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Google's John Mueller says if sites are serving conflicting metadata, they should fix the conflict, not test which source wins.

Metricool's YouTube report shows views per long-form post rising over the past year while average view duration and estimated ad revenue both fell in its data.

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.

Find out how AI accurately describes brands but struggles with visibility. This study also shows what other factors influence AI visibility.

Google's John Mueller explains the SEO impact of random URLs injected by CMS platforms into the raw HTML of web pages.

Google is putting Top Stories carousels inside AI Overviews, which raises the stakes on Google's new AI opt-out setting in Search Console.

Google's Q2 spending went negative on free cash flow. Here's why I think that signals confidence, not trouble, for the agentic search era ahead.

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.

A judge tossed Google's DMCA claims against SerpApi, ruling anti-bot walls guarding ad revenue aren't copyright protection, and your site sits on the same.

No consortium is coming to crown a standard like sitemaps or schema.org. Here's a practical order for hedging your bets.