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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Google Local reviews are disappearing from many [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Apple's WebKit announced a new MCP server for Safari that enables AI-based website debugging for SEO and Core Web Vitals.
Search Engine Journal
Google's John Mueller responded to an SEO using LLMs-Author.txt to separate themself from others with the same name.
Search Engine Journal
Meta AI is bringing AI-powered search to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Learn why its distribution advantage matters.
Search Engine Land
John Mueller from Google said that the new Content Signals robots.txt directive invented by Cloudflare last year has "no effects whatsoever for any crawler or LLM." He added that it [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
OpenAI's ad platform, ChatGPT Ads, is now using AI (I guess) to generate ads for you.
The ad platform lets you click on "add new ad," which then says, "Generated ads for you," [...]
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Back in early May, Google announced five new ways to explore the web with generative AI in Google Search. One was a feature that was titled "Further Exploration" at the bottom of the AI [...]
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Those of you who use the Google and YouTube Shopify app to sync your products automatically from Shopify to Google Merchant Center may have a huge headache to deal with after August 18, 2026.
The [...]
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Microsoft Bing is testing product detail screens, overlays, when you click on a product listing within the Bing search results.
Bing will overlay a product detail screen, with the products images, [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Traffic Think Tank will continue operating as a private Slack community while expanding member benefits through Search Engine Land.
Search Engine Land
You can't measure every AI recommendation, but you can build a reliable picture of your brand's presence. Here's how.
Search Engine Land
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Search Engine Roundtable
AI search is changing which SEO efforts have the biggest impact. Learn the three priorities to emphasize more and the three to emphasize less.
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Learn a proven five-phase framework for clearer navigation, stronger taxonomy, and content AI can access. Join us for the next SMX Now.
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AI referrals are surging, volatile, and shaped by internal search, landing page fit, and Claude’s quiet rise, new data shows.
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