OpenAI's ad rules now allow some health and finance advertisers in ChatGPT, while placement restrictions still apply to sensitive conversations.

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New data finds no difference in how OpenAI's in-house search index served licensed and unlicensed sites.

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Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks in Claude text and sign generated files.

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YouTube announced Partner Program changes taking effect in 2027, including new Shorts earnings rules, activity checks, and a terms deadline.

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Google announced that its Ask Advisor AI agent will compare campaign performance in Google Analytics against anonymized averages from similar businesses.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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