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Google's First 2026 Winter Olympics Doodle: Curling 49 minutes ago www.seroundtable.com Google posted its first Winter Olympics Doodle, special logo, for the 2026 Winter Olympics. The first sport Google covered is curling. The Doodle is an animated GIF of an Olympian pushing the curling stone down the ice.

AI SEO Tips: How to Earn Citations & Mentions in AI Search 1 hour ago www.semrush.com Learn 7 AI SEO techniques to earn visibility in LLMs + how to track it.

SE Ranking Family: 2025 recap and 2026 roadmap 4 hours ago seranking.com Let’s discuss SE Ranking’s 2026 roadmap. Unified multi-product experience, deeper AI search features, improved backlink data, and what’s next for SE Visible and Planable.

Using AI For SEO Can Fail Without Real Data (& How Ahrefs Fixes It) via @sejournal, @ahrefs 5 hours ago www.searchenginejournal.com This post was sponsored by Ahrefs. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. If you’ve ever run into the limits of solo AI or manual SEO tools, this article is for you. AI on its own can write and suggest ideas, but without reliable data to anchor those suggestions, it can miss the mark. On the other hand, traditional SEO dashboards are powerful – yet slow and siloed. The emerging sweet spot? Connecting AI to real, live SEO data so you can ask natural language questions and get deep answers fast. Ahrefs Uses Its Own MCP Server […] The post Using AI For SEO Can Fail Without Real Data (& How Ahrefs Fixes It) appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Google’s Crawl Team Filed Bugs Against WordPress Plugins via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern 15 hours ago www.searchenginejournal.com Google's crawl team filed a bug against WooCommerce for add-to-cart parameters wasting crawl budget. WooCommerce fixed it. Other plugins haven't. The post Google’s Crawl Team Filed Bugs Against WordPress Plugins appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Microsoft launches Publisher Content Marketplace for AI licensing 15 hours ago searchengineland.com New marketplace lets publishers set terms, track usage, and get paid when AI systems ground answers in premium, licensed content.

Google Updates Googlebot File Size Limit Docs via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern 16 hours ago www.searchenginejournal.com Google updated its Googlebot documentation to clarify file size limits, separating default limits that apply to all crawlers from Googlebot-specific details. The post Google Updates Googlebot File Size Limit Docs appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Inspiring examples of responsible and realistic vibe coding for SEO 18 hours ago searchengineland.com Learn vibe coding: Use AI tools to build apps without coding. This guide covers setup, limits, risks, and SEO tool examples to inspire your own projects.

6 Ways to Build a Search Everywhere Optimization Strategy for 2026 19 hours ago www.semrush.com Search Everywhere Optimization is the practice of building visibility across every platform where your audience searches and researches. Not just Google.