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Microsoft is adding four new features to the Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance dashboard preview: Intents, Topics, Citation Share, and Compare. All four are beginning to roll out globally. Three of the features were previewed at SEO Week. This is the official preview rollout. What’s New Citation Share shows your site’s percentage of all citations […]

On a recent Search Off the Record podcast, hosts John Mueller and Martin Splitt pushed back on the idea promoted by AI SEOs that stripped-down, content-only versions are a better way to optimize for AI Search. They made the case that all the things AI SEOs want to remove are actually useful for ranking. Non-Content […]

This post was sponsored by Reviewly.ai. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Does keyword research still matter for SEO in 2026? Are Google reviews required for a local business to show up in AI results? How do I get my clients’ businesses recommended by AI like Gemini, Claude, and Google AI […]

Ahrefs analyzed logs from 137,000 domains and found 97% of llms.txt files got zero requests. No bots, no humans. The analysis used Ahrefs data to identify user agents fetching files. Around 28% of 137,000 domains publish an llms.txt file, but since Ahrefs’ customers are more technical, the actual adoption on the broader web is likely […]