👀Raptive has sued Google for illegal ad tech monopolization "Google has carried out a sophisticated, anticompetitive, and deceptive scheme for well over a decade" by "manipulating auctions for ad space across the Internet" Read the complaint: https://t.co/yVpKhemBcP

Exactly 1 year ago today, I was sitting at Google's HQ attending its "Web Creators Summit" In one ear I listened to 2 Google Search execs sitting in front of me -- they were apologizing to the 20 small & independent web publishers in the room You see, our websites' search

Great presentation by @noahlearner at @demandsphere FOUND - Look at the “unassigned” referral source in GA4 - Noah drilled down deep into the dates and discovered that the traffic (actually 38% of the site’s referral traffic!!) was coming from the Ahrefs weekly site audit.

Cloudflare tries to update robots.txt to block Google AI Overviews but Google has not complied https://t.co/rStvw1d5wN

SEO Update: Final update on the &num=100 situation. We have now received a statement from Google related to the &num=100 parameter being disabled, with the response being somewhat unsurprising. While @rustybrick was seeking feedback on both the rank tracking implications and

Heads-up: if you've checked your Google Search Console data today and you're noticing some unusual trends, you're not alone. In particular, I'm seeing a noticeable decline in desktop impressions, resulting in a sharp increase in average position. This is across many accounts

Here’s my executive summary of the Google court order 👇 Google has a monopoly it illegally acquired by paying other companies bribes BUT Google must be allowed to keep that monopoly because those other companies really want those bribes

BIG NEWS: The Court’s Google search antitrust remedies were just announced ⚖️ Web publishers & creators worried about AI — PLEASE pay attention closely please to pages 203-206 (especially the parts I’ve screenshot): Google doesn’t have to sell Chrome is the headline, yes. I’ll

Google's @JohnMu confirmed the crawl rate drop was an issue on Google's end and it is resolving now https://t.co/1BLC3SdDef

Today we released the August 2025 spam update. It may take a few weeks to complete, and we'll post on the Google Search Status Dashboard when the rollout is done: https://t.co/VyY24LVujq

🚨 AI startup Perplexity has made $34.5 billion all-cash offer to acquire Google's Chrome browser.

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Google: [with AIO], we have not observed significant drops in aggregate web traffic, as is being discussed Site owners: uh, what?

Google homepage search box rolling out AI Mode button https://t.co/x1uTSmhRuP

Huge congrats to the Google Travel, Flights, Images, and Shopping teams on their post HCU recoveries 📈 Impressive work in tough search engine landscape 👏

Pretty sure https://t.co/2xFFxhhfvg, https://t.co/BHi9S8v22a and https://t.co/2JP9NXg1Ts just get built-in ranking boosts for being those sites Of course Google would never admit to that but the data continues to speak for itself every time.

Google local ranking docs updated https://t.co/yXDOzwHJs9

SEOs are still buying links in articles

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Want to rank in ChatGPT? Seed the web. Not for Google. For Bing! If you can buy or build a page on an existing source that ranks in Bing for the KWs, you can often overwrite the existing source with a better quality/optimized piece.