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Common Crawl published an AI visibility audit, and the worst blocks never reach robots.txt

Common Crawl published an 18-page manual audit in June 2026 for checking whether a site is in the dataset most large language…

Aug 11, 20263 min read

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Cloudflare now scores your brand inside Claude and GPT answers

Cloudflare's AEO Visibility Dashboard reports citation rate, mention rate, prominence, share of voice, industry fit and AI operator activity, but only across…

Aug 10, 20263 min read

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A file about office cats broke the llms.txt evidence

Mark Williams-Cook invented a satirical cats.txt standard and showed it cleared every test cited as evidence for llms.txt. The argument is about…

Aug 10, 20263 min read

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Digiday: marketers now route about 24% of search and content budgets to AI visibility

Digiday's 7 August 2026 roundup pulls together five separate vendor surveys on AI search spending. Fractl puts the average at roughly 24%…

Aug 7, 20263 min read

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Evidence that serving markdown to AI bots does not increase citations

Digiday's Media Briefing of 6 August 2026 sets out the case for and against serving markdown to AI crawlers. GEO platform Promptwatch…

Aug 6, 20263 min read

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Those junk one-word queries in Search Console are AI Mode follow-up questions

Search Engine Roundtable reported on 6 August 2026 that the strange one-word queries appearing in Google Search Console are AI Mode follow-up…

Aug 6, 20263 min read

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People Inc. says Google search traffic is down 40% and it still will not block Google's AI crawlers

People Inc. CEO Neil Vogel told Digiday on 4 August 2026 that the publisher will not block Google's AI crawlers because AI…

Aug 5, 20263 min read

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IAB publishes an AI visibility measurement framework and says only 16% of brands track it

The IAB released a 36-page framework called Measuring Visibility in the AI Era on 3 August 2026, reported by PPC Land the…