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AI Referrals Now Drive Just 1% of Web Traffic – And Nearly All of It Comes From ChatGPT
AI Sends 1% of Website Traffic – And Most of It Comes From ChatGPT. A new industry benchmark from Conductor reveals that AI platforms now drive just over 1% of all website traffic, with ChatGPT responsible for nearly nine out

Google Reminds Site Owners to Use a Single Review Target in Structured Data
Google Reminds Websites To Use One Review Target Google has updated its review snippet documentation with an important clarification: every review or rating in your structured data must point to one specific target, not multiple entities. While this may seem

Microsoft Enforces Mandatory Clarity Integration for Third-Party Publishers
Microsoft has begun strictly enforcing a new policy requiring all third-party publishers in the Microsoft Advertising network to install Microsoft Clarity. Any publisher that does not have Clarity running on their site will not be paid for impressions or clicks.

OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.1 Instant and Thinking Models With Smarter Behavior
OpenAI has released GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking, introducing major improvements in instruction handling, reasoning behavior, and conversational style. The update begins rolling out to paid ChatGPT users today, with access expanding to free users afterward. OpenAI says GPT-5.1 responds

Google’s New Form Helps Businesses Report Negative Review Extortion Scams
With Negative Review Extortion Scams on the Rise, Google Urges Businesses to Use Its New Reporting Form Google has rolled out a dedicated reporting form to help businesses fight back against the growing problem of negative review extortion scams. The

Is AI Search SEO Distracting Marketers from Bigger Opportunities Like YouTube?
Is AI Search SEO Leaving Bigger Opportunities Behind? A recent episode of the Ahrefs Podcast has sparked a timely discussion about the current state of AI-driven SEO and how marketers might be overlooking more valuable opportunities in pursuit of AI

Google Introduces Query Groups in Search Console Insights to Simplify Search Data Analysis
Google has announced a major update to Search Console Insights, introducing a new feature called Query Groups that uses AI to organize similar search queries into clusters. This update, revealed in a Google Search Central Blog post published on October

Google Removes More Structured Data Types and Search Features to Simplify Results
Google has announced another round of structured data and feature removals from its search results as part of ongoing efforts to simplify the user experience. Google’s John Mueller shared the update on the official Google Search Central Blog, stating that the company
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