Measure SEO beyond keyword positions with brand visibility, AI citations, and revenue as rank tracking outages expose gaps in traditional reporting.

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A beginner’s guide to exploring browser network data, how it uncovered a $13,337 Google exploit, and what it reveals about Google and ChatGPT.

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China's five-part GEO standard offers Western SEOs a practical framework for measuring AI visibility, evaluating vendors, and separating optimization from manipulation.

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Build an SEO and content strategy for audiences who use AI but distrust it, with clearer sourcing, audience segmentation, and honest product limits.

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Cloudflare says its network signals helped OpenAI index hundreds of millions of new pages for ChatGPT search.

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Meta's Muse and OpenAI's dots reach websites through connectors or cloud browsers, changing what robots.txt, on-page SEO, and analytics can tell you.

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CTM’s Lisa Salvatore and Brian Barranger show how to mine customer conversations for useful content, qualified-lead criteria, conversion feedback, and product-demand signals.

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A Chinese AI lab opened its search engine to developers. Each result carries a page-level authority tier, and DeepSeek says it filters GEO manipulation.

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A model can recite your brand’s description and still fail the buyer’s question. Research on training data shows why “knowing” is the hard part.

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ChatGPT-attributed traffic fell sharply in several analytics datasets this month, and analysts tie the drop to ChatGPT links that open without tracking tags.

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Google is changing how links appear in AI Mode and AI Overviews, moving inline links higher and expanding the carousels that highlight Preferred Sources.

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A store can look agent-ready by default and still fail the moment a buyer asks about shipping, pickup, or cancellation. Here's what to verify.

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Google explains how it ranks PDFs in Search and AI Mode and how to check if a PDF is SEO friendly.

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Join seoClarity on October 28 at 2 p.m. ET to learn how product-page language, competitor recommendations, and readable product data affect AI shopping discovery.

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Bing's AI Performance report adds a view that sorts cited queries into topics and lists queries where other sites are cited but your site isn't.

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Build a validated content workflow for AI search by identifying decision gaps, acquiring original knowledge, and proving claims before publishing.

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Ex-Googler Jeff Dean shares insights from Gemini's development and the approach he uses to discover promising new ideas.

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Cloudflare's Disallow AI Training keeps mixed-use crawlers available for search. Google and Apple honor training opt-outs; Bing robots.txt support is pending.

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Spot false claims and impersonators in AI search, then match each brand protection problem to the right correction, report, or preventive action.

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Meta published two Muse documents on the same day. One never mentions risk, attack, or prompt injection. The other uses them 39 times.

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