Google Trends now lets you filter your results by category, either with or without a query. This can give you a more refined view of the trends for a specific query or zoom you out more on category level trends within Google Search.

Tory Gray & Itamar Blauer discuss MCP as a new layer in the SEO tool stack: what's actually changed, which workflows have held up, future predictions and more.

Stop optimizing images for text alone. Learn how shoppers use visual queries, Google Lens, and camera search to find products without typing a single word.

Learn how to build an AI SEO agent from scratch to automate important tasks like keyword research and topic clustering.

AnswerShare reports more recommendations in a client test after publishing sourced brand context. Here is how its machine-layer works & what it cannot fix. The post Yes, You Can Change AI’s Opinion. Here’s How. appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Any website can write Amazon's block-page sentence into its own terms. Spotting an agent that looks like a shopper is the hard part. The post Amazon Blocked Meta’s Muse, And Robots.txt Had Nothing To Say appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Alphabet's Google ​on Tuesday rolled out changes to its online search results in Europe to satisfy EU antitrust regulators that it ‌said will degrade users' experience and ratchet up costs for European businesses.

Paddy Crier shares a practical framework for diagnosing how dependent an ecommerce site really is on JavaScript rendering. Real crawl comparisons & case study evidence.

Google DeepMind's Autoregressive Ranking is an AI system that can rank documents without the limitations of current systems.

Overview of regional differences in Google Search experience

Dario Amodei outlined a plan to pace development and create time to manage AI's risks.

Google is now answering nearly 100% of all people also asked questions with AI Overviews. 14 months ago, it was only at about 12% but now we are seeing thar nearly all People also ask sections are answered by AI Overviews.

Answer Engines give different recommendations to different people, even when the underlying question stays the same. Our analysis of 71,147 responses reveals how income, age, gender, and occupation shape brand mentions, citations, and search behavior

Tory Gray & Patrick Hathaway answered agency SEOs' most pressing technical questions in a WTS AMA. Here are the key takeaways.

Google's September spam update may take up to two weeks, Search Console adds image-based search data, reports look at traffic from Search and AI Mode. The post Google Spam Update, Image Search Data In GSC – SEO Pulse appeared first on Search Engine Jou...

The Google Merchant Center AI Performance Insights which launched in July and has begun expanding to more regions earlier this month has also gained new metrics. AI Search intent, AI Search terms and AI attributes have been added to the Google Mercha

Veteran Grant Simmons explores practical SEO and AI search strategies, from technical SEO and site architecture to query drift, information gain, and ROI.

Search intent is fracturing beyond informational, navigational and transactional. Two new studies show what AI Mode and AI Overviews are doing to user behavior.

Press Gazette lists the top 50 biggest websites for news in the US. Monthly updated top 50 listing based on data from Similarweb.

A report finds Google Search and Discover declines got steeper for publishers, while direct, internal, and dark social grew. The post Google Search Decline Steepened To 40% YoY For Publishers appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Here's how to implement a citation strategy that will increase your visibility in AI local results.

Attribution reports look precise, but much of that data is modeled, not measured, and confusing the two can quietly misallocate marketing budget.

Without fixed tools to understand indexing/retrieval (Like GSC) what can we do instead.

AI search pulls from more sources than most SEOs track. Here's a tiered view of which data sources deserve your attention first. The post Which Data Sources Should You Care About For AI Search? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Decide whether Google Ads Customer Lifecycle Goals fit your business, and avoid settings that inflate ROAS or exclude valuable prospects. The post Customer Lifecycle Goals: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

You don't need an agency for digital PR. Debbie Chew shares her CIDER framework, a real $1M campaign recovery, and how to get your brand cited by AI.

Learn how to automate content brief creation for B2B using Claude & MCP. Follow this step-by-step guide to automate and prepare an effective content strategy.

Buying groups arrive with vendors already chosen. AEO cannot fix a shortlist formed months earlier. Three steps to build brand consideration before research begins. The post 3 Steps To Win B2B Brand Consideration, Day Zero Decides The Shortlist appeare...

We asked 131 SEOs, including some of the most respected in the industry, what factors are most important for ranking on Google in 2026.

Will Critchlow, CEO of Search Pilot, and Katelyn Geary, SEO Manager at JD Sports, will discuss what the future of ecommerce SEO looks like, including the shift to agentic search.

Guardrail metrics help ensure we do no harm, point the way to potential future testing ideas, and add qualitative data to our experiments.

Google is testing payments for content contributing to AI answers, Mueller says AI position data is hard to report, and Cloudflare splits training from search. The post Google AI Payment Pilot, Search Profiles At 10,000 – SEO Pulse appeared first on Se...

Google Trends now lets you filter your results by category, either with or without a query. This can give you a more refined view of the trends for a specific query or zoom you out more on category level trends within Google Search.

Stop optimizing images for text alone. Learn how shoppers use visual queries, Google Lens, and camera search to find products without typing a single word.