Catégorie : Social Media

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 […]

Bill Hartzer, an SEO with over 25 years of experience is sharing a massive amount of link building lessons. Hartzer has always been on the cutting edge of SEO so everything he shares is definitely a higher level of information than is available on the average SEO blog. Hartzer is sharing fifty link building lessons […]

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 […]

The European Commission’s Article 50 of the AI Act governing AI transparency has come into force, mandating that labels notifying that content is generated by AI be labeled. Article 50 is a part of a larger legislation called the EU Artificial Intelligence Act under which Article 2(1)(c) states that the laws apply to providers and […]

Google’s newly updated crawl budget optimization guide has been updated to be more precise, with emphasis given to the different parts of crawling in order to provide greater detail that is more precise than the previous version of the documentation. Aside from improvements in precision and understandability, Google adds an entirely new section. The previous […]

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 […]

Cloudflare and the three major browser makers want to prove there is a human behind your traffic. They announced how on June 22, 2026, as more and more of that traffic comes from agents with no human behind it at all. PACT answers the case where a person is in the loop. The case the […]

Welcome to this week’s Pulse: updates on your search data sources, AI-flagged pages in rankings, and potential impacts of opting out of Google’s AI features. Here’s what you need to know for your work. Google Opens Search Console Social Reporting To Everyone Google made Search Console platform properties available to everyone worldwide, three weeks after […]

Google’s John Mueller and Martin Splitt discussed what happens when spammers abuse website search functions to create thousands of spammy search pages. They said that Google begins to treat those pages as hacked. Website Search Spam And Quality Issues Virtually every website has a search function, and something that’s not clearly understood is that using […]