Reddit’s recent post about fighting spam was a bit suspect to me timing-wise, so I dug into the search visibility of its AI translations again. And yep, they finally starting dropping in Google and downstream in AI Search platforms like ChatGPT following the Google May 2026 core update and the June 2026 spam update. This … Read more
Does this case prove you can perform well in ChatGPT without strong Google rankings or does it prove you still need strong organic search performance? Follow me down the rabbit hole to learn how a YMYL site is being cited heavily in ChatGPT without any visibility in Google. I came across a very interesting example … Read more
Not long after the March 2026 broad core update completed, we had another core update to deal with. And this one was much more powerful than the March update… The May 2026 broad core update started rolling out on May 21, 2026 and it caused a ton of volatility across verticals and countries. It took … Read more
On April 13, 2026 Google announced a new spam policy for “back button hijacking”. That’s when a site owner inhibits users from returning to the last page they visited from in an attempt to trick them into remaining on their site. Those sites typically show a page with even more content and ads, and it … Read more
After writing a two-part series last year about Reddit heavily scaling AI-translated content, I wanted to check in to see how things were going now. Below, I’ll cover how Reddit’s AI translation project is firing on all cylinders and how that content is being heavily rewarded by Google in the search results. In March of … Read more
A recent manual action provides a great view of how scaling via AI-generated content can yield a huge drop in Google’s 10-blue links, AI Overviews, and AI Mode. But as you’ll see below, ChatGPT citations can drop heavily as well. Well, it seems another example of “Mt. AI” came crashing down recently. I actually noticed … Read more
Wednesday was a relatively normal day for me in Google Land. I was auditing client sites, still digging into the March 2026 core update movement, and posting the latest SEO and AI Search news across social media. But then an interesting email arrived. It was from a company I helped last year and the subject … Read more
There are many AI prompt tracking tools on the market now. Some of those tools track prompts that you enter, while others generate prompts based on the topic at hand. Many of those prompts are not from real people… Instead, they are synthetic prompts. And that questions the power of tracking those prompts at all. In … Read more
“Ask Maps” is like having AI Mode in Google Maps. You can now have conversations with Maps to plan trips, research local businesses, and much more. Google just announced out a new and powerful feature in Google Maps called “Ask Maps”. I’ve had access to the feature for the past week and have been heavily … Read more
Ever since ChatGPT launched in November 2022, marketers have tried to understand if being visible in AI Search requires the same type of strategy and tactics as being visible in organic search. In other words, is what you were doing for SEO enough for AI Search or AEO/GEO or are there unique things you need … Read more
It’s always fascinating to see SEO issues that can pop up across large-scale and complex websites. When you are dealing with a large site, technical problems can often scale quickly and yield issues impacting millions, or tens of millions of urls across a site. And some of those technical problems can yield quality problems (if … Read more
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