Cyrus SEO
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- Rank tracking is mostly fixed after a week of fake drops
The fake ranking crashes of the past week were a data problem, and most of it has now been repaired.
- Check Google's own report before panicking over a rank drop
Rank trackers are being fed fake results, so Search Console is the sanity check.
- Google wants your user content, with no traffic promised
A new Google program takes reviews, comments and forum posts straight from sites, and two SEOs say the payoff for those sites is unclear.
- Google now emails you when readers favorite your site
Several SEOs got the new emails this week, and nobody can see the number inside Search Console yet.
- 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.
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One email a day. Under three minutes. You will hear about a Google change before it shows up in your traffic.
- Google calls hand-checking AI writing "critical"
Three well known SEOs have now pointed at the same line in Google's refreshed AI content guidance.
- Top SEOs expect a big Google update very soon
Three well known search experts read the same signals in Google's documentation edits and came to the same conclusion.
- Made-up authors now count as deception to Google
Google updated its helpful content document with new language on fabricated creator profiles.
- Cloudflare change shifted which AI bots reach your site
A study of 1,046 sites found search crawlers got in far more often after the change, and training crawlers got blocked slightly more.
- More AI use did not make content perform better
The things that did predict strong results are the ones marketers are quietly dropping.
- 131 SEO experts name relevance and links as top factors
It is expert opinion rather than data from Google, and one SEO says parts of it are nonsense.
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