Google's AI search opt-out is rolling out as Top Stories appear inside AI Overviews. What the control covers and what businesses can measure before deciding.

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Cloudflare and three rival browsers agreed on one protocol. That's rare. It still only solves half of the agentic access problem.

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This week’s SEO Pulse covers expanded Search Console social reporting, Ahrefs’ AI-content ranking analysis, AI opt-out implications, and metadata guidance.

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Google said that spammed search box pages may become a site quality issue and dealt with as if they were hacked.

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WP Engine announced Commerce Connect, a safe way for fast-growth brands to modernize and scale while preserving design, SEO, and user experience.

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New Similarweb figures reveal how narrowly ChatGPT distributes its outbound clicks, and what that concentration means for publishers chasing AI referral traffic.

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Eight weeks of AI Overviews data in Search Console reveals impressions without clicks, inflated position-one rankings, and misleading averages that can mask real traffic losses.

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Anthropic's Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, explains how to become one of the top 1% of users who get things done.

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A language model has no node to feed. Here's why on-site entity work moves Google's graph and never touches what the model learned.

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Five articles explain why AI citations fluctuate, where they come from, what makes them persist, and how to audit content for stronger AI visibility.

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Kevin Indig's data across 1,094 categories shows that only 15.2% have a clear ChatGPT owner, and citations barely predict which brand gets named.

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Treat Europe as one Google market, and you'll miss Seznam, Ecosia, Zalando, and a regulatory layer that can close a door overnight.

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Search Console platform properties are now open to everyone worldwide, and Google has published a guide to reading your social and video search data.

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Lead-gen and ecommerce managers: two Google Ads bidding changes landed this summer. Here's what shifts, what doesn't, and which campaigns to audit first.

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Perplexity never skips the web, so every query is winnable. Here's what its live answer stream reveals about citations, video, and local.

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Google announced version 0.2 of the Open Knowledge Format, introducing five new trust signals.

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Google's John Mueller says if sites are serving conflicting metadata, they should fix the conflict, not test which source wins.

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Metricool data shows views per long-form YouTube post increased while estimated ad revenue and average view duration fell.

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Google's Gary Illyes said he would need to check whether pushing an unavailable_after date forward on every renewal causes problems. He gave a first read.

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Find out how AI accurately describes brands but struggles with visibility. Explore Victorious' findings in this insightful report.

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