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SEO, search engines and AI answers, and the rankings that bring customers to your site.

1. Nov 13
   Amazon drafted a plan to collect data on every product, yours too

   If you sell online, your product pages may one day feed Amazon’s catalog, whether or not you sell on Amazon.

2. Nov 13
   Chatbots name fake or dead shopping sites in 9% of answers

   In a test of 151 brands, when a chatbot showed a risky site, it warned the shopper away only about one time in ten.

3. Nov 13
   Yahoo’s AI answers will pay publishers through a new collective

   If AI answers draw on your pages, a new group of publishers wants to get you paid for it, however small your site.

4. Nov 13
   Rank-tracker drops

   If your rank tracker shows a drop during this week’s core update, check Search Console, Google’s own report on your traffic, before you act.

5. Nov 13
   AI’s hidden sales

   A sale that starts in an AI answer often shows up in your analytics as a search visit, or as someone typing in your address.

6. Nov 13
   Search without AI

   Google said on Nov. 3 that Search and its Gemini tools will be off for K-12 students’ accounts until each school turns them on.

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