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I have dozens of conversations per week with folks in growth and marketing, ranging from directors, VPs of marketing, and CMOs to SEOs in the nitty-gritty day-to-day. If you want to go further, microsoft clarity now flags bots that ignore robots.txt covers it in detail. Many of my conversations involve measurement. This is an increasingly […]
John Shehata, CEO of NewzDash, found something in July that a lot of publishers threatening to block Google’s AI don’t realize is already happening underneath them. Google has started folding entire Top Stories carousels directly inside AI Overviews, and the robots.txt directive most publishers reach for first does nothing to stop it. Shehata posted on […]
Search Console finally separates AI visibility from everything else. On June 3, 2026, Google rolled out dedicated Generative AI performance reports for Search and Discover — the feature it had been testing with a subset of site owners for months — giving website owners a way to see which pages show up inside AI Overviews […]
A website made of pages hands a machine half of what it needs. It can read each page on its own, but nothing on the website tells it how the pages relate, and nothing tells it whether what it is reading is still true. Those are two separate gaps. For a while I only had […]
Kris Jones joined me for an episode of Search Engine Journal’s podcast. He has been in search since the late 1990s and now runs the agency LSEO, after building and selling Pepper Jam. We spent most of the conversation on one question, which is what actually decides whether an AI system recommends your brand. Kris […]
The latest Datos x SparkToro State of Search Report is out, and it’s something of a doozy. AI is certainly on the rise, search still hasn’t been replaced (it’s not even in the process of), and more people than ever stay in Google’s ecosystem. Headline Findings: June was a record low for the open web […]
For years, you could gauge local visibility by checking the map pack and a page of organic results. These have always mattered, but now, the same business details that feed them are also powering AI assistants. Instead of presenting a page full of options, an assistant responds with just a few names. This change emphasizes […]
Google is rolling out a Search Console setting that lets you pull your content out of AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Discover’s AI features without leaving Search. That’s a choice we haven’t had before, and regulators in the UK now require Google to offer it. Whether to use it is a harder question than it […]
Rand Fishkin, the co-founder and CEO of SparkToro, posted on LinkedIn on July 24, 2026, to say that Similarweb’s newest report would “probably infuriate” two groups at once. The AI zealots who are certain every marketing dollar should already be chasing chatbot visibility. And the AI skeptics who’ve suspected the hype was overblown but never […]
Google introduced new reporting features inside Search Console at the start of June. The update provided publishers with impression counts earned across AI Overview answer boxes and AI Mode panels. At first, this was mostly celebrated as a major win for organic search measurement, and search teams assumed these new data points offer clear visibility […]