Google researchers published a January 2026 paper proving that a dual encoder's embedding dimension must grow linearly with the number of documents to express every possible ranking, while an autoregr…
A 90-day Bluehost analysis found 83.4 million verified AI crawler requests per day across Bluehost-hosted sites, with roughly 90% for model training, about 9% for search indexing, and roughly 1% for l…
An SEO practitioner building a Chrome extension that combines traditional SEO checks, browser data, deterministic analysis and language models argues AI should assist rather than replace the SEO revie…
US District Judge Amit Mehta dismissed antitrust lawsuits filed by Penske Media and Chegg against Google's AI Overviews in a memorandum opinion filed September 30, ruling that the publishers failed to…
Search Engine Journal published a tiered reference table categorizing data sources by their usefulness for AI search, ranking Google Search, Bing Search, Google Merchant Center, OpenAI merchant feeds,…
Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers by default, Whitespark founder Darren Shaw warned during a Search Engine Journal Live session with Duda Director of Platform and Product Strategy Russ Jeffery, citing a S…
Search Engine Journal published a guide showing that prompting an AI chatbot such as ChatGPT to search for an exact text snippet can reveal whether a page is part of the retrieval pipeline used by AI …
Product page copy still matters even as AI agents read product feeds and schema markup, according to an Ask an SEO column published by Search Engine Journal, because large language models such as Chat…
Content created specifically to improve AI search visibility can stall with Google's "Crawled – currently not indexed" status because it merely replicates top-performing pages rather than adding new i…
AI citation clicks account for roughly 1% to 2% of calls for CallRail's customers, a share that has about doubled since January, CallRail VP of Technology Sean McCrohan said during SEJ Live's second s…
LightSite AI founder Stas Levitan presented a four-signal framework for measuring AI search performance in an on-demand webinar with Search Engine Journal founder Loren Baker, arguing that AI mentions…
Search Engine Journal will host a webinar on Thursday, September 24 at 11 am ET with Google and Uberall on preparing local SEO strategies for Google's upcoming AI search updates, citing that 68% of br…
Search Engine Journal is hosting a free webinar on September 16, 2026, led by Gintare Rimolaityte of Trendos, to reveal which domains ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini cite most by industry, showing tha…
An analysis of 129,000 domains reveals that ChatGPT citations are driven by a few quantifiable factors, with domain authority being the most significant. Sites with high domain trust scores averaged 8…
Brands face a growing risk in AI search where conflicting or outdated information about their company gets retrieved and presented as a single, settled answer, according to a Search Engine Journal ana…
Ahrefs product marketer Constance Tan will host a webinar on September 15, 2025, titled 'AI Cites Your Brand. Now What? Turn AI Visibility Data Into Actions,' teaching marketing teams how to convert A…
Search Engine Journal advises that blocking AI crawlers can be done via robots.txt or at the server level, with robots.txt being the most accessible method for SEOs. The article notes that robots.txt …
An audit of 50 major websites by Search Engine Journal found that while most have improved AI retrievability, nearly two-thirds leave AI bot access to content unmanaged, and almost none enable AI to f…
International SEO's assumption that authority travels across markets is failing with AI systems, which do not automatically recognize local expertise signals, according to Search Engine Journal. Brand…
On September 2, Stas Levitan, Founder of LightSite AI, will present a webinar revealing what AI bot and crawler data from hundreds of websites shows about AI search performance, arguing that mentions,…