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Bing is retiring NoArchive and NoCache for two new AI preferences. The exact dates, the robots.txt and meta tag syntax, and what happens if you miss them.
ChatGPT citations or AI referral traffic: what each metric measures, where each one misleads, and which one a B2B team should lead with in its reporting.
Google quietly moved AI Overviews into the right column for brand searches, the spot knowledge panels used to own. What changed, who spotted it, and what to check about your own brand.
Google and Bing both now back a shared robots.txt token for opting out of AI training. What the token does, the Google-Extended catch, and what to set today.
Four ranking-volatility spikes hit in under three weeks and Google still hasn't confirmed a core update. The dashboard, the dated spikes, and what to check now.
Can you trust AI prompt volume data? What OpenAI has actually disclosed, how third-party estimates are built, where two studies disagree by 53 points, what vendors say about their own numbers and how to read any volume claim.
Manual AI visibility tracking in a spreadsheet vs RankControl: the real weekly hours, why AI answers vary so much from run to run, where a spreadsheet log breaks, what each one does after the check and what it costs.
Reddit stock fell sharply after Google search referrals dropped by more than a million a week in October. Why Reddit is testing a logged-in-only wall, and what it means for AI citations.
How to track AI citations for free with manual checks, Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, GA4 and server logs, and where each free method runs out.
The ten metrics for a B2B SaaS AI visibility dashboard, how to calculate each one, and a worked example from a real check of 25 AI answers about help desks.
Is AI visibility worth tracking yet? We reran the same buyer questions to see which numbers hold still, which are noise, and who should wait before tracking.
Local citations explained: what they are, how much they still move Google Maps rankings, which data aggregators feed the directories, and why AI answers now lean on the same listings.
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