Gary Illyes, along with Martin Splitt, of Google posted a podcast explaining the top crawling challenges Google noticed amongst its 2025 year of crawling.
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Google’s Top Crawling Challenges In 2025
Google’s John Mueller said he would “caution against assuming that you need to do this level of analysis for all URLs on a website in order to achieve optimal SEO” when it comes to reviewing bad redirects or CSP settings. Why, because bad redirects or CSP settings are often simply visible when doing normal browsing, and if you see it, then that is enough.
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Google: Don’t Spend Too Much Time On Redirects Analysis For SEO
WordPress published AI guidelines with five principles designed to encourage responsible use of AI. The post WordPress Publishes AI Guidelines To Combat AI Slop appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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WordPress Publishes AI Guidelines To Combat AI Slop via @sejournal, @martinibuster
LinkedIn tested what drives AI search visibility and shared results. Content structure, expert authorship, and timestamps showed the clearest impact
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LinkedIn Shares What Works For AI Search Visibility via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 2, 2026
YouTube’s CEO Neal Mohan shares the platform’s 2026 priorities, spanning creator-led entertainment, youth safety, diversified monetization, and responsible AI. The post YouTube CEO Reveals Your Video Marketing Strategy For 2026 appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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YouTube CEO Reveals Your Video Marketing Strategy For 2026 via @sejournal, @gregjarboe
As you know, January was an incredibly intense month of Google Search ranking volatility.
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Google On Recent Google Search Ranking Volatility – No Insights To Share
If you look at the source code in some of the responses OpenAI’s ChatGPT gives you, you may now see references to ads.
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OpenAI Prepares ChatGPT Code To Allow Ads?
John Mueller from Google dropped a very John-like hint that maybe, just maybe, Google Search Console will add AI visibility reporting. John was asked about it again and responded, saying, “While I have nothing to announce, I can say for sure that very few things online are permanent.”
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Google Search Console Adding AI Visibility Reporting?
John Mueller from Google dropped a very John-like hint that maybe, just maybe, Google Search Console will add AI visibility reporting. John was asked about it again and responded, saying, “While I have nothing to announce, I can say for sure that very few things online are permanent.”
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Google Search Console Adding AI Visibility Reporting?