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Last updated: July 27, 2026 at 06:00 AMToday's conversation with Jessica Lyschik focused on WordPress theme accessibility, highlighting that achieving "accessibility-ready" standards is easier than many developers assume. We talked about the moral and...
WordPress 7.1 Beta 3 is ready for download and testing!  This beta release is intended for testing and development only. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or...
ChatGPT Ads improves campaign optimisation, conversion measurement and budget pacing to scale performance on the platform.
The new editor expands offline campaign management with new AI-powered Shopping features, and enhanced Demand Gen support.
Advertisers can now exclude specific household income segments at the campaign level while keeping PMax's automated optimization.
Google updated the review snippet structured data markup documentation with some new guidelines and examples.
An audit of 71 businesses found major gaps in AI retrievability, from unreadable websites and dead domains to missing trust signals.
Your SEO test showed a lift. But did your change cause it? Isolate incremental impact and know when a result is worth scaling.
Freezing SEO investment can cost you visibility, authority, and momentum. Here’s how to keep moving while search and AI continue to evolve.
When products stop getting traffic, they also stop building the signals Google needs to serve them. This automated approach breaks the cycle.
It's the top new client request of 2026, and most agencies still can't answer it with data. Here's what you can measure today.
Google says AI-driven intent matching boosts conversions, expands ad opportunities, and reshapes how advertisers reach complex queries.
X publicly documented its anti-chatbot campaign over 24 hours, showing how quickly AI-generated spam evolves and how X responds. The post X Live-Tweets Its Fight Against Chatbot Spam In Real-Time appeared first on...
AI bot paywalls are framed as new income. The real question is which AI answers you're willing to disappear from. The post Charging AI Bots Decides Which Agents Can Still Cite You appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google's new AI & Economy report compares Gemini and AI Mode conversations against how Americans spend their days. The post Google Data Compares Gemini & AI Mode Use Against Daily Life appeared first on Search...
Alphabet detailed Search revenue to the decimal. Google described web traffic in three kinds of unverifiable claims. Q2 widened the gap. The post Google’s Q2: Precise Revenue Figures, Click Claims You Can’t...
Google's John Mueller explains a robots.txt quirk that can cause Googlebot to ignore robots.txt rules. The post Google Says Why It May Ignore Robots.txt And Negatively Impact SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
GatherUp's Annie Jackson and Jason Wertham show how to audit what ChatGPT and AI Overviews say about your locations, and which inputs change the answer. The post Emergency Brand Audit: What AI Says About Your Locations...
Stop measuring creator partnerships by view counts. The value shows up downstream, in traffic, AI citations, and conversions your dashboard isn't tracking. The post The AI Overviews YouTube Gap: The Platform Your Team...
A court dismisses Google's DMCA claims against SerpApi, the EU fines Google €890 million, major publishers weigh leaving Google, and Search growth eases. The post Search Growth Slows, Publishers Weigh Leaving Google...
Dive into the evidence behind AI search and its effects on page performance. Learn from experts in the latest SEJ discussion. The post AI Search is Working. How to Prove It With Real Tests. appeared first on Search...
OpenAI killed Atlas because AI browsers were always a workaround. The real fix is a website machines can actually read. The post AI Browsers Are Backward Because Agents Never Needed The Visual Layer appeared first on...
YouTube spelled out three kinds of content that can stop a channel from getting paid, and says it's clarifying existing rules, not changing them. The post YouTube Explains What Can Stop A Channel Getting Paid appeared...
Repackaged link schemes won't win AI visibility. Presence in fan-out, grounding, and training data still depends on real authority. The post Are We Repeating History & Risking Backlink Penalties Again? appeared...
Alphabet's Q2 release shows Google's infrastructure spending caused it to report a negative free cash flow of $5.85 billion dollars. The post Alphabet Q2 Earnings Show $5.85 Billion Negative Free Cash Flow appeared...
Waiting for ChatGPT to prove your ROI? The not-provided lesson says stop. Here's the measurement work you can own instead. The post Google Went ‘Not Provided’ In 2011 And Blinded Us, ChatGPT Just Shipped Its...
On Alphabet's Q2 call, Pichai named coding an area to improve, saying Google needs Gemini 4 for the next frontier, as 3.5 Pro stays delayed. The post Pichai Says Google Needs Gemini 4 To Compete At The Frontier appeared...
Alphabet's Q2 Search revenue rose 17% to $63.27 billion, its first easing after four quarters of acceleration. Google credited retail and Gemini integration. The post Google Search Revenue Growth Eases After A Year Of...
Does Google penalize AI content? Get answers on GEO, answer engine optimization, and the content personalization signals that convert. Watch on demand. The post Why AI Content Stopped Working & What To Do About It...
AI doesn't reward the best-optimized page. It rewards the highest-confidence evidence. Bill Hunt explains how organizations earn that confidence. The post Beyond Brand Sovereignty: How To Build An AI-Ready Source Of...
Transform your Google Analytics 4 data into actionable insights with a solid measurement framework as your foundation. The post Designing A Measurement Framework Before You Touch GA4 appeared first on Search Engine...
AI Overviews are outpacing local packs across 15+ markets. Here is what location pages need to stay visible in AI-generated answers. The post AI Overviews Now Answer Most Local Searches – How To Get Your Business Cited...
If you use ChatGPT for your marketing (content ideas, outlines, copy, strategy), you’ve probably run into the same wall: the AI doesn’t know what’s actually ranking. It doesn’t know how...
Key Takeaways AI search and AI Link Attribution is changing how people find information, and how publishers reach them. Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode now deliver direct answers inside the search results page,...
Key Takeaways Online reputation management (ORM) is the practice of monitoring and improving (when necessary) how your brand is perceived on the internet. In practice, this means responding to negative reviews,...
Key Takeaways AI can be an extremely useful tool for content creation, but guest posting is one area where it can pay off to pull back.  That’s because AI adoption is flooding editor inboxes with low-quality...
Key Takeaways Are you looking to increase traffic to your travel website? Then, you might as well get a piece of the pie. The travel industry is lucrative, and the competition is fierce. Collectively, U.S. travel alone...