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Reported analysis and direct takes on what the latest search and AI-search developments actually mean.

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Google Trimmed Listicles at the Top, Not Across the Board. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / 22 hr ago

Google Trimmed Listicles at the Top, Not Across the Board

Automated Traffic Passed Human Traffic. Your Logs Don't Know That Yet. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / yesterday

Automated Traffic Passed Human Traffic. Your Logs Don't Know That Yet

Google's Video Carousel Fades as Two Trackers Show Diverging Drops. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Aug 20

Google's Video Carousel Fades as Two Trackers Show Diverging Drops

Blood Cancer UK Says Its Leukaemia Page Lost 53% Of Views. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Aug 18

Blood Cancer UK Says Its Leukaemia Page Lost 53% Of Views

ChatGPT B2B Referrals Jump 303%, Still a Sliver of Traffic. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Aug 17

ChatGPT B2B Referrals Jump 303%, Still a Sliver of Traffic

AI Referral Share Is Tiny. That Isn't Proof Publishers Are Safe.. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Aug 14

AI Referral Share Is Tiny. That Isn't Proof Publishers Are Safe.

Lunio: Retail AI Max Search Ads Carry 72% More Invalid Traffic. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Aug 13

Lunio: Retail AI Max Search Ads Carry 72% More Invalid Traffic

Judge Lets Toxic Backlink Suit Proceed, Testing Life After Disavow. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Aug 13

Judge Lets Toxic Backlink Suit Proceed, Testing Life After Disavow

SE Ranking: ChatGPT Ads Hit 26% of Prompts, Rarely Earn Citations. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Aug 11

SE Ranking: ChatGPT Ads Hit 26% of Prompts, Rarely Earn Citations

AI Max Already Broadens 29% of Exact Match Traffic, Smec Finds. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Aug 10

AI Max Already Broadens 29% of Exact Match Traffic, Smec Finds

Google Denies Ranking Boost as Reddit's Search Traffic Erodes. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Aug 6

Google Denies Ranking Boost as Reddit's Search Traffic Erodes

Paid Search Growth Is Volume, Not Price. CPC Rose Just 1%. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Aug 5

Paid Search Growth Is Volume, Not Price. CPC Rose Just 1%

Google Says Web Pages, Not Its Model, Shaped an AI Overview Reply. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jul 31

Google Says Web Pages, Not Its Model, Shaped an AI Overview Reply

Writesonic: AI Engines Skip Brand Names in 40% of Citations. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jul 30

Writesonic: AI Engines Skip Brand Names in 40% of Citations

Google Rewrote Its Ads Conversion Guide, Told No One. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jul 28

Google Rewrote Its Ads Conversion Guide, Told No One

Brave's AI Benchmark Win Hides a Likert-Copeland Mixup. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jul 27

Brave's AI Benchmark Win Hides a Likert-Copeland Mixup

Google Says DMA Forces Feature Cuts. A Lawyer Says That Is a Choice. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jul 24

Google Says DMA Forces Feature Cuts. A Lawyer Says That Is a Choice

Reach's Dividend Cut Shows the Ceiling on Monetizing Harder. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jul 24

Reach's Dividend Cut Shows the Ceiling on Monetizing Harder

German News Sites Grow 7.8% While US Publishers Fall 17.1%. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jul 22

German News Sites Grow 7.8% While US Publishers Fall 17.1%

Google Patent Suggests Search Could Wait to Answer You Later. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jul 22

Google Patent Suggests Search Could Wait to Answer You Later

Search Traffic Splits by Region as Africa Bucks the Decline. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jul 21

Search Traffic Splits by Region as Africa Bucks the Decline

Survey Traces GEO's 40 Percent Claim to One Lab Metric. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jul 21

Survey Traces GEO's 40 Percent Claim to One Lab Metric

Layout as a ranking signal: one analyst's data-backed case. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jul 15

Layout as a ranking signal: one analyst's data-backed case

Study: AI Search Engines Reward Synthetic Text, Then Consume It. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jul 13

Study: AI Search Engines Reward Synthetic Text, Then Consume It

Why Most Advertisers Should Turn Off Google Search Partners. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jul 9

Why Most Advertisers Should Turn Off Google Search Partners

Price AI-assisted SEO work by outcome, not hours logged. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jul 3

Price AI-assisted SEO work by outcome, not hours logged

Publisher Audience Share Data Is Hiding a Steeper Under-35 Collapse. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jul 3

Publisher Audience Share Data Is Hiding a Steeper Under-35 Collapse

The SEO toolkit is not broken. It just needs a co-pilot.. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jul 1

The SEO toolkit is not broken. It just needs a co-pilot.

Google's AI Visibility Advice Sounds Familiar Because It Is. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jun 30

Google's AI Visibility Advice Sounds Familiar Because It Is

Paid Social Builds Branded Search Demand Your Attribution Misses. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jun 25

Paid Social Builds Branded Search Demand Your Attribution Misses

Gemini's Co-Lead Is Now at OpenAI. Search Teams Should Notice.. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jun 23

Gemini's Co-Lead Is Now at OpenAI. Search Teams Should Notice.

Last-click attribution is systematically undervaluing your SEO budget. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jun 23

Last-click attribution is systematically undervaluing your SEO budget

68% of US queries resolve with no click to any site in early 2026. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jun 15

68% of US queries resolve with no click to any site in early 2026

Grokipedia's Core Update Bounce Looks Fragile. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jun 9

Grokipedia's Core Update Bounce Looks Fragile

Organic Search Grew 5% Post-AI, But 44 Publishers Split Two Ways. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / Jun 1

Organic Search Grew 5% Post-AI, But 44 Publishers Split Two Ways

Audit tools will not set your SEO priority list. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / May 25

Audit tools will not set your SEO priority list

Google I/O 2026: Velocity over oversight, and what it costs search. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / May 25

Google I/O 2026: Velocity over oversight, and what it costs search

Google's GEO guidance tells you what benefits Google, not you. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / May 25

Google's GEO guidance tells you what benefits Google, not you

Organic traffic still matters, but only four page types count. Featured image for SEO
Analysis / May 25

Organic traffic still matters, but only four page types count

Diverging line chart contrasting professional and consumer AI tool adoption
Analysis / May 21

AI Adoption Looks Bigger Than the Consumer Data Supports

Diverging-paths graphic representing the debate over whether GEO is a separate discipline from SEO
Analysis / May 20

Google says GEO is just SEO. The other engines disagree.

Editorial graphic for an article on publishers facing zero-click search
Analysis / May 19

Publishers brace for the zero-click era after Google I/O

A poll result chart showing a two-thirds majority, representing an SEO community survey on AI Mode and Google Search.
Analysis / May 18

Two-thirds of SEOs say AI Mode will not replace Google Search

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