Google lost its scraping case, then came back holding Reddit’s contract
Google’s amended SerpApi complaint leans on licensing contracts, and rank tracking is the tool caught in the middle. What the filing means for your SEO stack.
Cloudflare just gave ai visibility tools a free scoreboard, and nobody can prove what moves it yet
Cloudflare’s new AEO Visibility Dashboard joins the crowded field of ai visibility tools, scoring Citation Rate and Share of Voice for Claude and GPT, free.
A single reading is a rumour , not a measurement
AI visibility tracking gives you one reading of a system Google itself documents as variable. Five honest rules on cadence, sample size and repeat counts.
The English page nobody reads is the one the machine reads
Two 2026 datasets show AI assistants research in English whatever the prompt. The honest multilingual SEO move is one real English page, not translated sprawl.
The model cites you everywhere and recommends you nowhere
Two new datasets this week put real numbers on ai visibility: citations sit flat at 40% while named mentions need depth, and two fan-out types mint 97% of them.
Your search box is an open gate, and Googlebot walked through it
Your internal search box can drain crawl budget and even trigger a hacked-content flag. Five practical fixes that protect crawling, indexing and brand trust.
Blocking AI crawlers closed one gate. Googlebot was behind it
Blocking AI crawlers can quietly hand Googlebot a 403 and thin your index. Five hidden risks, a crawler-by-crawler table, and the 15 September 2026 date.
The opt-out button that quietly removes you from the news
Google now lets publishers leave AI Overviews. Five hidden costs to weigh first, including the Top Stories carousel that now sits inside the summary itself.
Search traffic fell 34 per cent. The measurement finally caught up
AI visibility reporting matured this week just as Chartbeat data showed publisher search traffic down 34 per cent. Five numbers and a measurement plan.
Google just banned the reviews Britain outlawed last year
Google added a review snippet guideline on 24 July 2026 targeting fake and undisclosed incentivised reviews. What changes, and the UK law that got there first.