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Google Search Redesign, Business Profile Post Views – SEO Pulse via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google redesigned Search results across the EEA, Business Profile posts get view counts again, and ChatGPT Shopping now leans harder on product feeds. Search Engine Journal

Google Admits Search Console Reporting For AI Search Is Inadequate via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google admits that Search Console's AI search reporting does not adequately reflect AI search positioning data for SEO. Search Engine Journal

Google Ads Product Value Optimization Beta

Google Ads has a new beta named Product Value Optimization that allows advertisers to configure value adjustments to guide automated bidding to optimize for the products that matter for your business [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Al Contribution Pilot - Paying Publishers For Use Of Content In AI

Google is doing a small test where it is paying publishers for using their content within the Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini and other AI search features. This is called the AI contribution [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google AI Overviews Practice Knowledge Quiz

Did you know that Google AI Overviews can also quiz you on various knowledge topics? Google announced this with AI Mode a few weeks ago, but it is also available in Google Search. Search Engine Roundtable

The future of content isn’t writing. It’s thinking

SEO content is getting cheaper to produce, shifting value toward the ideas, expertise, judgment, and experience behind the words. Search Engine Land

Google tests paying publishers for using its content in AI Mode, AI Overviews and Gemini

This is a Google Search Console feature named AI contribution and is being tested with a limited number of publishers. Search Engine Land

Keyword seed selection for international SEO

International keyword research can make a market look empty when the seed misses local terms. Here’s how to find better entry points. Search Engine Land

Google Search Update September 4th That Reverted September 13th?

I've been pretty quiet on posting reports Google updates recently, in fact, I have not posted about one since late August. But while most sites seem calm in the Google rankings, there was definitely [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search Tests Blue More Link In Shopping Results

Google is testing a blue background color on the "More" link within the product results in Google Search. The link is normally just a basic "more" link with no prominence or color [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google AI Mode More Query Expansion Interfaces

Google continues to test new query expansion methods in AI Mode, beyond standard follow-up questions. Now Google is testing questions with multi-selection tools, a query refinement option and those [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search: It's Normal For Image Thumbnails To Be Slow To Update

Google's John Mueller said it is normal for Google Search to take a while to update image thumbnails in its search results with updated images from the website it pulls from. And it can take even [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Search Central Live India 2026: Bengaluru, We're Coming (For Real This Time)

Remember back in March when we told our Indian community to "sit tight" while we figured out the APAC event calendar? Hopefully, you didn't take that too literally, because sitting [...] Google Webmaster Central

Two GEO experiments challenge conventional AI visibility advice

The data points to a different playbook for AI visibility, where the sources that mention you may matter more than the content you control. Search Engine Land

Google Business Profiles rolls out Collected Info

Google is giving business a way to review what information Google’s automated assistant pulled about their businesses. Search Engine Land