Google On SEO Impact Of URLs Injected Into HTML By CMS Platforms via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google’s John Mueller explains the SEO impact of random URLs injected into web pages by CMS platforms. The post Google On SEO Impact Of URLs Injected Into HTML By CMS Platforms appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
AI Opt-Out May Cost Sites A Google Top Stories Spot via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
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.
The Future Of Search & AI: What I Learned From Google’s Latest Earnings Call via @sejournal, @marie_haynes
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.
Heavily AI-Flagged Pages Still Rank Across Google’s Top 10 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
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. The post Heavily AI-Flagged Pages Still Rank Across Google’s Top 10 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google Lost Its Scraping Case – Now You Have To Pick A Side On The Open Web via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic
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.
Why Data Integrity Is The New Technical SEO: From Crawling To Trust via @sejournal, @alexmoss
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.
Amazon Left US Google Shopping A Year Ago & Never Came Back via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson
Amazon pulled out of U.S. Google Shopping in July 2025 and still hasn’t returned. Here’s what a year of auction data reveals for retailers. The post Amazon Left US Google Shopping A Year Ago & Never Came Back appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google SEO Test Shows What Happens In 5-Second Rendering Window via @sejournal, @martinibuster
A new SEO test shows what happens when Google’s Web Rendering Service continues past five seconds: Google pauses time with a virtual clock. The post Google SEO Test Shows What Happens In 5-Second Rendering Window appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Indexed Claude Chats Show Why Disallow Is Not Noindex via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Shared Claude chats showed up in Google. We checked the pages and found a noindex header sitting behind a robots.txt block that keeps Google out. The post Indexed Claude Chats Show Why Disallow Is Not Noindex appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
ChatGPT Links Out Most On Travel Questions via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
A new report finds ChatGPT citation rates vary sharply by topic, with travel answers citing sources far more often than education answers. The post ChatGPT Links Out Most On Travel Questions appeared first on Search Engine Journal.