Google's Mueller answers whether links pass negative signals and says unhelpful links may be ignored.

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SISTRIX analyzed German search results after the March core update and found uneven visibility shifts across categories, with some site types hit harder than others.

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An analysis of 400+ websites found five characteristics associated with estimated organic traffic gains.

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Google's CEO says that informational queries will become agentic search and that search itself will be an agent manager.

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Akamai breaks down which AI bots are hitting publishing, who operates them, and why fetcher bots may pose a more immediate risk.

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Google's March core update finished rolling out. Here's what to know about the rollout and when to check your data.

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Google's John Mueller answers question about how Google handles multiple URLs and duplicate content.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai said AI models could expose more software vulnerabilities and agreed it was plausible AI is affecting zero-day exploit markets.

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Google explains why it doesn't matter if websites are getting heavier and the takeaway has everything to do with SEO.

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Google's John Mueller says that those who self-identify as SEO gurus are clueless imposters.

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An Ipsos survey of U.S. adults found 63% say ads in AI search results would reduce trust. Early advertiser data offers limited, mixed signals.

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ChatGPT Search is citing fewer websites per response after GPT-5.3 Instant became the default experience.

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Will WordPress's troubled real-time collaboration feature be worth delaying the release of WP 7.0?

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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.

The post New AI Jobs Index Ranks 784 Occupations By Loss Risk appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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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