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Bing/Copilot visibility starts with crawl basics: allow important URLs, avoid parameter waste, keep canonicals clean, expose key content in HTML, and link every priority page from crawlable hubs.
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The video claims Google made it expensive to crawl beyond page 1, restricting AI tools toward top-10 Google results and contributing to Reddit citation drops.
The video claims Google made it expensive to crawl beyond page 1, restricting AI tools toward top-10 Google results and contributing to Reddit citation drops.
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I'm in the middle of the Google office running. Nobody knows this about Google, but Google fired massive shots at ChatGPT. They recently made a change that makes it very expensive to crawl past page 1 of Google. The result is sites like Reddit took a massive dip in ChatGPT citations. A few weeks ago Reddit citations in ChatGPT were at 14%...
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Blocking important paths, relying on hidden client-rendered content, serving duplicate URLs, using accidental noindex, and leaving pages orphaned hurt discovery.
Use XML sitemaps and IndexNow for added or updated canonical URLs after the page passes live indexability checks.
Do not submit query-state URLs, duplicate pages, noindex pages, redirected URLs, or thin drafts.
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I'm in the middle of the Google office running. Nobody knows this about Google, but Google fired massive shots at ChatGPT. They recently made a change that makes it very expensive to crawl past page 1 of Google. The result is sites like Reddit took a massive dip in ChatGPT citations. A few weeks ago Reddit citations in ChatGPT were at 14%...
OpenI'm in the middle of the Google office running. Nobody knows this about Google, but Google fired massive shots at ChatGPT. They recently made a change that makes it very expensive to crawl past page 1 of Google. The result is sites like Reddit took a massive dip in ChatGPT citations. A few weeks ago Reddit citations in ChatGPT were at 14%...
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I'm in the middle of the Google office running. Nobody knows this about Google, but Google fired massive shots at ChatGPT.
They recently made a change that makes it very expensive to crawl past page 1 of Google. The result is sites like Reddit took a massive dip in ChatGPT citations.
A few weeks ago Reddit citations in ChatGPT were at 14%. Now they are at 2%.
ChatGPT was doing a better job of going through the top 100 results, finding the most relevant answers to users questions, bypassing Google's entire business model of ads. Google was threatened by these AI tools has now restricted them to the top 10 results.
We'll see how long this lasts for though. There's always been.