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Google Marketing Live may be over, but advertisers still have questions. To help answer some of the biggest ones, Google Ads Liaison Ginny Marvin joined Julie Bacchini and the PPC Chat community for an extended Q&A covering everything from AI…
Digital Content Next (DCN) sent the Common Crawl Foundation a cease-and-desist letter demanding that it stop scraping and distributing protected publisher content. The U.S. trade group, which represents major digital publishers (e.g., the AP, the New York Times, NBC Universal,…
By now, you understand that LLMs are probabilistic systems and that AI answers are highly variable. That fact has convinced a lot of people that prompt tracking is extra noise. But discounting prompt tracking as nonsense is the wrong conclusion.…
Google can be directly liable for false claims in AI Overviews, a German court ruled. The Regional Court of Munich found that AI-generated summaries are Google’s own content and not protected as traditional search results are. The court issued a…
New data shows most U.S. Google searches end without a click, with a shrinking share of traffic reaching websites outside Google’s ecosystem. The post Google Search Sends 23% Of Queries To The Open Web appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
SEO reports often contain solid research, including keyword data, technical findings, competitor insights, content gaps, and recommendations. The problem starts when stakeholders finish reading and still don’t know what should happen next. For example, a report might say internal linking…
Claude referral traffic has grown almost 4x this year, making it the fastest growing among AI platforms, though still the smallest source. The post Claude Is The Fastest-Growing AI Traffic Source, Per New Data appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
AI can infer relationships from content, but first-party knowledge is more accurate. Here’s why organizations need to own that layer explicitly. The post The Integrity Graph: The Missing Layer In Your AI Visibility Audit appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
BrightEdge research suggests AI engines assign citation roles to Reddit and LinkedIn for ranking purposes. The post Research Suggests AI Engines Assign Ranking Roles To Sources appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Most people aren’t using AI the way GEO discussions often assume. Two surveys of AI users conducted by Stella Rising found that many prompts still look remarkably similar to traditional search queries. (Disclosure: I’m the VP of SEO at Stella…