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Welcome to the week’s Pulse: Google’s explanation for lost clicks was tested; a case study showed why Core Web Vitals fixes target the wrong element; a report measured how agents handle pricing pages; John Mueller weighed in on agent access; and a longtime Bing leader announced his retirement. Here’s what matters for you and your […]
Cloudflare is updating its method of identifying and blocking AI crawlers, which may result in Googlebot being blocked on sites that prevent AI training. The company announced the update as part of its second Content Independence Day. The new controls let websites manage automated traffic based on three behaviors rather than a single “block AI […]
The company that owns a major web index just documented, in its own product, that ranking a page and citing a passage are different jobs. Web IQ arriving at Build on June 2, and AI citation data showing up inside Bing Webmaster Tools earlier this year, were not surprises. As I know well, having built […]
The United States government and Anthropic have announced that Claude Fable 5 is available beginning Wednesday, July 1. The advanced model is available to users around the world. Mythos will be available to a set of organizations in the United States. The United States Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, tweeted: “Over the past two weeks, […]
Over 15 years ago, it was widely accepted that the benchmark click-through rate on a non-brand campaign was 2%. In fact, that number was so deeply embedded into paid search that it is unclear if anyone ever stopped to recalibrate and define a new metric to reference across all accounts. This is why, in 2026, […]
Google started rolling out the June spam update, the second of the year. It enforces documented spam policies, and one of those policies now covers more ground than it once did. Google’s spam rules treat attempts to “manipulate generative AI responses” in Search as a violation, and that’s one of the policies the update is […]
Ad platforms will advocate for their traffic, impressions, and the attributable value they generate. This data plays an important role in helping marketers defend budget investments while fueling conversion-based bidding strategies. However, your brand still needs a clear understanding of what is truly driving value, especially across platforms. This month’s question gets at the heart […]
Recent data shows that marketing hiring at 12 major tech companies has dropped more than engineering hiring. Marketing roles have decreased by 36%, while engineering roles have only declined by 11% in the same timeframe. The data is from SignalFire’s State of Talent Report. It compares big tech companies like Alphabet and Microsoft with a […]
Microsoft Clarity now surfaces bot requests that go against a website’s URL rules in the tool’s Bot Analytics dashboard, the company announced in a blog post. Clarity will calculate and display these requests as a percentage of total bot activity over a given time frame and add to existing AI Visibility tools in the dashboard, […]
Most conversations about AI visibility still treat it as a content or prompting problem: write the right structured data, phrase the right FAQ, cite the right sources, and the large language models will represent you accurately. That framing misses the actual failure point. When a brand gets misrepresented in an AI-generated answer, the underlying cause […]