What Google's systems actually do with click data and what it means for SEO and rankings.

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Google posted a GEO Partner Manager role in its ads sales organization, using “Generative Engine Optimization” terminology in an ads-side job description.

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Google and WooCommerce announced today that the Google for WooCommerce extension now enables merchants to sell products directly through YouTube. The update connects WooCommerce stores to YouTube channels enabling them to tap into 2.7 billion shoppers. Merchants can tag products in videos and Shorts, where they appear as shoppable cards during playback and in a dedicated shopping tab on the channel. The cards are pulled from the merchant’s existing product catalog They stay synced automatically through Google Merchant Center The same data is reused across YouTube, Shopping, and ads Connect WooCommerce Stores To YouTube Shoppers WooCommerce is an open source […]

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Digiday reports an early ChatGPT ads manager build now shows $3-$5 CPC bids for some pilot advertisers, as OpenAI continues expanding its ad tools.

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Google Ads now enables call recording by default for eligible AI-qualified call leads, changing how call conversions are evaluated in the U.S. and Canada.

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Google announced new tools that further transforms Search to a tasked-based platform.

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The European Commission proposed Google share data with rival search engines and qualifying AI chatbots in the EU/EEA.

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Google has outlined best practices that can increase the likelihood of "Read more" deep links appearing.

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Research on 68 million AI crawler visits show what SEOs should do to improve AI search performance

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Stanford's 2026 AI Index covers 400+ pages of data. Here's what search professionals should take from the adoption numbers, reliability gaps, and transparency decline.

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Google is updating AI Mode in Chrome with side-by-side page viewing and a plus menu for adding tabs, images, and files as context.

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New Ahrefs data shows Reddit pages appeared often in ChatGPT retrievals but rarely as visible citations.

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Gen Z workers surveyed by Gallup said they would trust work done without AI over AI-assisted output by more than 2-to-1, with the gap widening.

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IAB's annual report shows search ad growth fell while social media and digital video posted stronger year-over-year gains.

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A recently updated patent describes how an automated assistant can circle back to a user when an answer is available at a later date.

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Google replaces Dynamic Search Ads with AI Max. Learn what’s changing, when migrations begin, and what advertisers should do before September upgrades.

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Google just handed SEOs a new way to hit spammy sites with manual actions and get them deindexed from search results.

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A Google Search Console glitch resulted in a message to site owners implying that impressions have only just started being reported.

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Google is rolling out Skills to Gemini in Chrome on desktop, letting users save prompts as reusable one-click tools and run them across selected tabs.

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Google's John Mueller lists nine scenarios that lead Google to choose one URL as the canonical over another.

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Google added back button hijacking to its malicious practices spam policy. Enforcement starts June 15, 2026. Sites have two months to remove offending code.

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A recent announcement by Google signals the start of a massive change in how the internet and search work.

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Sundar Pichai outlines search as an “agent manager,” signaling a shift from link-based results to task completion and multi-step workflows.

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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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