SEO
- YouTube is a search engine now, not “just social.”
- Google AI Overviews cite YouTube a lot, so video can win you extra visibility.
- Clean titles, descriptions, chapters, and captions help AI understand your video.
- Series + playlists beat random one-off uploads.
- Shorts and creator partnerships can speed up growth.
- ChatGPT shopping assistant uses public product pages, not paid ads.
- Your site must be easy for the ChatGPT agent to crawl.
- Clear product content and strong product structured data are vital.
- Reviews, trust signals, and product feeds help your store stand out.
- Instant Checkout and Agentic Commerce Protocol can boost in-chat sales.
- Yes, a brand’s Google Search Console graph can look like its stock price chart.
- Both graphs react to news, hype, fear, and big company events.
- Similar lines do not always mean one is causing the other.
- You can still use both graphs together to read brand health and investor mood.
- Google AI Overviews act like a smart answer box at the top of search.
- You cannot “turn on” AI Overviews, but you can shape content so Google trusts and cites it.
- Clear, human, question-based pages work better than keyword-heavy pages.
- Topic clusters and strong internal links help Google see you as an expert.
- Real stories, proof, and helpful guides give your brand a better chance to appear.
- People still love top results, but clicks now spread across more links.
- Branded keywords no longer send all traffic to just one page.
- Local and shopping results steal attention from the top organic result.
- Long-tail keywords feel “safer” and keep more steady organic CTR.
- You can still win more clicks by reading the data and fixing your snippets.
- Google Search Console is adding AI-assisted brand query filters.
- You will be able to include or exclude brand queries in the performance report.
- The filter uses AI to spot branded queries, products, and services.
- You no longer need complex RegEx to split brand vs non brand traffic.
- This helps SEO teams report cleaner non-branded performance to leaders.
- Only rich-result supported schema types appear in Search Console.
- These reports help you track errors, warnings, and valid items.
- Google uses these types to show extra details in search results.
- Google Search Console annotations let you add short notes directly on your performance charts.
- You can mark key events like site changes, content updates, and Google core updates on exact dates.
- Annotations help you explain spikes or drops in clicks, impressions, and rankings.
- Your whole team can see these notes, so reporting and SEO handovers become much easier.
- With a simple habit, annotations can become your SEO change log inside Google Search Console.
- Google treats most gTLDs the same. A TLD does not boost rank.
- If you run two TLDs, pick one main site. 301 redirect the other.
- During a move, use 301s. Do not rely on canonicals first.
- Later, canonicals can help. However, redirects are stronger.
- Email domains don’t affect SEO. Use any TLD for email.
- Keep redirects for at least one year. Also, monitor in Search Console.
- Google’s Opal helps build no-code AI “mini-apps” for content.
- Google’s blog says Opal can create “optimized” content at scale.
- Google’s spam policy bans scaled content made to game rankings.
- Your “primary purpose” must be to help users, not Search.
- Human review, sources, and E-E-A-T signals reduce risk.
- A 13-week study tracked 230k prompts and 100M+ AI citations.
- In mid-September, ChatGPT cut Reddit and Wikipedia citations fast.
- Yet both still lead ChatGPT’s cited sources after the drop.
- Google’s AI Mode favors Google-owned domains like YouTube and Google Blog.
- Perplexity often cites Reddit, LinkedIn, NIH, Microsoft, and Google.
- After September, PR Newswire, Forbes, and Medium gained on ChatGPT.
- The timing aligned with Google ending the
num=100results trick. - AI Overviews (AIO) show on about 21% of Google searches.
- They appear most on long, question-style, informational queries.
- Only a small share shows on news, shopping, and local searches.
- Medical YMYL terms see the highest AIO presence.
- Non-branded queries trigger AIOs almost twice as often as branded ones.
- Google launched Merchant Center for Agencies for multi-client work.
- It gives a single view across all client accounts and users.
- Four core areas: All client accounts, Agency overview, Diagnostics, Optimizations.
- You can star up to five priority accounts for quick access.
- A new “click potential” metric helps you rank fixes by impact.
- Agencies can request access via Google’s help form.
- Google is testing a “Schedule this post” option in GBP.
- The toggle appears in the Post composer for some profiles.
- You can choose a date and time before you publish.
- The test is limited and may change or roll back.
- You can still post manually or use third-party tools.
- Posts show on Search and Maps when they go live.
- Online communities like Reddit and Quora now dominate search visibility and influence purchase decisions more than ever.
- Building authority, not visibility, is the new key to consumer trust and brand longevity.
- Reddit users are among the most skeptical online audiences — but when brands earn their trust, the SEO payoff is long-lasting.
- Quora rewards depth, expertise, and consistency, turning answers into evergreen search assets.
- Authority in online communities amplifies E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) and strengthens SEO equity across platforms.
- Google now upweights content that demonstrates expertise, originality, and human insight while downranking repetitive or low-value output.
- The definition of spam has expanded to include content that lacks a creator’s unique perspective.
- AI Overviews prefer “richer and deeper” content that people actually engage with — not surface-level summaries.
- AI-generated content is not automatically spam, but quality, intent, and usefulness remain the core ranking factors.
- User behavior and engagement patterns actively shape what Google shows, influencing the evolution of search rankings.
- Google is now sending AI Mode notifications on Android devices.
- Tapping them opens AI Mode directly, bypassing regular search results.
- SEO experts believe Google is using this to increase AI Mode adoption.
- Every tap likely counts as a “new query”, boosting engagement metrics.
- The move signals Google’s deeper push toward AI-first search behavior.
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YouTube SEO in 2026: Get Cited in Google AI Overviews Today
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How to Make Your Website Appear in ChatGPT Shopping Assistant?
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When Search Console Lines Mimic Your Stock Chart Exactly?
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How to Position Your Brand in Google AI Overviews Search
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Google CTR in Q3 2025: How Real People Really Click On Google
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New Google Search Console Brand Query Filters Explained
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Schema Types That Show in Google Search Console
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How to Use Google Search Console Annotations for Better SEO?
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Do Different TLDs Impact SEO? What Google Actually Says
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How to Use Google Opal Without Breaking SEO Policies Today?
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Which Websites Do AI Cite Most? Insights from Semrush 2025
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Report: AI Overviews now appear on 21% of Google searches
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Merchant Center for Agencies: What’s New And How-To Guide
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Google Business Profile Adds Scheduled Posts Publishing
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Why Building Communities on Reddit and Quora Important?
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How Google’s AI Overviews Decide What Gets Clicked: Lessons for Content Creators in 2025
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Google Pushes AI Mode Through Mobile Notifications
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SEO professionals are noticing something new — Google is sending push notifications that lead users straight into AI Mode.
Screenshots shared by experts like Glenn Gabe, Sachin Patel, and Anthony Higman show mobile notifications with the AI Mode icon, redirecting users to AI-generated answers instead of traditional results.
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The Referral Patterns in Newly Introduced AI Mode in Google Search
Google’s AI Mode might be the future of search, but early signs show it works very differently from what we’re used to. Thanks to new data from SimilarWeb and iPullRank, we now have our first glimpse into how users behave when exploring AI-powered search.
Between May 20 and June 19, over 100,000 AI Mode users were tracked across multiple metrics.
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LLMS.TXT Brings New Standard for AI Content Crawling
AI tools are everywhere, but what if there was a simple way to guide them through your website—just like robots.txt does for search engines?
That’s exactly what llms.txt aims to do.
Created by technologist Jeremy Howard, llms.txt is a proposed standard to help large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity crawl, read, and understand websites better.
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AI Mode Data Now Appears in Google Search Console
Google’s new AI Mode in Search is now showing up in Search Console. The update rolled out on June 13, 2025, and SEOs are already tracking clicks and impressions.
This is big. For the first time, we can measure how often AI Mode results are being seen—and clicked.