Practitioners value AI visibility data highly and won’t fund the platforms selling it. New survey data on what’s actually blocking the category. The post The GEO Trust Gap: SEOs Want The Data, But Not The Platforms Selling It appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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The GEO Trust Gap: SEOs Want The Data, But Not The Platforms Selling It via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester
PPC managers inheriting an account: verify the conversion value before touching the bid strategy. Five checks that separate real revenue from phantom value
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The PPC Clean-Up: How to Audit and Fix ‘Value Inflation’ in Google Ads
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Anthropic has revealed enough about Claude’s watermark to identify how it might work. A new research paper may be the clue. The post Why Anthropic’s Claude Watermark May Be A New Text-Marking Method appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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Why Anthropic’s Claude Watermark May Be A New Text-Marking Method via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Search referrals measure how people reach Reddit. They don’t measure why people go looking for it, and that gap is where the value sits. The post Reddit Preserved The Part Of The Internet We Broke appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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Reddit Preserved The Part Of The Internet We Broke via @sejournal, @brentcsutoras
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 13, 2026
Stable rankings, stable impressions, falling CTR: the signature of AI Overview click loss.
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How Do I Know If AI Overviews Are Taking Clicks From My Site And What Can I Do About It? – Ask An SEO via @sejournal, @HelenPollitt1
We saw a spike in volatility yesterday amongst the Google Search results rankings. There was a spike in ranking movement outside the day-to-day norm that seemed to start yesterday and maybe into today. The chatter is somewhat cool, but the tools showed a spike in the Google rank volatility.
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Google Search Ranking Volatility Spikes On August 12-13
Google has dropped the minimum number of followers needed to be approved for a Search Profile on Google. Previously, it was 100,000 subscribers across YouTube, Instagram, X and Tiktok. Now it is 35,000 subscribers across YouTube, Instagram, and X but still 100,000 on TikTok.
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Google Lowers Subscriber Requirements For Search Profiles
OpenAI is testing or rolling out a change to how you can click to see the sources from the ChatGPT responses. It used to be a button named “Sources” in the footer of the response, but now sometimes it is showing up within the three-dot “More actions” menu, requiring you to click more to find those sources – which very few will do.
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OpenAI Makes The ChatGPT Sources Less Visible
This is just a random tip, make sure not to misconfigure Cloudflare, your content delivery network and/or your hosting server. I see way too many cases of this popping up and causing such a pain for SEOs to fix. All of a sudden, you might notice your rankings drop off a cliff on Google Search and your pages begin to drop out of the Google index
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Misconfiguring Cloudflare Can Hurt Your SEO Badly