WordPress delays rollout of real-time collaboration. Co-founder Mullenweg cites WPE lawsuit as a distraction hampering progress.

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Google's John Mueller and Martin Splitt shared their vibe coding experiences, noting that AI tools still need specific SEO instructions to work well.

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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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Y Combinator general partner Aaron Epstein was joined by Raphael Schaad, founder of Cron that was sold to Notion, to discuss common mistakes made with AI designed websites. They identified seven common mistakes vibe coders made with their websites that should be avoided. Positive And Negatives The podcast started out by acknowledging that being able to vibe code a website is a positive thing that doesn’t have to turn out poorly just because they’re not a designer. Then they started visiting vibe coded websites and encountering multiple issues that fit into the following seven categories. 1. Generic Design Trends The […]

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Google's John Mueller answers if Preferred Sources overrides ranking signals. Could it be a "trust button" signal?

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Google addressed growing concerns around repetitive AI-generated ads, advertiser controls, and how brands can maintain differentiation at scale.

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Microsoft's Bing team published a framework describing how grounding for AI-generated answers differs from traditional search across five measurement areas.

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Google is adding subscription labels, inline links, discussion previews, and desktop link previews to its AI Search experiences.

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WordPress is losing market share, with over 10% of sites abandoned. Astro is downloaded 2.5 million times a week.

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OpenAI officially launches self-serve ChatGPT ads with CPC bidding, conversion tracking, and expanded advertiser access through its new Ads Manager platform.

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Google is testing a cryptographic protocol for verifying bot traffic that could make unwanted crawlers easier to identify.

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Google is testing Web Bot Auth, an experimental protocol for verifying some AI agent requests with cryptographic signatures alongside existing checks.

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A lawsuit alleges Google's AI Overview falsely identified musician Ashley MacIsaac as a sex offender. It seeks $1.5M in damages.

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Google previews Meridian GeoX, Meridian Studio, Data Manager updates, and visual Google tag setup ahead of Google Marketing Live.

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Google says a new wave of users are learning that Search can handle more complex questions, changing how they search.

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Google says AI's ability to surface common information makes human experience and subjective insights more valuable for content.

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Google's Liz Reid unpacks consequential changes to user search behavior that also impact how to approach SEO.

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Google's Liz Reid says AI Mode is suited to complex follow-up queries, while browsy searches may still benefit from the full search results

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Google's Director of Software Engineering recommended using AI to boost providing value and said, "clearly, this is something we can advise."

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Google's Nikola Todorovic said AI can act "like a kind of a black box" while explaining why machine learning was hard to deploy in Search.

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Data shows YouTube, Reddit, and aggregators lost US search visibility after Google's March core update, while brand and government sites gained.

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Ask.com, the search engine formerly known as Ask Jeeves, has shut down. IAC discontinued the search business after nearly 30 years.

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Alphabet and Microsoft earnings show search ad revenue growing while Google Network revenue fell to $6.97B, continuing a multi-quarter decline.

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Google's Preferred Sources is now available as a global signal that can help SEO for Top Stories and Google Discover.

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Google's web.dev guidance advises developers to treat AI agents as a distinct visitor type and recommends practices similar to accessibility practices.

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Google repeats the bounce clicks claim. Alphabet and Microsoft report from the revenue side. More in this week's SEO Pulse.

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Aleyda Solis's Similarweb analysis of 10 markets shows that AI search clicks frequently redirect to local domains, with the distribution differing by industry.

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Google adds AI Brief and text disclaimers to AI Max. See how new controls help regulated advertisers adopt automation while maintaining compliance and messaging accuracy.

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Google expands AI Max to Shopping and Travel campaigns. Learn what’s changing, how it works, and what advertisers should prepare for ahead of broader rollout.

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Microsoft says Bing reached 1B monthly active users, as search ad revenue grew 12% and Edge gained share for the 20th straight quarter.

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Alphabet's Q1 2026 earnings put Google Search revenue at $60.4 billion, up 19% YoY, as Pichai tied AI experiences to higher Search usage.

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A comparison of 5 AI search engines show they cite different sources but converge on citing brands, a key to SEO for AI search.

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OpenAI crawl activity roughly tripled after GPT-5, with OAI-SearchBot now generating more log events than GPTBot.

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Google is testing "Ask YouTube," a conversational search feature that returns AI summaries with cited videos. Available to US Premium users.

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Microsoft previewed four new AI reporting features for Bing Webmaster Tools at SEO Week, including Citation Share and grounding query intent labels.

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GoDaddy accidentally transferred someone's domain name to someone else then refused to fix the problem.

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A randomized field experiment found Google AI Overviews reduced organic clicks on triggered queries by 38%, while user experience ratings stayed unchanged.

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Seer Interactive says brand-cited AI Overview CTR fell 61% as impressions grew faster than clicks across cited pages.

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Google’s Liz Reid told Bloomberg AI Overviews cut “bounce clicks,” not deeper visits, but Google still hasn’t shared data backing that claim.

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Google documents deep link best practices and signals robots.txt doc expansion. The EU proposes Google share search data with rivals and AI chatbots.

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Google updated their spam reporting tool to warn they won't process reports that contain personal information.

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Google may expand its unsupported robots.txt rules list using HTTP Archive data and could broaden how it handles common misspellings of disallow.

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OpenAI's public crawler docs now list OAI-AdsBot, a bot that may visit pages submitted as ChatGPT ads to check policy compliance and ad relevance.

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Google adds view-through conversion optimization to Demand Gen and expands Commerce Media Suite support.

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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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