Who Participates in IndexNow in 2026? A Live Registry Audit
A dated audit of IndexNow’s public participant registry, linked metadata, and the difference between being listed and receiving real-time URL notifications.
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Control Google AI Previews with nosnippet, max-snippet, and data-nosnippet
Map Google’s nosnippet, max-snippet, and data-nosnippet controls to their documented effects across Search, AI Overviews, and AI Mode.
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Googlebot’s 2 MB Fetch Limit: Audit What Appears Before the Cutoff
Googlebot fetches only the first 2 MB of supported non-PDF files. Audit the byte order of titles, canonicals, main content, links, and structured data.
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Search and AI Changes: August 3–9, 2026
Ten search and AI developments from August 3–9, with verification steps for publishers, merchants and technical SEO teams.
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You.com Removed the authors Field: Keep Attribution Pipelines Stable
Make author metadata optional, preserve source identity, and test downstream attribution systems after You.com removed the authors field from v1 and Answer API results.
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Perplexity Agent API Citations: A Migration Checklist
Normalize numbered and source-typed Agent API citations into one internal source contract before migrating from legacy Sonar or MCP-backed workflows.
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Google “Read More” Deep Links: Preserve Section Anchors and Hash Fragments
Keep target answers visible, preserve hash fragments, and stop page-load scripts from overriding section anchors used by readers and Google snippets.
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Web Bot Auth for Publishers: Verify Signed AI Agents
Test signed AI-agent verification at the CDN, WAF, or origin while preserving IP, reverse-DNS, and user-agent fallback for unsigned requests.
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Back Button Hijacking: Audit Third-Party Scripts Before Google Treats It as Spam
Reproduce browser-history manipulation across real entry, consent, ad, and device states, then isolate the first- or third-party script that causes it.
