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YouTube long-form video views surge, ad revenue drops by half
A Metricool report reveals YouTube long-form video views jumped 76%, but ad revenue per post fell by half, raising quest...
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Google updates review guidelines, warns of manual penalties
Google introduces new rules for online reviews, banning fake or undisclosed incentivized content and warning of manual a...
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Google’s Illyes Undecided on Dynamic ‘unavailable_after’ Dates
Google’s Gary Illyes expressed uncertainty on how ‘unavailable_after’ dates should be handled for dynamically renewed co...
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AI Recognizes 96 Percent of Brands, Rarely Mentions Them in Queries
A new study by Victorious finds AI recognizes 96% of brands but mentions only a fraction in buyer research questions, po...
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Google: CMS-generated internal URLs do not harm SEO rankings
John Mueller of Google clarifies that automatically generated internal URLs from CMS platforms like Squarespace do not a...
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Publishers Risk Losing Visibility in Google AI Overviews
Publishers opting out of Google’s AI features risk losing prominent Top Stories placement within AI Overviews, according...
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Google reports revenue increase, negative cash flow amid AI pivot
Google’s earnings call reveals a massive shift to AI, agentic search, and AGI development, with significant investments...
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AI-generated content ranks lower in Google, Ahrefs data shows
New Ahrefs data reveals AI-heavy pages still rank on Google, but generally lower, with fewer indexed. Quality remains ke...
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Judge rules against Google in web scraping case, cites DMCA limits
A federal judge ruled against Google in its DMCA case with SerpApi, affirming that public web content is fair game for a...
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