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I have had a number of site owners reach out to ask for help with indexing issues lately. In most cases, I am finding that Google has classified its pages as “crawled-not currently indexed” in the page indexing report in Google Search Console. Image Credit: Marie Haynes In almost every case, I’ve examined these pages […]

AI search visibility has become the new vanity metric, and most teams are measuring the wrong number. The AI visibility tools multiplying across the market count how often a model mentions you, or cites you, when someone types a prompt. That number feels like progress because it looks like the rank tracking we have done […]

Search Console has a button called Validate Fix that tells Google you have fixed an indexing issue. On the latest episode of Search Off the Record, Google’s John Mueller explained what clicking it does, and when it’s best used. What ‘Validate Fix’ Does When you click into any issue in Search Console, “Validate Fix” is […]

Google has updated its list of Google user-triggered fetchers to reflect the Google Notebook name change. Users who have hardcoded the old user agent for robots.txt or for other reasons have a grace period of a few weeks before the old user agent stops working in August 2026. Reasons To Block Gemini Notebook Gemini Notebook’s […]

Nick Fox from Google said that AI features in Search send billions of clicks to websites weekly, alongside Google’s claim that Search sends billions of clicks to the web daily. Fox, SVP of Knowledge and Information at Google, shared the figures on LinkedIn and a shorter version on X. The post addresses a question Fox […]

Three publishers, novelist Scott Turow, and his company S.C.R.I.B.E. have filed a proposed class action lawsuit accusing Google of copying millions of books and journal articles to train Gemini. This includes works provided through Google Books, Play Books, and Scholar. On July 10, Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, Turow, and S.C.R.I.B.E. joined together in […]

Welcome to the week’s Pulse: image generation lands in AI Overviews, Mueller weighs in on a plan to hide a homepage link, and Google puts an outside limit on how long a content-based canonical fix takes. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Adds Image Generation Inside AI Overviews Google is adding AI […]

Avinash Kaushik spent roughly 16 years inside Google, has held senior client-side roles at companies like Intuit and DirecTV, and now advises brands and agencies as chief strategy officer at Human Made Machine. So, when he tells marketers to renegotiate their agency contracts and expect savings of 25% to 75%, starting this month, it is […]

One in every five off-page citations in AI search answers comes from Reddit, and that share is growing 30% year over year. That data point drove an entire session from Amanda Kusner, Senior Solutions Consultant at Uberall, and Peter Wischmann, Senior Client Partner at Reddit. Their core argument: AI models decide which businesses to recommend […]

Google is bringing connected apps to AI Mode in Search, letting you send a search straight into services like Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music. The connections are starting to roll out in the U.S. this week. Google announced the change in a blog post by Chips Mistry, a senior product manager on Search, and Biharck […]