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Weaponized DMCA: How Fake Copyright Strikes Bury Competitors in Google — and How to Fight Back

Dev.to · mrtd 1d ago

Weaponized DMCA: How Fake Copyright Strikes Bury Competitors in Google — and How to Fight Back

A bogus DMCA notice can knock a rival off Google for days with no court and no evidence — as a 2026 case against Press Gazette showed. Here'

llms.txt Reality Check: ~10% of Sites Have It, AI Search Engines Almost Never Read It

Dev.to · mrtd 2d ago

llms.txt Reality Check: ~10% of Sites Have It, AI Search Engines Almost Never Read It

llms.txt — a proposed markdown 'map' for language models — now sits on roughly one in ten sites. But in 90 days of 500M+ AI-bot visits, only

Reddit Dominates AI-Search Citations — But 2025 Showed How Fast That Can Crater

Dev.to · mrtd 2d ago

Reddit Dominates AI-Search Citations — But 2025 Showed How Fast That Can Crater

Reddit appears in roughly 93% of AI-search opportunities and is the single most-cited source for Google AI Overviews and Perplexity. Yet mos

AI-Search Visibility Data: Classic SEO Still Predicts Citations, But Most Live Off the Map

Dev.to · mrtd 2d ago

AI-Search Visibility Data: Classic SEO Still Predicts Citations, But Most Live Off the Map

New vendor analyses spanning tens of thousands of domains suggest page-level SEO strength still correlates with being cited in ChatGPT, Perp

Crawl Budget Reclamation: What It Is, Who Needs It, and the Pruning Playbook

Dev.to · mrtd 2d ago

Crawl Budget Reclamation: What It Is, Who Needs It, and the Pruning Playbook

SEO practitioners report large traffic gains from pruning junk indexed pages to free Google's "crawl budget." We break down what crawl budge