SEO News
What changed this week in search, and what it means in practice.
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Claude’s text watermark and Google rankings: what is known
Anthropic now marks text that Claude writes. Within days, posts on LinkedIn and X said Google would stop ranking such pages. Nothing published by Google or Anthropic supports that claim.
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Reddit holds 83.9% of Google’s Discussions and Forums feature
Three domains control most of what shows up in this SERP feature, and backlinks to individual threads have no measurable effect on inclusion.
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What the community is reporting about Google’s August spam update
Reports collected by Search Engine Journal suggest that part of Google’s August spam update targeted AI-generated content made primarily to manipulate rankings. Community observations — not confirmed by Google — point to…
