Google refreshed its Indexing API quota documentation on 16 October. Teams running job or livestream pages should audit eligibility, queue capacity, and the meaning of a successful response before adding more submissions.
A corrected page needs a reliable notification path. Build IndexNow around meaningful content changes, track receipt separately from crawling, and preserve the evidence needed to investigate stale answers.
Google's Preferred Sources button can help an existing reader choose a publication in Search. That is audience participation, not a general AEO ranking control.
Google's newly documented EEA local-business units create a specific route for direct providers and aggregators. They are a regional search feature, not a new answer-engine ranking factor.