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Researchers published the results of a study showing how AI search rankings can be systematically influenced, with a high success rate for product search tests that also generalizes to other categories like travel. The name of the research paper is Controlling Output Rankings in Generative Engines for LLM-based Search and the approach to optimization is […]
For the past couple of decades, SEO has been about linear visibility. Your website ranks for more keywords in higher positions, which, in turn, drives more clicks, and has been benchmarked by total opportunities in search (MSV) and ranking comparisons against your competitors. This model worked well because search operated within a shared reality, and […]
More U.S. consumers in an Adobe Express survey said they’ve used TikTok for search than in the company’s 2024 survey. But the platform’s position as a Google challenger may be weaker than the headline numbers suggest. An updated report from Adobe Express, published February 17, surveyed 807 consumers and 200 small business owners in the […]
Anthropic updated its crawler documentation this week with a formal breakdown of its three web crawlers and their individual purposes. The page now lists ClaudeBot (training data collection), Claude-User (fetching pages when Claude users ask questions), and Claude-SearchBot (indexing content for search results) as separate bots, each with its own robots.txt user-agent string. See also: […]
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Microsoft’s Defender Security Research Team published research describing what it calls “AI Recommendation Poisoning.” The technique involves businesses hiding prompt-injection instructions within website buttons labeled “Summarize with AI.” When you click one of these buttons, it opens an AI assistant with a pre-filled prompt delivered through a URL query parameter. The visible part tells the […]
Welcome to the week’s SEO Pulse: updates affect how links appear in AI search results, where organic clicks are going, and which languages ChatGPT uses to find sources. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Redesigns Links In AI Overviews And AI Mode Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, announced on […]
The middle is where your content dies, and not because your writing suddenly gets bad halfway down the page, and not because your reader gets bored. But because large language models have a repeatable weakness with long contexts, and modern AI systems increasingly squeeze long content before the model even reads it. That combo creates […]
As SEOs, we are used to being adaptable to changing algorithms, so LLM optimization should be a simple extension of that process. To discuss the industry debates surrounding the differences between SEO and GEO and clarify whether they are the same or different, I spoke with SEO veteran Grant Simmons. Grant has over 30 years […]
When ChatGPT Search builds an answer, it can generate background web queries to find sources. A new report from AI search analytics firm Peec AI found that a large share of those background queries run in English, even when the original prompt was in another language. Peec AI analyzed over 10 million prompts and 20 […]