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Search Engine Land
Is Google translating your content without sending users to your site? Here's what’s really happening and how to protect your traffic.
Search Engine Land
Member benefits, such as lower prices and earning loyalty points are a major factor considered by
shoppers when buying products online. Today we're adding support for defining loyalty [...]
Google Webmaster Central
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Search Engine Roundtable
Google voluntary buyouts target U.S. Search and Ads staff amid AI restructuring. What does this mean for future layoffs and team priorities?
Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console's API has not reported on data since June 3rd.
The API is simply stuck since then, and I am not sure if it has anything to do with the Google Discover reporting issues or not - [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
As part of our
ongoing efforts
to
simplify the Google Search results page, we will be phasing out support for a few
structured data
features in
Search. We regularly [...]
Google Webmaster Central
Today, we’re launching a new Search experiment in Labs – Audio Overviews, which uses our latest Gemini models to generate quick, conversational audio overviews for certa…
Inside Search
In the early days, Google was not a fan of using tools to automatically translate your pages and then have Google index and rank those pages, even with Google Translate. But now as AI is getting [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Just when you thought the layoffs were over (remember January 2023), Google is offering a buyout program across search and ad units, including knowledge and information and central engineering units [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Specifically these will no longer be supported; Book Actions, Course Info, Claim Review, Estimated Salary, Learning Video, Special Announcement and Vehicle Listing.
Search Engine Land
Google added new markup support for loyalty and membership programs with special pricing.
This was supported in Google Merchant Center but now is supported in under Organization structured data [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google removes robots.txt guidance for blocking auto-translated pages. This change aligns Google's technical documents with its spam policies.
Search Engine Journal
A study from Profound of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity shows that while ChatGPT mostly sources its information from Wikipedia, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity mostly source [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google's John Mueller showed how to diagnose a search visibility issue that was apparently triggered by a domain migration.
Search Engine Journal