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Google Business Profiles Showing Empty Review Dashboards via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Some Google Business Profile dashboards show “no reviews yet” even though public review counts remain visible on the live listing.
Search Engine Journal
Google Says Canonical Re-Evaluation Can Take Up to Two Weeks via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google updated its canonicalization troubleshooting guide with new guidance on how long pages can stay in a duplicate cluster after you fix the content.
Search Engine Journal
Google Business Profiles New Collected Info (Visuals)
A few weeks ago we reported on a new Google Business Profiles help document change that talks about the Collected Info action.
Well, I have not seen it live yet and most have not, but we have a [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Why agentic commerce will matter more than ChatGPT ads
Google, Amazon, and OpenAI are building AI-powered buying. Here's why your product data matters more than your next ad platform.
Search Engine Land
Google Reaffirms Include Canonical On Canonical Page Itself
Google has updated its canonical help document to say "Do include a rel="canonical" link on the canonical page itself (also known as a self-referential canonical)." The advice is [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Previews For Assets, Text Customizations & Final URL Expansion
Google Ads now lets you see ad previews by filtering by assets, plus you can preview examples of text customizations and final URL expansion directly within the Google Ads advertiser console.
Search Engine Roundtable
Bing: We Do Not Do One Off Indexing / Ranking Penalties, It's Not Scalable
Krishna Madhavan, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, said that Bing does not do one-off search penalties because it is not scalable.
Instead, Bing will build a spam algorithm to detect the [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Sticky Sponsored Results With Gray Curved Borders, Again
Google is testing a slight update to the sticky sponsored results interface that it tested back in September 2024. Note: A version of this was launched in October 2025, but this interface has a [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Conversion Tracking Status: Awaiting Conversions & Misconfigured
Google Ads has updated the conversion actions overview statuses it shows in the Google Ads user interface.
Now there is misconfigured, awaiting conversions and even removed as new statuses, that [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
How to close the identity gap between your brand, search, AI, and buyers
Your strongest traffic signals may be reinforcing the wrong brand identity. Learn how to uncover the gaps limiting search and AI visibility.
Search Engine Land
6 SEO priorities for AI shopping
AI can't recommend what it can't understand. Here's how to make your products easier for AI systems to evaluate.
Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 13, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Email Support Broke
Google Ads email support option seems broken right now, when you try to use it, you get a notice that reads in red, "Something went wrong. Please try again."
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Volatility Around 7-Eleven
We may have had another unconfirmed Google Search ranking update around July 11th, which I will call the 7-Eleven update.
It has been an unusual time since the completion of the June 2026 spam [...]
Search Engine Roundtable