Google’s VP of Search, Liz Reid, sat down for an interview where she talked about the relationship between Google and publishers. When asked what the new rules are for showing up in AI search, she said that publishers need to publish content that people actually want to read. Google Says Publisher Traffic Loss Is Not ..
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Google started rolling out the June spam update, the second of the year. It enforces documented spam policies, and one of those policies now covers more ground than it once did. Google’s spam rules treat attempts to “manipulate generative AI responses” in Search as a violation, and that’s one of the policies the update is ..
Bruce Clay, one of the first generation of search engine optimization experts, has passed away. Much of the terminology that he coined and many of the concepts that he pioneered continue to be used today. Thirty Years Of SEO Clay was among the cohort of SEOs who were learning and applying the art of optimization ..
A third of the top fintech websites in the world deliver less than 80% of their homepage content in raw HTML. That is the version of the page an AI agent gets when it visits, before it decides whether to spend the compute on a full browser render. Most of them do not. The Structure ..
Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how Google measures its AI surfaces, what its spam rules cover, and where AI recommendations send traffic next. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Rolls Out June 2026 Spam Update Google began rolling out the June spam update on June 24. Key facts: Google announced ..
Google’s John Mueller responded to a question about whether Google’s search quality principles will change as AI agents increasingly browse websites on behalf of users. The answer may matter more to site owners than it first appears. Question About Agentic Browsers And Search Quality Principles An SEO asked Mueller on Bluesky whether Google’s guidance around ..
Google began rolling out the June 2026 spam update, applying globally and to all languages. It’s the second spam update of 2026, and Google announced no new spam policies with it. Ranking or traffic changes over the next few days could trace to the rollout, so watch your Search Console data. Google has begun rolling ..
AI agents do not read your website the way you do. They do not see your layout, your hero image, or your brand color. They prefer reading the accessibility tree: a stripped-down structural model of the page, the same one that has powered screen readers for two decades. Today, that matters more because the audience ..
We have always been approximating relevance. Every keyword list, every TF-IDF score, every editorial judgment about whether a page “covers the topic” has been an attempt to answer a single question: is this content about the thing the user is looking for? The tools changed. The question did not. What changed, meaningfully, is the resolution ..
At Google I/O last month, the SEO industry waited for Google to launch AI Mode to the masses, and the fatalist viewpoint that it will end SEO. For the past couple of years, AI has been moving search through a structural shift. Every software tool is embedding generative AI as a new product feature for ..
