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.

The post Google’s Mueller: Fix Conflicting Metadata, Don’t Test It appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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.

The post AI Recognizes 96% Of Brands But Mentions Almost None, New Study Finds appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Google's John Mueller explains the SEO impact of random URLs injected into web pages by CMS platforms.

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Google is putting Top Stories carousels inside AI Overviews, raising the stakes on its new AI opt-out setting in Search Console.

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Is Google still a search engine? Its Q2 2026 earnings call suggests the answer is changing, and website owners should plan accordingly.

The post The Future Of Search & AI: What I Learned From Google’s Latest Earnings Call appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Data ties higher AI detector scores to lower positions and to fewer pages in Google's index, though heavily flagged pages still rank in top 10.

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Google's DMCA case against scraper SerpApi collapsed because SearchGuard protects ad revenue, not copyright. The same reasoning weakens every site's anti-bot defense against AI crawlers.

The post Google Lost Its Scraping Case – Now You Have To Pick A Side On The Open Web appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Agentic protocols are multiplying with no consensus standard in sight. Own the layers underneath instead of chasing a winner.

The post Why Data Integrity Is The New Technical SEO: From Crawling To Trust appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Amazon pulled out of U.S. Google Shopping in July 2025 and still hasn't returned. Here's what a year of auction data reveals for retailers.

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A new SEO test shows what happens when Google's Web Rendering Service continues past five seconds: Google pauses time with a virtual clock.

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Shared Claude chats showed up in Google. We checked the pages and found a noindex header sitting behind a robots.txt block that keeps Google out.

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A new report finds ChatGPT citation rates vary sharply by topic, with travel answers citing sources far more often than education answers.

The post ChatGPT Links Out Most On Travel Queries, Data Shows appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

AI sends barely any traffic, but the traffic it sends is twice as engaged. Here's why publishers should care.

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Before your next AI video goes live: Audit disclosure against YouTube's actual policy, produce below the ceiling, and name the human decision-maker.

The post AI Video After Sora: 3 Updates You Should Make Before You Publish appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Google's August 17 update pushes budget-limited Target CPA and Target ROAS campaigns toward their stated targets, risking higher costs unless advertisers audit and adjust first.

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