Cloudflare's AI training block now spares Googlebot
Cloudflare‘s Disallow AI Training setting blocks AI training crawlers but not Googlebot. Bing won‘t honor it until early 2027.
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Google releases August 2026 spam update: What marketers need to know
Google‘s August 2026 spam update finished rolling out on August 21. Learn what changed, what didn‘t, and how to read your data.
Reddit's citations in ChatGPT fall from 3.8% to 0.5%
Promptwatch says Reddit‘s share of ChatGPT citations fell 86% in four days. OpenAI says it hasn‘t changed how it picks sources.
Microsoft Clarity adds an AI Scrape-to-Referral Ratio
Microsoft Clarity‘s AI Scrape-to-Referral Ratio compares what AI crawlers take from your site with what they send back.
How topical authority spreads (and where it doesn’t) in ChatGPT [Study]
Can authority in one ChatGPT topic help you win another? Our study shows where topical authority carries over — and where it stops.
The Content SEO Manager: How a brand-new role took over content marketing [Study]
We analyzed 1,000+ Content SEO Manager job listings to reveal the skills, AI expertise, and SEO trends shaping this emerging role.
AI visibility is a topic-level game: A study of 50,000 brands in ChatGPT [Study]
Most ChatGPT topics still have no dominant brand. See what 50,000 brands reveal about winning AI visibility at the topic level.
Google Search Console adds social and video reports
Google Search Console now shows how your Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube content performs in Google Search.
How AI tools shape the B2B buying process: A survey of 600+ US business professionals
New research reveals how AI influences B2B vendor discovery, evaluation, shortlists, and purchase decisions.
Google research reveals pattern-level AI video spam detection
New Google research catches AI video spam by clustering accounts, not single videos. See what it signals.