Dan Taylor
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
- Latest publication
- Sep 24, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Search Engine Journal
- Top 500K sites
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- Jul 14, 2026
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Search Console Uses Block Flattening For AIOs, Forget Position & Focus On Outcomes (opens the original)
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Declining clicks from organic search have been a shift in the industry for the past couple of years, and we’ve faced increasing pressure from clients and stakeholders to provide explanations for this, or to show that “traffic” has basically shifted to AI. This has led to a panic in the industry, as we try to find a new normal to educate stakeholders on what matters and what doesn’t. Alongside this, AI tool vendors have been quick to jump into the space, forcing a narrative that their tool is the
Google’s 'Generative AI' Search Console Data Is A Trap For Marketers (opens the original)
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Google introduced new reporting features inside Search Console at the start of June. The update provided publishers with impression counts earned across AI Overview answer boxes and AI Mode panels. At first, this was mostly celebrated as a major win for organic search measurement, and search teams assumed these new data points offer clear visibility into user interaction inside AI interfaces. But now we’ve been living with the new data for almost eight weeks, we’re starting to see how limited th
Are We Repeating History & Risking Backlink Penalties Again? (opens the original)
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The race to monetize AI visibility services, claiming new acronyms and extending existing fields of practice as whole new trenches of engineering, is something we’ve witnessed a lot over the past couple of years. We’re seeing new entrants to the market because they see a gap, but no one is really stopping to ask the question: Why does a gap exist in the first place? The truth is simple. The gap has, more often not been left open by accident, but rather created deliberately off the back of Google
Why Scaled AI Content Fails: Google's Crawl Economics Explained (opens the original)
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When generative AI made mass content production cheap, many brands thought they had discovered a content cheat code. The playbook seemed simple: Spin up thousands of highly targeted pages overnight, vacuum up search traffic, and watch organic revenue climb. Instead, a quiet crisis is playing out across enterprise SEO. Aggressive programmatic AI initiatives are stalling, collapsing, or triggering manual penalties. This isn’t happening because Google hates AI content; it happens because these init
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