Google Clarifies How It Picks Thumbnails For Search, Discover via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google updated its Image SEO and Discover documentation to explain how schema markup and the og:image meta tag influence thumbnail selection. The post Google Clarifies How It Picks Thumbnails For…
Read More »Bing AI Citation Tracking, Hidden HTTP Homepages & Pages Fall Under Crawl Limit – SEO Pulse via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
The latest SEO Pulse examines AI citation dashboards, invisible homepage pitfalls, and what new crawl data means for technical teams. The post Bing AI Citation Tracking, Hidden HTTP Homepages &…
Read More »Anonymized Queries Make Up Nearly Half of Google Search Console Traffic
This number is slightly higher than our 2022 study on anonymized queries. However, that’s the average. Some websites in our research saw dramatically higher percentages of anonymized queries. Read on…
Read More »ChatGPT Has 12% of Google’s Search Volume but Google Sends 190x More Traffic to Websites
While ChatGPT has nearly a fifth of Google’s query volume, people use the platforms in different ways. I wanted to see how ChatGPT compared to Google, not just on the…
Read More »Bing Webmaster Tools Adds AI Citation Performance Data via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Bing Webmaster Tools now shows publishers how often their content is cited in Copilot and AI-generated answers, with page-level data and grounding queries. The post Bing Webmaster Tools Adds AI…
Read More »How to Track AI Overviews: Mentions, Citations, Click Loss, and the Traffic Google Won’t Show You
These questions aren’t easy to answer—especially since Google keeps AI Overview data under lock and key. But, if you keep reading, you might just find out… When people talk about…
Read More »How To Analyze Google Discover
Why Discover success depends on outperforming expected early performance, and how entities, headlines, and images shape long-term credibility. The post How To Analyze Google Discover appeared first on Search Engine…
Read More »Google Files DMCA Suit Targeting SerpApi’s SERP Scraping via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google sued SerpApi under the DMCA, alleging it circumvented SearchGuard to scrape and resell licensed copyrighted content from Google Search results at scale. The post Google Files DMCA Suit Targeting…
Read More »96.98% of Clicks Happen in the Top 10 Search Results
To find out, we analysed 458 billion clicks and 17 trillion impressions from Google Search Console. Our findings are a good reminder: page one is where the overwhelming majority of…
Read More »Bing Supports data-nosnippet For Search Snippets & AI Answers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Bing now supports the data-nosnippet HTML attribute, letting websites exclude specific page sections from search snippets and AI-generated answers in Bing. The post Bing Supports data-nosnippet For Search Snippets &…
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