Catégorie : SEO

Google updated two Search Central documentation pages, adding guidance on how publishers can tell Google which image to prefer for thumbnails in Search results and Discover. The company added a new section called “Specify a preferred image with metadata” to its Image SEO best practices page. It also updated the Discover documentation to reference the […]

When we’re talking about grounding, we mean fact-checking the hallucinations of planet destroying robots and tech bros. If you want a non-stupid opening line, when models accept they don’t know something, they ground results in an attempt to fact check themselves. Happy now? TL;DR LLMs don’t search or store sources or individual URLs; they generate […]

A new Claude Code plugin named Voiceprint is available that creates a “linguistic fingerprint” from actual writing so that writing output sounds exactly like your own writing. Based On Stylometry The plugin is based on Stylometry research, which is the study of linguistic patterns, a statistical analysis of variations in writing styles. Stylometry can be […]

Google’s Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt used an episode of the Search Off the Record podcast to walk through how Google’s crawler handles HTML. The conversation revealed differences between how browsers and Googlebot process the same page. The discussion covered resource hints, metadata placement, and HTML validation. Several of Illyes’ explanations challenge assumptions about which […]

Most people do not wake up one day and decide they are done with a product category. They leave when the workflow starts to feel like work. Think about something mundane. Planning a trip, picking a new doctor, comparing two insurance options, deciding which grill to buy, figuring out what to do in a new […]

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 […]

Today, trust in popular platforms is diminishing, organic reach is haphazard and hard to predict, and user behavior is growing more difficult to discern than ever before. At the same time, a steady stream of “new” social platforms are entering the game, promising to fix what’s broken and usher in the most qualified audience for […]

Information retrieval systems are designed to satisfy a user. To make a user happy with the quality of their recall. It’s important we understand that. Every system and its inputs and outputs are designed to provide the best user experience. From the training data to similarity scoring and the machine’s ability to “understand” our tired, sad […]

Welcome to this week’s PPC Pulse, where this week’s focus is on scenario-based planning in both Google and Microsoft platforms. Google introduced a new Scenario Planner within Meridian, giving marketers the ability to model budget allocation shifts before committing spend. Microsoft launched a scenario-based Performance Max learning path designed to walk advertisers through practical campaign […]

I recently wrote about an unconfirmed Google algorithm update that rolled out in mid-January 2026, which negatively impacted the organic search visibility of dozens of major brands. For most of the impacted sites I analyzed, the impact was disproportionately targeted to the company’s blog, or another folder containing informational articles and resources. That same organic trajectory […]