Across roughly 16 million brand appearances, new data from Writesonic found that around 40% of AI citations didn’t name the source brand in the generated answer. On Perplexity, the rate reached 52%. (Disclosure: The article co-author, Samanyou Garg, is the founder and CEO of Writesonic.) Getting cited by an AI engine is often touted as […]
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Google has now rolled out the Platform properties feature globally to all Google Search Console accounts. This feature lets you track the performance of your social media and video content platforms in Google Search. Google Search Console platform properties is a way to see how well your social and video content is performing within Google Search.
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SEO teams spend plenty of time creating new pages while existing pages quietly lose rankings, clicks, and revenue. Updating those pages can recover performance, but rewriting too much can wipe out the SEO equity they’ve already built. Here’s the 14-step process we use to diagnose content decay, make targeted updates, and measure the results —
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Perplexity never skips the web, so every query is winnable. Here’s what its live answer stream reveals about citations, video, and local. The post How Perplexity Actually Picks Sources (I Read The Stream, Not The Answers) appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Simple hidden prompt injection — white-on-white text, HTML comments, and invisible Unicode — no longer works against modern LLMs. Pattern recognition, boundary isolation, and spotlighting have closed those loopholes. But more sophisticated attacks still work. LLMs can’t reliably distinguish between content and instructions. That’s a structural property of how they process text, not a bug
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Google announced version 0.2 of the Open Knowledge Format, introducing five new trust signals. The post Google’s Open Knowledge Format Adds Five Trust Signals appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Click a citation inside Google’s AI Mode and watch what happens. You don’t land at the top of the page. The URL carries a text-fragment directive (it ends in #:~:text=…), and your browser scroll-jumps to a passage highlighted in purple. Google didn’t cite the page. It cited roughly 117 words of the page. I first
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Google’s John Mueller says if sites are serving conflicting metadata, they should fix the conflict, not test which source wins. The post Google’s Mueller: Fix Conflicting Metadata, Don’t Test It appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Metricool data shows views per long-form YouTube post increased while estimated ad revenue and average view duration fell. The post YouTube Views Rose While Long-Form Ad Revenue Fell, Data Shows appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google’s Gary Illyes said he would need to check whether pushing an unavailable_after date forward on every renewal causes problems. He gave a first read. The post Google’s Illyes Unsure On Shifting unavailable_after Dates appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
