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Which AI Crawlers to Block When Bots Are More Than Half Your Traffic
More than half of what your servers answer is now machines, and most AI crawlers take your content without sending anyone back. Here is how to tell the useful bots from the freeloaders.
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Your Rendering Strategy Sets Your INP Score and Your AI Visibility
Headless stacks built on Next.js, Nuxt, or Astro promise clean content APIs and fast deploys. Many of them ship a hidden tax. The browser receives a thin HTML shell, downloads a large JavaScript bundle, and rebuilds the page on the user's device. While that bundle parses and executes, the main thread is busy, taps and clicks queue up, and Interaction to Next Paint (INP) climbs into failing territory.
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How Hotel Brands Get Cited in AI Search
A traveller planning a four-day family trip to Bali no longer types "hotels in bali" into a search box. They ask an assistant where to stay near the beach with halal food nearby and a property good for kids, and they expect a named recommendation they can book. The answer they get is assembled, not ranked, and the hotels inside it were chosen by a system that read the web differently from how any hotel marketing team has been optimising for it. For hospitality brands, that gap between how guests now search and how their content is built is the whole game.
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Google's New AI Performance Reports in Search Console
Google has given Search Console its first dedicated view of how pages perform inside its generative AI surfaces. Announced on June 3, the new Search Generative AI performance reports break out the impressions a site earns in AI Overviews and AI Mode, along with generative AI features in Discover, with breakdowns by page, country, device, and date down to hourly granularity.
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Information Architecture for Ecommerce Category Pages
Take any ecommerce store and rank its pages by the revenue they touch. Product pages convert, but they rank for narrow branded and model queries. The home page pulls navigational traffic that was already coming. The category page is the one asset that ranks for the high-intent commercial head term, the query a buyer types when they know what they want but not which one to buy. "Running shoes." "Air conditioner 1 PK." "Office chair ergonomic." That is where the money enters, and on most stores it is also the page nobody owns. It inherits whatever structure the platform shipped with, and that structure quietly decides whether the page ranks at all.
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What Google AI Mode Cites When Indonesians Plan a Trip
We wanted to see exactly which sites those are. So we built a structured set of Bahasa Indonesia travel prompts, ran each through Google AI Mode, and parsed every domain it cited. What came back was a clear picture of who Google has decided is authoritative on Indonesian travel, and an equally clear picture of who is being read around.
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How I got rpsg.co.id to 100/100/100/100 on Lighthouse, and which fixes actually moved the score
Most Lighthouse advice tells you to chase 100 across the board. Half of it does not move the score and most of it does not move the user experience. Here is what actually got rpsg.co.id from 88/95/85/100 to 100/100/100/100, and what I would skip if I were doing this again.
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How to Measure AI Share of Voice for Your Brand
AI answers do not have positions. Either the model names a brand or it does not. That single shift breaks the measurement habit enterprise SEO programs have built around rank tracking, and it leaves a question now landing in boardrooms with no confident answer: when a buyer opens ChatGPT and asks for a recommendation in a category, how often does the brand come up.
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Anchor Text Patterns That Read as Natural to Google
Across healthy enterprise backlink profiles, exact-match commercial anchor text rarely accounts for more than five percent of inbound links. Across profiles that trigger Google's filters, it routinely crosses ten. The distance between those two numbers is one budget cycle of well-meaning vendor work, and the system reading the difference is more sophisticated than most teams plan for.
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What Makes an SEO Dashboard Worth Opening
The dashboard most enterprise SEO teams use was built by the person who left two roles ago. Nobody has opened it in three weeks. Nobody trusts the numbers on it. Nobody can name what would change in the work tomorrow if a green line went red. This is the SEO dashboard problem, and it is endemic enough that solving it is a competitive advantage that costs almost nothing to ship.
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