We covered the topic of markdown files before but now we have more commentary from official representatives from Google and Bing on the topic. In short, they call markdown files messy, it can cause issues with finding errors, cause more crawl load and either way, the search engines use what people/humans can see over what bots can see.

Keep international PPC campaigns aligned with practical frameworks for consistency, localization, and multi-agency coordination. The post International PPC: Why Consistency Is So Hard To Maintain appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google AdSense has ended its Parked Domains (AFD) as an ad surface within the Search Partner Network effective February 10, 2026.

Antitrust filing argues Google cannibalizes audience visits to sites it uses to power AI results.

On February 10th, we reported the beginning of yet another unconfirmed Google Search ranking update. The volatility has not cooled yet and it seems it may have even heated up through the weekend.

A site owner blamed Google AI Search for falsely reporting their site offline.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google’s Search Relations team discussed whether you still need a website in 2026, and outlined when social, apps, or the web make sense.

The latest SEO Pulse examines AI citation dashboards, invisible homepage pitfalls, and what new crawl data means for technical teams. The post Bing AI Citation Tracking, Hidden HTTP Homepages & Pages Fall Under Crawl Limit – SEO Pulse appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Cloudflare launched Markdown for Agents, converting HTML pages to markdown automatically when AI crawlers request it through content negotiation. The post Cloudflare’s New Markdown for AI Bots: What You Need To Know appeared first on Search Engine Journal .