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When Google started rewriting headlines with AI in Discover last year, it called the test “small.” By the following month, it was reclassified as a feature. Now the same pattern is showing up in traditional search results. Google confirmed to The Verge (subscription required) that it’s testing AI-generated headline rewrites in Search. The company described […]
SEO, like most organic and non-advertising or paid channels in digital marketing, is labor-intensive. Yes, there are software suites, analytics platforms, research tools, and a number of other things that help in the tech stack. We all have our favorites, and no one is (or should) be doing SEO like I was in 2008 (despite […]
Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! For a while now, SERP features have made SEO for ecommerce distinctly different from other verticals like B2B or local. And yet, most teams still measure success against classic search results. Without third-party tools, it’s hard to get a full picture from the […]
Marketers are abuzz about OpenAI putting ads inside ChatGPT. That’s the wrong thing to obsess over. It’s like arguing about banner placement while the entire commercial layer of the internet is being rebuilt underneath us. Right now, the debate is framed as a familiar binary: ads vs. no ads. OpenAI is testing sponsored results inside […]
Google updated two Search Central documentation pages, adding guidance on how publishers can tell Google which image to prefer for thumbnails in Search results and Discover. The company added a new section called “Specify a preferred image with metadata” to its Image SEO best practices page. It also updated the Discover documentation to reference the […]
Microsoft has rewritten the Bing Webmaster Guidelines to cover how content appears in both traditional search results and Copilot’s AI-generated answers. The previous version focused on how Bing indexes and ranks websites. The rewrite extends that to Copilot and grounding API results, treating “grounding results and citations” as additional eligibility outcomes. New Meta Directive Guidance […]
Google’s Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt used an episode of the Search Off the Record podcast to walk through how Google’s crawler handles HTML. The conversation revealed differences between how browsers and Googlebot process the same page. The discussion covered resource hints, metadata placement, and HTML validation. Several of Illyes’ explanations challenge assumptions about which […]
If more than half the web runs on a content management system, then the majority of technical SEO standards are being positively shaped before an SEO even starts work on it. That’s the lens I took into the 2025 Web Almanac SEO chapter (for clarity, I co-authored the 2025 Web Almanac SEO chapter referenced in […]
In paid media, many advertisers default to budgeting by ad platform, with a percentage to Google Ads, a percentage to LinkedIn Ads, etc., largely based on habit. Now, AI technology presents new opportunities to marketing leaders to decide where to spend their paid media dollars. Instead of allocating spend based on impression volume or historical […]
Some developers have been experimenting with bot-specific Markdown delivery as a way to reduce token usage for AI crawlers. Google Search Advocate John Mueller pushed back on the idea of serving raw Markdown files to LLM crawlers, raising technical concerns on Reddit and calling the concept “a stupid idea” on Bluesky. What’s Happening A developer […]