SEO — search engine optimization — is the three-decade-old practice of earning visibility in ranked search results. Full entry for SEO in the glossary.
BrightEdge has rebranded Autopilot — its internal-linking automation tool with a decade of production history — as "Site Agent," now the first of three…
Via BrightEdge Blog ↗ · Sep 3 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO, SEO
Across the 400-plus news publishers NewzDash tracks, Google Discover supplied 67.51% of Google traffic in the fourth quarter of 2025 against 27% for Web…
Via Advanced Web Ranking ↗ · Aug 31 · · Research, Google Search, SEO
Everything published about the Coati algorithm traces to a single source: Hyung-Jin Kim, Google's VP of Search, speaking at the SMX Next keynote on…
Via Google Search Central ↗ · Sep 1 · · Google Search, SEO, AEO
A listicle with an old or unreadable publish date had 56% lower odds of reaching the Google top 3, the single strongest factor in a Growth Memo analysis…
Via Growth Memo (Kevin Indig) ↗ · Aug 31 · · Research, Google Search, SEO
Google's share of listicles holding position 1 fell from roughly 19-20% in January 2026 to about 15-16% in August, while top-3 listicle rates dropped from…
Via Growth Memo (Kevin Indig) ↗ · Aug 24 · · Research, Google Search, SEO
Google AI Overviews expanded into the finance category in April 2026, shifting query volume toward ticker lookups, according to a BrightEdge analysis of…
Via BrightEdge Blog ↗ · Aug 24 · · Google Search, AEO, SEO
A Fractl survey of 343 U.S. marketing decision-makers found 81% still refer to their AI search strategy internally as "SEO," with only 27% having formally…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 24 · · Research, AEO, SEO
Blood Cancer UK's leukaemia information page lost 53% of page views over the past year, with declines of 17-45% across its other blood cancer pages, while…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 17 · · Google Search, SEO
Shopify president Harley Finkelstein told the company's Q2 earnings call that AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify merchant stores tripled year over…
Via TechCrunch AI ↗ · Aug 5 · · SEO, Tools & Vendors
People Inc. CEO Neil Vogel told Digiday the publisher won't cut off Google's AI crawlers, saying doing so "would turn off search" and the company isn't…
Via Digiday Media ↗ · Aug 4 · · Law & Money, SEO
Just 40% of U.S. searches and 40.7% in the EU/UK sent a click to the open web in June 2026, a record low, per Datos and SparkToro's Q2 State of Search…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Aug 3 · · Research, AEO, SEO
Google's "AI features and your website" documentation states plainly: "You don't need to create new machine readable files, AI text files, or markup to…
Via Google AI features documentation ↗ · Jun 15 · · Google Search, AEO, SEO
Search Console's platform properties — which let Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube accounts be verified as first-class properties and show how their posts…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Jul 30 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, SEO
Time has converted its web pages into markdown — stripped-down, text-only copies without design or images — to make its content easier for AI crawlers and…
Via Digiday Media ↗ · Jul 30 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO, SEO
A new Similarweb report finds 95% of ChatGPT's 494 million users also used Google during the same March-to-May 2026 span, per Search Engine Journal…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 30 · · Research, AEO, SEO
An analysis by NewzDash founder John Shehata, reported by Search Engine Journal, finds Google now places Top Stories carousels inside AI Overviews on…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 28 · · Google Search, SEO
AI Overviews surfaced in 43% of Google searches, up from 15% a year earlier, according to a Similarweb analysis reported by TechCrunch.
Via TechCrunch AI ↗ · Jul 27 · · Google Search, Research, SEO
A new analysis of AI Mode text ads reported by Search Engine Journal found ads on nearly one in three commercial-keyword queries — and advertisers rarely…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 21 · · Google Search, SEO
Google search executive Nick Fox says AI features in Search now send billions of clicks to websites each week; no methodology accompanied the claim.
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Jul 17 · · Google Search, SEO
