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TECHNICAL · 14 stories

Technical SEO.

Crawling, indexing, Core Web Vitals, structured data, and llms.txt — the technical foundation that lets search engines and AI crawlers read a site.

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AI Overviews Pulled Raw Markdown Tables Into Live Snippets. Featured image for SEO
Technical / 9 min ago

AI Overviews Pulled Raw Markdown Tables Into Live Snippets

By Alessandro Benigni
AI Research Agents Cited a Fake Brand 62% of the Time After a 13-Word Edit. Featured image for SEO
Technical / 6 days ago

AI Research Agents Cited a Fake Brand 62% of the Time After a 13-Word Edit

By Alessandro Benigni
Mueller Urges Caution on ccTLD-to-gTLD Moves Driven by Branding Alone. Featured image for SEO
Technical / Jun 23

Mueller Urges Caution on ccTLD-to-gTLD Moves Driven by Branding Alone

By Alessandro Benigni
Mueller: Localized URL folders give zero ranking edge. Featured image for SEO
Technical / Jun 17

Mueller: Localized URL folders give zero ranking edge

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Signals no longer gates Ads data; Consent Mode now rules alone. Featured image for SEO
Technical / Jun 16

Google Signals no longer gates Ads data; Consent Mode now rules alone

By Alessandro Benigni
Search Console Links Report Restored With Fresh External Link Data. Featured image for SEO
Technical / Jun 15

Search Console Links Report Restored With Fresh External Link Data

By Alessandro Benigni
Google's Mueller: Hyphenated Domains Carry No SEO Penalty. Featured image for SEO
Technical / Jun 10

Google's Mueller: Hyphenated Domains Carry No SEO Penalty

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Merchant Center attribute rules now cover auto-found products. Featured image for SEO
Technical / Jun 5

Google Merchant Center attribute rules now cover auto-found products

By Alessandro Benigni
Merchant Center false disapprovals: what to do before you touch your feed. Featured image for SEO
Technical / Jun 5

Merchant Center false disapprovals: what to do before you touch your feed

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Discover Report Suffers Third Data Loss in Three Weeks. Featured image for SEO
Technical / May 28

Google Discover Report Suffers Third Data Loss in Three Weeks

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Closes the Gap Between Manual Penalties and AI Overview Removal. Featured image for SEO
Technical / May 26

Google Closes the Gap Between Manual Penalties and AI Overview Removal

By Alessandro Benigni
Split screen showing a Lighthouse audit panel beside a Google Search guidance note
Technical / May 21

Lighthouse Now Audits llms.txt That Search Says to Skip

By Alessandro Benigni
Editorial graphic for an article on Google Search generative UI
Technical / May 19

Google Search will build custom layouts on the fly

By Alessandro Benigni
A search results page showing a live event timeline with a recent timestamp, representing Google's AI-curated live results test.
Technical / May 18

Google tests AI-curated live results for real-time events

By Alessandro Benigni
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