Google’s AI Search Opt-Out Is Worldwide: Audit Property Inheritance
Google’s AI Search inclusion control is now worldwide. Audit parent and child properties before excluding content, traffic, and impressions.
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Rank Math Support Agent: Consent, Credentials & Cleanup
Rank Math’s AI Support Agent could create a broad WordPress API credential before feature consent. We trace the code, cleanup, limits, and audit questions.
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Gemini 3.8 Flash Is Live: Test Search Citations Before Switching
Gemini 3.8 Flash is generally available with Google Search grounding, but capability is not evidence of better citations. Use a matched query-and-claim ledger before migrating.
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ChatGPT Becomes an EU VLOSE: What Publishers Need to Track
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine. Publishers should separate DSA duties, product controls, and observed search outcomes through the January 2027 window.
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Perplexity SEO: Audit Crawlers, Citations, Referrals and Source Labels
Audit PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User separately, validate cited claims, capture source labels and connect detectable referrals to qualified outcomes.
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AI Search Ranking Factors: What Platforms Document—and What They Don’t
Separate documented eligibility and controls from practitioner observations and unknown source-selection mechanics before acting on ranking-factor claims.
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Google AI Mode SEO: Map Query Fan-Out Without Publishing Thin Pages
Map related questions around one user problem, then decide which belong in a deep guide and which truly deserve a separate URL.
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Google AI Overviews SEO: What Makes a Page Eligible for Citations
Google documents ordinary Search eligibility for AI Overview supporting links—not a special schema or guaranteed inclusion. The workflow starts there.
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ChatGPT SEO: How to Earn Discovery, Citations and Clicks
A practical ChatGPT SEO workflow that separates crawler discovery, answer citations, referral clicks and qualified outcomes instead of hiding them in one score.
