This week’s SEO News Roundup covers Google’s guidance on llms.txt and markdown files, the removal of FAQ rich result documentation, AI Mode information agents, Google Business Profile access issues, Local Finder interface changes, Search Console link-report recovery, and what AI search means for citations, bot traffic, and local visibility.

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Google cools off llms.txt and AI-file hype

Google says llms.txt files do not help or hurt Search rankings, and Search is not using AI-only markdown files as a shortcut. Google also removed FAQ rich result documentation because FAQ rich results are no longer shown. Source 1  ...