Citations and recommendations aren’t the same thing. New data shows Google often cites your listicle while recommending the competition. The post Why Calling Yourself The Best Could Be Helping Your Competitors Win In AI Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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The UK’s CMA introduced two new conduct requirements for Google Search, covering fair ranking of organic results including AI Overviews, and search data portability. The post Google Must Give Notice Before Significant Ranking Changes appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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.
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Bing Webmaster Tools is rolling out a preview release of those new AI reporting features demonstrated at SEO Week in late April. These include Intents, Topics, Citation Share, and Compare within the AI reporting section.
I’ve been watching the chatter in the SEO industry, and honestly, it hasn’t calmed down much since my last report for the period of June 8-12. The Google search results seem more heated today, and there appears to be an unconfirmed Google search ranking update underway.
The Competition and Markets Authority in the UK has told Google it must be transparent on how it ranks search results in Google and it must enable users to port its data to other third-party search services. I can’t imagine Google will ever share its full secret sauce on how it ranks its search results, and it is not the first time some political body has asked Google to do so, and it won’t be the last.
Most of the web’s reading is now done by bots.