Catégorie : Social Media

On March 20, 2026, Google quietly added a new entry to its official list of web fetchers. Not a crawler. Not a training bot. An agent. Google-Agent is the user agent string for AI systems running on Google infrastructure that browse websites on behalf of users. When someone asks an AI assistant to research a product, fill […]

Welcome to this week’s Pulse. The updates affect how you measure AI assistant traffic, what structured data does for visibility, and how a major publisher is planning for life after search. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Analytics Adds Native AI Assistant Channel Google Analytics now assigns traffic from recognized AI chatbots […]

Google Analytics added an “AI Assistant” default channel group for traffic from recognized AI chatbot referrers, with Google naming ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude as examples. GA4 property owners no longer need to build custom channel groups with regex patterns to separate AI assistant visits from referrals. Until now, all AI chatbot traffic landed in the […]

Last week, Cyrus Shepard published an AI citation ranking factors study, and it created a lot of noise on X, LinkedIn, and a number of private WhatsApp groups I’m in. Not only the distinction between what is a factor, and what is a correlation, especially given a lot of studies in SEO and AI are […]

Local AI search rewards better pages. Learn exactly how to build them. Are your location-based pages showing up when AI-powered search answers local queries? Is structured data, listings, reviews driving (or undermining) your brand’s visibility across locations? 👆 Register above to learn the right way to build local intent pages that get cited in AI […]

Scaling AI content generation is the number one content strategy for enterprise organizations optimizing for AI search visibility. According to Conductor’s 2026 State of AEO/GEO CMO Investment Report, which surveyed over 250 executives and digital leaders across 12 industries, it ranked above structured data, above authoritative long-form guides, and above original research. Across every maturity […]

This week’s Ask an SEO question is a bit different. The person wants to know how they can keep relevant and feel secure in their jobs with AI replacing people. In addition to this question, someone at the Digital Marketing EU conference in Lisbon asked, “How do we pay affiliates so we can use them […]

Google has talked about AI search clicks several different ways since AI Overviews launched. This week, the company added new link surfaces instead of new click data. This article traces how Google’s public language about clicks has changed, what each phase revealed, and what this week’s five new link features add to the conversation. “No […]

AI search doesn’t pick brands at random. They cite brands with trust signals across multiple channels. Are you building brand proof in the places AI actually looks to validate mentions? Do you know which community conversations are shaping what AI says about your category? Reddit is one of the most powerful and least utilized of […]

The agent runtime is the new browser layer, and your website is going to be evaluated against the runtime, not against any individual model. That’s a shift web professionals have not yet made. The conversation is still framed around models. Which model writes better? Which one cites more accurately? Which one’s API is cheaper this […]