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Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) is not a future roadmap item anymore. On February 11, 2026, Vidhya Srinivasan, Google’s VP/GM of Advertising & Commerce, confirmed that Wayfair and Etsy already support UCP, letting shoppers buy directly inside AI Mode. Waitlists are still the entry point for most merchants, but the capabilities behind them are shipping […]
Google’s John Mueller shared a case where a leftover HTTP homepage was causing unexpected site-name and favicon problems in search results. The issue, which Mueller described on Bluesky, is easy to miss because Chrome can automatically upgrade HTTP requests to HTTPS, making the HTTP version easy to overlook. What Happened Mueller described the case as […]
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 […]
SEO roadmaps have a lot in common with New Year’s resolutions: They’re created with optimism, backed by sincere intent, and abandoned far sooner than anyone wants to admit. The difference is that most people at least make it to Valentine’s Day before quietly deciding that daily workouts or dry January were an ambitious, yet misguided, […]
In every digital transformation I’ve consulted on, from global banks to manufacturing giants, the failure point isn’t usually the strategy. It’s the governance. Strategy defines where to go. Operations define how to get there. Governance is what keeps everyone moving in the same direction, at the same speed, without crashing into each other. In my earlier […]
Search has changed dramatically, including local search. Search engines and AI systems now incorporate semantic understanding to generate citations and results. To gain semantic understanding, they need to know which topics appear in the content and how they relate to one another so that they can identify your areas of authority. More on that in […]
James LePage, Director Engineering AI at Automattic, and the co-lead of the WordPress AI Team, shared his insights into things publishers should be thinking about in terms of SEO. He’s the founder and co-lead of the WordPress Core AI Team, which is tasked with coordinating AI-related projects within WordPress, including how AI agents will interact […]
Welcome to this week’s Pulse. Google is laying more groundwork for agent-led shopping, Google Trends is getting a Gemini helper inside Explore, and Google appears to have responded to a report we covered last week on AI Overviews health queries. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) Brings Agent Checkout […]
A security vulnerability was discovered in the popular All in One SEO (AIOSEO) WordPress plugin that made it possible for low-privileged users to access a site’s global AI access token, potentially allowing them to misuse the plugin’s artificial intelligence features and could allow attackers to generate content or consume credits using the affected site’s AIOSEO […]
Most people have a favorite coffee mug. You reach for it without thinking. It fits your hand. It does its job. For a long time, SEO felt like that mug. A defined craft, a repeatable routine, a discipline you could explain in a sentence. Crawl the site. Optimize the pages. Earn visibility. Somewhere along the […]