Before paying for or exchanging a backlink, verify the domain is still being indexed by Google. A 10-second freshness check (site: + time filter) screens out links that still open but carry no signal.
The best time to run a landing page audit is before launch, before paid traffic, and before a redesign. Check the three info gaps — audience, value, action path — before you rewrite anything.
A ready-to-run Codex skill that composes every installed codex-seo-* skill into one audited site: probes the site, inventories the skills, runs each single-URL scanner, builds the weighted 7-category board, writes the report artifacts - and withholds the health score when any category has no measured source.
A ready-to-run Codex skill that recons a live site first (title, H1s, JSON-LD, robots, sitemap inventory), then builds a measured SEO strategy: six industry templates, four phased roadmaps with exit gates, and a KPI table where every baseline row has a real source.
A ready-to-run Codex skill that fetches competitor pricing pages, extracts verifiable facts (prices, plans, ratings, schema, trust signals), and builds a comparison matrix where every row carries its source URL and an as-of date.
A Codex skill and zero-dependency scanner for pages at scale: it groups your sitemap into template families, measures how unique each family really is against the 40% gate and 30% hard stop, and reports five scored categories with the evidence lines left in.
Google refreshed its European Search Dataset Licensing Program page with eligibility criteria, data scope, and application details under the Digital Markets Act.
Microsoft now requires sign-in for direct Copilot access, but Copilot Search answers in Bing remain available without authentication.
Google has expanded AI Mode ad formats with an inline shopping carousel and a single ad unit at the bottom of results, first documented by Brodie Clark on August 28, 2026.
Google is testing sign-in prompts within AI Mode, showing a Google logo and sign-in button that encourages users to authenticate before continuing their conversational search session.