OpenAI rolled out a set of ChatGPT Ads updates late last week, per Search Engine Roundtable: wider ad cards and larger, full-width mobile images (with a…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Oct 19 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
Stockholm-based Miracly publicly launched with a $2 million pre-seed round led by Beenext Ventures and Lotus, alongside a Swedish family office and angel…
Via e27 ↗ · Oct 16 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO, Law & Money
AI agent traffic across DataDome's network grew 41.5% quarter over quarter to nearly 25 billion requests in Q3 2026, up from about 17.7 billion in Q2, per…
Via Help Net Security ↗ · Oct 19 · · Research, Tools & Vendors
OpenAI's roughly 140-person ChatGPT ad group has been reorganized seven times since its US ad pilot began in February, The Information reported, as…
Via TokenPost ↗ · Oct 17 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
WordPress plugin maker Barn2 said it spent $477 on ChatGPT ads over six weeks, generating 19,154 impressions, 370 clicks and zero conversions across two…
Via Barn2 ↗ · Oct 6 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
Google began blocking bulk search-results collection outright on September 13, 2026, then switched to serving pages with swapped-out results instead…
Via Nozzle ↗ · Oct 10 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google updated its Indexing API documentation on October 16 (spotted via a changelog diff, date approximate) to remove the form publishers used to request…
Via Google Search Central documentation updates ↗ · Oct 16 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors
Profound's research blog says the share of ChatGPT answers with cited links carrying a tagged chatgpt.com source link has recovered to about 99% as of…
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Oct 16 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO, Research
Profound rebuilt its Agents feature so a user describes the job in plain English and Aim, the platform's AI Marketer, drafts the whole thing — replacing a…
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Oct 16 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
ChatGPT has stopped appending utmsource=chatgpt.com to its outbound links and now opens them with noopener,noreferrer, which also blocks the referrer…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Oct 14 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Peec AI launched Views, a feature letting users build, save and share custom dashboards assembled from its library of 80 widgets spanning brand insights…
Via Peec AI blog ↗ · Oct 14 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Bing Webmaster Tools has added Topics Portfolio, a beta view in its AI Performance report that groups a site's AI Search citations into thematic clusters…
Via Bing Blogs ↗ · Oct 13 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Semrush's first UK benchmark of its 2026 AI Visibility Index, unveiled at Spotlight London, tracked 2.5 million UK and 25 million US prompts monthly…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Oct 13 · · Research, AEO, Tools & Vendors
<span class="preheader" style="display:none;font-size:1px;color:#fdfcf8;max-height:0;overflow:hidden">A second firm finds AI Overviews on 82% of branded…
Via AEO Wire ↗ · Oct 12 · · AEO, Google Search, Tools & Vendors
Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) agreed on October 5, 2026 to acquire Senso, the Toronto-based, Y Combinator-backed AI engineering startup whose technology…
Via Zeta Global ↗ · Oct 5 · · Tools & Vendors, Law & Money, GEO
Profound redesigned its Projects feature on October 2, turning it from basic chat organization into a shared workspace where Aim, the platform's AI…
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Oct 2 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Profound launched Dynamic Bot Rendering on October 11, detecting AI bots — including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini — and automatically serving…
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Oct 11 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google has redesigned the Reader Revenue Manager homepage and expanded where subscriber content can appear: readers who subscribe or contribute through…
Via Google ↗ · Oct 9 · · Google Search, AEO, Tools & Vendors
The wire's own Cloudflare logs recorded four registry crawlers for the first time in the week of September 21, 2026: Common Crawl's CCBot, Mistral's…
Via Crawl Ledger: crawler roster ↗ · Oct 9 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Cloudflare's September 15 change to its AI-crawler defaults did not reach this publication's own site, an existing domain on Cloudflare's Free plan…
Via Cloudflare Blog ↗ · Aug 30 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
HasData's AI Crawler Block Index found that 118 sites lost their Cloudflare-managed AI opt-out lines from robots.txt — a Content-Signal: ai-train=no tag…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Oct 8 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
A Peec AI researcher generated 50,000 pages of fabricated statistics with GPT-4.1 for about $50 and published them to test how AI systems source data, per…
Via Peec AI blog ↗ · Oct 7 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO, Research
AppTrail, an open-source tool from SerpApi, tracks where an app ranks in the Apple App Store and Google Play while logging whether Google AI Mode, Google…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Oct 5 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
OpenAI said it has added 20 measurement, attribution and incrementality firms to ChatGPT Ads, including AppsFlyer, LiveRamp, DV Rockerbox, Triple Whale…
Via OpenAI ↗ · Oct 5 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
John Mueller and Martin Splitt of Google's Search Relations team said on the Oct. 1 episode of the "Search Off the Record" podcast that a sitemap's…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Oct 5 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Cloudflare's AI Search — a managed retrieval pipeline combining Workers AI, Vectorize, R2 and Browser Run — moved from preview to general availability on…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Oct 5 · · Tools & Vendors
LintLab crawled the 1,000 most-visited sites on Chrome's August 2026 top-sites list on Oct. 1, checking both XML sitemaps and llms.txt files, per PPC Land.
Via PPC Land ↗ · Oct 2 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO, Research
SPUR — a publisher coalition formed in March 2026 that includes the Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Sky, the Times of London, Mediahuis and the Associated…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Oct 2 · · Tools & Vendors, Law & Money
Gemini has begun appending UTM parameters to the links it sends users to, a change first spotted on Reddit and confirmed by Google's John Mueller, who…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Oct 1 · · Google Search, Engines, Tools & Vendors
OpenAI emailed advertisers about four ChatGPT Ads updates, per Search Engine Roundtable.
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 30 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
Google's Search Console performance report help page now gives its Image, Video, and News search-type filters their own one-line definitions: traffic from…
Via Search Console performance report help ↗ · Sep 30 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, AEO
LiveRamp said Sept. 28 it is expanding its ChatGPT Ads partnership from conversion measurement, which it added in June, into pre-campaign targeting…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 28 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
The wire's crawler access panel caught four verified shifts between its September 20 and 27 captures.
Via Crawler access panel ↗ · Sep 27 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
EMARKETER has acquired the research arm of RetailX, taking on its research team and tools — including the UK500 ranking of top UK ecommerce retailers and…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 25 · · Tools & Vendors, Law & Money, AEO
Adobe has put Photoshop, Lightroom, Adobe Express and Firefly tools directly into Gemini on every subscription plan, in a global rollout that began…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 25 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
ChatGPT's referral traffic to websites rose 101% between January and August 2026, giving it a record 95.1% share of AI-platform referral traffic in…
Via BrightEdge Blog ↗ · Sep 24 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google's Search Console performance report help page now splits the "Web" search-type filter into two defined categories: "text-based," for ordinary…
Via Search Console performance report help ↗ · Sep 24 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google Search Advocate John Mueller said on Reddit that Search Console does not report where an individual link sits inside an AI Overview — it scores the…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Sep 24 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO, SEO
Google is rolling out Connected Apps to Gemini, letting users link third-party apps directly into chat instead of switching tabs, per its September 23…
Via Google Keyword Blog ↗ · Sep 23 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
Baidu added an AI Traffic Analysis section to its webmaster tools around September 15, tracking AI citations, AI impressions, AI clicks and a…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Sep 23 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Profound redesigned Answer Engine Insights, its AI-visibility dashboard, folding Personas, Platforms, and Regions data into the Visibility, Citations…
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Sep 21 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
The wire's crawler access panel caught four shifts between its September 16 and 20 captures.
Via Crawler access panel ↗ · Sep 20 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents, a ChatGPT ad format that lets a user click into a separate, labeled conversation with a business's own AI agent rather…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 17 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
The wire's crawler access panel caught El País's homepage flip from a 200 to a 403 for GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot alike between the September 13…
Via Crawler access panel ↗ · Sep 16 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Profound has raised $180 million to build what CEO James Cadwallader calls "the AI platform for marketing," according to a post on the company's blog.
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Sep 16 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
The wire's crawler access panel — 55 publisher domains probed daily as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and a browser — caught three People Inc.…
Via Crawler access panel ↗ · Sep 13 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Responding to a Reddit thread, Google's John Mueller said Search Console reports AI Overviews position "as a block" rather than for individual links…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Sep 13 · · Google Search, AEO, Tools & Vendors
Peec AI launched AI referrals, a feature that connects to Google Analytics 4 to show sessions, conversions, and revenue from AI-assistant traffic — broken…
Via Peec AI blog ↗ · Sep 11 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Amazon Ads said it has partnered with OpenAI to let select U.S. advertisers buy ChatGPT Ads inventory through Amazon DSP, with Delta Vacations named as a…
Via Amazon Ads ↗ · Sep 10 · · Engines, Google Search, Tools & Vendors
Google has added three new sections to Merchant Center's AI Performance Insights report: AI Search Intent, showing how products match AI searches; AI…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 9 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google Ads' Gemini-powered dashboards — which turn a text prompt into an automated data visualization and explanatory summary — are now live for some…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 8 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors
OpenAI rolled out a bundle of ChatGPT Ads Manager updates, per Search Engine Roundtable: a plugin that lets advertisers create, edit and troubleshoot…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 4 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
NIQ and Similarweb are building an Agentic Commerce Measurement product that tracks AI-driven product discovery across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 3 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
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
Profound introduced Context Manager, a layer that organizes a company's brand knowledge — spanning company, market, offerings, audience, strategy, and…
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Sep 1 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
On September 15 Cloudflare sets new defaults for the three crawler classifications it introduced in July.
Via Cloudflare Blog ↗ · Aug 30 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors, AEO
GreyNoise reported on August 28 that scanners forging AI-crawler names probed the open web for credential files from 824 addresses across 795 separate…
Via GreyNoise ↗ · Aug 30 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Profound introduced native Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) nodes for Profound Agents, letting them list, search, get, create, and update AEM content…
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Aug 28 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
When Cloudflare launched Bot Preference Sync on August 21 it set four conditions a crawler doing both search and training must meet to keep reaching sites…
Via Cloudflare Blog ↗ · Aug 27 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors, AEO
BrightEdge launched Agent Edge, a platform that detects AI-agent requests at the CDN layer and serves a lightweight, Markdown-formatted version of a…
Via BrightEdge Blog ↗ · Aug 25 · · AEO, Tools & Vendors
Profound's analysis of 24,135 responses collected July 13–23 found Claude searched the web in over 93% of responses versus just 13% for Claude Code, and…
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Aug 24 · · Research, AEO, Tools & Vendors
Cloudflare on August 21 launched Bot Preference Sync, which keeps a site's robots.txt in step with the AI-crawler policy set in its dashboard.
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 23 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
OpenAI added a campaign-level control letting advertisers include or exclude iOS App, Android App or Web from ad delivery, a lever absent since ChatGPT…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 21 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
Profound added a YouTube Citation Breakdown to its Answer Engine Insights product on August 19, showing which channels, individual videos, and video…
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Aug 19 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
An SEO tested crawler discovery on a 2,400-page site by splitting internal links between hard-coded HTML and JavaScript-injected versions, then logging…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 19 · · Research, AEO, Tools & Vendors
Promptwatch found Reddit's share of ChatGPT Search citations fell from an average of 3.83% (Jul.
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 19 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Microsoft Clarity's Bot Analytics dashboard added an AI Scrape-to-Referral Ratio card on August 13, ranking which AI crawlers send return visitors against…
Via Semrush Blog ↗ · Aug 19 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Jeremy Howard, the Answer.AI developer who created llms.txt, published a version 2 update to the spec on August 10 — its first revision since the format…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Aug 17 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
WP Engine has dropped the hosting requirement for its Smart Search AI plugin, making the semantic-search tool available on any WordPress site regardless…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 17 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Profound launched a feature called Citation Decay on August 13, tracking week-over-week citation counts for every cited URL to show how a citation's…
Via Profound research blog ↗ · Aug 13 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Similarweb added AI Ads to its Ad Intelligence product on August 13, giving marketers visibility into actual ad creatives and landing pages running inside…
Via Similarweb Blog ↗ · Aug 13 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google added AI Overview cards to the Google Analytics homepage that summarize account activity since a user's last login, plus AI-powered insight cards…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 11 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors
PatronView, a database of U.S. museum and cultural-institution donor records, blocked Amazon's Amzn-SearchBot crawler in early August after founder Nick…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 8 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google's Gemini assistant can now edit Google Business Profile listings for accounts managing multiple locations, expanding a feature that launched in…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 7 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors
OpenAI is testing a multi-product carousel format for ChatGPT product feed ads and will launch ChatGPT Ads in Brazil and Mexico in the coming week, per…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 7 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
Cloudflare added two tools to its dashboard on August 6: Agent Readiness, a technical audit of how well AI crawlers and agents can discover and read a…
Via Cloudflare Blog ↗ · Aug 6 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
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
The Interactive Advertising Bureau published a 36-page framework, "Measuring Visibility in the AI Era," on August 3, requiring AI-visibility vendors to…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 4 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Microsoft Clarity's AI Citations dashboard now labels queries as branded or non-branded and breaks out Share of Authority by query type, the company said…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 3 · · Tools & Vendors
Reps. Laurel Lee (R-FL), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) introduced the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, H.R.
Via News/Media Alliance ↗ · Jul 23 · · Law & Money, Tools & Vendors
Cloudflare announced two initiatives on July 1, 2026 to reshape AI-era crawling economics.
Via Cloudflare Blog ↗ · Jul 1 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
IAB Australia published version 1.0 of its Bots and Crawler Guidance and Decision Matrix on July 22, 2026, unveiling it at the Discovery: AI and Search…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Jul 30 · · Tools & Vendors, Law & Money
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
OpenAI is testing a new "Agent" campaign type in ChatGPT Ads Manager that sends users into a Business Agent conversation instead of to the advertiser's…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Jul 31 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
OpenAI rolled out a batch of ChatGPT Ads updates, including optimized cost-per-click campaigns that bid toward likely conversions, geographic exclusion…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Jul 24 · · Engines, Tools & Vendors
Ahrefs released a free web tool that builds an llms.txt file for any domain, drawing on the company's prior analysis of llms.txt adoption across 137,000…
Via Ahrefs Blog ↗ · Jul 24 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
