Perplexity Says Cloudflare Is Blocking Legitimate AI Assistants
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…
Why Your PPC Structure Should Mirror Your Business Model
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 Delists And Blocks Perplexity From Crawling Websites
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…
ChatGPT Nears 700 Million Weekly Users, OpenAI Announces
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…
How AI Search Should Be Shaping Your CEO’s & CMO’s Strategy
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…
Which SEO Jobs AI Will Reshape & Which Might Disappear
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 Test If Sergey Brin’s Threat Prompts Improve AI Accuracy
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…
5 Ways To Prove The Real Value Of SEO In The AI Era
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 Backtracks On Plans For URL Shortener Service
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…
What Is AI Mode? – Moz
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 Confirms It Uses Something Similar To MUVERA
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…
Chrome Trial Aims To Fix Core Web Vitals For JavaScript-Heavy Sites
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…
2025 Core Web Vitals Challenge: WordPress Versus Everyone
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…
Merging SEO And Content Using Your Knowledge Graph To AI-Proof Content
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 Prioritizes Search, Sees 5X Growth in AI-Powered Answers
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 Is Pulling Shared ChatGPT Chats From Google Search
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 URL Removal Bug Enabled Attackers To Deindex URLs
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…
Vulnerability Uncovered In Wix Vibe Coding Platform
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 Recommends lastmod Tags For AI Search Indexing
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…
Industry Pioneer Reveals Why SEO Isn’t Working & What To Refocus On
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…
Should I Still Invest In SEO? (Yes, But Not In The Old Way)
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,…
How to Track Website Metrics With One Free, Privacy-Friendly Tool
There are plenty of website metrics out there, and just as many tools to track them. So, to clear up the confusion, I’ll show you the key metrics that really…
Query Fan-Out Technique in AI Mode: New Details From Google
In a recent interview, Google’s VP of Product for Search, Robby Stein, shared new information about how query fan-out works in AI Mode. Although the existence of query fan-out has…
WooCommerce Customer Review Plugin Vulnerability Affects 80,000+ Sites
An advisory was issued about a vulnerability in the Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin, which is installed on over 80,000 websites. The plugin enables unauthenticated attackers to launch a stored…
WordPress AI Engine Plugin Vulnerability Affects Up To 100,000 Websites
A security advisory was issued for the AI Engine WordPress plugin, installed on over 100,000 websites, the fourth one this month. Rated 8.8, this vulnerability enables attackers with only subscriber-level…
B2B Marketing Is Starting to Look a Lot Like B2C (And It’s Working)
B2B marketers are taking a page from the B2C playbook and seeing real results. According to LinkedIn’s B2B Marketing Benchmark Report, strategies once considered too informal for business audiences, like…
Why Your SEO Isn’t Working, And It’s Not The Team’s Fault
Over the years, I have been asked to audit numerous enterprise search programs, transforming them into world-class solutions. Time and again, I found that the SEO teams were smart, capable,…
How AI Is Revealing The True Potential Of Individual-Centric Marketing
A few weeks ago, I fell down a rabbit hole of cottagecore TikTok and Japanese jazz-funk from the ’70s. I didn’t search for it. I didn’t ask for it. But,…
Research Shows Differences In ChatGPT And Google AIO Answers
New research from enterprise search marketing platform BrightEdge discovered differences in how Google and ChatGPT surface content. These differences matter to digital marketers and content creators because they show how…
How To Win in Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)
This post was sponsored by Peec.ai. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. The first step of any good GEO campaign is creating something that LLM-driven answer…