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Vahan Petrosyan

@vahandev.bsky.social
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Director of Technology at Search Engine Journal. @sejournal.bsky.social

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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 6h
Shopify Now Enrolls Your Store In Every New AI Shopping Channel One default setting shared eligible Shopify stores' products with Meta on launch day. What auto-enrolment, direct checkout, and the shopper count really mean.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 9h
OpenAI Founding Member: Make LLMs Write Like An Aircraft Manual Andrej Karpathy suggests asking LLMs to explain topics in an aerospace writing standard, or to answer with diagrams, HTML pages, or custom explainer videos.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 10h
Google Adds Fake Author Warning To Helpful Content Guidance Google's people-first content guidance now warns site owners against fabricated author profiles, a form of deception its rater guidelines already described.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 11h
How We Build An SEO Content Roadmap For The AI Search Era (Step-By-Step) Build an SEO content roadmap that prioritizes leads and revenue, using intent, keyword clusters, and AI Overview data to decide which content to create first.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 13h
When A Search Query Becomes A Standing Instruction Google's AI Mode monitoring and OpenAI's dots keep working after a request. Tasks, sources, and controls differ, as do the questions about site visibility.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Google Tells Sites To Fact-Check AI Content Before Publishing Google's guidance on AI-generated content now says to fact-check it by hand before publishing, and the review extends to titles, alt text, and other metadata.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
YouTube To Cut Reach Of Channels Reposting Barely Changed Clips YouTube is updating recommendations to favor original Shorts and reduce reach for channels that mainly re-upload others' clips without significant changes.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI Changed Your Buyer Faster Than Your Business Can Adapt Buyers arrive confident and half-informed, businesses were built for a different customer, and the gap widens with every planning cycle that doesn’t address it.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nothing Is On Fire At Google Google has the data, chips and distribution to win AI. So did Microsoft. Why Google's incentives may keep it protecting Search instead of disrupting it.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Google Gemini Adds UTM Parameters For Referral Attribution Google Gemini added UTM parameters to links, giving SEOs better numbers for measuring AI traffic and deciding where resources should go.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What Are Common Structured Data Mistakes That Hurt AI Visibility? – Ask An SEO Avoid structured data mistakes that hurt AI visibility by linking entities, using consistent identifiers, and keeping schema aligned with visible content.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Judge Acknowledges Publisher Harm But Dismisses Google Antitrust Claims Google antitrust ruling highlights the gap between concerns over abuse of monopoly power and what federal law covers.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Where to Find the Exact Phrases That Get Your Content Cited in AI Search Join CTM on October 13 to learn how first-party customer data can earn AI citations, improve FAQ content, and reveal which clicks become leads.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cloudflare Moves Monetization Gateway & Pay Per Use Into Beta Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway charges AI agents per request in a closed beta, and Pay Per Use pays publishers for the AI uses that buyers report.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Google AI Pilot Pays Some Sites Under 0.1% Of Ad Revenue A new report says Google's AI contribution pilot pays publishers widely different amounts, and some participants still can't tell how payouts are calculated.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
LiveRamp Expands OpenAI Deal With First-Party Data Targeting The Information reports LiveRamp is expanding its OpenAI partnership to enable customer targeting for ChatGPT ads. Here is what PPC advertisers should know.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Using Local (AI) Compute To Reduce Reliance On Frontier Models Not every SEO task needs a frontier model. Testing Chrome's built-in Gemini Nano showed what local AI can handle and where it fails.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
OpenAI Dots Run Read-Only Research When Nobody Is Asking OpenAI's Dots can review connected apps and run scheduled checks between conversations. Here's what the help pages permit, and where the read-only limit sits.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wikipedia, Podcasts & Reddit Now Drive AI Citations, Ask Your PR Team How They Did It Bring your PR team's Wikipedia, podcast, and Reddit expertise into your SEO strategy to build the third-party signals that support AI visibility.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google Analytics Adds App Conversions To Cross-Channel Reports Google Analytics now supports app conversions in its performance and attribution reports. Availability varies by property, and budgeting stays web-only.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The AI Search Metrics I Use To Track Client Pipelines See whether AI search reaches buyers and creates qualified opportunities with five measures covering brand presence, answer accuracy, and attribution.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How Are Enterprise SEO Pros Measuring AI Overviews & LLMs? [Webinar] Tom Capper of STAT explains how enterprise SEO pros can measure AI Overviews, AI Mode, and LLM visibility and fit it into their reporting.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes, You Can Change AI’s Opinion. Here’s How. AnswerShare shares early client results on AI recommendations, then explains how a public, sourced machine-layer brand briefing gives crawlers fuller context.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trust As A Conversion Lever: How To Test Credibility In A Regulated Industry Test whether honest expectations and money-back guarantees improve healthcare CRO, using refunds and repeat purchases to judge results beyond conversions.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazon Blocked Meta’s Muse, And Robots.txt Had Nothing To Say Amazon blocked Meta's Muse with its Conditions of Use because robots.txt had no user agent to name and the CFAA was gone.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Shopify Extends WebMCP Into Checkout For Browser Agents Shopify has extended its WebMCP tools into checkout, letting browser agents update a shopper's checkout and place the order after the buyer confirms it.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Google Desktop CTR Fell In Q2 While Mobile Rose, Data Shows Q2 data shows Google desktop CTR down and mobile up at top positions, in a comparison spanning the end of a Search Console logging error.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
EmDash 1.0 Challenges WordPress Freedom With Cloudflare Lock-In EmDash 1.0 is a modern alternative to WordPress, but its features trap users into Cloudflare's infrastructure.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ChatGPT Ad CTR Topped 1% In 4 Markets, Not In The U.S.: Report A report using Similarweb panel data breaks down ChatGPT ad click-through rates by market and tracks how often the top ChatGPT advertisers changed.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI Won’t Kill Us All, But It’s Rewriting How Marketers Have To Work Better AI marketing starts with testing assumptions, aligning SEO and PR on brand messaging, and backing pitches with evidence that stands up to scrutiny.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Google On What’s Next In AI Search + 5 Local Marketing Strategy Fixes Make local businesses easier to discover in AI search. Google and Uberall cover Business Profile data, reviews, local content, automation, and measurement.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Google Rolls Out AI Mode Info Monitoring To All Users Globally Google is rolling out AI Mode's information monitoring to all users globally after paid subscribers had it first. Search will also suggest monitoring tasks.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anthropic Publishes Prompting Guidance For Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 prompting guide asks developers to retest effort settings and reconsider chat prompt lines telling Claude to think carefully.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Court Filing Quotes OpenAI Engineer: Users “Won’t Click” Links A court brief quotes an OpenAI engineer saying users "won't click" links and cites Microsoft data on lower CTRs in Bing Chat than in search.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MIT & Harvard Data Show How SEO And Paid Media Managers Become Directors Build your case for promotion as an SEO or paid media manager by proving AI's net gains and reskilling your team for strategy, testing, and measurement.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OuterBox Launches OBxFrontier to Kill Busywork With Custom AI OuterBox launches OBxFrontier, a custom AI development service that maps workflow challenges and builds agents around existing systems to reduce manual work.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Generative AI Report Sucks – Let’s Make It Brilliant On first glance, Google’s Generative AI report might seem insulting. But with a bit of nous we can make it genuinely valuable.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google Plans To Adopt UCP Draft Spec For AI Mode Hotel Booking UCP has published a draft hotel booking specification, Google says it will adopt the open standard for AI Mode hotel booking over the coming months.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
AI Workflows Outscored Human Translators In 4 Of 6 Content Types – China Benchmark Study Human translators lost four of six content types to post-edited AI in a 774-output English-to-Chinese benchmark and model choice beat post-editing
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Automattic & Matt Mullenweg Fail To Dismiss WP Engine Antitrust Claims WP Engine is gratified by the judge's ruling in its antitrust lawsuit. But Automattic also scored seven wins.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Google Spam Update, Image Search Data In GSC – SEO Pulse 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.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Text-Only Version Of Your Website Strips Out The Wrong Layer Text-only versions of websites strip out the one layer AI agents need: the actions. Markdown mirrors serve prose to the visitor most eager to act.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI Agents Won’t Fix Bad Audience Data, They’ll Amplify It AI agents run on your audience data at a scale no human team can match. If that data is wrong, they spread the error faster. Three checks to run first.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Google Has Deployed A New AI Spam Detector Called SAFE Google published details of it's new anti-spam system designed to detect AI content. This is why it may be a part of Google's Spam Update.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Google AI Overviews Have More Links, But Not All Reach The Web Google describes several link displays inside AI Overviews with different destinations. Here's how Search Console counts them and what two September posts show.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
LLMs Are Time Machines That Don’t Tell You How Far You Went Speed was never the problem. The signals that told you whether an answer was any good traveled with the journey, and they don't survive the trip.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Google Rolls Out September 2026 Spam Update Globally Google has started rolling out its September 2026 spam update worldwide in all languages. The company says the rollout may take up to two weeks to finish.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Google Search Console Adds Multimodal Filter For Image-Based Searches Search Console is rolling out a multimodal filter for searches that use an image, including Lens and Circle to Search. Query data isn't available for it.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why Agencies Lose Clients In The First 90 Days (And How To Stop It) Most client churn is decided in the first 90 days. Here's a day-by-day onboarding framework built to establish trust fast and protect retention.
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Vahan Petrosyan @vahandev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Search Console Uses Block Flattening For AIOs, Forget Position & Focus On Outcomes Block flattening can make weak AI Overview visibility look like a top ranking in Search Console, so prioritize actual visits and conversions.
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