The SEOFOMO Newsletter​

April 26, 2026
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Make sure content is immediately visible on the page to a human

​Google adds Read more links best practices​

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land

Google began showing read more links on some of the search result snippets within Google Search recently and it has now published new documentation around best practices. These read more links add an eye-catching link to the search result snippets, which can lead to encouraging more clicks to websites and more.

If you’re submitting spam reports don’t name your site or business name

​Google Won’t Act On Spam Reports If They Contain Personal Information​

Roger Montti / Search Engine Journal

Google updated their documentation to warn that they won't give manual actions to reported sites if the reports aren't anonymous.

This issue affects data logging only

​Google Search Console Performance Report Job Listings Reporting Bug​

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search Console seems to have a bug with the performance report, specific to the jobs listing and jobs search appearance filter. The report is showing zero impressions and clicks since the 16th of this month.

It's a bot that visits only pages submitted as ads in ChatGPT

​OpenAI’s Crawler Docs Now List OAI-AdsBot For ChatGPT Ads​

Matt G. Southern / Search Engine Journal

OpenAI's public crawler docs now list OAI-AdsBot, a bot that may visit pages submitted as ChatGPT ads to check policy compliance and ad relevance.

Connectors will dynamically show up in conversations

​Claude announces new connectors for everyday life​

Claude

Claude now connects to apps like AllTrails, Instacart, Audible, Booking.com, and TripAdvisor, and has also changed how connectors show up in conversations: "Claude now suggests the right app for what you’re doing, like finding a reservation, adding to a grocery cart, or identifying a flight."

Including future interface predictions

​Google's Liz Reid on Who Will Own Search in a World of AI [Video]​

Joe Weisenthal, Tracy Alloway, Liz Reid / Bloomberg

Liz Reid shares about how Google is incorporating Gemini into search via AI overviews, what that means for traffic and sales, and the practical experience of search in an age of LLMs and internet slop.

Register for Conductor's Annual AEO Summit on May 6

We’re moving from a world where humans search for answers to one where AI agents find and deliver them instantly.

To stay visible, brands need to move beyond AI experimentation to unlock agentic workflows and power their AEO success at scale. Join Conductor on May 6 for their virtual AEO Summit to learn the tactical blueprint for winning in this new ecosystem.

Key takeaways include:

• How to move from reactive to always-on AEO powered by content & technical agents
• Expert insights from leaders at PNC, DAP, and Graphite on how they’re dominating AI search
• Top technical strategies to boost discoverability and overall visibility
• How to measure success in AEO and communicate results to execs

Upcoming trends API updates

​Google Search Central Live Toronto Slides (April 2026)​

Jean-Christophe Chouinard

JC shares Google Search Central Live Toronto slides and summary, including: AI has lowered the barrier for content creation, forcing Google to raise the bar for what actually gets indexed, Gemini in AIO / AI Mode vs. Gemini in app both use the same model, but Google Search “shapes” Gemini differently and much more.

No more generic blog posts

​17 Content Types to Survive Google’s Zero-Click Future​

Cyrus Shepard / Zyppy Signal

Cyrus cataloged 17 content types that currently perform decently to excellent in the AI era when properly executed. These include transaction pages, original research, and brand pages, among others.

A comprehensive tech SEO guide going through it all

​Technical SEO Checklist: The Complete Guide For 2026​

MJ Cachon / DebugBear

MJ shares a comprehensive guide to technical SEO, covering everything from crawling and indexing to Core Web Vitals, JavaScript rendering, and the tools that help you diagnose issues.

Stop testing in production. Start shipping with confidence.

​Catching Technical SEO Regressions and Rendering Disasters in CI [Presentation]​

Estela Franco

One of the elephants in the room for our industry is that most SEO testing still happens in production. This session reframes SEO from a reactive checklist into a system of automated SEO guardrails. Learn how to simulate Googlebot-like rendering within a CI/CD workflow to catch regressions and block the build before it ships.

Make a stronger business case for caching work

​Caching as a Competitive Advantage [Presentation]​

Will Kennard

Will breaks down core caching strategies, including build-time caching, TTLs, stale-while-revalidate, and on-demand invalidation, and shows how SEOs can audit cache behaviour, identify rendering issues, and more.

Let AI score every cluster across a 6 factor model

​How I Turn 5,000 Keywords Into a Content Calendar in 3 Minutes (with Claude and an MCP Server)​

Suganthan Mohanadasan

Keyword clustering gives you the groups. Turning them into a real content calendar with priorities, weekly sequencing, and intent mismatch flags has always been the painful manual bit. This MCP server does it in 3 minutes.

Sundar Pichai redefines Search as an "agent manager"

​Search as Agent Manager: what Pichai’s interview really means for SEO, commerce, and the open web​

Gianluca Fiorelli

Gianluca analyzes Sunday Pichai's interview with John Collison and Elad Gil, where he shared a defensive re-narration of Google’s AI history, a bullish thesis on AI’s non-zero-sum economics and an unusually specific articulation of supply constraints.

A new way to assess AI presence, readiness and business impact

​A 3 Layer Framework to Measure AI Presence, Readiness and Business Impact: Redefining Metrics for the AI Search Era​

Aleyda Solis

I propose a structured way to measure, diagnose, and prioritize in an AI search environment, where observability is partial, platform behavior differs, and influence often extends beyond directly attributable clicks:

• Presence tells you where the brand appears,
• Readiness tells you why it looks that way,
• and Business Impact tells you whether that visibility creates measurable value.

Each layer hands off a hypothesis to the next. That’s what turns three reports into one diagnostic. Learn how in this actionable guide.

GPTBot activity has increased 2.9x since August 2025

​OpenAI Has Tripled Their Crawl of the Web: An Analysis of 7B+ Log Files​

Chris Long / Botify

A research by Chris Long going through 7 billion different log files to gather insights into ChatGPT’s crawling behavior identifying that ChatGPT appears to be losing users, OpenAI may be relying on cached resources, OpenAI now spends slightly more time searching than training and more.

How should utility news content be constructed for success on AI platforms?

​Utility news content: How to win beyond clicks in AI search​

Louisa Frahm / Search Engine Land

Clicks are declining, but utility content still builds visibility and trust. Louisa shows how to adapt your newsroom strategy for AI search.

Google AIOs and ChatGPT respond to non-English prompts in different ways

​How query language reshapes AI citations​

Davis McCain / Profound

Davis analyzed 3.25 billion citations across 7 models and 14 countries, and shared how the data shows that query language is the dominant force reshaping social citation rates across AI models.

The latest AIO impact data

​AIO Impact on Google CTR: 2026 Update​

Tracy McDonald, Hannah Cooley, Marketa Williams / Seer Interactive

Organic CTR when an AIO is shown saw a significant recovert in early 2026, climbing back up to 2.4, an 85% increase from the 1.3 December CTR – the lowest in the last 14 months.

Learn how to create one to communicate with the C-Suite

​From Audit to Action: How the AI Search Strategic Roadmap Turns Data into a Plan​

Francine Monahan / iPullRank

Francine explains how the AI Search Strategic Roadmap works, what it can tell you about your website, and how to increase visibility using it.

ChatGPT judges a page by its cover

Pages with headlines that directly answer the question get cited 41% of the time. Pages with loosely related headlines drop to 29%.

I partnered with AirOps on a study of 16,851 ChatGPT queries and 353,799 pages across 10 industries. Several more findings should change how you approach AI visibility:

1. Retrieval rank is the #1 signal: A page at position 1 has a 58% chance of being cited. By position 10, that drops to 14%.
2. Do comprehensive guides still win? Not exactly. Pages covering 26-50% of ChatGPT's fanout sub-queries get cited more than pages covering 100%.
3. Domain authority predicts nothing: Always-cited pages have lower DA than never-cited pages. Content quality is what counts.

The full report covers 20+ signals, with controlled comparisons across each. Get a headstart on how you can win visibility.

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