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Google's Mueller comments on a sitemap SEO method that forces search engines to crawl and index web pages every day. The post Google Responds To Sitemap SEO Technique That Forces Daily Crawling appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google added Gemini 3.8 Flash to AI Mode's model menu on release day. The post Google Adds Gemini 3.8 Flash To AI Mode appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Publishing a format is not the same as possessing the knowledge. Bill Hunt on why knowledge architecture outlasts every AI protocol. The post The Next AI Protocol Won’t Save Your SEO Strategy appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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GEO is just entity SEO with a new name. The foundations haven't changed in 15 years, but most brands still ignore them. The post Entities Are The Foundation Of Modern SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google says a new Gemini system that inspects frames, audio, and transcripts on demand will power Ask YouTube on video watch pages. The post Google To Bring New Video Understanding Tech To Ask YouTube appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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YouTube's Todd Beaupré says the desktop homepage redesign with larger thumbnails drove more long-form engagement despite showing fewer videos at once. The post YouTube Says Bigger Thumbnails Drove More Long-Form Views appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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As agents and MCP connectors take over PPC management outside the Google Ads UI, this piece maps the risks and the governance needed to avoid. The post What Happens To PPC When You Stop Managing Google Ads Through Google Ads appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google's Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google Search, said on X, "Gemini 3.8 Flash has landed in Search." This comes only a couple of weeks after Google brought Gemini 3.7 Flash to AI Mode within Google Search.
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A federal judge in Virginia ruled against breaking up Google's ad tech business after Google was found to be a monopoly over its ad technology platforms. The judge ordered Google to end its practices that depress ad rates for web publishers, but declined to order divestiture of Google's ad exchange
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Interview with head of Google DeepMind explains how Gemini is moving beyond answers toward AI that can use tools and accomplish tasks. The post Google DeepMind Says Gemini Is Evolving From Chatbot To AI Agent appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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Google Trends now lets you filter your results by category, either with or without a query. This can give you a more refined view of the trends for a specific query or zoom you out more on category level trends within Google Search.
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AI agents browse, compare, and recommend on behalf of users. Learn how to make your site crawlable, readable, trustworthy, and easy to cite in AI-driven decision workflows.
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Google's John Mueller said the Google disavow tool "does have effects," adding, "but it has its place & time." This was in response a complaint about a site dropping in the search results after adding links to the disavow link tool.
Seroundtable
Google Ads added a new section to the how asset groups work help documentation for pre-fill asset groups with generated assets. This section goes over new features like in-construction callout and automatic pre-fill.
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What to remember: According to Nielsen, creative represents 49% of the ROI of an advertising campaign. Ekimetrics goes further by estimating that an optimized creation can more than double the ROI on YouTube. For Demand Gen in-stream skippable formats, Google advances three precise figures (US data, j
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Google AdSense will change how it counts impressions for display ads starting on February 17, 2027. Google will use what it calls the Begin-to-Render methodology and will only count the impression once the ad has successfully loaded and has started to render on the user's device.
Seroundtable
About a month ago, Google announced Tell Maps, a way for Google Maps contributors to use AI to tell Google Maps more about places. "You can suggest edits conversationally, right from Ask Maps and the Contribute tab," Google said about Tell Maps.
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Microsoft is testing removing the site names from the Bing search results and instead showing only the site's URL. Google tested this about a year ago, so I guess it makes sense for Bing to test as well.
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Google Analytics seems to have another bug, this time with data missing from the main charts. September 1, 2026 data is showing zero traffic to websites; I believe this is across every Google Analytics install.
Search Engine Journal
Getting cited in AI responses is the easy part. Our audit of 50 major websites shows where real AI readiness begins. The post The Technical Signals AI Search Uses That Most SEOs Still Aren’t Optimizing appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google published eligibility rules, samples, and key dates for licensing ranking, query, click, and view data from EEA Search under the EU's Digital Markets Act. The post Google Details Who Can License Its Search Data In Europe appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google is working on fixing a bug with Local Service Ads where it seems Local Service Ads are being unlinked from the associated Google Business Profiles. There are also complaints of instability and slowness on the Local Service Ads platform.
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In our R&D work at Kalys, we see more and more e-merchants using it to stand out in the results. And the addition of stars is not limited to product sheets, as one might think: On a product sheet, it has been tagged and documented by Google for years: it
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WordPress announced an initiative to scale security as AI makes it easier for criminal to find and exploit vulnerabilities. The post WordPress Announces A Proactive Security Initiative appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Schema is not a magic ranking switch. Loren Baker explains how consistent structured data strengthens entity trust across local, ecommerce, and author-driven content. The post Schema For AI Citations: How To Become A Trusted Source appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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AI gets information from channels like training data, live online information, and licensing partnerships.
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For real this time, Google has released the Google Search Console generative AI performance reports and Search generative AI controls to everyone globally. This follows a slow rollout that began in the first week of June and expanded access to the features over the past few months.
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Kevin Rowe broke down the digital PR system behind 1,000+ earned citations, which data stories journalists cover, and how research wins AI Overviews spots. The post How We Earned 1,000+ Links For GEO/SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Google Ads has been testing AI-generated snippets and summaries in the sponsored results within Google Search for some time. But now Google is labeling a new section named "What customers love" as "AI-generated from the store rating reviews."
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On Friday, Google pushed out a pretty big overhaul of the Performance Max documentation within the Google Ads support area. I've been waiting to compare the old and new documents, but the Wayback Machine has been down for about a week now.
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In early August, Google was testing requiring searchers to sign in to verify they are humans to continue to see search results. Now, Google is testing a similar feature without requiring you to sign in, but instead, Google is asking you to click a "Continue" button after a few seconds, after Google
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Google Ads added a new paragraph to the AI Max help documentation for AI Max keyword prioritization." It explains that when "disabling the broad match campaign setting or moving to AI Max, broad keywords are not treated as exact match keywords in prioritization." It then tells you how to handle thi
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It is time for the monthly Google webmaster report, where I recap the larger stories from the past month, specifically related to Google SEO, search, and webmaster/site owner topics...
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Google Discover has been having issues for the past hour or so. Some are reporting that Discover won't load articles, some are reporting that Discover is loading but only after a long waiting period. It seems Google Discover is having stability issues this morning.
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Stop targeting zero-volume keywords. Discover how Google Gemini uses grounding queries to source real-time facts, and how to optimize your content for machine search.
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FTC and 22 states sued Amazon over alleged changes to its ad auctions that the agency says overcharged advertisers by more than $20 billion. The post FTC Sues Amazon Over Alleged $20 Billion Advertising Surcharge Scheme appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Rank Math paused its controversial feature, acknowledge a serious consent failure, and explains why it's coming back. The post Rank Math SEO Plugin Pauses Controversial Feature. Says It Will Return appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google says Search Console's generative AI performance reports, which track AI Overviews and AI Mode impressions, have now rolled out to all sites worldwide. The post Google Search Console AI Reports Rolled Out Worldwide appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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ChatGPT is now a very large online search engine under the EU Digital Services Act after OpenAI reported about 159.1 million average monthly search recipients. The post ChatGPT Is Now A “Very Large Online Search Engine” In The EU appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google's John Mueller was asked if Google would penalize a site for old outbound links to a site that once hosted quality content and now changed ownership and hosts shady content. John said Google won't penalize such links; he said "no" and added, "the web is full of turmoil."
Search Engine Journal
Three role changes and a budget rebalance can move a marketing team from invisible to cited in AI search results, no new headcount required. The post How To Restructure Your Marketing Team & Budget For The AI-Search Era appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google has updated its Google European Search Dataset Licensing Program page with details on the program. Google has been designated as a "gatekeeper" under the DMA and is thus legally required to share its search data with competing search engines to foster fair competition.
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As Google Ads automates more decisions, advertisers must define success beyond platform metrics, tracking leads and sales through to actual business outcomes. The post Google Ads Is Automating More Decisions, Your Measurement Needs To Get Better appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google rolled out yet another spam update on August 18, 2026 after rolling one out in late June. As a reminder, Google can roll out specific spam updates when it determines sites using spammy tactics are ranking well via its core ranking system. You can think of spam updates as “patches” to handle s
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What to remember: The v2026-08-25 version of UCP adds geolocation tools for physical stores, a standardized format for opening hours and ordering by weight. Brittle schema changes affect the fulfillment structure, buyer consent and keys
Search Engine Journal
Google's John Mueller shares what happened when he checked whether AI crawlers were actually asking his sites for markdown. The post Google’s Mueller Shares Their Experience With Markdown For AI SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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The Universal Commerce Protocol's first spec release since April adds grocery readiness, lays groundwork for food and lodging, and brings schema changes. The post UCP Releases Spec Update With Schema Changes appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google Search is making AI Overviews fully expanded for some queries, making it more like AI Mode and pushing the core search results down...
Semrush Blog
ChatGPT alone won‘t cut it. See how to use AI tools for competitor analysis the right way, with Semrush MCP and a step-by-step workflow.
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Relevant SEO KPIs to track include AI visibility, keyword rankings, organic traffic, and brand mentions.
Semrush Blog
Enterprise SEO involves optimizing a website’s visibility at scale, using templated and automated approaches.
Semrush Blog
Rank in ChatGPT search by making your content easy for AI systems to extract and by building off-site consensus.
Search Engine Journal
New data finds Claude and Claude Code search at different rates, mention different brands, and send their agents to different types of pages. The post Claude Searches Web Differently From Claude Code, Data Shows appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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SEO improves your online visibility + complements answer engine optimization. Here’s why it matters in 2026.
Seroundtable
Microsoft Advertising is previewing a new design and usability update for its ad platform. This update has a redesigned navigation and improved tables and layouts. This update should make managing your ad campaigns more efficient and intuitive.
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The best AI content marketing tools include Semrush‘s AI Visibility Toolkit and ChatGPT.
Seroundtable
Google posted a note that it has made enhancements to the Merchant Center's Popular products reports. Specifically, the coverage and insights sections were improved back in June of this year, but Google just posted about this information on this past Friday afternoon.
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Microsoft is now forcing all users to log in before using Copilot, but this currently does not apply to Copilot Search answers within Bing Search. When you try to go directly to Copilot, even by clicking on the Copilot button on Bing's home page, you are asked to sign into your account.
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Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering for Google Search, has confirmed that the Google Search team is still well-resourced in its fight against search spam. The spam team continues to update its spam algorithms, such as the latest Google August 2026 spam update, to help reduce spam in Google Search results
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Google is now showing shopping ads in a carousel format inline within AI Mode results. Plus, Google is also showing a similar ad unit at the bottom of the AI Mode results. We got a lot of ads in AI Mode now, and I guess Google is looking for more and more ways to monetize those ads.
Search Engine Journal
Ahrefs data shows public Facebook Group posts appear in 38% of Google's Discussions and forums results, passing Quora and trailing only Reddit. The post Facebook Groups Are Google’s No. 2 Forum Source appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Anthropic warns that infostealer malware is stealing Claude login sessions to drain account usage. The post Anthropic Warns Hackers Are Stealing Claude Sessions To Hijack Accounts appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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New allegations surfaced that Rank Math has introduced a functionality that silently gives the company administrator-level permissions over WordPress sites. The access is triggered when a user installs Rank Math and opens the plugin’s Help & Support area. Allegedly There Is Zero Consent Or Notificat
Search Engine Journal
This week’s SEO Pulse covers Google’s AI publisher dispute, spam update fallout, the GEO debate, AI citation gaps, and ChatGPT’s Reddit behavior in search. The post Judge Questions Google AI, Spam Update Fallout – SEO Pulse appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Add Google's Preferred Sources button with the standard embed, a configurable WordPress widget, or a deeplink. The post How To Add Google’s Preferred Sources Button To Your Website appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Bottom Line: As of August 30, 2026, manual actions for abuse of site reputation will no longer have an effect on the results displayed to EEA Internet users. On the other hand, these manual actions will continue to apply normally for searches carried out outside the EEA.
Search Engine Journal
When Meta's ad AI altered approved creative without warning, it exposed a deeper problem: marketing teams rarely define who owns AI mistakes after sign-off. The post AI Isn’t Killing Marketing Accountability, It’s Exposing Who Never Had It appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Google Search is testing pushing searchers into AI Mode from the AI Overview by default, without having to click the "Show more" button. The new AI Overview experience that Google is testing shows a much fuller AI answer, like you'd get in AI Mode, and loads the follow up "Ask anything" box by defa
Ahrefs Blog
Yes, every one. We have even built a Letaido pipeline that can research, outline, draft, and fact-check a nearly publish-ready article in six to twelve minutes. In theory, it could produce tens of thousands of articles. (It could… but that’s…Read more ›
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Bottom Line: AI agents only play a significant role in 3% of online transactions in the US and UK despite the buzz 72% of retailers believe consumers will embrace agentic commerce faster than they can take it on themselves
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AI Overviews are growing and impacting SEO campaigns. Learn how to track AI Overviews with Semrush.
Search Engine Journal
OpenAI, Shopify, and Cloudflare are putting WebMCP into live products, giving AI agents a structured way to use websites without relying on visual clicks. The post WebMCP Connects AI Agents To Actions Inside Websites appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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More than 100 organizations, including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft, urge governments and website owners to prepare now for escalating AI cyberattacks. The post AI Is Changing Website Security. Here’s What SEO Teams Should Know appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google explains why a named update can shake up rankings without giving affected site owners anything specific to act on. The post Google Answers If Updates Come With Actionable SEO Signals appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google is replacing site reputation abuse manual actions in the EEA with a system that can rank affected site sections independently. The post Google Updates Site Reputation Abuse Policy: Removes Penalties In EEA appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. A first, Google won't enforce a spam policy within the European region...
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A figure that sums up the issue In countries where AI Overviews have been active for longer, the drop in clicks on the first position exceeds half of the usual traffic: -58% according to Ahrefs. Being first on Google therefore no longer guarantees the visit to the site. What we observe today hu
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Another week, more volatility within the Google Search results. Google is also swapping out direct links to go-to URL redirect links in its search results to protect...
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Google is expanding the book button through Reserve with Google partner integration to Google Ads Search and Performance Max campaigns. Previously, I believe, this was only available on Google Local Service Ads and maps ads.
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Google's John Mueller said Google "primarily" announces search updates to provide "transparency for site owners." He added that when Google publishes blog posts, updates policies, and help center documentation, that is an actionable announcement site owners could use.
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Google has two, well, maybe three, features that are being confused as one. The preferred sources, the tailor your feed and also search profiles. All kind of customize what you see across Google Search features including Google Search, AI Mode, Discover and so on. But they are all different featur
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Google will be updating its alcohol advertising policy on September 30, 2026. The update "revises country-specific guidelines, expands allowed advertising locations, and provides clearer details on specific advertiser requirements and responsibilities," Google wrote.
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Google Search seems to be having indexing or serving issues in the past hour or so. New content from the past hour doesn't seem to be showing up in Google Search results. Content from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNN and other news sites that post content constantly are not showing much
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Google is testing asking searchers to sign in within the AI Mode response. Google shows a big Google super logo and a sign in button that says "Sign in to save your..."
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Google has updated the favicon search developer documentation to list out the supported favicon file formats. Google added this line that reads, "Google Search supports the following favicon file formats: BMP, GIF, ICO, PNG, JPEG, PPM, and TIFF."
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Google announced it will not enforce manual actions under the site reputation abuse policy in the European Economic Area (EEA) due to a mandate set by the European Commission, effective August 30, 2026. Google said searchers in the EEA will not benefit from Google's spam prevention for sites labeled
Google Search Central
In 2024, we introduced our site reputation policy to stop a practice where third-party content is published on a trusted website just to exploit that site's good reputation to rank higher in Search. This practice hurts search quality, and creates a bad experience for users.
Search Engine Journal
Answer sooner, write less, simplify: standard advice that can relocate informational work rather than remove it. Here's the sharper test. The post AI Search Didn’t Remove Cognitive Load, It Moved It appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google is rolling out hotel booking in AI Mode with Google Pay checkout. Flight alerts and rewards pricing are available in supported markets. The post Google Starts Rolling Out Hotel Booking In AI Mode appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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OpenAI added WebMCP support to ChatGPT’s desktop browser, letting supported webpages expose structured actions to ChatGPT Work and Codex. The post OpenAI Adds WebMCP Site Tools To ChatGPT’s Browser appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Client-agency relationships now average seven years, but only when agencies act as strategic partners instead of task-completing vendors clients can replace. The post How To Become A Strategic Partner & Keep Clients Years Longer appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Over the past few days, the IRS website (and other government sites) has tanked within Google's search results. My gut feeling is that the federal government implemented some bot-blocking that was too aggressive and blocked Google, among others, resulting in Google not fully showing the IRS website.
Ahrefs Blog
The most prominent domain was Reddit.com, which showed up in 87.8% of SERPs (83.9% worldwide), with an average of 1.29 link appearances. Along with Ahrefs’ data scientist Xibeijia Guan, I set out to uncover how prominent other sites were, whether…Read more ›
Search Engine Journal
Discover the top citation sources for AI answers and how they impact recommendations across major AI platforms. The post We Analyzed 107 Million AI Answers. Here’s Where Each Industry’s Citations Actually Come From appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Reddit still wins ChatGPT citations where a forum is the best source. Two captures, four days apart, show what actually decides the credit. The post ChatGPT Searches Individual Subreddits By Name appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google is rolling out three new travel features within AI Mode in Google Search. These features include track flight prices, view points or miles rates, and book hotels directly within AI Mode, through your conversational search.
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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Microsoft is testing renaming the Copilot Search AI answer box at the top of the Bing Search results to AI Overviews. That is the name Google uses for its AI answer results in Google Search. Microsoft is still placing the Copilot logo with the box but trying to use the name "AI Overview" instead of
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Google posted on X that Ask Advisor, which is in Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Merchant Center and more Google tools, will soon "maintain shared memory across your Google marketing tools." When this rolls out, when you ask a question on Google Ads, and then ask a question on Google Analytics
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Microsoft Advertising, with the release of AI Max globally, has rolled out a new Search term landing page reporting template. This report gives advertisers "full insights into all parts of AI Max's performance," said Navah Hopkins, the Microsoft Ads Liaison.
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Google is testing once again testing swipeable Google Ads sponsored results, where you can swipe a carousel of categories to potentially change the sponsored results listed below. We saw this for shopping ads in October 2024 and Google has continued to test this since.
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Bottom line: Google is rolling out the google.com/goto setting, tested since July 2026, on a large scale to replace direct links to sites in its search results. A Google spokesperson confirmed the rollout, citing “technical measures against forms of
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OpenAI has pinned the Shopping tab to the left sidebar on ChatGPT. Clicking on it takes you to a landing page and a dedicated search page focused on shopping.
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Google Ads has released several new "Troubleshoot performance fluctuations and changes" across Google Ads, Performance Max, Search campaigns, Display, video, shopping, app, and more. At least I think these documents are new based on my tools, but the Wayback Machine has been offline, so I cannot dou
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Judge who ruled that Google is a monopoly said in the Penske vs Google hearing that the AI Overviews situation "seems really unfair." The post Judge In Penske Vs Google Says AI Situation “Seems Really Unfair” appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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A report finds AI tools often recommend brands while citing other websites as the source. The post AI Tools Recommend Brands But Cite Other Sites, Data Shows appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Before funding YouTube Ads, businesses must fix attribution, build skip-proof creative, budget for algorithmic calibration, and simplify offers to one clear promise. The post Why Running YouTube Ads Like Search Will Burn Your Budget appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google Search seems like it is rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL within the search results that it began testing in July 2026. This seems like a way for Google to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies but Google has not yet commented
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To commemorate the life of Dolly Parton, Google has released a new easter egg in its search results. If you search for [Dolly Parton] within Google Search...
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Claude's Gen Z preference now outpaces Boomers nearly 8-to-1, and a chicken salad chain's rise shows why AI consideration scores never equal user trust. The post AI Brand Preference Now Splits By Generation, Claude Leads Gen Z More Than 7-To-1 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Robby Stein, Google's Vice President of Product at Google Search, asked on X, "If you could get one feature shipped right now in AI Mode, what would it be?" So now is your chance to reply on X with what you want.
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Google generates AI Mode ads directly from your product feed, not your ad copy. Here's which Merchant Center attributes decide whether your products get chosen. The post How To Advertise In Google AI Mode For Ecommerce appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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A recent Google binary exposes Geostore, Oyster Rank, 793 data providers and the different layers that connect Maps to the Web, the Knowledge Graph and now AI. When an establishment appears in Google Maps, the list you see is just the end product of a much larger system
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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Wix introduced Symphony, an easy and safe way for small to medium size local businesses to use AI agents. The post Wix Introduces Symphony, An Easy Way For Local Businesses To Use AI Agents appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Semrush Blog
Google‘s August 2026 spam update finished rolling out on August 21. Learn what changed, what didn‘t, and how to read your data.
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Promptwatch says Reddit‘s share of ChatGPT citations fell 86% in four days. OpenAI says it hasn‘t changed how it picks sources.
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As you know, Google's August 2026 spam update began on August 18th and concluded on August 21st. But the volatility has not calmed down since and I think it is time I document it. We've been seeing chatter within the SEO community, in addition to the third-party Google tracking tools pick up on vol
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Google has expanded the booking partners for Local Service Ads from about 20 partners to over 500 partners. That is about a 2,400 percent increase. "We're vastly expanding booking capabilities for Local Services Ads to include more than 500 Reserve with Google booking partners '" up from just 20," G
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Back in June, Google released link carousels for top stories or developing topics to AI Overviews. I was happy. Now, Google is also releasing this for AI Mode queries, which adds carousels of web pages directly in the AI Mode response.
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Google Ads has placed Customer Lifecycle Optimization directly within the conversion goals section of the Google Ads platform.
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Microsoft Bing is testing a new "Shorts" tab in the search menu on Bing Search. This should filter the results by short videos across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and so on. The tab is called "Shorts" and looks like a video play icon in vertical format.
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Google is beta testing a new Product title report within Google Ads. This is a special product title report for Al-created product titles. The report should show in your ads when they're more relevant than your original titles, Google wrote.
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Google is testing a new "Channels" slider that lets you adjust how much you prioritize conversions from your Google Ads channels, such as Google Search, Google Partners, Discover, Maps, YouTube, the Display Network and Gmail.
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Get the 3 Layer AI Search Diagnostic & Measurement Matrix with Examples Updated on August 26, 2026 The old organic search measurement model, built largely around rankings, clicks, and sessions, is becoming less sufficient on its own in an AI search environment. And the more I talk to SEOs, marketers
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Get ahead of the agentic AI shift. Learn what WebMCP is, how it differs from traditional MCP, and how to implement simple HTML or JavaScript tools to prepare your website for the agentic search.
Search Engine Journal
Data shows that alternative domain extensions show stronger performance over traditional .com domains. The post .Org Sites Are 34% Likelier To Generate Ecommerce Revenue Than .Com appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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84 Reddit threads entered the retrieval pool. Zero got cited. The new tool-call format shows what ChatGPT fetches before it answers. The post ChatGPT Rebuilt Its Search Tool, I Read The New Language It Speaks appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google has brought its developing-topic link carousels to AI Mode, putting timely article links and Preferred Sources prominently inside AI responses. The post Google Brings Developing-Topic Link Carousels To AI Mode appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google seems to be showing fewer and fewer PDF files, and when it does show PDF files, it seems not to show them from some pretty important sites, like IRS.gov, New York State, and some others. But in some cases we are seeing Google show PDF documents, without you having to explicitly filter for PD
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AI can flatten decades of localized expertise into one generic brand impression, meaning global brands must translate credentials into evidence machines actually recognize. The post Why International SEO Needs Machine-Recognizable E-E-A-T appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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What to remember: A new "Preferred Sources" button, embeddable by publishers on their pages, allows readers to add a favorite source site on Google with a single click, with more than 600,000 sources already selected to date. The Discover feed will soon be fine-tuned in
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An owned promo code page can keep purchase-ready shoppers away from coupon affiliates and recover revenue leaking from ecommerce checkout flows. The post Your Promo Code Field May Be Sending Revenue To Affiliates appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google's recent Spam Update may have partially focused on catching mass-generated SEO AI content. The post Reports Indicate Google’s Spam Update Focused On SEO AI Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Cloudflare's EmDash CMS, the spiritual successor to WordPress, is set to release version 1.0 soon after proving itself on their high traffic blog. The post Cloudflare Says EmDash Version 1.0 Is Releasing Soon appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Search Engine Journal
Webflow adds Codex support with built-in Skills that vastly simplifies automating common website management and development tasks. The post Webflow’s New OpenAI Codex Integration Simplifies Site Management appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google sent out emails to some advertisers notifying them that starting October 1st, Google Local Service Ads will charge for some missed and subsequent calls over the platform. "On October 01, 2026, we are updating how and when you are charged for call leads originating from Local Services Ads," th
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Google seems to be showing AI Overviews at the top of the search results page when you specifically search for stock price queries - such as for [GOOG stock] or [MSFT stock] and so on. I was able to replicate this myself and it is just weird to show the AI Overview at the top for this queries and i
Search Engine Journal
Google is folding Local Services Ads into Performance Max. Join CallRail's on 9/8 for the audit checklist to run before and after your account migrates. The post Google Local Services Ads Are Moving To Performance Max: What To Check First appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Google Ads is testing loading the sponsored results in the mobile search results interface with an animation. It shows that Gemini is also involved by saying, "Evaluating sponsored results" and has a Google and Gemini logo as the ads load in.
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Google's John Mueller said on Bluesky that there is nothing special for one to do for generative AI responses within Google Search. He wrote, "from our POV there's nothing really special you need to do for generative AI responses in search."
Seroundtable
Gary Illyes from Google reiterated this morning that Googlebot, Google's crawler, does not parse JSON files. Instead, Googlebot just downloads the files and then the indexer does the rest.
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About a year ago, Google added the ability to copy emojis directly from the search results in an answer box. Now, Google is also showing copyable emojis to AI Overviews in the Google Search results.
Abondance
The article "Goossips SEO: Deploying Updates" was published on the Abundance site.
Moz Blog
Traffic, rankings, and content output are all up. GBP actions are flat. Amanda Jordan explains why local SEO breaks at scale and shares the SEO-first audit framework that fixes it.
Search Engine Journal
Pew found AI authorship signs on 10% of sampled webpages and 35% of pages carrying a post-ChatGPT publication date. The post 1 In 10 Webpages Shows Signs Of AI Authorship, Pew Reports appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Ahrefs Blog
As an SEO professional, metrics like rankings, traffic, and clicks are meaningful to you, but to a leadership team trained on market share and return on investment, they’re noise. That’s not a bias against SEO. It’s just what happens when…Read more ›
Search Engine Journal
Google Ads adds new Search and AI Max experimentation tools for testing budgets, ROI targets, brand controls, location settings, and campaign changes. The post Google Ads Launches New Search and AI Max Experimentation Tools appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Platforms like Spotify and LinkedIn are cracking down on AI slop. SEOs face a choice: treat AI as a shortcut or as an editorial assistant. The post SEOs Are Becoming The Tools Of Their Tools – The AI Slop Backlash appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Abondance
Bottom line: Publishers' Google traffic has dropped 30% in a year according to Chartbeat data relayed by the Reuters Institute, and the click on the top position drops to a third of its usual level as soon as an AI Overview is displayed, according to Ahrefs. The paper models the web crawlab
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