searches showing journey connections. In this case, a three-level depth is sufficient to obtain meaningful data.
Image search tags for entity search: Each tag is also an entity related to the searched entity, or an attribution of that entity. They place entity associations in a visual search context.
AI Overview fan-outs are AI-predicted follow-up questions from Google.
AI Mode fan-outs are conversational search path predictions, ideal for exploring entities and triplets.
Google web guides are pillar pages that break down a topic into subtopics. It’s ideal for understanding how Google reasons around a subject.
Multi-LLM comparative analyses examine how ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity structure their answers. LLM answers help identify both the universal semantic core shared across regions and the region-specific entities that emerge when prompted with local context. This reveals which entities matter globally versus locally.
Table of nine localization framework signals
Signal
What
Why
How to (manual)
How to (with tools)
1. Search Menu Order
Reveals primary and secondary search intent
Menu position shows how Google classifies query intent per market
Open incognito browser, set location to target city, search query, record visible menu items in exact order
Tag frequency = entity salience; informs which entities need visual content
Click Images tab, observe tag chips below search bar, document all visible tags (8-15), note multi-word tags
Topically.io, SerpAPI (image search with tags), Selenium scripts
6. AI Overview Fan-Outs
Google’s AI-predicted follow-up questions; entity relationships the model learned
Specifically informs Google AI Overview, AI Mode, and Web Guide structure; shows content sequencing for user journey
N/A
Qforia by iPullRank, Gemini API with Python/Colab
7. AI Mode Fan-Outs
Conversational search path predictions; multi-turn journey Google anticipates
Reveals complex topic exploration paths; growing importance as Google pushes AI Mode heavily
N/A
Qforia by iPullRank, Gemini API with conversational context in Python/Colab
8. Google Web Guide
Google’s editorial content organization; H2-level structure Google considers comprehensive
Direct blueprint for navigation structure (not URL paths); categories reveal information types users need
Perform search, look for “Web Guide” or “Guide” SERP feature (appears ~20-30% of queries), expand sections, document H2 headings
N/A (no tools available)
9. Multi-LLM Comparative Analysis
How ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity structure answers to identical queries; consensus vs. unique entities
Consensus entities = must-have content; weak/incomplete answers = information gain opportunities; validates citation-worthy content
Enter identical query in each LLM interface, copy full responses, document response length/format/entities/citations (for Perplexity), perform in local language per market
OpenAI API (ChatGPT), Google Gemini API, Perplexity API – all via Python/Colab for batch processing and entity extraction
Scaling with international SEO
Here’s an example of a product breakdown between international sites:
148 products × 6 query variants = 888 queries
Four markets = 3,552 combinations
Nine signals = 31,968 data points
However, you don’t need all 31,968 data points. Patterns emerge across 15 to 20 products, roughly 10% to 15% of the catalog. Entity relationships repeat across product categories, so sampling 15 products across factions can reveal critical localization patterns.
How to transform data into taxonomy
Let’s say there’s a hypothetical website based on the Star Wars movies called “SWLegion.com,” which sells tabletop wargaming miniatures. It has several products across factions, eras, and types.
Below is SWLegion.com’s complete URL structure across four markets.
Category
U.S. (root)
UK (/en-gb/)
Italy (/it-it/)
Spain (/es-es/)
STORE HOME
/store/
/en-gb/store/
/it-it/negozio/
/es-es/tienda/
TYPE OF UNIT CATEGORIES
Accessories
/store/accessories/
/en-gb/store/accessories/
/it-it/negozio/accessori/
/es-es/tienda/accesorios/
Battle Force Packs
/store/battle-force-packs/
/en-gb/store/battle-force-packs/
/it-it/negozio/pacchetti-forza-battaglia/
/es-es/tienda/paquetes-fuerza-batalla/
Battlefield Expansions
/store/battlefield-expansions/
/en-gb/store/battlefield-expansions/
/it-it/negozio/espansioni-campo-battaglia/
/es-es/tienda/expansiones-campo-batalla/
Commander Expansions
/store/commander-expansions/
/en-gb/store/commander-expansions/
/it-it/negozio/espansioni-comandante/
/es-es/tienda/expansiones-comandante/
Core Sets
/store/core-sets/
/en-gb/store/core-sets/
/it-it/negozio/set-base/
/es-es/tienda/sets-basicos/
Operative Expansions
/store/operative-expansions/
/en-gb/store/operative-expansions/
/it-it/negozio/espansioni-operative/
/es-es/tienda/expansiones-operativas/
Personnel Expansions
/store/personnel-expansions/
/en-gb/store/personnel-expansions/
/it-it/negozio/espansioni-personale/
/es-es/tienda/expansiones-personal/
Starter Sets
/store/starter-sets/
/en-gb/store/starter-sets/
/it-it/negozio/set-iniziali/
/es-es/tienda/sets-iniciales/
Unit Expansions
/store/unit-expansions/
/en-gb/store/unit-expansions/
/it-it/negozio/espansioni-unita/
/es-es/tienda/expansiones-unidad/
Upgrade Expansions
/store/upgrade-expansions/
/en-gb/store/upgrade-expansions/
/it-it/negozio/espansioni-potenziamento/
/es-es/tienda/expansiones-mejora/
FACTION FILTERS
Shadow Collective
/store/shadow-collective/
/en-gb/store/shadow-collective/
/it-it/negozio/collettivo-ombra/
/es-es/tienda/colectivo-sombra/
Mercenaries
/store/mercenaries/
/en-gb/store/mercenaries/
/it-it/negozio/mercenari/
/es-es/tienda/mercenarios/
Galactic Empire
/store/galactic-empire/
/en-gb/store/galactic-empire/
/it-it/negozio/impero-galattico/
/es-es/tienda/imperio-galactico/
Galactic Republic
/store/galactic-republic/
/en-gb/store/galactic-republic/
/it-it/negozio/repubblica-galattica/
/es-es/tienda/republica-galactica/
Rebel Alliance
/store/rebel-alliance/
/en-gb/store/rebel-alliance/
/it-it/negozio/alleanza-ribelle/
/es-es/tienda/alianza-rebelde/
Separatist Alliance
/store/separatist-alliance/
/en-gb/store/separatist-alliance/
/it-it/negozio/alleanza-separatista/
/es-es/tienda/alianza-separatista/
TYPOLOGY FILTERS
Heroes
/store/heroes/
/en-gb/store/heroes/
/it-it/negozio/eroi/
/es-es/tienda/heroes/
Varies
/store/varies/
/en-gb/store/varies/
/it-it/negozio/varie/
/es-es/tienda/varios/
Infantry
/store/infantry/
/en-gb/store/infantry/
/it-it/negozio/fanteria/
/es-es/tienda/infanteria/
Tools
/store/tools/
/en-gb/store/tools/
/it-it/negozio/strumenti/
/es-es/tienda/herramientas/
Vehicles
/store/vehicles/
/en-gb/store/vehicles/
/it-it/negozio/veicoli/
/es-es/tienda/vehiculos/
ERA FILTERS
All Eras
/store/all-eras/
/en-gb/store/all-eras/
/it-it/negozio/tutte-ere/
/es-es/tienda/todas-eras/
Age of Rebellion
/store/age-of-rebellion/
/en-gb/store/age-of-rebellion/
/it-it/negozio/era-ribellione/
/es-es/tienda/era-rebelion/
The New Republic
/store/the-new-republic/
/en-gb/store/the-new-republic/
/it-it/negozio/nuova-repubblica/
/es-es/tienda/nueva-republica/
Fall of Jedi
/store/fall-of-jedi/
/en-gb/store/fall-of-jedi/
/it-it/negozio/caduta-jedi/
/es-es/tienda/caida-jedi/
Reign of the Empire
/store/reign-of-the-empire/
/en-gb/store/reign-of-the-empire/
/it-it/negozio/regno-impero/
/es-es/tienda/reino-imperio/
CONTENT SECTIONS
Lore Section
/lore/
/en-gb/lore/
/it-it/lore/
/es-es/lore/
Rules Section
/star-wars-legion/rules/
/en-gb/star-wars-legion/rules/
/it-it/star-wars-legion/regole/
/es-es/star-wars-legion/reglas/
Mini Painting Academy
/mini-painting-academy/
/en-gb/mini-painting-academy/
/it-it/accademia-pittura-miniature/
/es-es/academia-pintura-miniaturas/
About Us
/about-us/
/en-gb/about-us/
/it-it/chi-siamo/
/es-es/sobre-nosotros/
Extract entities across signals
Using the above product catalog as an example, use each product as a query seed.
Start manual, with 10-15 products to internalize patterns. Then automate with APIs/Python, and store in a CSV/JSON. Cross-reference entities to identify co-occurrence patterns.
Combine all nine signals into a unified dataset. Then, extract entities mentioned across signals.
Weighted co-occurrence analysis
Track which entities appear together across signals. This reveals which concepts users naturally connect in their thinking.
Each signal has a different reliability weight based on how directly it reflects user intent:
Query fan-outs: 2.5 (AI predicts relationships from observed behavior)
PAA: 2.0 (actual user questions connecting entities)
PASF: 2.0 (sequential journey connections)
Image tags: 1.5 (visual/entity search context)
Topic filters: 1.0 (broad categorization)
For example, say there’s a significant variation in entity relationship complexity across markets, measured as total weighted co-occurrence scores (sum of all entity pair connections, weighted by signal reliability):
U.S.: 2,639.5 total weight
UK: 2,359.0 total weight
Spain: 2,266.0 total weight
Italy: 1,084.5 total weight
This means the U.S. and UK show 2x more entity relationship complexity than Italy, indicating more complex user journeys requiring deeper content architectures.
Cross-market entity patterns
Not all entities matter equally across markets. Your content strategy depends on recognizing three distinct patterns:
Universal entities (all four markets): These appear consistently across the U.S., UK, Spain, and Italy. Users everywhere expect this content.
Market-specific: These entities show concentrated interest in just one market based on current signal validation. Cover these entities deeply in their market of reference but maintain lighter coverage in other markets. In future quarterly re-analysis, verify if interest for these entity types has increased in other targeted markets to determine whether to expand coverage depth accordingly.
Regional (2-3 markets): These entities appear in most but not all markets, requiring selective deployment. Build content, deploy to 2-3 markets, and evaluate ROI before expanding.
Ontology pattern recognition
Beyond individual entities, track how different types of entities connect. This reveals what content formats work in each market.
Entities cluster into four categories:
Products (actual sellable items)
Lore (Star Wars universe entities)
Rules (game mechanics)
Painting (techniques and processes)
Cross-ontology co-occurrence reveals which content types users expect:
When products and lore entities appear together frequently across signals, users think in terms of narrative context for purchases:
These ontology patterns vary dramatically by market, revealing which entities matter, how users think about connections, and how to optimize internal linking architecture. Here’s an example weighted co-occurrence analysis
USA: Product × Lore, weight 60.0 (highest of any market)
What this means: American users discover products through lore narratives — build battle scenarios linking story to miniatures.
Internal linking strategy: From the “AT-ST Walker” product page, prominently link to /lore/battle-of-hoth/ with anchor text emphasizing narrative context (“Deploy the AT-ST in the iconic Battle of Hoth”). From lore pages, link back to related products within battle scenario descriptions.
UK: Painting × Lore, weight 15.0 (unique to UK and U.S. only)
What this means: British users want battle-themed painting guides — content like “Paint a Hoth snow base” works here but is less relevant elsewhere.
Internal linking strategy: From /mini-painting-academy/snow-base-tutorial/, link to /lore/battle-of-hoth/ and to relevant product pages like “Snowtrooper Unit Expansion.” Create bidirectional links between painting techniques and the lore/battle contexts where those techniques apply.
Spain: Product × Lore, balanced at 27.0 each
What this means: Spanish users balance story interest with product focus — equal emphasis needed.
Internal linking strategy: Moderate internal linking between product and lore pages. From “Luke Skywalker Commander” product page, include links to both /lore/luke-skywalker/ and related products. Avoid over-emphasizing either connection type.
Italy: Product × Lore weight 10.5 (weakest)
What this means: Italian users don’t connect lore to products — skip elaborate battle scenarios. Focus on product specs and painting basics.
Internal linking strategy: Minimize product-to-lore internal links. From product pages, prioritize linking to /mini-painting-academy/ tutorials and related products by faction or unit type. Keep lore pages separate from product discovery paths.
Entities should appear in 3+ signals to be validated. One appearance could be an anomaly or noise.
False-positive check
Signals reveal what users reference, not always what they want. For example, a site appears across multiple markets in various signals, so it’s confirmed as a universal entity in LLM responses across all markets. But its presence in Image Search tags is minimal.
Interpretation: Users ask about the site as a reference point but aren’t searching for images of its products extensively.
Strategy: Build a comparison article/FAQ, not extensive image galleries or deep informational content.
Validation question: Does the signal show what users want or what they’re using for context?
Coverage gap analysis
For example, let’s say signal validation reveals dramatically different entity landscapes across markets — in other words, how many distinct, validated entities appeared in 3+ signals per market:
U.S.: 31 entities
UK: 28 entities
Spain: 29 entities
Italy: 16 entities
Italy has half the entity coverage of other markets, revealing a fundamental difference in how Italian users approach this product category — a strong strategic signal.
If Italian users show concentrated interest in fewer entities, with heavier emphasis on foundational questions (for example, PAAs) rather than deep entity exploration, they’re asking, “what is this?” and “how does this work?”
There’s an information gain opportunity here: While competitors might translate all 31 US entities to Italian, creating shallow content Italian users don’t need, you can dominate the 16 entities that actually matter to this market with comprehensive, beginner-focused content.
Actions to take:
Italy needs foundational 101-level content rather than deep entity exploration.
FAQ-driven approach matches PAA dominance in Italian signals.
Invest in clear product specifications, basic painting tutorials, and simple rule explanations.
Build comprehensive coverage of the 16 validated entities before considering the other 15.
Monitor quarterly. If Italy’s validated entity count grows, market maturity increases, and expand coverage accordingly.
You’re not trying to force-fit U.S. models onto Italian users, you’re serving the actual information needs for this market.
How to structure internal architecture
Maintain a consistent technical structure across all markets with canonical tags, hreflang, CMS architecture, and analytics.
For the complete structure of the SWLegion.com example, see its full architecture.
Ecommerce section:
U.S. (root): /store/, /store/{category}/, /store/{filter}/
Entity slugs within content localized for official translations (Spain: /es-es/lore/conde-dooku/ vs English /count-dooku/).
What stays consistent
Path structure: /lore/, /store/, /rules/ exist everywhere even if entity coverage or category emphasis differs.
Product inventory: Physical products remain the same across markets (same 148 SKUs), though merchandising and filtering emphasis may vary.
Core navigation sections: All markets have Store, Lore, Rules, Mini Painting Academy, About Us, but internal linking architecture and content depth within each section adapts to market signals.
Entity coverage
Create a master entity list flagged by market validation. This will become your strategic content roadmap, preventing duplication while ensuring comprehensive coverage where it matters.
Entities cluster into two strategic categories:
Universal entities validated across all 4 markets: Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, painting, terrain, miniatures, core factions (Galactic Empire, Rebel Alliance, Separatist) — these form your foundation and users everywhere expect this content.
Market-specific entities showing concentrated validation in one or two markets: 501st Legion (U.S./UK only), Shatterpoint comparison (Italy only), Wookiees (Spain only) — these are your localization differentiators.
Phase 1 build: Start with universal entities. Build 12-15 cornerstone pages, translate to all four markets for 48-60 total pages. These establish a baseline coverage across your entire international footprint.
Phase 2 build: Add market-specific entities. Create 25-35 localized pages to be deployed selectively only to validated markets. A 501st Legion deep-dive may go live in the U.S. and UK but not in Italy or Spain.
Total strategic content: 73-95 pages across four markets. This is a better, more refined strategy than covering 148 product entities × four markets, adding lore/rules/painting content for all entities across all markets, which would create dozens of wasted pages.
How to implement an AI roadmap
Building out your international SEO can present some challenges. Here are some roadblocks and strategies to do it right.
Implementation challenges
Let’s look at some hurdles to implementing AI to search.
CMS limitations
Most CMS platforms aren’t designed for entity-level localization. What’s needed is conditional page creation based on market validation.
For example: Add a “Target Markets” custom field to your CMS with checkboxes for different markets — U.S., UK, Italy, Spain, in our example.
Content team scaling
Creating dozens of localized pages requires subject matter expertise, native language writers, and cross-market coordination.
Start with one market — the second-largest, not the largest, to learn with a lower risk. Build 5-10 entity pages, validate traffic and conversions, and then scale to other markets only when ROI is proven.
Maintenance
Markets evolve, new products launch, entities gain or lose relevance, and signals need periodic re-analysis.
Re-run an abbreviated nine-signal analysis on the top 20 entities on a quarterly basis. Look for significant shifts: If entities drop from 3+ signals to one signal, consider deprecating content.
Continuous intelligence systems
Here are some tools to help monitor AI systems:
Wikipedia edit monitoring: Create watchlists for 10-15 key entities per market, and set email alerts for significant edits. Major additions or edit wars signal rising interest — if that happens, review entity page content and update accordingly.
Reddit velocity tracking: Track comment velocity on entity mentions. Entities mentioned in 5+ threads in one week (an unusual spike) should be investigated.
TikTok and Instagram trends analysis: Monitor trending hashtags and viral content patterns related to your product categories. Rising hashtag usage or viral content patterns can indicate emerging entity interest before they appear in traditional search signals.
Google Trends “rising” analysis: Monitor “rising” queries monthly (not absolute volume). Queries with +100% week-over-week growth signal emerging interest.
Building a roadmap
Now that you know what roadblocks lie ahead, here’s how to implement the plan.
Month 1: Foundation
Choose one market for learning and prototyping. Select 10-15 products to sample and conduct a systematic nine-signal analysis.
Create an entity list with co-occurrence weights and 3-5 validated market-specific entities.
Months 2-3: Content creation
Build universal pillar pages and translate to all markets, and build market-specific entity hubs, starting with one initially. Implement internal linking based on co-occurrence weights.
Expand to all markets. Run continuous intelligence systems, including: Wikipedia watchlists, Reddit monitoring, TikTok/Instagram trends, and schedule quarterly signal re-analysis.
How to measure success
After implementing changes and incorporating AI into your international search strategy, here’s how to determine what’s working and where to improve.
Entity coverage rate
This metric tells you if you’re covering entities that actually matter to users in each specific market, not just translating pages indiscriminately.
Formula: (Entity pages built / Total validated entities from signal analysis) × 100
Example: Your signal analysis validated 28 entities in the UK (entities appearing in 3+ signals). You built dedicated pages for 22 of these entities. Your entity coverage rate is: 22/28, or 79%.
Target: 70%+ coverage for each priority market.
Consider the strategic difference. For example, let’s say your UK site covers 79%, or 22 of 28 validated entities, focusing resources on entities users actually search for, ask questions about, and engage with across multiple signals.
While a competitor translates 148 product entities, achieving “100% coverage” on paper, but wastes resources covering entities UK users show minimal interest in.
Your 21% gap (6 uncovered entities) isn’t a failure, but a strategic prioritization.
These lower-priority entities can be added if quarterly re-analysis shows their signal validation strengthening — moving from 2 signals to 3+ or appearing in additional signal types.
Tools for tracking entity coverage:
Screaming Frog: Crawl your site and count entity pages by market subfolder.
Google Sheets: Cross-reference validated entity lists against live URL inventory.
LLM topic visibility
Track whether your site appears in LLM responses for key topics, not individual citation counts. The goal is to measure topical authority, not vanity metrics.
For ChatGPT/Gemini/Perplexity/Claude: Use WAIKay.io to systematically track your visibility across multiple LLMs. The platform allows you to:
Set up monitoring for specific queries across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI platforms
Track whether your domain appears in responses (mentions, summaries, citations)
Monitor visibility changes over time with historical tracking
Generate reports showing presence/absence per topic, per LLM
For AI Overviews/AI Mode: Use Semrush One to monitor Google’s AI-powered SERP features. Alternative tools, such as Ahrefs, Advanced Web Rankings, and SISTRIX (AI Overview presence reporting), offer similar capabilities.
Target benchmarks:
Universal topics: Visibility in 2+ LLMs across all markets.
Market-specific topics: Visibility in 2+ LLMs for a specific market’s language queries.
This validates if your content quality and entity coverage are sufficient for LLMs to consider you an authoritative source worth including in their responses. Lack of visibility signals content gaps or insufficient topical depth.
Incorporate AI and LLMs into your international SEO today
Most international sites treat taxonomy as infrastructure: build once, maintain minimally, and refresh every 2-3 years during a website redesign.
Our SWLegion.com example started with an identical architecture across four markets. Implementing this strategy, we showed how to localize architecture and navigation and optimize for each market.
This strategy builds something fundamentally different — architecture that breathes with market behavior, responding to signals rather than assumptions. You’re cultivating taxonomy rather than just maintaining a website.
Your new taxonomy will reflect current user behavior and also anticipate and adapt to behavioral shifts before competitors notice that the market has changed.
Over the past few decades, digital marketing has settled into a stable system. While it spans SEO, content marketing, social media, and digital advertising, many programs have relied on a predictable core that didn’t always use every available channel.
This gave digital marketers a sense of predictability and comfort. For years, teams stuck with what worked and refined execution through the same familiar framework. AI search has disrupted that comfort and exposed our inconsistencies. To succeed with AI SEO, we need a much more comprehensive approach.
AI SEO rewards strategic marketing
Over the past 15 to 20 years, digital marketing settled into a predictable rhythm, with each channel playing a defined role.
Content marketing, social media, SEO, paid advertising, and email followed similar strategies with little variation. Little happened outside this structure, and many of us grew “lazy.”
The structure worked, so we let other strategies fall away.
The problem? It created a false sense of security. We should have been doing more all along, and those broader strategies are now driving real visibility in AI search.
AI has disrupted digital marketing in ways that weren’t obvious at first. It’s changed user search behavior and how brands are evaluated.
Traditional search relied on algorithms and a primary source. AI pulls from multiple inputs across many sources.
Those sources should already exist. They’re your marketing — the way you present your brand across platforms like social media, third-party directories, press releases, brand mentions, and more. In short, anything outside your website.
In this system, your website and the strategic marketing that supports it are just one part of the whole. It’s now one of many sources AI uses to understand your brand and offer. AI search reflects the strength of marketing across all these sources.
Visibility Is not limited to your website
One of the biggest disruptions AI has caused is that the website is no longer central to your marketing strategy or visibility. It’s now part of a much larger ecosystem. You still need a strong website, as always, but you must account for how much broader the landscape has become with AI search.
While driving traffic to your website still matters, it’s no longer the only focus. The goal used to be maximizing website visibility — achieve that, and results would follow. That still works to a degree, but treating it as the only path to visibility is outdated.
AI pulls information from a wide range of sources — articles, brand mentions across platforms, third-party profiles, published content — and all of it shapes how it understands who you are and what you do.
Your website is just one part of this broader scope. If you focus only on your website, you limit AI’s ability to find you.
This is where most marketing programs fall short, especially those built before AI. To modernize, your brand must be visible across a much wider scope.
AI SEO requires an intentional presence
AI favors brands that show up online with intent. They’ve built a cohesive ecosystem across the wider internet.
A segmented marketing approach may have worked in the past, but it no longer has the same impact. We got away with it because when each channel performed well, it still felt effective and met our goals.
AI doesn’t allow this anymore. It favors brands with many connected signals, because it links them across the internet. It evaluates how your brand appears across these sources and looks for consistent messaging and expertise.
When these signals align, your AI visibility strengthens. When they’re scattered or your broader presence is weak, your AI visibility is weak.
This is why it’s important to develop a marketing strategy that accounts for this. A brand with a coordinated presence across the internet — across its website and other marketing channels — is what’s required today.
Lazy marketing strategies are exposed
This is the real issue with “lazy marketing.” We define it as sticking to the old approach — treating each channel separately and relying on the same tactics that have always worked. That approach may have delivered results before, but those days are gone.
At the time, this approach still delivered results. A strong SEO foundation consistently drove leads, and paid advertising offered similar predictability. These tactics worked so well that there was little need to go beyond them.
We need to go beyond it to keep up. Your brand needs to show up across multiple sources — that’s how AI finds you. If your competitors are already building their presence, you need to do the same or get left behind. They’ll take more space in AI-generated answers than you.
This means that if you have gaps in your marketing, you can’t hide them anymore. AI exposes these inconsistencies and forces you into the broader digital space.
Transition into the era of AI search
Now is the time to move beyond the old model and adopt a new understanding of what works in digital marketing. The old approach no longer works on its own — it must be part of a broader system.
These are the strategies we should have been using all along: press releases, directory listings, and marketing beyond your own website.
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Gryphin is a visual project management platform that lets teams plan, track, and deliver work across Kanban, Calendar, Gantt, Chat, and Whiteboard views. Drag and drop tasks, customize workflows, and see progress at a glance. It adds AI task breakdown, real-time cursors and presence, built-in chat, sprints, automations, and templates. Import Trello boards in one click to unlock richer views and collaboration without added complexity.
Repairit repairs corrupted videos, photos, documents, and audio across desktop, web, and mobile. It fixes playback errors, restores damaged images, recovers unreadable files, and repairs Outlook PST and OST files. It also uses AI to enhance quality, unblur faces, colorize old photos, animate portraits, and remove objects. Choose the desktop toolkit for comprehensive repair, try quick fixes online, or use the Relumi app to retouch and restore on the go.
It’s fixed now, but Windrose was quietly killing PC SSDs with excessive data writes The hit pirate game Windrose, which recently reached a peak player count of over 220,000 in Steam Early Access, has been found to be causing excessive data writes on PC players’ SSDs. While the issue has now been patched, the YouTuber […]
Google Chrome is quietly pushing a 4GB AI model onto devices and reinstalling it if removed. The company says it is designed to protect your privacy when using AI features.
The global tablet market remained flat in Q1 2026, with shipments rising just 0.1% year on year to reach 37 million units, according to the latest research from Omdia. While tablet shipments declined sequentially, in line with typical seasonal patterns, regional performance was led by Latin America, followed by the Middle East and Africa. However, this growth was largely driven by inventory build-up rather than underlying end-user demand, pointing to a weaker demand outlook.
"Heading into 2026, tablets have been relegated in importance for vendors across margins, volume, and overall value," said Himani Mukka, Research Manager at Omdia. "In this supply-constrained environment, consumers and vendors alike are being more deliberate about which devices to prioritize. PC vendors are focusing on notebooks and desktops, while those operating across both smartphones and tablets are gravitating toward smartphones due to their outsized contribution to overall business."
MSI today announces the launch of the DATAMAG LITE 40Gbps, a magnetic portable SSD that combines high-speed performance with everyday convenience. Available in 1 TB, 2 TB, and 4 TB capacities, the DATAMAG LITE leverages the USB4 40 Gbps interface to deliver transfer rates of up to 4000 MB/s read and 3600 MB/s write, making it an ideal portable storage solution for users who need fast and flexible storage on the go. Complementing the hardware, the dedicated DATAMAG App provides users with an intuitive way to check remaining capacity, back up and restore photos and videos, and keep important data safe and accessible at all times.
Magnetic Portable SSD
Built for users who need fast and convenient storage on the move, the DATAMAG LITE 40Gbps features a practical magnetic attachment design. Using the included metal ring, the drive can attach securely to compatible devices for easier access and greater portability. A hanging ring adds further convenience, keeping the SSD within reach wherever everyday life or work takes you.
ASUS today announced the latest version of the ASUS Chromebook CM14 (CM1406), a powerful yet budget-friendly 14-inch laptop featuring a stylish and premium design. This laptop is built for everyday productivity, with support for up to 8 GB of LPDDR5x-6400 MT/s RAM and 128 GB of eMMC storage. The FHD display with a wide viewing angle and 86% screen-to-body ratio enhances the viewing experience There's also full connectivity via an HDMI port and two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C full-function ports.
The series features an exciting range of three colors—Platinum Silver, Forest Blue, and Blue Aura. The keyboard matches the chassis for a cohesive look, while the polished diamond-cut finish gives the device an elegant and premium appearance. Effortless power is delivered by the MediaTek Kompanio 540 processor—using an efficient Arm-based architecture—and easy portability is assured with a starting weight of just 1.32 kg. A 180° lay-flat hinge allows the expansive FHD display to be easily shared, and HDMI support—a rare feature for this price point—enables enhanced learning, entertainment, and work experiences. Up to 23 hours of battery life ensures maximum on-the-go convenience.
PCI-SIG has released a small update on its upcoming PCIe 8.0 standard, with the draft milestone reaching version 0.5. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of this draft update is not the performance itself, but the exploration of a new connector technology to support this high-bandwidth protocol. Last year, we learned that PCI-SIG plans to implement a 256.0 GT/s raw bit rate and 1 TB/s of bidirectional bandwidth in the x16 lane configuration. We had assumed that the protocol would continue using the familiar connector technology seen in previous PCIe updates. However, it turns out that the current connector might be a limiting factor, prompting the search for a replacement for the traditional PCIe electrical connection.
The traditional PCIe connector is a copper-based link with up to 16 lanes connecting graphics cards to a slot. In a full x16 lane configuration, the PCIe generation supported by the motherboard provides the best performance, offering the maximum bandwidth the platform can deliver. However, with a 256 GT/s raw bit rate, the connector provides about 1 TB/s of bidirectional bandwidth, which is eight times faster than the current PCIe 5.0 platform used with modern GPUs and CPUs. This indicates that the current physical layer facilitating communication between a GPU and a motherboard is nearing saturation with the advent of PCIe 8.0, necessitating the consideration of an alternative connection method.
NVIDIA is bringing 10x manufacturing capacity and creating over 3000 high-paying jobs in the US through its partnership with Corning. U.S. Optical Connectivity Manufacturing Sees A Big Boost From NVIDIA & Corning Partnership Press Release: NVIDIA and Corning Incorporated today announced a multiyear commercial and technology partnership to dramatically expand U.S.-based manufacturing of the advanced optical connectivity solutions needed to power next-generation AI infrastructure. Corning will increase its U.S.-based optical connectivity manufacturing capacity by 10x and expand its U.S. fiber production capacity by more than 50% to meet the accelerating demand driven by AI factory buildouts. The expansion includes the construction of […]
PCI-SIG has released the PCIe 8.0 specification with the 0.5 draft detailing up to 1 TB/s bandwidth & 256 GT/s data rates. PCIe 8.0 Standard Will Be Ready by 2028, Made For Next-Gen Data Centers With 1 TB/s Bandwidth The PCIe 8.0 specification highlights a major uplift versus existing standards, offering 8x the raw data rate and bandwidth of PCIe 5.0. On paper, PCIe 8.0 offers a 256 GT/s data rate and 1 TB/s of raw bi-directional bandwidth via a 16x lane configuration. The standard utilizes the PAM4 signaling technology and is backward-compatible with existing PCIe technology. PCI-SIG states that […]
CAPCOM's PRAGMATA launched last month on PC and consoles after years of development. Although the long development cycle did not bode well for the company's new IP, the game turned out great, selling over 1 million copies in just a few days of availability. The game's success wasn't limited to its launch window, as Hugh and Diana's adventure has been confirmed to have hit over 2 million copies sold worldwide, while the game received some surprise improvements on PlayStation 5 Pro that make this version of the game even more the definitive console version. While celebrating this new sales milestone […]
Motherboard shipments are going to see a sharp decrease in 2026 as PC component prices continue to rise, and consumer interest is at an all-time low. Motherboard Makers Will Ship Several Million Lower Units Than Last Year As Consumer Interest In PC Hardware Spirals Down PC component prices are at an all-time high. The worst-affected products are memory, graphics cards, and storage. Meanwhile, CPUs have also started to get more expensive as AI demand continues to get wilder each passing day. And it's not a matter of just rising prices; consumer hardware also sees wide-spread shortages. The main reason is […]
WaySpend unifies your finances on one dashboard so you can track spending, manage budgets, and see net worth across cash, stocks, crypto, and real estate. Connect thousands of banks via Plaid or import CSV/PDF statements and get AI-powered insights on where your money goes. It helps you plan for financial independence with FIRE simulations, Coast FIRE tracking, and lifestyle inflation detection. It uses read-only bank access with 256-bit encryption and never stores your credentials.
Inkfluence AI turns a single prompt into a structured, professionally formatted ebook. You can write, edit, brand, and export as PDF, EPUB, or DOCX with layouts ready for Amazon KDP. The platform includes a cover designer, AI audiobook conversion, translation into 30+ languages, and real-time cloud sync across web and iOS. Create guides, lead magnets, and client deliverables you can sell or share with consistent branding and export-ready files.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered three packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to stealthily deliver a previously unknown malware family called ZiChatBot on Windows and Linux systems.
"While these wheel packages do implement the features described on their PyPI web pages, their true purpose is to covertly deliver malicious files," Kaspersky
AMD’s next-generation Ryzen motherboards could be very similar to today’s designs This week, Biostar confirmed that it plans to showcase “next-generation AMD” motherboards at Computex 2026. While the company did not release any information about these motherboards, it did unveil that we would learn more very soon. According to the leaker MEGAsizeGPU, the next generation […]
During the announced Xbox Special Look broadcast, SEGA and RGG Studio revealed plenty of new details about Stranger Than Heaven, their upcoming new intellectual property. First of all, the game is targeting a Winter 2026 launch on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Steam, and PlayStation 5. Stranger Than Heaven is set up as a sprawling, multi-generational saga spanning 50 years of Japanese history, from 1915 to 1965. The story begins in 1915 San Francisco, where a young boy named Makoto Daito (born to an American father and Japanese mother; played by actor Yu Shirota) faces […]
Cost Seg Smart delivers engineering-based cost segregation studies for residential and commercial properties across the U.S. Enter your property details and receive a CPA-ready, IRS ATG-aligned report with component-level MACRS schedules, audit documentation, and Form 3115 support in under an hour. Pricing starts at $495, with studies using RSMeans cost data, assessor records, and satellite imagery to produce IRS-defensible results your CPA can file immediately.
Remodeling feels like a luck game where you're the only one who doesn't know the rules. RemoDone brings clarity starting with your contract. We turn scope, warranties, and payment terms into plain English and help you track milestones so nothing slips. Stay informed, ask the right questions, and stay in control from day one to done.
Serving up a considered combination of looks, usability and performance, this rather cute bean-to-cup coffee machine is worthy of a spot in your kitchen.
Not too long ago, 2K Games announced that it was suspending the development of Borderlands 4 on the Nintendo Switch 2, stating that the focus would be "delivering quality post-launch content for players on the ongoing improvements to optimize the game." Now, Take-Two CEO, Strauss Zelnick, has commented on the launch delay in an interview with Game File's Stephen Tolito, explaining that the Switch 2 just isn't the target platform for Borderlands 4. The executive explained that Sony's PlayStation 5 and the Xbox are the primary consoles for Borderlands 4, and that, although Take-Two wants to meet players on the consoles they're playing on, the studio wants to "make sure that we've addressed Borderlands 4 from a consumer's point of view before we bring it to more platforms."
Zelnick maintains that running Borderlands 4 is still "doable" on the Nintendo Switch 2, although Nintendo gamers may be in for a significant wait if the game's performance on the Steam Deck and other, more powerful, gaming handhelds is anything to go by. It should be noted that a recent update to Borderlands 4 claimed to deliver a 20% performance improvement at high resolutions and up to 40% improvements at 1080p on the minimum PC spec.
A dozen critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the vm2 Node.js library that could be exploited by bad actors to break out of the sandbox and execute arbitrary code on susceptible systems.
vm2 is an open-source library used to run untrusted JavaScript code inside a secure sandbox by intercepting and proxying JavaScript objects to prevent sandboxed code from accessing the host
Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is wrong.
Since FBC: Firebreak launched in June 2025, it has not managed to top even 2,000 concurrent players on Steam, according to SteamDB, with low player counts ultimately resulting in Remedy putting active development for the co-op shooter on ice in March 2026. In Remedy Entertainment's Q1 2026 earnings report, however, the game studio announced that it would not actually be sunsetting the game itself. Instead, Remedy will "remain live and playable" on PC and all platforms it launched on, and it will remain playable via PlayStation Plus, and Xbox Game Pass. Remedy says that "upkeeping the infrastructure will not incur significant costs" for the studio.
The game studio also reinforced that Control Resonant is still on-track for a 2026 launch, and that it expects 2026 to be a pivotal year, with the studio likely expecting strong launch figures for Resonant, given how popular the first Control game was. The studio didn't share exact numbers, but noted that Control continued to show strong sales figures in early 2026. The studio also confirmed that it is in the proof-of-concept phase of an as-yet unnamed new project and in full production on remakes of Max Payne 1 and 2.
ATK has become known for its impressive budget gaming peripherals that provide gamers with an alternative to flagship gaming mice and keyboards without having to empty their wallets. The brand's latest launch is the ATK Dragonfly A9 Mini, which, the brand claims, will be a world-first exclusive launch of the PixArt PAW 3955 Master sensor, which will be a custom version of the existing PAW 3955 sensor. The mouse itself looks to be a pretty close match to the compact shape of the Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2C, and it will likely weigh the same as or a little less than Logitech's design, which comes in at 51 g.
As for exact internal specifications, not much has been revealed, but it would make sense for ATK to use a Nordic 52-series MCU and either tuned Omron optical or Huano mechanical switches. Regardless of MCU, the ATK Dragonfly A9 Mini will likely feature 8 kHz polling and ATK's typical "Ice-Feel" coating. The skates deviate from Logitech's design, with two large flat skates at the front and back as well as the typical ring around the sensor. Pricing and availability have not yet been announced, but it will likely cost around the same $59.98-74.98 range as the regular Dragonfly A9 series.
1stStep.ai helps you land interviews faster by tailoring your resume to each job, writing cover letters, and scoring ATS keyword matches in about 30 seconds. Upload a resume or import from LinkedIn to see skill gap analysis, targeted rewrites, and clean, downloadable formats. Use the built-in job search to find nearby roles, bulk-apply with custom resumes, and track applications in one place. Optimize your LinkedIn profile, prep for interviews, and keep data local—parsing runs in your browser with optional backups.
Scamp is a local-first design tool that writes real TSX and CSS Modules directly into your project folder. You can draw layouts, set flex, and style elements while it saves code exactly as you would. It watches your files for changes and updates the canvas instantly for true bidirectional sync. A built-in terminal runs agents like Claude Code in your project context. No cloud or accounts—just standard files you can open in any editor and commit with git.
Bugzy is a QA workflow platform that helps teams manage what happens after bugs are found, from report to release decision. Instead of just capturing issues, Bugzy connects them to environments and release cycles, giving teams a clear view of what’s inside each release and what needs attention before shipping.
With built-in technical context like logs, network activity, and session replay, Bugzy makes issues easier to understand and reproduce. It brings structure to QA workflows, helping teams track progress, collaborate, and make confident release decisions with a clear sign-off step.
FlowBeacon is an all-in-one pool maintenance app for DIY owners and certified pool operators. It streamlines water testing, calculates chemical dosing, tracks chemical inventory, and organizes checklists and maintenance across single or multiple pools. Use analytics to spot trends, store photos and notes, and keep a complete history so your water stays clear and equipment runs smoothly.
Google’s Sameer Samat, the Android chief, has already confirmed that the company’s Android 17 will not be a Liquid Glass makeover, but don’t believe that's because the Tensor chips powering the Pixel family are underpowered in any manner. Sure, these SoCs are slower than current-generation competitors, but running Apple’s latest UI shouldn’t be a problem for them. It’s just that Google has a different vision for how its Android platform should look and behave, and there’s actually a major benefit for users with the company sticking to Material You. Google is highly conservative in background processing, which helps preserve battery life, […]
Apple's MacBook Neo has popularized a trend of high-end smartphone SoCs powering low- and mid-tier laptops. And, Samsung now appears to be readying a Chromebook version of its 2028-launching Exynos 2800 SoC to power not only a MacBook Neo rival but also take on Apple's base M7 chip. Samsung has much grander plans for the Chromebook version of its Exynos 2800 chip than merely to power a MacBook Neo competitor, and those plans revolve around tackling Apple's base M7 chip itself The tipster Schrödinger appears to be on a roll lately. Just hours back, he revealed the CPU architecture of […]
Out of the blue, Nintendo shadowdropped a Star Fox Direct and revealed the previously rumored game. It's a remake of the original 1997 Nintendo 64 title, which may be a little confusing for some, since there were already a remake and a reimagining of that classic game. Anyway, Nintendo describes it as a "cinematic take" with fully voiced dialogue, a sweeping orchestral soundtrack, all-new cutscenes, and redesigned characters with a more animal-like aesthetic. It will be released exclusively for the Nintendo Switch 2 on June 25, 2026. Among the game's additions is a prologue depicting a past mission involving James McCloud, Fox's father, that […]
CURSD measures how luck skews outcomes across major sports with the CURSD Luck Score (CLS). It blends up to 21 signals—expected goals, Pythagorean expectation, injury burden, schedule strength, and more—into a single rating from -100 (cursed) to +100 (blessed). Explore daily-updated rankings for soccer, hockey, basketball, and baseball, dive into team pages and records, and read match reports grounded in xG and advanced stats. Use the data to settle debates, spot regression candidates, and get weekly picks informed by CLS.
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