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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Personal AI agents like Dots, Muse and Grok Bot now use websites. Here is PAO, Personal Agent Optimization: how I prepare my site, and why accessibility comes first.

00:00 Intro
01:09 What is a personal AI agent?
02:05 A new acronym: PAO
03:15 What Quentin does on his site
05:14 Crawlability
07:13 The main agent protocols
07:57 Accessibility first
09:24 Quentin tested Meta Muse
10:00 Tracking AI agents
10:54 Quentin's advice and what's next
11:42 Conclusion

Read the full article, with every link and example: https://quentinyacoub.com/en/blog/how-to-optimize-website-for-personal-ai-agents/

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October 2026 benchmark: four personal AI agents, my WebMCP news tool, a car booking and a form. Which agents used WebMCP, how fast, and what my logs saw.

00:00 Intro
01:12 How the benchmark worked
02:39 The results, question by question
03:54 Meta Muse
05:10 Grok Bot
06:04 OpenAI Dots
06:49 Gemini
07:43 Booking a rental car
08:47 Submitting a form
09:39 The overall picture
10:35 What it means
13:11 Limits and what's next
14:36 Conclusion

Read the full article, with every link and example: https://quentinyacoub.com/en/blog/do-ai-agents-use-webmcp/

Voices are AI-generated; the script is written from the article and reviewed by Quentin Yacoub. Feedback welcome on LinkedIn: LinkedIn