Structured data helped machines interpret pages. It reduced ambiguity. It made entities and attributes legible to crawlers that were otherwise guessing. Agents change the job because they do not just interpret pages. They decide, summarize, recommend, and sometimes execute. That means they need more than “this page is about X.” They need “this is the ..
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At Google Search Central Live in Zurich last December, Clara Soteras spoke about how brands and ecommerce sites can use Discover as a strategy. Discover is a dominant source of traffic for news publishers, and currently, is a potential channel that has resisted the encroachment of AI. So, I was interested to see how Discover ..
A Practical Audit for Marketing Leaders Using Enterprise-Level Content Management Systems (CMS) AI-driven search is not a future consideration. It is already shaping how brands are discovered, evaluated, and chosen. Yet many CMS platforms were built for a different era of search, one focused on pages and rankings rather than structured content and machine interpretation. ..
Robby Stein, VP of Product Google Search, posted that Google is updating AI Mode so that it surfaces more links to creators when users search for recipes. Google’s AI Mode has generated controversy by synthesizing multiple recipes into what many have taken to calling Frankenstein recipes. This new update aims to fix that by making ..
There is a pervasive narrative doing the rounds in the publishing industry called “Google Zero.” This narrative, embraced by many industry leaders, poses that traffic from Google – Search and Discover – will decline and eventually become negligible. This Google Zero narrative is entirely false, and extremely dangerous. And I’m going to explain why. When ..
Enterprise SEO doesn’t usually fail because of bad tactics. It fails because the operating model itself makes success nearly impossible. For years, organizations have treated SEO like a downstream marketing function, one that audits what others build, files tickets, and hopes development or content teams eventually implement recommendations. That model worked (barely) when search engines ..
We’re bringing the SEJ newsroom to a screen near you. On March 11 from 12–3pm ET, we’ve gathered our own search experts, alongside some very special guests, to help you master AI search visibility this year. This is SEJ Live, a new series we’ve been building behind the scenes, and I couldn’t be more excited ..
Most people do not wake up one day and decide they are done with a product category. They leave when the workflow starts to feel like work. Think about something mundane. Planning a trip, picking a new doctor, comparing two insurance options, deciding which grill to buy, figuring out what to do in a new ..
Researchers published the results of a study showing how AI search rankings can be systematically influenced, with a high success rate for product search tests that also generalizes to other categories like travel. The name of the research paper is Controlling Output Rankings in Generative Engines for LLM-based Search and the approach to optimization is ..
For the past couple of decades, SEO has been about linear visibility. Your website ranks for more keywords in higher positions, which, in turn, drives more clicks, and has been benchmarked by total opportunities in search (MSV) and ranking comparisons against your competitors. This model worked well because search operated within a shared reality, and ..