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echo chambers incoming

a lot of people weren't happy about the removal of 4o. good to see that it's back

When you instruct LLMs not to crawl your site… but they "can’t read Elvish."

blocking one of the best services on the web so a third-party can't scrape your ip...

Google Says AI-Generated Content Will Not Cause Ranking Penalty Google's Gary Illyes said that there is no penalty or direct impact on SEO from using AI-generated content. via @martinibuster.bsky.social #seonews #Google

Google's Gary Illyes said that there is no penalty or direct impact on SEO from using AI-generated content. via @martinibuster.bsky.social

#seonews #Google

Google briefs brands on AI Mode ads ahead of Q4 rollout Google is bringing ads into its conversational AI search experience, reshaping how brands target consumers.

better search results ❌
more ads ✅

searchengineland.com/google-ai-mo...

Here's to all the freshly minted SEOs courtesy of GPT-5.
May the vibes remain high and the state of your analytics ignored.

came up looking mint!

aye, now you're cooking

we've got someone on our team on this daily. can be a lot of work, but totally worth it

wtf?! it's beautiful 🙌🙌🙌

that's actually frightening!

The gaslight burns brighter than ever...

If these claims by Liz were true, and the methodologies of third-party studies were indeed flawed, why not segment AIO and AI Mode clicks and impressions from traditional search in GSC and GA? Or show us the data you're looking at, Liz?

In data we trust, not in PR.

Sure. But as we just pointed out, if those clicks mostly go to a handful of major platforms, often owned by Google or in strategic partnerships, that’s the opposite of a healthy, diverse web.

And finally, she says:

“...we care passionately — perhaps more than any other company — about the health of the web ecosystem. We continue to send billions of clicks to websites every day and believe that Search’s value exchange with the web remains strong.”

Where is that traffic going? To platforms like Reddit and YouTube. Sites conveniently tied to Google's own ecosystem and partnerships.

People are increasingly seeking out and clicking on sites with forums, videos, podcasts, and posts where they can hear authentic voices and first-hand perspectives.”

Liz also says:

“While overall traffic to sites is relatively stable, the web is vast, and user trends are shifting traffic to different sites, resulting in decreased traffic to some sites and increased traffic to others.

That’s a little too convenient, honestly.

Plenty of first-party data from GA and GSC shows a direct correlation between the rollout of AI Overviews and a drop in organic traffic to actual websites.

This data is in contrast to third-party reports that inaccurately suggest dramatic declines in aggregate traffic — often based on flawed methodologies, isolated examples, or traffic changes that occurred prior to the rollout of AI features in Search.”

Liz Reid, head of Google Search, says:

“...average click quality has increased and we’re actually sending slightly more quality clicks to websites than a year ago...

New banners rise, old ones still wave.
The wise choose sides.

👀 Perplexity’s 59 Ranking Patterns and Secret Browser Architecture Revealed by Metehan Yesilyurt 👏

Including Factors like New Post Performance, Topic Classification, Time Decay, Semantic Relevance, User Engagement, and more.

Check it out: metehan.ai/blog/perplex...

If You Ask Google Why It Sucks Now, AI Overviews Will Viciously Bully Google and Itself Google's notorious AI Overviews feature appears to have finally gotten it right — but probably for all the wrong reasons.

👀 😆
futurism.com/ai-overviews...

AI Search Currently Drives Less Than 1% of Traffic To Most Sites, Google Is Still Dominant, and Watch The Long-term Risk of Ignoring Google Search Glenn Gabe of GSQi explains how AI Search currently drives less than 1% of traffic to most sites in June 2025. Glenn also explains the risk of ignoring Google Search and how site owners run the risk o...

Beyond SEO best practices working for AI Search like Lily explained, you should also check out my post about AI Search traffic as of today. Yes, it's growing, but it's a fraction of Google at this point. Less than 1% for most sites & less than .5% for most I checked. www.gsqi.com/marketing-bl...

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

Perplexity doing Perplexity things
blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

*attempt to block perplexity because they have no ethics
blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...