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Search Engine Journal

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Industry publication covering SEO, PPC, content marketing and search engine news.

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SEJ is mapping the agentic web while readers absorb a heavy Google core update.

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◆Current state
Search Engine Journal's recent feed splits between practical SEO/Ads guidance and coverage of the agentic web's arrival: Search Console AI reports, Microsoft's agent-grounding APIs, shifting ChatGPT citations, and a volatile completed Google core update. The tone is field-guide-meets-industry-radar.
◆Where it's heading
SEJ is leaning into 'how do I prepare for agents and AI answers' as its core value proposition — agentic-readiness testing, LLM citation analysis, deskilling risk — while keeping core-update and Smart Bidding explainers as reliable traffic anchors.
◆Prediction
Expect more agentic-readiness and AI-citation tooling coverage, with recurring core-update and Google Ads how-tos remaining the bread-and-butter beneath it.

◆Recent moves

  1. 11h ago

    What Not To Automate With AI: The SEO Deskilling Trap

    The 'SEO deskilling trap' piece frames which tasks to protect from automation — part of SEJ's running thread on how AI reshapes the practitioner's role.

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  2. 14h ago

    What Is The Agentic Web? via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

    A primer mapping the three economic realities of the agentic web reflects SEJ's bet that explaining agents is now central to its audience's needs.

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  3. 17h ago

    Google Tests Dedicated AI Search Reports In Search Console via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

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    SEJ's report on Search Console's dedicated AI Search reports captures the field's first formal AI-visibility data — the metric layer SEOs have been missing.

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  4. 1d ago

    Microsoft Web IQ Gives AI Agents Bing Grounding APIs via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

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    Coverage of Microsoft Web IQ's Bing-grounding APIs for agents marks agent-facing search becoming a distinct infrastructure layer SEJ's readers must now account for.

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  5. 1d ago

    Google’s May Core Update Complete After Volatile Rollout via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

    The completed May core update — described as heavier than March — is the recurring industry-event coverage that anchors SEJ's ranking-volatility audience.

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  6. 1d ago

    ChatGPT Citations Changed After GPT-5.5, SISTRIX Data Shows via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

    SISTRIX data on ChatGPT citation shifts after GPT-5.5 advances SEJ's thesis that LLM answer engines now behave like ranking systems worth tracking.

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