Ahrefs just ran a study on how often AI assistants hallucinate links. The team tested thousands of prompts and found…
EU Hits Google with $3.5B Antitrust Fine
The European Commission has fined Google $3.4 billion for abusing its dominance in advertising technology, marking one of the largest…
Google.com/AI Mode Now Opens Search AI Mode
Friday is referred to politics as “taking out the trash” day or the “Friday News Dump” where any bad stories…
Ever Use Microsofts Windows 11 Internet Speed Test?
If you haven’t yet poked around Bing’s built-in speed test (at bing.com/tools/speedtest), you’re in for a treat. It’s a slick,…
Chrome Stays. Monopoly Plays Continue. But Peekaboo: Search Data Isn’t So Secret Anymore
So Here we are today. Alright, SEO aficionados, strap in- Google just pulled off the mother of all courtroom dodge…
Self Hosted Website Search Engines are Easier than Ever!
As referrals fall from search engines, we believe there will be sites that forgo indexing. One thing that the big…
Getting your Business “On the Map” in Chatgpt – MapBox Local Search Comes to ChatGPT
If your business is a brick-n-mortar that relies on foot traffic or serves a specific geographic area, showing up in…
CloudFlare Releases AI Crawl Control out of Private Beta
Cloudflare has released to general availability of AI Crawl Control, a novel feature that provides website owners with enhanced authority…
When a Single Query Costs $5,000: A Devs’ Nightmare with Google Cloud’s BigQuery
Multiple Solana users reported receiving multi‑thousand‑dollar bills after executing just one – or a few – queries via Google Cloud’s…
Google Update – Aug 26
Google has updated..
Hands-On ChatGPT SEO Techniques from Top Practitioners
Recently at Pubcon Austin a group of SEO’s sat around at lunch and compared AI stories. Things like how we…
We Have A new Chapter in the Saga of OpenAI Using Google SERPs?
The Information is reporting that ChatGPT is sourcing some Google Serps from the well known SerpAPI service. Lets catch you…
Bings Big Reward Program Giveways – A Lesson in Gamification
Microsoft is pushing its Rewards program harder than ever with its latest sweepstakes, promising more prizes and more winners than…
Google Gives you 3 free Veo 3 Attempts This Weekend
Want to try Veo 3 and don’t have a subscription to Google Gemini plus? Now is your chance to use…
Tracking #text fragments from Google – This is SEO Gold
As we continue this unwelcome journey from Querying search engines to Prompting search engine, we seem to be loosing more and more SEO data. We have to find new ways to track visitors. Googles adoption of text fragments gives us a fresh opportunity to do that. Especially in the ‘snippet’ AIO era where Google is linking to #textfragments more than they every have.
Cracking the Code on Internal BackLinking
… using ChatGPT for internal linking isn’t as simple as dropping in a prompt and watching SEO gold appear. Because internal linking requires learned context and that is something ChatGPT doesn’t handle well by default. It needs to see the full page to understand the surrounding content and to avoid boilerplate html like footers and nav menus. That level of awareness isn’t built-in unless you prompt it carefully.
New Study Shows Google’s AI Push Is Slashing Publisher Traffic
Yet another new report shows that Google’s AI-generated answers is significantly cutting into traffic to publishers. The analysis from Digitial…
Google’s Preferred Sources feature Available
Google’s Preferred Sources feature rolls out to users in the U.S. and India after being tested in Labs—lets individual users…