Stay ahead with the latest SEO & GEO news (October 19th – November 1st, 2026). Insights on poisoned SERPs, Exa, personal AI agents and ads in AI Mode.

00:00 Intro
00:27 SEO
02:56 GEO
06:31 Personal Agent Optimization
07:55 LLM Ads and Adobe
08:41 Tools

In this episode:

• SEO: SEO Tools Confirm Google Is Poisoning SERPs · Exa Now Crawls Adobe Customer Sites More Than OAI-SearchBot and ClaudeBot · Generative SERPs Will Break Rank Tracking · Google Asks Platforms to Keep Generated and Shared Pages Out of Its Index · GEO Is a Distraction, Google Still Drives 99% of Search Traffic · Google Moves Posts Higher Up in the Local Knowledge Panel
• GEO: ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity Still Can't Render JavaScript · Workers Use ChatGPT More to Decide and Create Than to Search · ChatGPT Questions Buyers Before Recommending, and Fills In the Form Itself · Claude Quietly Switched to a New Search Index · DeepSeek Opens Its Search Engine to SEOs With a Public API · Cloudflare Helped OpenAI Index Millions of New Pages · GPT-6 Lifted ChatGPT Referrals · Chris Green Warns Against Building a Shadow Web for AI
• Personal Agent Optimization: How to Optimize Your Website for Personal AI Agents · Agents Now Handle 0.68% of US Ecommerce Orders, Driven by Meta Muse · AI Agents Will Use Both Pages and Protocols · Google Launches a Connected Apps Platform Built on MCP
• LLM Ads: Google Brings Ads in AI Mode to 10 New Countries
• Adobe: AI Traffic Now Earns US Retailers 83% More Per Visit
• Tools: DEJAN's CHISEL Measures Which Sentences Earn a Page Its AI Citation · Arachnide, a Free Open-Source SEO Spider You Can Plug Into Your AI Agent

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