JavaScript links can make your pages invisible to AI search
A 41-day experiment reveals how JavaScript-only navigation limits AI crawler discovery and why fixing it later can be harder.
Topic: GPTBot
Your managed WordPress might be blocking AI bots and you can’t see it
Your SEO tools show nothing wrong. But platform-level limits may be quietly blocking AI systems from accessing and citing your content.
Googlebot fraud (Fake crawlers, bot abuse & how to protect your site)
Learn how Googlebot crawls, renders, and indexes your site. See every crawler type, how crawl budget works, and the technical fixes that improve visibility.
Seize the AI search opportunity with site health
AI search is redefining visibility. Proper site health ensures your brand is ready to be discovered, understood, and recommended by AI systems.
Inside the AI-powered retrieval stack – and how to win in it
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Top 5 takeaways from the 2024 Web Almanac SEO Chapter
Discover key learnings from a deep dive into web – including robots.txt files, robots directives, canonical use, dynamic rendering, and more.
Has ChatGPT launched its Search product in stealth?
ChatGPT can now search the web to find current information, recent events or detailed answers that aren't in its training data.
ChatGPT search feature rumors heating up
OpenAI may be getting closer to launching its ChatGPT product that searches the web and cites sources when answering questions.
3 reasons not to block GPTBot from crawling your site
There’s much more to gain than lose by embracing GPTBot. Explore three primary benefits of adopting OpenAI’s bot technology.
Report: OpenAI working on web search product
The creator of the popular generative AI tool ChatGPT may be working on a search engine to try and compete with Google.
Number of websites blocking Google-Extended jump 180%
The New York Times, Yelp and 22 Condé Nast properties are among those who have chosen to block Google-Extended so far.
Report: Generative AI violates copyright law, rights of news publishers
News publishers are concerned that AI answers will replace Search traffic, leading to less revenue, lost jobs and other damages.
Microsoft CEO: AI will make Google more dominant
Despite investing $100 billion in Bing, the search engine simply can't compete with Google due to its monopoly position, says Satya Nadella.
Google introduces Google-Extended to let you block Bard, Vertex AI via robots.txt
You can now prevent Bard and Vertex AI generative APIs, and future generations of models, from from accessing your website, or parts of it.
GPTBot: OpenAI releases new web crawler
You can now prevent OpenAI's ChatGPT from accessing your website, or parts of it, using robots.txt.