Google’s YMYL standards reveal why AI-written health, finance, and legal content can’t match human expertise or credibility. The post Can You Use AI To Write For YMYL Sites

Create a sustainable founder-led content model that balances authenticity, efficiency, and long-term brand impact. The post Don’t Let Your Founder Burn Out: 4 Systems To Operationalize Thought Leadership appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Grokipedia, an AI-generated online encyclopedia launched a week ago with over 800,000 AI-generated pages, and both Google and Bing have already indexed hundreds, if not thousands, of those AI-generated pages.

A few weeks ago, Google launched a new ad layout with the large “Sponsored results” label that groups numerous ads under that one label, and then sticks a “Hide sponsored results” button after you have already seen the ads. Well, it is leading to accidental ad clicks based on what I am reading and hearing across the industry.

Reddit announced earnings late last week and it boggles me how people love this stock. I am not a financial expert of analysis but Reddit has been saying for some time that 50% of its traffic comes from Google Search. Reddit also said on this Q3 earnings call that its search traffic is flat and that AI is not a traffic driver, at least not yet.

Google’s John Mueller posted a PSA yesterday, reminding SEOs and developers to verify the host name of cloud providers they are using to host images, videos, and other content. Specifically, you should use a DNS CNAME to the bucket, then verify with DNS with Search Console.

Raptive, an advertising-sales company representing thousands of websites (content publishers), filed a 93-page complaint against Google in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The suit says “Google has carried out a sophisticated, anticompetitive, and deceptive scheme for well over a decade” by “manipulating auctions for ad space across the Internet.”

Google says AI surfaces businesses the same way people do, by checking what others recommend online. The post Google Discusses Digital PR Impact On AI Recommendations 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 says Google Ads is not going away…

Professionals can find fresh opportunities for meaningful networking across these eight alternative platforms to LinkedIn. The post 8 LinkedIn Alternatives For Professional Networking appeared first on Search Engine Journal .