SEO news from around the world
Global companies today face a paradox. Search is more important than ever, yet how it’s managed across markets is often inconsistent, inefficient, and misaligned with broader digital goals. Too often,…
A new study commissioned by Meta and conducted by Deloitte finds that advanced personalization strategies are associated with a 16 percentage point increase in conversions compared to more basic efforts.…
Ecosia has begun delivering its own search results for the first time in its 16-year history, starting with users in France who will receive a portion of results from a…
Google’s latest blog post claims AI is making Search more useful than ever. Google says people are asking new kinds of questions, clicking on more links, and spending more time…
OpenAI has released two new open-weight language models under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. These models are designed to deliver strong real-world performance while running on consumer hardware, including a…
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.1, an upgrade to its flagship model that’s said to deliver better performance in coding, reasoning, and autonomous task handling. The new model is available…
This week’s question comes from Xaris, who asks: “Why, even though I have correctly composed and linked the sitemap to a client’s website, and I have checked everything, am I…
Search is changing, and not just because of Google updates. Buyers are changing how they find, evaluate, and decide. They are researching in AI summaries, asking questions out loud to…
In 2024, Google turned the SERP into a storefront. In 2025, it turned it into a marketplace with an AI-based mind of its own. Over the past 12 months, Google…
Perplexity published a response to Cloudflare’s claims that it disrespects robots.txt and engages in stealth crawling. Perplexity argues that Cloudflare is mischaracterizing AI Assistants as web crawlers, saying that they…
A lot of PPC accounts are built from the bottom up. You start with keyword research, group them by themes or match types, maybe throw in some location targeting, and…
Cloudflare announced that they delisted Perplexity’s crawler as a verified bot and are now actively blocking Perplexity and all of its stealth bots from crawling websites. Cloudflare acted in response…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is on pace to reach 700 million weekly active users, according to a statement this week from Nick Turley, VP and head of the ChatGPT app. The milestone…
AI is rapidly changing the rules of SEO. From generative ranking to vector search, the new rules are not only technical but also reshaping how business leaders make decisions. Join…
You’ve probably seen the headlines like: “AI will kill SEO,” “AI will replace marketing roles,” or the latest panic: “Is your digital marketing job safe?” Well, maybe not those exact…
Researchers tested whether unconventional prompting strategies, such as threatening an AI (as suggested by Google co-founder Sergey Brin), affect AI accuracy. They discovered that some of these unconventional prompting strategies…
As SEO evolves with AI optimization, generative engine optimization, and answer engine optimization, brands and marketers must rethink their SEO strategies to stay competitive. Instead of focusing solely on traditional…
Google announced that they will continue to support some links created by the deprecated goo.gl URL shortening service, saying that 99% of the shortened URLs receive no traffic. They were…
So key points, as I say, it’s a tab like News and like those other things. Unlike News and like those other things, it doesn’t get broken out unfortunately in…
Google’s Gary Illyes answered questions during the recent Search Central Live Deep Dive in Asia about whether or not they use the new Multi‑Vector Retrieval via Fixed‑Dimensional Encodings (MUVERA) retrieval…
Google Chrome is testing a new way to measure Core Web Vitals in Single Page Applications (SPAs), which is a long-standing blind spot in performance tracking that affects SEO audits…
The Core Web Vitals Technology Report shows the top-ranked content management systems by Core Web Vitals (CWV) for the month of June (July’s statistics aren’t out yet). The breakout star…
New AI platforms, powered by generative technologies like Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, Grok, and countless specialized chatbots, are rapidly becoming the front door for digital discovery. We’ve entered an era…
Reddit is investing heavily in search, with CEO Steve Huffman announcing plans to position the platform as a destination for people seeking answers online. In its Q2 shareholder letter, Reddit…
OpenAI has rolled back a feature that allowed ChatGPT conversations shared via link to appear in Google Search results. The company confirms it has disabled the toggle that enabled shared…
Google recently fixed a bug that enabled anyone to anonymously use an official Google tool to remove any URL from Google search and get away with it. The tool had…
Cloud security company Wiz discovered a critical flaw in Wix’s Base44 vibe coding platform that enabled attackers to bypass authentication and gain access to private enterprise applications. The relative simplicity…
Bing has updated its sitemap guidance with a renewed focus on the lastmod tag, highlighting its role in AI-powered search to determine which pages need to be recrawled. While real-time…
Bill Hunt is a true pioneer in the industry, with more than 25 years of experience working on the websites of some of the largest multinationals. Having built two large…
How users are starting to interact with the internet has changed and soon will be unrecognizable from the internet we’ve grown comfortable with. With Google integrating AI-powered features into Search,…