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.
The post Research Shows Where Persona Prompting Works And When It Backfires appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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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Google's John Mueller implies that Googlebot crawling 404 pages is a positive sign about that site's content.
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An SEO experiment shows how easily misinformation ranks in Google Search and spreads to other sites.
The post SEO Test Shows Itβs Trivial To Rank Misinformation On Google appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google's John Mueller says why migrating a site to HTTPS may cause a site to lose all rankings.
The post Google Explains Why HTTPS Migration May Negatively Impact SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Chartbeat data shows search referral traffic fell 60% for small publishers over two years, compared with 22% for large publishers, per an Axios report.
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SISTRIX analyzed over 100 million German keywords and found AI Overviews reduce the position one click rate from 27% to 11%. Impact varies by industry.
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Google confirmed it removed "What People Suggest" from health searches. Additionally, the company announced new AI health tools for YouTube.
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