Publishers vs Common Crawl Scraping

Publishers vs Common Crawl Scraping

Digital Content Next (DCN), a US trade organisation representing digital publishers, has issued a cease and desist notice to the Common Crawl Foundation, demanding it stop collecting publisher content and remove material already stored in its datasets. The move,...
Claude Leads AI Traffic Growth

Claude Leads AI Traffic Growth

Claude recorded the strongest referral traffic growth among all AI platforms tracked in SE Ranking’s latest dataset this year. Although it remains the smallest contributor overall, its rapid rise has made it the fastest-expanding source of AI-driven traffic. The data...
AI Search Engines Assign Roles to Sources

AI Search Engines Assign Roles to Sources

Research from BrightEdge comparing citations in ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews indicates that AI search systems are doing more than simply pulling information from the web. Instead, they appear to assign different “roles” to the same platforms, treating sites such as...
Brand Signals Overtake Backlinks in AI SEO

Brand Signals Overtake Backlinks in AI SEO

A panel of SEO specialists at WordCamp Europe discussed how artificial intelligence is reshaping search visibility and what businesses need to prioritise to remain competitive. While opinions differed on how disruptive AI truly is, there was broad agreement that...
Brand Signals Overtake Backlinks in AI SEO

Hyphens in Domains OK for SEO

Google has clarified that hyphenated domain names do not carry any negative SEO impact, suggesting that long-standing concerns within the industry may have been overstated. Hyphens in Domain Names Confirmed as Acceptable Google’s John Mueller has recently confirmed...
Trust Gap Emerges in AI Mentions

Trust Gap Emerges in AI Mentions

As businesses increasingly focus on gaining visibility in AI-generated search results, new research suggests that simply being mentioned by artificial intelligence platforms may not be enough to build credibility with audiences. A recent study from communications...
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