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Your name is now a search ranking signal: How a design change to citations inside AI Overviews should shift content strategy

A wine labelled only 'red, France' sells for a fraction of what a bottle carrying the winemaker's name commands. On May 6, Google announced five changes to how citations appear inside AI Overviews and AI Mode—making named authorship a search ranking variable.

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A wine labelled only 'red, France' sells for a fraction of what a bottle carrying the winemaker's name commands.

On May 6, Google announced five changes to how citations appear inside AI Overviews and AI Mode—making named authorship a search ranking variable.

Here, Richard Stone, founder of technical PR agency Stone Junction, explains what the […] The post Your name is now a search ranking signal:

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A wine labelled only 'red, France' sells for a fraction of what a bottle carrying the winemaker's name commands. On May 6, Google announced five changes to how citations appear inside AI Overviews and AI Mode—making named authorship a search ranking variable. Here, Richard Stone, founder of technical PR agency Stone Junction, explains what the […] The post Your name is now a search ranking signal:

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