Citations and recommendations aren’t the same thing. New data shows Google often cites your listicle while recommending the competition. The post Why Calling Yourself The Best Could Be Helping Your Competitors Win In AI Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Why Calling Yourself The Best Could Be Helping Your Competitors Win In AI Search via @sejournal, @lilyraynyc
Is AI search making your SEO strategy harder to scale? Meet MozCon NYC 2026’s final speakers and learn AI, content, local SEO, and agent-ready frameworks you can use now.
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Announcing the Final Batch of Speakers for MozCon NYC 2026
B2B traffic is down but pipeline quality is up. Learn 5 steps to get cited by AI & reach buyers who arrive ready to convert.
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Less Traffic, Better Leads: Is Google Fixing B2B Marketing?
The UK’s CMA introduced two new conduct requirements for Google Search, covering fair ranking of organic results including AI Overviews, and search data portability. The post Google Must Give Notice Before Significant Ranking Changes appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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Google Must Give Notice Before Significant Ranking Changes via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
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: June 17, 2026
Create unified search strategies by aligning SEO, PPC and content teams through integrated briefs covering objectives, intent and SERP features. The post The Integrated Search Brief That Aligns SEO, PPC & Content In The AI Search Era appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Bing Webmaster Tools is rolling out a preview release of those new AI reporting features demonstrated at SEO Week in late April. These include Intents, Topics, Citation Share, and Compare within the AI reporting section.
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Bing Webmaster Tools AI Reporting Adds Intents, Topics, Citation Share & Compare
I’ve been watching the chatter in the SEO industry, and honestly, it hasn’t calmed down much since my last report for the period of June 8-12. The Google search results seem more heated today, and there appears to be an unconfirmed Google search ranking update underway.
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Google Search Ranking Volatility Continues Into This Week
The Competition and Markets Authority in the UK has told Google it must be transparent on how it ranks search results in Google and it must enable users to port its data to other third-party search services. I can’t imagine Google will ever share its full secret sauce on how it ranks its search results, and it is not the first time some political body has asked Google to do so, and it won’t be the last.
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CMA: Google Must Share How Search Results Are Ranked & Data Portability
Most of the web’s reading is now done by bots.
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Written For Readers Who Don’t Read via @sejournal, @pedrodias