Brett Tabke
@btabke.bsky.social
Founder: Pubcon, SearchEngineWorld, WebmasterWorld
Uberall says YouTube rules AIO. www.searchengineworld.com/uberall-geo-...
Uberall GEO experiment: YouTube content doubled AI mentions and citations
A 90-day test found that structured, answer-focused video content improved visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, while exposing a bigger problem for
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Largest update in Chromes History - including four full access / root bugs: www.techrepublic.com/article/news...
Billions of Chrome Users Urged to Update After Google Patches 30 Security Flaws
Google patched 30 Chrome vulnerabilities, including four Critical flaws. Here’s what users should know and how to update Chrome and Firefox.
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Thanks to Brett for inspiring me to do a few searches where I discovered the post below and more. Seems this MYTH is based on a few posts especially one by someone I'm extremely skeptical of because they are frequently framing info like it will never change! ahrefs.com/blog/is-chat...
Is ChatGPT Really Powered by Google? 118,931 Fan-Out Queries Analyzed
ChatGPT's search results rarely match Google rankings.
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Brett Tabke@btabke.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis idea that ChatGPT was using Google as primary source, is the greatest mass delusion in SEO I have ever seen in 30 years of web work. It's like our version of a QAnon meme. All you have are edge cases, wishful thinking, and very sloppy reporting.
This idea that ChatGPT was using Google as primary source, is the greatest mass delusion in SEO I have ever seen in 30 years of web work. It's like our version of a QAnon meme. All you have are edge cases, wishful thinking, and very sloppy reporting.
It hurts, but it is for your own good: www.searchengineworld.com/pruning-1-th...
The New SEO Math: Fewer Pages = Stronger Pages or "Spray and Pray SEO" is Really Over?
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“The quantity of AI-generated articles has surpassed the quantity of human-written articles being published on the web.” graphite.io/five-percent...
More Articles Are Now Created by AI Than Humans
AI-generated content is as good or better than content written by humans. It is often hard to distinguish whether content is created by AI vs. a human. We seek to evaluate the prevalence of article co...
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No huge surprise here, but Wikipedia’s traffic is falling. www.searchengineworld.com/wikipedia-tr...
Wikipedia Traffic Shifts Highlight Big Impact of Google’s AI Overviews
Wikimedia’s latest report on new user trends paints a stark picture of how internet traffic is being reshaped by AI search. The analysis shows that Wikipedia i
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Another domino falls in the world of search. Firefox can now set Perplexity as default built-in search option. #FireFox #SEO #AIsearch #Perplexity #Mozilla www.searchengineworld.com/firefox-adds...
Firefox Adds Perplexity AI as a Desktop Search Engine Option
Mozilla has officially added Perplexity AI as a built-in search engine option in the desktop version of Firefox, marking another small but steady move to
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UK takes a swing: www.searchengineworld.com/uks-competit...
UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Designate Google as having Strategic Market Status
UK targets Google Search Power Today the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) formally designated Google with Strategic Market Status in general search an
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Great round up of the current situation with declining Google. Long, and well worth a read: www.seoforgooglenews.com/p/ai-surviva...
AI Survival Strategies for Publishers
AI is seen as an existential threat to publishers. There are strategies that allow for news to survive and even thrive in the AI-first world. But these may involve some tough challenges.
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The news site crash continues: www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Fears of online journalism Armageddon as Google changes the game
One year on from the rollout of Google AI Overviews in Australia, exclusive data shows steep year-on-year declines in readership for the top news websites as smaller publishers warn of lay-offs.
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Cloudflare wants to fix AI scraping with Content Signals. The catch? It could end up breaking more than it fixes. www.searchengineworld.com/cloudflares-...
Cloudflare’s Content Signals: The Right Problem, An Unlikely Solution
The open web has long depended on an implicit exchange: publishers make content freely available, and platforms like Google send them referral (i.e. search) tra
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Real opportunity or just noise? We asked the community to share results and experiences. From tracking and clicks to measuring ROI across ChatGPT, Bing, Perplexity, and DDG, the responses give a clear snapshot of where GEO stands today. www.searchengineworld.com/geo-thing-or... #SEO #GEO #Google
GEO – Thing or No Thing? SEO Community Weights in
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) has moved from theory to playing and testing ground. Marketers are experimenting across the entire spectrum from ChatGPT, B
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CloudFlare introduces new Robots.txt directives to combat AI and search engine abuse : www.searchengineworld.com/cloudflare-e...
Cloudflare Enters the Robots.txt Fray with a “Content Signals Policy” for AI bots
Cloudflare just introduced a new way to tell bots what they can do with your content after they fetch it. The Content Signals Policy adds a short, human-readabl
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Wait one fifth of the online chatter about cracker barrel were bots??? According to this study, yup.
21% Fake Profiles Engineered Cracker Barrel's $10.5 Million Logo Crisis - Cyabra
Cyabra uncovered that 21% of profiles attacking Cracker Barrel's logo change were fake accounts, generating 4.4M potential views and contributing to a 10.5% stock drop worth $100M in market value.…
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UnSpeakable: The eroding ethics in the professional speaking industry.
@seosavvyagent.com Yo, you ever update this killer of an article? searchengineland.com/schema-marku...
Schema Markup Shows In 36% Of Google Search Results, But Almost No Websites Use It [STUDY]
More than one-third of Google's search results incorporate Schema.org rich snippets, but only a tiny fraction of websites are actually using the markup
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