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No matter what their goal-based starting point, SEO, PPC, and content teams often work with different priorities and from different inputs. Channel and content resource work separation isn’t new, but the pressure has increased as search results have become even more complex. Depending on the query, Google can include AI Overviews, text ads, shopping results, […]

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about the curious circumstance of Search Console reporting thousands of URLs as indexed despite being blocked by robots.txt. Mueller helped explain how this happens and what to do about it. Content Indexed Despite Being Blocked By Robots.txt A Redditor asked for advice because Google Search Console was reporting more […]

For most of the history of modern SEO, publishing more content was considered almost universally beneficial. More pages meant more keywords, more long-tail visibility, more opportunities to rank, and more traffic. Entire agencies and publishing businesses were built around this premise. The logic was simple: If one page could rank, then a thousand pages could […]

Google updated its guidance on Generative AI SEO to lighten up on its previous guidance that discouraged the use of LLMs.txt and other forms of markup and markdown. The new guidance strikes a more balanced tone that acknowledges there are AI search surfaces other than Google’s that users may want to optimize for. LLMs.txt Guidance […]