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 ..
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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 ..
Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! AI-SEO transformation will fail at the alignment layer, not the tactics layer. 25 years of transformation research, spanning 10,800+ participants across industries, reveals that the gap between successful and failed initiatives isn’t technical skill. It’s organizational readiness. What you’ll get: Why AI SEO ..
If more than half the web runs on a content management system, then the majority of technical SEO standards are being positively shaped before an SEO even starts work on it. That’s the lens I took into the 2025 Web Almanac SEO chapter (for clarity, I co-authored the 2025 Web Almanac SEO chapter referenced in ..
NewzDash published an analysis comparing Discover visibility before and after Google’s February 2026 Discover core update, using panel data from millions of US users tracked through its DiscoverPulse tool. It compared pre-update (Jan 25-31) and post-update (Feb 8-14) windows across the top 1,000 domains and top 1,000 articles in the US, California, and New York. ..
A 90 Day Plan to Prepare Every Location for AI Search AI is changing how consumers discover and choose local brands. For multi-location businesses, visibility is no longer decided only by search rankings. AI agents now evaluate location data, reviews, content, engagement, and brand trust before a customer ever clicks. This shift means each individual ..
Google revised its “Get on Discover” documentation following the lauch of the February Discover core update. On its documentation updates page, Google said it added more information on how sites can increase the likelihood of content appearing in Discover. Here’s what was added. What Changed Comparing the archived version with the current page shows Google ..
Welcome to the week’s Pulse for SEO: updates affect how Google ranks content in Discover, how it plans to monetize AI search, and what content you serve to bots. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Releases Discover-Only Core Update Google launched the February 2026 Discover core update, a broad ranking change targeting ..
Google’s John Mueller was asked how many megabytes of HTML Googlebot crawls per page. The question was whether Googlebot indexes two megabytes (MB) or fifteen megabytes of data. Mueller’s answer minimized the technical aspect of the question and went straight to the heart of the issue, which is really about how much content is indexed. ..