Unlock the secrets of AI Overviews and realign your SEO strategy for improved visibility and relevance on Google.

Unlock the secrets of AI Overviews and realign your SEO strategy for improved visibility and relevance on Google.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Google says AI Overviews are changing search. The data? Not so fast.

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OpenAI has begun rolling out shopping search features directly into ChatGPT Search across fashion, beauty, home goods, and electronics categories. These are not ads or affiliate-driven, but they are powered by structured data from third-party sources.

Google’s John Mueller explained that changing the dates in your XML Sitemaps lastmod date to all show today, the most recent day, won’t favor your rankings or SEO. He said on Reddit, “setting today’s date in a sitemap file isn’t going to be something that works in favor of anyone, it’s just lazy.”

Google’s John Mueller explained that changing the dates in your XML Sitemaps lastmod date to all show today, the most recent day, won’t favor your rankings or SEO. He said on Reddit, “setting today’s date in a sitemap file isn’t going to be something that works in favor of anyone, it’s just lazy.”

Microsoft is testing a new format for an AI Answer or AI Summary in the Bing Search results. This shows the AI generated answer as a list of terms that can be expanded and clicked on to generate a new search result set.