SEO

Your Traffic Isn’t Disappearing. It’s Just Not Landing on Your Site Anymore

Founder looking at scattered digital screens showing AI Overviews, Reddit, and Maps results representing where search attention goes now

If your organic sessions have been sliding even though your rankings look fine, you’re not imagining it. In the debut episode of Search Engine Journal’s relaunched podcast, editor-in-chief Katie Morton and senior news writer Matt G. Southern dug into a pattern that’s been showing up across almost every industry: search traffic isn’t vanishing, it’s landing

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Used or Cited: The Two Ways Your Brand Shows Up in AI Search

Split scene showing an AI search result citing a brand's source link on one side, and content being absorbed into an AI answer without credit on the other, representing the difference between usage and citation in AI search.

If you have only been tracking whether AI tools like ChatGPT or Google’s AI Overviews mention your brand by name, you are missing half the picture. There are actually two separate ways your brand can show up in AI search, and understanding the difference matters for how you build your content strategy going forward. Most

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Search Engine News: How Google’s AI-Powered Search Is Reshaping SEO in 2026

Two marketing professionals comparing traditional search results to Google's new AI-powered conversational search interface on a large office screen.

Search is evolving faster than ever. In 2026, Google has doubled down on artificial intelligence, introducing major changes that are transforming how people find information online. For businesses, marketers, and website owners, staying informed isn’t optional, it’s essential. In this edition of Search Engine News, we’ll look at the biggest developments and what they mean

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