Ann Smarty
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- Google scores pages on effort, and effort is not hours
Cyrus Shepard says Google looks for proof of useful work on the finished page, not the hours behind it.
- AI answers now appear on 93% of brand name searches
Four SEOs now say Google's AI answer box has spread across searches for company names, and it can point to other companies.
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- AI answers on brand searches sit below the normal results
Two more SEOs checked the finding that Google now writes AI answers when people search a company by name.
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