Coursera Acquiring Udemy
Coursera has agreed to acquire Udemy in a stock-for-stock transaction that will combine two large online learning platforms with consumer and enterprise businesses. Under the terms of the deal, each…
Who Benefits When The Line Between SEO And GEO Is Blurred
The search industry is entering a transition that many people still treat as a footnote. The systems consumers rely on are changing, and the way information is gathered, summarized, and…
Provenance & Trust In Information
When Emily Epstein shared her perspective on LinkedIn about how “people didn’t stop reading books when encyclopedias came out,” it sparked a conversation about the future of primary sources in…
How Will AI Mode Impact Local SEO?
In organic search, disruption has always been the norm, but the integration of AI into Google Search – with AI Overviews and now AI Mode – is not an incremental…
SEOs Should Not Dismiss Geo for Being Low-Traffic
What even is SEO? Back (5+ years ago), when I was working as a consultant, most of our clients had SEO teams that were responsible for their sites’ Google Analytics…
Improve Any Link Building Strategy With One Small Change
Link building outreach is not just blasting out emails. There’s also a conversation that happens when someone emails you back with a skeptical question. The following are tactics to use…
Questions The CEO Should Be Asking About Their Website (But Rarely Does)
Few CEOs ever ask hard questions about their company website. They’ll sign off on multimillion-dollar redesigns, approve ad budgets, and endorse “digital transformation” plans, but rarely ask how much enterprise…
The Facts About Trust Change Everything About Link Building
Trust is commonly understood to be a standalone quality that is passed between sites regardless of link neighborhood or topical vertical. What I’m going to demonstrate is that “trust” is…
Google’s AI Mode Personal Context Features “Still To Come”
Seven months after Google teased “personal context” for AI Mode at Google I/O, Nick Fox, Google’s SVP of Knowledge and Information, says the feature still is not ready for a…
Google Gemini 3 Flash Becomes Default In Gemini App & AI Mode
Google released Gemini 3 Flash, expanding its Gemini 3 model family with a faster model that’s now the default in the Gemini app. Gemini 3 Flash is also rolling out…
Google Updates JavaScript SEO Docs With Canonical Advice
Google updated its JavaScript SEO documentation with new guidance on handling canonical URLs for JavaScript-rendered sites. The documentation update also adds corresponding guidance to Google’s best practices for consolidating duplicate…
Worry-Free Remarketing, Or A Waste Of Money?
Are you tired of remarketing headaches in your Google Ads account? In a time when we’re all facing increasing privacy restrictions, browser setting changes, and complex tracking setups, building reliable…
Five Ways To Boost Traffic To Informational Sites
Informational sites can easily decline into a crisis of search visibility. No site is immune. Here are five ways to manage content to maintain steady traffic, increase the ability to…
A Guide to Web Guide: Our Hybrid Search Future
These 10 fan-out types are loosely organized as a journey. What is the searcher trying to achieve, and what are the steps they might take along that journey toward an…
Apple Safari Update Enables Tracking Two Core Web Vitals Metrics
Safari 26.2 adds support for measuring Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and the Event Timing API, which is used to calculate Interaction to Next Paint (INP). This enables site owners to…
Why Google’s Spam Problem Is Getting Worse
Spam is back in search. And in a big way. Honestly, I don’t think Google can handle this at all. The scale is unprecedented. They went after publishers manually with…
How To Track User Journey In GA4 To Make SEO Wins More Visible
Inside many companies, SEO reporting still relies heavily on mainstream metrics like keyword tracking, traffic graphs, etc., while the leadership side asks a different question: “How much revenue did this…
Eight Overlooked Reasons Why Sites Lose Rankings In Core Updates
There are multiple reasons why a site can drop in rankings due to a core algorithm update. The reasons may reflect specific changes to the way Google interprets content, a…
20 SEO Experts Offer Their Advice For 2026
This year has been a continuation of learning and understanding about how AI impacts our industry. It’s been less about the chaos of the initial disruption and more about “how…
Google AI Mode & AI Overviews Cite Different URLs, Per Ahrefs Report
Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews can produce answers with similar meaning while citing different sources, according to new data from Ahrefs. The report, published on the Ahrefs blog, analyzed…
Google Explains Why Staggered Site Migrations Impact SEO Outcome
Google’s John Mueller recently answered a question about how Google responds to staggered site moves where a site is partially moved from one domain to another. He said a standard…
Google Warns Noindex Can Block JavaScript From Running
Google updated its JavaScript SEO documentation to clarify that noindex tags may prevent rendering and JavaScript execution, blocking changes. When Google encounters `noindex`, it may skip rendering and JavaScript execution. …
Are AI Mode and AI Overviews Just Different Versions of the Same Answer? (730K Responses Studied)
Google’s AI Mode generates responses that are 4x longer than AI Overviews (on average). When we first noticed this, the natural assumption was that AI Mode simply expands on the…
Googlebot Tops AI Crawler Traffic
Cloudflare published its sixth annual Year in Review, offering a comprehensive looks at Internet traffic, security, and AI crawler activity across 2025. The report draws on data from Cloudflare’s network,…
It’s Your Data, Not The AI)
If it looks like an AI hallucination problem, and sounds like an AI hallucination problem, it’s probably a data hygiene problem. I’ve sat through dozens of demos this year where…
WooCommerce Is Integrating Agentic AI Capabilities
WooCommerce announced that it will roll out integration with Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Suite, which will enable AI shopping assistants to conduct transactions. Agentic AI Shopping Agentic AI seems a long…
Introducing the branded queries filter in Search Console | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers
Thursday, November 20, 2025 Following the Query groups launch last month, we’re happy to announce we’re providing an additional tool to analyze the performance of your website by query type…
Streamline your Search Console analysis with the new AI-powered configuration | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers
Thursday, December 4, 2025 The Search Console Performance report is a powerful tool to analyze organic search traffic, but finding the exact data you need can take more time than…
Introducing social channels in Search Console | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers
Monday, December 8, 2025 Many companies and organizations manage their digital presence using different platforms, including social media websites, in addition to their own websites. This aligns well with users…
Introducing weekly and monthly views in Search Console | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 Analyzing search traffic trends is a core part of SEO. While granular, daily data is essential for spotting immediate issues or spikes, it can sometimes be…