Taking a site offline to patch PHP? Serve a 503 from outside PHP and keep robots.txt reachable. Days of server errors may get URLs dropped.

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Chrome and Firefox now display JPEG XL, but Google says it isn't currently supported in Google Images or Discover previews.

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Google's John Mueller says raw and percent-encoded brackets are different URLs and recommends using one form across links, canonical tags, and sitemaps.

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Cloudflare says its network signals helped OpenAI index hundreds of millions of new pages for ChatGPT search.

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Search's share of North American publisher pageviews fell to 12%, but a lower share alone doesn't show fewer search pageviews.

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Meta removed training from the crawling clause in its upcoming Commercial Terms. The permission to crawl sites tied to business users is still in place.

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A Chinese AI lab opened its search engine to developers. Each result carries a page-level authority tier, and DeepSeek says it filters GEO manipulation.

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New terms let Meta crawl sites tied to business users and use the content to train its products, widening rights ad buyers had already granted.

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Google is accepting applications from forums and social platforms for a UGC pipeline separate from crawling.

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ChatGPT-attributed traffic fell sharply in several analytics datasets this month, and analysts tie the drop to ChatGPT links that open without tracking tags.

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Universal Cart is rolling out across Search and the Gemini app, with checkout inside the cart or a one-way handoff to the store's own site.

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Google is changing how links appear in AI Mode and AI Overviews, moving inline links higher and expanding the carousels that highlight Preferred Sources.

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Google's new Search Central video series tackles unusual technical SEO questions, starting with emoji, non-English characters, and keywords in your URLs.

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Bing's AI Performance report adds a view that sorts cited queries into topics and lists queries where other sites are cited but your site isn't.

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Cloudflare's Disallow AI Training keeps mixed-use crawlers available for search. Google and Apple honor training opt-outs; Bing robots.txt support is pending.

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Google is testing a Search Console pilot that pays publishers when their content contributes to Gemini, AI Overviews, and AI Mode answers.

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Google redesigned Search results across the EEA, Business Profile posts get view counts again, and ChatGPT Shopping now leans harder on product feeds.

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Google's developer docs for the Web Search Service API show a partner-only path to full-web search results.

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A University of Washington paper estimates AI Overviews reduced search referrals to Wikipedia by about 5%, a metric Google disputes.

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Google says Business Profile post view counts are rolling out globally for posts published in the past 18 months, combining views from Search and Maps.

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