Agentic AI shopping may not be good for SEO. But there's a reason why SEOs won't need to worry about it.

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Matt Mullenweg invokes Will Smith's Oscars slap in response to Cloudflare's boat that EmDash is a successor to WordPress.

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Google's John Mueller answers question of whether splitting a sitemap is worth the extra work.

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AI led all cited reasons for U.S. job cuts in March at 25% of the total, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

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Cloudflare's WordPress competitor EmDash may be the future of CMSs, but there are six reasons why it's not that CMS today.

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Google's John Mueller answered a question about the nature of core updates: Are they rolled out in steps or all at once then refined?

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Google's Gary Illyes published a blog post explaining how Googlebot works as one client of a centralized crawling platform, with new byte-level details.

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Delay in release of WordPress 7.0 stems from concerns over the real-time collaboration feature. The focus is on targeting "extreme stability."

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Google's Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt discuss page weight growth, the 15MB crawl limit, and whether structured data is adding bloat to web pages.

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Tufts index projects 9M U.S. jobs at risk from AI. Writers and Authors, Computer Programmers, and Web and Digital Interface Designers top the risk list.

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Why Google's new AI user agent may be tied to shift of resources from Project Mariner To Gemini Agent

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Google Gemini more than doubled its referral traffic to websites in two months while ChatGPT declined from its peak, SE Ranking data shows.

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Google has started rolling out the March 2026 core update. The rollout may take up to two weeks to complete.

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Wikipedia's new AI guidelines prohibit editors from using LLMs for writing or rewriting content, with two exceptions.

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Google expands Search Live to 200+ countries, powered by its new Gemini 3.1 Flash Live model with multilingual voice and camera search in AI Mode.

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Google introduces Performance Max updates, including audience exclusions, budget projections, and expanded reporting to give advertisers more visibility and control over campaign performance.

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Why Google's recently finished Spam Update could be the beginning of something bigger that is yet to come.

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Google Analytics launched Scenario Planner and Projections to help advertisers forecast performance, optimize budgets, and plan cross-channel media spend more strategically.

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Google updated its Discussion Forum and Q&A Page structured data docs with new properties, including a way to label AI- and machine-generated content.

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Google has finished rolling out the March 2026 spam update. The update applies globally and to all languages, with rollout taking a few days.

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Research finds that persona prompts "reliably damage" factual accuracy in certain kinds of tasks but work well in others.

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Bing's AI Performance dashboard now maps grounding queries to cited pages, letting you connect AI citation data to specific URLs on your site.

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Google's John Mueller responds to a question about search results that display outdated branding for a site that rebranded over ten years ago.

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Yoast SEO founder shares that most sites don't need content management systems like WordPress anymore.

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Google is testing AI headline rewrites in Search using similar language to the earlier Discover test that became a feature.

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Google's Universal Commerce Protocol adds cart management and catalog access, highlights identity linking support, and begins simplifying Merchant Center onboarding.

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