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Cloudflare Can Now Block AI Training Without Blocking Googlebot—but Bing Still Forces Publishers to Trade Copilot Citations for an Opt-Out
Tools Sep 16, 2026

Cloudflare Can Now Block AI Training Without Blocking Googlebot—but Bing Still Forces Publishers to Trade Copilot Citations for an Opt-Out

Publishers using Cloudflare no longer have to choose between allowing Googlebot to crawl for Search and expressing an objection to Google using their content for AI training.Cloudf...

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Cloudflare Can Now Rewrite Your Robots.txt From a Dashboard—So One AI Bot Setting Could Change Who Can Crawl Your Site
Tools Sep 14, 2026

Cloudflare Can Now Rewrite Your Robots.txt From a Dashboard—So One AI Bot Setting Could Change Who Can Crawl Your Site

Cloudflare is turning one of the web’s oldest crawler-control files into a dashboard-driven policy layer. With Bot Preference Sync, a site owner’s choices about AI Search, Agent an...

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Semrush Tested Nine AI Search Engines—and Found Product Data Errors Across Several of Them
Tools Sep 9, 2026

Semrush Tested Nine AI Search Engines—and Found Product Data Errors Across Several of Them

AI search engines are increasingly being used for tasks that look less like casual question answering and more like purchasing research: compare products, filter options by budget,...

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Semrush Shows How to Build an SEO Agent With GSC, MCP and Human Approval
Tools Sep 9, 2026

Semrush Shows How to Build an SEO Agent With GSC, MCP and Human Approval

SEO automation is moving beyond isolated prompts and into repeatable workflows, but Semrush’s latest guidance makes an important distinction: an agent does not have to be autonomou...

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Ahrefs Makes AI Overview-Aware Traffic Estimates the Default
Tools Sep 7, 2026

Ahrefs Makes AI Overview-Aware Traffic Estimates the Default

Ahrefs has made its adaptive organic traffic estimation model the default, a change that quietly alters one of the SEO industry’s most familiar metrics: the number a third-party to...

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Ahrefs Makes Bulk Link Analysis Deeper Across 1,000 URLs
Tools Sep 6, 2026

Ahrefs Makes Bulk Link Analysis Deeper Across 1,000 URLs

Bulk SEO analysis becomes substantially more useful when it moves beyond a handful of headline metrics. Ahrefs is making that shift with Batch Analysis 2.0, which became the defaul...

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Ahrefs Moves Broken Outgoing Link Audits Into a Single Status-Code Filter
Tools Sep 6, 2026

Ahrefs Moves Broken Outgoing Link Audits Into a Single Status-Code Filter

Ahrefs has simplified one of the most routine link-auditing tasks in Site Explorer. Instead of sending users to a separate Broken Links report to find dead outbound destinations, t...

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Ahrefs Removes Keywords You’re Already Tracking From New Opportunity Research
Tools Sep 6, 2026

Ahrefs Removes Keywords You’re Already Tracking From New Opportunity Research

Keyword research has a recurring efficiency problem: the larger an SEO program becomes, the more time analysts spend rediscovering opportunities they have already found. Ahrefs is....

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Ahrefs Turns AI Visibility Tracking Into a Reusable Team Workflow
Tools Sep 6, 2026

Ahrefs Turns AI Visibility Tracking Into a Reusable Team Workflow

AI visibility tracking is starting to look less like a one-off research exercise and more like an operating workflow. Ahrefs has pushed Brand Radar further in that direction by add...

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