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

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

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

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

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

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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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