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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 […]
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 […]
Google’s Martin Splitt and John Mueller discussed the Page Indexing Report and how it could be used to identify indexing issues. Of interest is how they tied quality to indexing, saying that quality isn’t just about the text on a web page. Indexing Happens In Stages Splitt and Mueller were discussing issues that could temporarily […]
Every site you have ever optimized carries a record of that work, and it is more detailed than the platforms usually admit. Search systems have kept a per-domain profile for years, assembled from signals you know intimately because you spent a career shaping them. That profile is real, it is granular, and it never needed […]
I was asked a great question, and it’s something I talk to clients about on a very regular basis: “Should every page do all things? I’m struggling to work out which pages should be optimized for CRO and which should be to build the brand.” Blog posts and informative pages (brand-building pages) are likely meant […]
Google’s John Mueller recently answered a question about A/B testing web pages for long durations, warning that an unintended consequence is that enabling variations to be indexed can result in uncertainty as to which will be visible in the search results. A/B Testing Traffic From Live Search Results A/B testing is when one or more […]
Google Search Advocate John Mueller responded to a plan to hide a homepage button from Google in hopes that a better-worded link further down the page would count instead. He suspects the person behind it is overthinking it. The r/bigseo thread starts with a question about a homepage that links to the same services page […]
When generative AI made mass content production cheap, many brands thought they had discovered a content cheat code. The playbook seemed simple: Spin up thousands of highly targeted pages overnight, vacuum up search traffic, and watch organic revenue climb. Instead, a quiet crisis is playing out across enterprise SEO. Aggressive programmatic AI initiatives are stalling, […]
The protocol layer of the agentic web is splitting into two bets, and most websites have already placed one of them without knowing it. The first bet is about identity: a file called llms.txt that tells AI models who you are and what your content covers. The second is about capability: a browser standard called […]