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 SEO Google announced version 0.2 of the Open Knowledge Format, introducing five new trust signals. |  Technical SEO Google's John Mueller says if sites are serving conflicting metadata, they should fix the conflict, not test which source wins. | |
 Video Advertising Metricool data shows views per long-form YouTube post increased while estimated ad revenue and average view duration fell. |  Technical SEO 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. | |
 SEO Google's John Mueller explains the SEO impact of random URLs injected into web pages by CMS platforms. |  SEO Google is putting Top Stories carousels inside AI Overviews, raising the stakes on its new AI opt-out setting in Search Console. | |
 SEO Is Google still a search engine? Its Q2 2026 earnings call suggests the answer is changing, and website owners should plan accordingly. |  SEO 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. | |
 SEO 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. |  SEO Agentic protocols are multiplying with no consensus standard in sight. Own the layers underneath instead of chasing a winner. | |
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