Search News You Can Use - SEO Podcast with Marie Haynes

In my last video, I introduced the concept of Google's Open Knowledge Format (OKF). Today, I'm showing you exactly what I've built with it. I have created a personal brain that I use every day to automate complex SEO tasks, generate proposals, and analyze Google search updates. We walk through the structure of an OKF file, including the YAML frontmatter and how it differs from traditional RAG. If you want to make your data and proc...

Google just announced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), a new way to structure your knowledge for AI agents. This standard uses simple Markdown to make business and personal insights accessible to the agentic web. In this video, I break down why this changes SEO, how to build your first OKF bundle, and the potential for selling expert knowledge directly to AI systems.Google's blog post on okf:https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/d...

You can build an AI dashboard so easily - even if you don't know how to code! In this episode, Laura Tobin from the Search Bar community shares the incredible system of AI agents she built using Claude and Co-work. As a food blogger facing the shifts in AI changing Search, Laura decided to pivot from fighting the technology to using it to become a "one-person content machine."She walks us through her "Command Center," a custom dash...

Google has just released a major update to Search Console, providing website owners with dedicated performance reports for Generative AI features including AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Discover AI. In this video, I walk through where to find this new report, why impressions matter even without click data, and the new regulatory changes that forced Google's hand.

0:00 - Introduction: Google introduces new AI tracking data within Search...

Google just shared experimental documentation to help us get our websites ready for the agentic web. In this video, I walk through the new Lighthouse report, WebMCP integration, and why you might actually need an LLMS.txt file!Timestamps:0:00 - Google's new agentic readiness info1:00 - How to run the report in Chrome Canary1:45 - Why Cumulative Layout Shift matters for agents2:30 - Understanding the AI Accessibility Tree3:40 - WebM...

You can now ask your readers to add you as a preferred source, even if you’re not a news site! This will increase the chances that your audience sees you in AI Overview and AI Mode answers.

Google’s blog post on the recent changes to preferred source:

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/original-high-quality-content-search/

Instructions from Google on how to do this:

https://developers.google.com/sear...

At I/O Google announced Information agents, a new Search Box, Antigravity within Search and Universal Cart which will let you put items in a cart from MULTIPLE merchants and then it will check behind the scenes to tell you if another merchant has a better price and more.Search is changing!Here is my Google doc with all of my notes on Google I/O and the Developer keynote:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y_lMum8Sd18Y_FII4yQJMZEqME...

Search is becoming agentic, task-oriented, and deeply integrated with AI that learns, improves, and even negotiates on our behalf. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by how quickly AI is reshaping everything from SEO to web development, you're not alone!

In this episode I share about Gemini in Chrome, how I built a plant journal with Antigravity, UCP, WebMCP, WordPress' EmDash, Shopify's AI Toolkit, Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch ...

If you sell products online, the way your customers buy from you is about to fundamentally change. We are moving toward a future where buyers will check out directly inside of Google or ChatGPT, without ever visiting your website.It's called Universal Commerce Protocol, or UCP. And while platforms like Shopify are starting to integrate it , if you don't structure your site's data correctly right now, your products are going to beco...

In this episode of the "Real People Using AI" series, host Marie Haynes sits down with SEO content strategist and AI transition consultant Liz Micik to discuss the massive shift from a chat-based internet to the "Agentic Web." They break down Google's latest developer protocols—including MCP, A2A, UCP, and AP2—and translate what these highly technical concepts mean for everyday business owners and marketers. If you are ...

Join Marie Haynes and Tom Capper as they dive into Google's evolving algorithms, focusing on AI-driven changes like WebMCP and the role of agents in search. Discover how brand signals and user satisfaction are reshaping SEO, and why traditional tactics may no longer suffice.Links mentioned in this call:Google site quality score: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9031929B1/enThe helpful content update was not what you think. Tom C...