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SEO tool maker Ahrefs said Thursday that it’s “cleaning up any past results that may have been affected” by what it calls the “poisoning” of search results by Google, in which suspected SERP data providers are shown different results. Its post doesn’t say which dates, reports or metrics the cleanup covers.

Marketers use AI for numerous reasons, including automating tasks, creating content, personalizing campaigns, and analyzing data to drive more informed marketing efforts.

Google’s John Mueller recently discussed how Google processes PDFs for ranking purposes, how it indexes them for use in AI Mode and regular search, and why it is able to use links in PDFs the same as it does for regular HTML web pages.

Software security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude AI platform to hack OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool, adding to mounting concerns about the vulnerability of leading large language models to cyberattacks. 

If you publish content without a plan, you’ll end up with disconnected pages that Google and AI search platforms struggle to recognize as evidence of expertise. 

Ranking AI SEO tools against each other wastes an afternoon. The category is a junk drawer: a content grader, an autonomous writer, and an answer-tracker all wear the same badge, yet most “top 10” posts line them up as if they compete. They don’t. A tool that grades your draft against the SERP isn’t chasing…