E504: Turns out other sites can influence the way your site appears to searchers on Google.

If a bunch of sites link to your page with one word or phrase, Google might show that phrase for your page rather than what you have set for the page title.

A startling experiment.

Then, we get into shocking findings from AI Overviews within Google. They ignore robots.txt instructions, and Google is potentially being generous with including sites in AI Overviews. Also, how to be included in Google’s AI Overviews.

Sources: https://seosherpa.com/seo-experiments/ https://x.com/lilyraynyc/status/1858970731104571477 https://x.com/brendonboshell/status/1858975259002908713 https://x.com/lilyraynyc/status/1859006088261366202

00:00 Introduction 00:39 The Surprising Influence of Anchor Text on Page Titles 00:51 Experiment Details and Results 03:35 Implications for SEO 04:52 AI Overviews 05:26 Issues with AI Overviews and Robots.txt 08:11 Observations and Recommendations for AI Overviews 09:41 Wrap-Up

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