Most of the web’s reading is now done by bots.

Google is rolling out a new look and feel for the Google Ads campaign status notifications and icons. The new statuses are no longer highlighted fully, instead they are just outlined in various colors. It makes it a bit less extreme to look at, and I am not sure if that is a good or bad change.

Google added a new summary tab to the access and security section that shows the security tasks you completed and what tasks you have not completed.

Search Console reported 51,000 URLs as “Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt,” and Google says that’s not necessarily a problem. The post Google Explains Why URLs Blocked By Robots.txt Can Still Be Indexed appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

AI retrieval systems reward semantic precision over content volume, making excessive publishing counterproductive for modern SEO visibility. The post Why Publishing More Content Is Making Your SEO Worse appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google updated its guidance to strike a less discouraging tone about the use of LLMs.txt, special markup, and markdown for AI SEO. The post Google’s Updated Guidance Now Says It’s “Fine” To Use LLMs.txt For AI SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Uncover the connection between AI and SEO. Discover how structured use of AI can transform your content strategy. The post The 4-Layer AI Ops Playbook: From Better AI Outputs To Strong SEO Results appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Microsoft is beginning to roll out Citation Share, Intents, Topics, and Compare in the Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance dashboard preview. The post Bing Rolls Out AI Citation Share In Webmaster Tools appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

In a fresh-account test, Kapwing found 59% of TikTok For You videos were AI slop, roughly three times the rate on YouTube. The post TikTok Shows 3x More AI Slop Than YouTube, Report Finds 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. Google said that LLMS.txt files won’t help or hurt your search rankings, Google just ignores it…