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John Mueller explained that impressions in Google’s Search Console AI report track links to your pages, and user-activated links only count after they’re activated.

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Microsoft Clarity’s Bot Analytics dashboard now detects when bots request URLs your robots.txt disallows, with trends and filters by bot and operator.

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Google’s new messaging to CMOs reiterates that GEO is still SEO and states that third-party tools have no access to its internal metrics.

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Microsoft is beginning to roll out Citation Share, Intents, Topics, and Compare in the Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance dashboard preview.

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Google has documented a native link between Google Business Profile and Google Analytics, bringing local metrics like calls and directions into GA reports.

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Google is testing Search Console controls and reports for AI Search visibility, including AI-specific impressions data for some UK sites.

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Google Analytics now separates AI assistant traffic from referrals with a new default channel group for recognized chatbot referrers like ChatGPT and Gemini.

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Microsoft previewed four new AI reporting features for Bing Webmaster Tools at SEO Week, including Citation Share and grounding query intent labels.

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Bing’s AI Performance dashboard now maps grounding queries to cited pages, letting you connect AI citation data to specific URLs on your site.

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