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Google introduced a new user agent, called Google-Agent, that signals when AI agents act on users’ behalf, marking an early shift toward agent-driven web interactions. What happened. Google added Google-Agent to its list of user-triggered fetchers on March 20 and…
While initially criticized as a black box, Performance Max has evolved into a fairly critical campaign type. With each passing quarter, Google has introduced more functionality and visibility. Additional reporting is helpful, but what matters is what you can actually…
A company called Clickout Media is being called out for buying trusted news and niche sites, replacing them with AI-generated gambling content, and abandoning them after Google penalties. Some call this “parasite SEO,” but to me it sounds more like…
Like it or not, everyone is fishing in the same pond. As content marketers and SEO practitioners, we all have the same subscriptions to Semrush and other SEO tools, giving us access to the same data as our competitors. If…
In this IMHO interview, Ash Nallawalla explains why governance is the missing layer behind most visibility breakdowns. The post How To Avoid Top Down SEO Systems Failures With The Visibility Governance Maturity Model appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google expanded its structured data support for forum and Q&A pages, adding properties that help you signal reply threads, quoted content, and whether content is human- or machine-generated. The update aims to reduce how Google misreads discussion and Q&A content.…
In November 2025, Google solved a persistent SEO reporting challenge: separating branded from non-branded search performance directly in Google Search Console (GSC). The feature is now fully rolled out to eligible properties. For years, we’ve relied on regular expression (regex)…
Content published before and after a model’s cutoff lives in different systems, shaping how brands appear in AI-generated answers. The post When The Training Data Cutoff Becomes A Ranking Factor appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Why the return of scaled, low-differentiation content is putting pressure on Google’s systems and raising the risk of a broader intervention. The post Are We Due Another Florida-Style Update? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
LinkedIn Ads consistently delivers some of the highest-quality B2B leads in paid media. But it also has a reputation for being very expensive — for both cost-per-click (CPC) and cost-per-lead (CPL) metrics. Because of that reputation, I wanted to test…