SEO
Google, Bing unify AI opt-out; study pegs AI CTR at 0.9%
Google and Bing announced a shared robots.txt token to opt out of AI training. A one-site study finds a 0.9% CTR and a halo effect.
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62% of Top Sites With Sitemaps Fail at Least One Check
A lintlab crawl of Chrome UX Report top 1,000 origins found most sitemaps carry flawed URLs or dates, and only 66 serve llms.txt.
SEO
Noarchive’s New Role in AI Visibility
Google retired the noarchive meta tag, but Bing repurposed it for Copilot and AI training. Here’s what search marketers need to audit now.
SEO
Cloudflare’s New AI Training Setting Keeps Googlebot Crawling
Cloudflare’s Disallow AI Training setting blocks AI crawlers while preserving Googlebot, Applebot, and Bingbot search access. Here’s what to check.
