What 131 SEO Professionals Say Actually Moves Google Rankings in 2026
A new survey of 131 SEO professionals ranks relevance and content quality at the top of Google's ranking factors, with…
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Google Just Told Its Quality Raters to Watch for Fake Author Bios
Google has updated its Quality Rater Guidelines to explicitly flag invented author profiles and fabricated credentials as a sign of…
Google’s AI Overviews Jumped From 26% to 80% of Branded Searches Last Month
New tracking data from DemandSphere shows Google's AI Overviews appeared on roughly 80% of branded search queries in September, up…
New Data Says AI Overviews Cut Your Click-Through Rate by 61 Percent. Clicks Didn’t Vanish Though.
Seer Interactive's 2026 update to its ongoing AI Overviews research found organic click-through rates falling 61 percent on affected queries,…
Google Finally Put Numbers on How Long Indexing and Ranking Recovery Actually Take
Google's Gary Illyes shared concrete timing data showing new pages take roughly 20 hours to be discovered on average, some…
Google’s Gemini Now Tags Its Own Links So Sites Can See the Traffic
Google is adding UTM parameters to outbound links from Gemini, giving publishers a cleaner way to see when traffic is…
Google Just Told Website Owners: Fact-Check Your AI Content or Else
Google updated its help documentation on AI-generated content, adding language calling it "critical" for site owners to manually fact-check and…
A Federal Judge Just Told Publishers Their Google Traffic Was Never Promised to Anyone
A federal judge dismissed Penske Media's antitrust lawsuit against Google over AI Overviews, ruling that publishers never had an actual…
An SEO Pro Tracked Every Way Claude Wrecked His Work. The List Has Ten Entries.
SEO consultant Bryson Meunier documented ten specific ways Claude produced confidently wrong SEO recommendations, from fabricated crawl errors to unauthorized…
Google Search Traffic to News Publishers Just Fell Off a Cliff, Chartbeat’s Data Shows
Chartbeat's latest network data shows Google Search referrals to publishers down 40.2% year over year, nearly double the prior year's…