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Coursera agrees to acquire Udemy in a stock-for-stock transaction. The post Coursera Acquiring Udemy appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Dan Taylor explains why AI has broken the linear customer journey and what organizations must do to stay influential. The post The User Journey Isn’t Linear Anymore: It’s Always On appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s Robby Stein explains how AI Mode judges content quality and names five quality signals useful for SEO The post Google’s Robby Stein Names 5 SEO Factors For AI Mode appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

John Mueller from Google had Danny Sullivan from Google on the Search Off the Record podcast to talk about “Thoughts on SEO & SEO for AI.” In short, they both said SEO for AI is the same as SEO for traditional search but then they got into it.

Google updated its JavaScript SEO best practices document with a new section on how to set the canonial URL when using JavaScript. Google wrote, “The best way to set the canonical URL is to use HTML, but if you have to use JavaScript, make sure that you always set the canonical URL to the same value as the original HTML.”

Google is bringing Gemini 3 Flash to AI Mode, bringing much of Gemini 3’s power without waiting too long – hence the “Flash” part of the name.

Back in October, many businesses reported that reviews left on their Google Business Profiles were disappearing.

Microsoft is also testing underlining the text of the Bing Ads search snippets and descriptions. I am not sure if those underlined words are links or not but I assume so.

It’s time to reset how we think about links and link building for SEO and AI search. The post Let’s Be Honest About The Ranking Power Of Links appeared first on Search Engine Journal .