Google: Hreflang URLs Can Appear Despite ‘Not Indexed’ Status
Gary Illyes clarified that hreflang alternate URLs can appear in Google search results as 'alternate names' even when marked 'not indexed' in GSC.
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YouTube Alters View Count Method for Long-Form, Live Videos
YouTube is updating its view count metric for long-form videos and live streams, counting a view from the start. Learn how this impacts creators.
AI Conversation Fragments Appear in Google Search Console Reports
Discover how AI conversations are appearing in Google Search Console, providing SEOs with new data on user interactions with AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Google allows Gemini users to toggle off visible AI watermarks
Google introduces a new setting for Gemini and Flow, allowing users to disable visible AI-generated content watermarks while retaining invisible SynthID and C2P…
Answer.AI Releases llms.txt V2 with Enhanced AI Agent Linking
Jeremy Howard released llms.txt V2, adding formal Markdown linking for AI agents and documentation tools, clarifying its use beyond Google Search rankings.
Advertisers use paid search email placements to boost traffic
Paid search email placements offer advertisers incremental traffic via Google and Bing ad platforms, with strategic setup crucial for effectiveness.
AI Assistants Transform Local Business Discovery, SEO
AI assistants are transforming local search by curating business recommendations. Learn how to optimize your business for AI and navigate new performance report…
Google AI Recall Hindered by Subject/Object Order in Queries
Google's new research paper reveals that the order of subject/object entities in queries significantly affects AI model recall, despite high fact encoding.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Bots Access Forbidden Web Pages in Europe
AI bots, including ChatGPT-User, are accessing forbidden web pages despite robots.txt rules. OpenAI justifies this as user-initiated action.
Cloudflare to block AI bots from sites opting out of data collection
Cloudflare will block AI bots from sites, OpenAI details indexing, Google Analytics adds benchmarks, and legal disputes over data scraping continue.
Anthropic Details AI Text Watermarking for Claude Models
Anthropic details its AI text watermarking for Claude, based on Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text, explaining its function and how it can be defeated.
Google integrates Gemini 3.7 Flash into AI Search for subscribers
Google adds Gemini 3.7 Flash to AI Mode in Search, offering enhanced instruction following and intent understanding for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
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