SEO Pulse: Core Update Favors Niche Expertise, AIO Health Inaccuracies & AI Slop via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
This week’s SEO Pulse highlights the tensions emerging as search engines tighten quality standards for sites while defending their own AI outputs. The post SEO Pulse: Core Update Favors Niche…
Read More »Ask An SEO: What Is The Threshold Between Keyword Stuffing & Being Optimized? via @sejournal, @rollerblader
This week’s Ask an SEO addresses where keyword optimization ends and keyword stuffing begins in modern search and AI-driven systems. The post Ask An SEO: What Is The Threshold Between…
Read More »From Organic Search To AI Answers: How To Redesign SEO Content Workflows via @sejournal, @rio_seo
As engines favor synthesized answers over blue links, marketing leaders must rethink how content is built, validated, and measured. The post From Organic Search To AI Answers: How To Redesign…
Read More »Minimizing Marketing Blind Spots: The New Era of Attribution
Attribution in the modern marketing age can be confusing. But the pressure on marketing teams to “prove what’s working” never goes away. Traditionally, marketers had certain data we could always…
Read More »YouTube Adds Title A/B Testing And “Ask Studio” Analytics via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
YouTube announces A/B title testing availability, along with AI-powered conversational analytics for YouTube Studio. The post YouTube Adds Title A/B Testing And “Ask Studio” Analytics appeared first on Search Engine…
Read More »Google: Your Login Pages May Be Hurting Your SEO Performance via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google explains how generic login pages trigger duplicate indexing. Learn fixes using noindex, redirects, and paywall markup. The post Google: Your Login Pages May Be Hurting Your SEO Performance appeared…
Read More »Google Adds Guidance On JavaScript Paywalls And SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google’s updated documentation asks some publishers to change how they block users from paywalled content. The post Google Adds Guidance On JavaScript Paywalls And SEO appeared first on Search Engine…
Read More »Google Updates Search Analytics API To Clarify Data Freshness via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google updated the Search Analytics API with a metadata field that helps identify when recent data is still being processed. The post Google Updates Search Analytics API To Clarify Data…
Read More »AI Traffic Has Increased 9.7x in the Past Year
Though still <1% of total traffic, it’s now our highest converting channel at 10%+ CVR (going by our new custom event tracking in Web Analytics). I wanted to see if…
Read More »Generative Engines Are Breaking Web Analytics and Hurting Their Future
I was looking at our LLM filter in Ahrefs Web Analytics and noticed some common generative engines missing from the list. They’re in our filters, but we aren’t seeing any…
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