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Metricool data shows views per long-form YouTube post increased while estimated ad revenue and average view duration fell. The post YouTube Views Rose While Long-Form Ad Revenue Fell, Data Shows appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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YouTube Views Rose While Long-Form Ad Revenue Fell, Data Shows via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google’s Gary Illyes said he would need to check whether pushing an unavailable_after date forward on every renewal causes problems. He gave a first read. The post Google’s Illyes Unsure On Shifting unavailable_after Dates appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google’s Illyes Unsure On Shifting unavailable_after Dates via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Find out how AI accurately describes brands but struggles with visibility.
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AI Recognizes 96% Of Brands But Mentions Almost None, New Study Finds
Jul 26
29
Google’s John Mueller explains the SEO impact of random URLs injected into web pages by CMS platforms.
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Google On SEO Impact Of URLs Injected Into HTML By CMS Platforms via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google is putting Top Stories carousels inside AI Overviews, raising the stakes on its new AI opt-out setting in Search Console. The post AI Opt-Out May Cost Sites A Google Top Stories Spot appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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AI Opt-Out May Cost Sites A Google Top Stories Spot via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Is Google still a search engine? Its Q2 2026 earnings call suggests the answer is changing, and website owners should plan accordingly. The post The Future Of Search & AI: What I Learned From Google’s Latest Earnings Call appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Data ties higher AI detector scores to lower positions and to fewer pages in Google’s index, though heavily flagged pages still rank in top 10.
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Google Rankings Link Higher AI Scores To Lower Positions via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google’s DMCA case against scraper SerpApi collapsed because SearchGuard protects ad revenue, not copyright. The same reasoning weakens every site’s anti-bot defense against AI crawlers. The post Google Lost Its Scraping Case – Now You Have To Pick A Side On The Open Web appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Jul 26
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Agentic protocols are multiplying with no consensus standard in sight. Own the layers underneath instead of chasing a winner. The post Why Data Integrity Is The New Technical SEO: From Crawling To Trust appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Why Data Integrity Is The New Technical SEO: From Crawling To Trust via @sejournal, @alexmoss
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.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 28, 2026