<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>SEO and AI news | UPER</title><description>Current changes in Google, AI search and SEO tools. I check the sources, test on my own data and explain what it means for your site.</description><link>https://uper.pl/</link><language>en</language><item><title>Gemini 4 Hydrogen in Google Search: what changes for SEO</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/gemini-4-hydrogen-google-search-ai-mode/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/gemini-4-hydrogen-google-search-ai-mode/</guid><description>Gemini 4 Hydrogen is the new default model in AI Mode and runs part of AI Overviews. What Google announced, how query fan-out changes and what it means for SEO.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Site reputation manual actions no longer apply in the EEA</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-site-reputation-eea-manual-actions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-site-reputation-eea-manual-actions/</guid><description>Google tells site owners in Search Console that site reputation abuse manual actions no longer affect results in the EEA. What changed and what to check.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SEMSTORM is shutting down. What next for SEO data?</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/semstorm-shutdown-poisoned-serps-ai-search/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/semstorm-shutdown-poisoned-serps-ai-search/</guid><description>SEMSTORM closes its platform on 31 December 2026. I look at how scraping limits, poisoned SERPs and AI search are reshaping the SEO tool market.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Google Shopping after the DMA: 16-35x more than rivals</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-shopping-dma-eu-product-results/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-shopping-dma-eu-product-results/</guid><description>After the DMA changes, the EEA comparison box shows Google Shopping 16 to 35 times as often as rivals. What BrightEdge found and what to check in your store.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Google changes in October 2026: what matters for SEO</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-changes-october-2026-seo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-changes-october-2026-seo/</guid><description>Google in October 2026: a two-week spam update, mandatory fact-checks for AI content, fake authors, AI Overviews data and a multi-country filter in GSC.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>ChatGPT for Business: Mention and Click Analytics</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/chatgpt-business-hub-analytics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/chatgpt-business-hub-analytics/</guid><description>OpenAI is testing a business dashboard in ChatGPT: daily impressions and clicks after ownership verification. What we know, what is missing, and why it matters.</description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>4xx errors and the Google index: temporary URL protection</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-protects-important-urls-4xx/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-protects-important-urls-4xx/</guid><description>Gary Illyes: when an important URL returns a 4xx error, Google may keep it in the index for a while, minus snippet and favicon. What it means for technical SEO.</description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Facebook Answers: 6M Meta AI pages in Google</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/facebook-answers-google-ai-pages/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/facebook-answers-google-ai-pages/</guid><description>Facebook Answers are Meta AI summary pages, and Google has indexed about 6 million of them. What the data shows, what the spam policy says and what not to copy.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>ChatGPT Ads: New Formats and 89 Countries</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/chatgpt-ads-new-formats-89-countries/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/chatgpt-ads-new-formats-89-countries/</guid><description>ChatGPT Ads now run in 89 countries, with a wider desktop ad card and multi-image ads in open beta. What OpenAI announced and what it changes for SEO.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Crawled - currently not indexed: what Google changed</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/crawled-currently-not-indexed-google-documentation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/crawled-currently-not-indexed-google-documentation/</guid><description>Google rewrote the &quot;Crawled - currently not indexed&quot; description in Search Console. What the status means, when to leave it and when to check the page.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Robots.txt and pop-ups: hiding a dialog from Googlebot</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-robots-txt-block-popups/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-robots-txt-block-popups/</guid><description>John Mueller described two ways to hide a pop-up from Googlebot with robots.txt. What he said, how it works and what it does not solve.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bing: separate controls for AI training and grounding</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/bing-ai-training-grounding-preferences/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/bing-ai-training-grounding-preferences/</guid><description>From February 2027 Bing asks separately about AI training and grounding. The syntax for robots.txt, meta tags and headers, plus the March 1, 2027 deadline.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Shared AI training control in robots.txt: what Google plans</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-shared-ai-training-control-robots-txt/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-shared-ai-training-control-robots-txt/</guid><description>Google plans to support a shared AI training preference signal in robots.txt, based on IETF work. How it will work next to Google-Extended.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Anthropic Scion: why AI agents outgrew git</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/anthropic-scion-replaces-git/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/anthropic-scion-replaces-git/</guid><description>Claude agents merge over 30,000 changes a day at Anthropic, so the company replaced git with Scion. How it works, pros and cons, and what it means for GitHub.</description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI Overviews citation cards with AI-written descriptions</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/ai-overviews-citation-cards-ai-summaries/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/ai-overviews-citation-cards-ai-summaries/</guid><description>Google is testing AI-written descriptions in AI Overviews citation cards instead of snippets from your page. What is known, what isn&apos;t and how to prepare.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Google Universal Cart: A Shopping Cart in Search and AI Mode</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-universal-cart-shopping-cart-in-search/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-universal-cart-shopping-cart-in-search/</guid><description>Google launched Universal Cart in the US: one cart across Search, AI Mode and Gemini. How it works, what UCP is, what a store needs and what changes for SEO.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>JPEG XL in Google Images and Discover: Still Not Supported</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/jpeg-xl-google-images-discover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/jpeg-xl-google-images-discover/</guid><description>Chrome 155 and Firefox 158 enabled JPEG XL, and John Mueller confirmed Google Images and Discover do not support it. How to deploy .jxl without hurting SEO.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Claude Duet: Anthropic&apos;s proactive agent explained</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/claude-duet-proactive-agent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/claude-duet-proactive-agent/</guid><description>Claude Duet is Anthropic&apos;s proactive agent on Opus 5.5: morning brief, background tasks on its own cloud computer, 6,000+ connectors. Use cases, limits, safety.</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Poisoned SERPs: Google is corrupting rank tracker data</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-poisoned-serps-rank-trackers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-poisoned-serps-rank-trackers/</guid><description>Google is feeding rank trackers swapped search results. I look at data from Nozzle, AccuRanker and Ahrefs and show how to spot a fake ranking drop.</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Google ranking volatility with no update: what to check</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-ranking-volatility-unconfirmed-update/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-ranking-volatility-unconfirmed-update/</guid><description>Google rankings are shaking again and the status dashboard shows no update. What is known about the October 2026 volatility and how to check it in GSC.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hyphens in URLs: Google rewords its guidelines</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/hyphens-in-urls-google-guidelines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/hyphens-in-urls-google-guidelines/</guid><description>Google reworded the hyphens section of its URL structure documentation. I look at what exactly changed and whether you need to change URLs on your site.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Taking your site offline to patch PHP: what Google advises</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-503-take-site-offline-php-patch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-503-take-site-offline-php-patch/</guid><description>Patching a critical PHP vulnerability and need to take your site down for a while? John Mueller says to use HTTP 503. Here is how to do it without losing visibility in Google.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Anthropic Public Benefit Fund: 5% of shares for public good</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/anthropic-public-benefit-fund/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/anthropic-public-benefit-fund/</guid><description>Anthropic is committing 5% of its shares to a new fund for societal good. How the Public Benefit Fund works, where the money may go and what is still unknown.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Google Posts Higher in the Local Panel — What Changes?</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-posts-higher-local-panel/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-posts-higher-local-panel/</guid><description>Google is testing a higher spot for Posts in the local business panel. What it changes for local SEO, what it does not, and how to measure GBP posts.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Robots.txt in Google: what works and what doesn’t (AI, emoji)</title><link>https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-robots-txt-what-you-can-put-in-it/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uper.pl/en/blog/google-robots-txt-what-you-can-put-in-it/</guid><description>Google explains what robots.txt supports: four rules, encoding characters in paths, AI crawler tokens and the limits of the file. What it means for SEO.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>