John Mueller from Google said that the new Content Signals robots.txt directive invented by Cloudflare last year has “no effects whatsoever for any crawler or LLM.” He added that it “just adds bloat and future maintenance to your robots.txt file.” As far as he knows, he said, none of the crawlers or LLMs use the content-signal robots.txt directives.
OpenAI’s ad platform, ChatGPT Ads, is now using AI (I guess) to generate ads for you. The ad platform lets you click on “add new ad,” which then says, “Generated ads for you,” and then lets you review, edit, and approve that generated ad.
Back in early May, Google announced five new ways to explore the web with generative AI in Google Search. One was a feature that was titled “Further Exploration” at the bottom of the AI Overview within Google Search. Well, now it seems some are seeing this feature in the wild.
Declining organic traffic doesn’t always signal failing content. Here’s how to measure influence when AI search disrupts traditional SEO metrics. The post AI Content Didn’t Stop Working, Your Metrics Did appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Those of you who use the Google and YouTube Shopify app to sync your products automatically from Shopify to Google Merchant Center may have a huge headache to deal with after August 18, 2026. The rumor is that you will need to reinstall the app by this date and when you do this, every product ID gets rewritten.
Microsoft Bing is testing product detail screens, overlays, when you click on a product listing within the Bing search results.
Google’s John Mueller responded to an SEO using LLMs-Author.txt to separate themself from others with the same name.
Google’s John Mueller responded to an SEO using LLMs-Author.txt to separate themself from others with the same name. The post Google Answers Question About LLMs-Author.txt For SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Google’s Open Knowledge Format turns your website’s ideas into a linked graph agents can traverse. Here’s what that means for how machines understand your site. The post Google’s Open Knowledge Format Could Work For Websites, Too appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Google’s Open Knowledge Format turns your website’s ideas into a linked graph agents can traverse. Here’s what that means for how machines understand your site. The post Google’s Open Knowledge Format Could Work For Websites, Too appeared first on Search Engine Journal .