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Instagram Posts Now Rank on Google: How to Measure and Win Search Traffic

July 12, 2026

On July 10, 2025, Instagram quietly changed who owns your audience. Public posts from eligible professional accounts became crawlable by Google — meaning your Reels, carousels, and photo posts could appear in organic search results alongside blog articles, YouTube videos, and news stories, reaching people who have never opened the Instagram app. A year later,…

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WordPress 7.0.1 Maintenance Release Contains 31 Bug Fixes

July 11, 2026

WordPress released a minor maintenance release, version 7.0.1, that addresses 31 bugs, including one that improves PHP 8.5 compatibility and another that fixes a security-related function

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Propellic’s hotel SEO expert reveals how AI decides which hotels to recommend

July 10, 2026

Propellic, a full-service travel marketing agency, will host a live webinar on July 16 breaking down how AI is reshaping hotel discovery and what hotel marketers can do about it. Hotel SEO and GEO best practices for 2026 takes place at 10am Central Time and is free to attend

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Google Search Console Adds Reports For Social Posts

July 9, 2026

Google is introducing a new property type in Search Console called platform properties, which lets you monitor how social media and video posts perform in Google Search and Discover. This feature supports platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube and is available even to creators who don’t have their own websites

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Google Search Console Platform Properties Show You Instagram, TikTok, X & YouTube Content Performance

July 8, 2026

Home / Google News / Google SEO / Google Search Console Now Shows You Instagram, TikTok, X & YouTube Content Search Performance Jul 7, 2026 – 9:00 am6 — Filed UnderGoogle Search Engine Optimization

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Google On Using Markdown For AI SEO

July 7, 2026

Google’s John Mueller responded to a post on Bluesky that lamented all the effort being wasted on AI agent accessibility instead of focusing on the more productive activity of making sites accessible for humans

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Google Answers Question About LLMs-Author.txt For SEO

July 6, 2026

Google’s John Mueller answered a question related to something a Redditor was using that’s called an llms-author.txt

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AI Content Alone Won’t Fix Your SEO Rankings (Here’s What Will)

July 5, 2026

Most in-house SEO teams and agencies have adopted AI for content briefs, drafts, on-page recommendations, and technical audits

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New WordPress Plugin Safely And Easily Connects AI To Your Website

July 4, 2026

WordPress plugin and website builder developer SeedProd recently announced version 1.5.1 of WPVibe, its MCP server for WordPress, which enables anyone to safely connect their AI to their WordPress site and start publishing content or redesigning their website. The plugin enables anyone to connect their site to any AI system they use, as long as…

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Google Ends Cache-Served AMP Pages In Search

July 4, 2026

As of July 1, clicking an AMP result will take you to the domain’s AMP host page instead of a version served from Google’s AMP cache

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