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The "AI-generated" label: the two routes that lift it, and what each one demands

Article 50 of the EU AI Act covers a narrow category of publications, and the obligation falls away as soon as the content has undergone...

September 17, 202610 min read

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Compliance and the AI Act

Green claims in Germany: what changes on September 27, 2026 for a product page

From September 27, 2026, twelve practices become unfair in all circumstances when you talk about the environment or durability to a European consumer. They join a...

September 16, 202613 min read

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CMS and platforms

Being cited by ChatGPT: what a general-purpose CMS cannot do

Conversational models such as ChatGPT, and other generative AI systems, do not "read" the web the way a person does. They work from documents...

September 11, 20265 min read

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Crawlers and logs

GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot: reading your logs to see what AI really does with your site

AI bots are no longer marginal visitors: they crawl the web to collect, index or query content. In server logs they are spotted first...

September 11, 20265 min read

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GEO and AI visibility

Being published is not being cited: how content becomes a source for AI

The debate around GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) arrived with the rise of answer engines and conversational assistants. Instead of optimizing only for a classic...

September 11, 20265 min read

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Compliance and the AI Act

Do you have to label your articles as AI-generated? What article 50 of the AI Act says

Article 50 of the AI Act, the European regulation on artificial intelligence, is mostly about transparency. It does not ban AI-produced content: it requires that...

September 11, 20267 min read

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Compliance and the AI Act

Publishing in Germany: the UWG hits before the AI Act

Since August 2, 2026, publishers working in Europe have been looking at article 50 of the AI regulation and wondering what they have to disclose. For those...

September 9, 20267 min read

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GEO and AI visibility

Freshness: date, revise, prove. What engines and AI expect from up-to-date content

A reader who puts a question to an assistant in 2026 wants an answer that holds in 2026. Search engines, classic and generative alike, know this...

September 7, 20266 min read

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Crawlers and logs

Reading an access log in 30 minutes: what AI robots really do on your site

No dashboard tells a publisher whether ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity read its pages. Search Console covers Google only, and generative engines supply nothing. The...

September 2, 20267 min read

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CMS and platforms

AI-generated content and Google: what the official guidance actually says

The question comes up on every AI-assisted media project: will Google penalize this content? The answer is written down, dated and public. It sits...

August 28, 20265 min read

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CMS and platforms

Internal linking by meaning: connecting content the way models read it

Internal linking is one of the few search levers entirely under the publisher's control, and one of the worst used. On most sites it...

August 24, 20267 min read

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Crawlers and logs

What the firewall hides from your logs: the blind spot of edge blocking

A site owner opens the logs, searches for GPTBot, ClaudeBot or PerplexityBot, finds nothing, and concludes that AI tools take no interest in the...

August 17, 20265 min read

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