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🤖 How should SEOs handle robots.txt for AI crawlers, emojis and international URLs? Google’s Gary Illyes and Cherry Prommawin explain the rules, RFC 9309, and common pitfalls in this new discussion
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Google on how to handle Google Search if taking down your site to fix the emergency PHP exploit #PHP2Shell
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Google updated its Control what you share with Google Search help document to add "include existing options such as the robots meta tag, data-nosnippet, X-Robots-Tag, and the Search generative AI control"
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Google Search ranking volatility and chatter heating up today 🚨
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New blog post: GEO is a distraction.
I looked at 12 months of GA4 data across 100 sites - more than 145 million sessions.
ChatGPT sent 0.62% of the traffic Google organic did. With all the other LLMs included, it's 0.73%.
While ChatGPT visitors converted better at 13.8% vs 3.02% for Google organic, Google still drove 27x more conversions than all the other LLMs combined.
And remember how we thought ChatGPT visitors would increase exponentially? Overall visits from ChatGPT have actually been declining since GPT-5 came out in August 2025.
I think GEO is a distraction. Google is the surface that's likely sending the most visitors to your business. Yes, AI is changing how people use the web, but the real opportunities are just emerging. I'd encourage you to spend time preparing for the agentic web - UCP, Universal Cart, WebMCP, intelligent eyewear and more!
The full post is here, plus a prompt you can use to brainstorm on what agentic search means for your business.
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New Google Ads A/B test feature to save and test asset group changes
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Google Ads About Smart Bidding learning help document
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🤖 How should SEOs handle robots.txt for AI crawlers, emojis and international URLs? Google’s Gary Illyes and Cherry Prommawin explain the rules, RFC 9309, and common pitfalls in this new discussion
seroundtable.com/google-vide…
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Google specifies the fast shipping times for listings in the AU, CA, IN, JP, GB, US
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Google Search updates its URL structure best practices help document around hyphens to separate words
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Butterfly fairy tale Google cupcakes
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Google "Sponsored Stores" showing up for me, not 100% new - so adding this to this story seroundtable.com/google-sear…
Google on how to handle Google Search if taking down your site to fix the emergency PHP exploit #PHP2Shell
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It's New 10/21: Unconfirmed Google Search update, @gregfinn Google Ads A/B test asset groups and @mordyoberstein hyphenated URLs for Google Search @TheMarketingAnu went whale shopping youtube.com/watch?v=eK1nXWia…
Google updated its Control what you share with Google Search help document to add "include existing options such as the robots meta tag, data-nosnippet, X-Robots-Tag, and the Search generative AI control"
seroundtable.com/google-upda…
iPhone Duo reviews are out there - @MKBHD video is out too youtube.com/watch?v=ESABTN4V…
Google Search ranking volatility and chatter heating up today 🚨
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New Google Ads A/B test feature to save and test asset group changes
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Google Ads About Smart Bidding learning help document
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