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Google says AI Search features sending billions of clicks to websites each week

Nick Fox, SVP at Google, said Google continues to send billions of clicks to the web every day and within AI Search it is billions weekly. Search Engine Land

Top Stories roll out in Google AI Overviews

This is now live in the United States for mobile users and will expand to more in the future. Search Engine Land

Google brings business data feeds to Demand Gen campaigns

Google is bringing business data feeds to Demand Gen, enabling dynamic ads without Google Merchant Center. Search Engine Land

Apple Maps Ads Ban Home Services, Crypto ATMs, Bail Bonds via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson

Apple Maps ads ban home services, crypto ATMs, and bail bonds. Learn which businesses qualify and how advertisers can prepare for the rollout. Search Engine Journal

Google NotebookLM Rebrand May Expose Your Site To More AI Scraping via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google's NotebookLM rebrand may expose websites to more AI scraping with zero attribution unless site owners take action right now. Search Engine Journal

“Are You A Bot” Screens Can Get Your Pages Dropped By Google via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google's Mueller explained how an "are you a bot" screen can push a site's pages out of Google, and get another site picked as canonical. Search Engine Journal

Google Search Ranking Volatility This Weekend - Around July 18th

Google may have released yet another unconfirmed Google search ranking update this weekend. I am seeing some signs of ranking movement from the third-party Google tracking tools and the SEO chatter [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Downplays Search Console “Error” Reports. Says Many Aren’t Real Problems via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google downplays many Search Console "error" reports, saying the tool was never meant to be a checklist of things to fix. Search Engine Journal

The biggest technical SEO time-wasters to avoid

Some technical SEO tasks deliver measurable value. Others can wait. Here's how to tell the difference before investing developer time. Search Engine Land

How to evaluate Google Ads creative before testing it

Evaluate Google Ads creative with the MOCA framework before it enters testing, so you're experimenting with stronger ideas from the start. Search Engine Land

Google: We Send Billions Of Clicks To Websites Weekly Through AI Search

Nick Fox, Google's head of search, said on Friday that Google's AI Mode and AI Overviews - its AI search features - send billions of clicks to websites every week. He said Google Search overall is [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Warns Not To Uninstall/Reinstall Google & YouTube Shopify App

Google has updated us on the Google and YouTube Shopify app issue with uninstalling and reinstalling the app. In short, do not do it, do not uninstall and reinstall the app. Google said it will [...] Search Engine Roundtable

ChatGPT Showing Two Ads In Footer Of Results

OpenAI seems to have started to show two ads in the footer of the ChatGPT responses. Generally, we have only really seen one ad from one advertiser. Sometimes we'd see two ads from a single [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Content API Extended Access Form Now Available

As many of you know, the Google Content API for Shopping is being replaced by the Google Merchant API by August 18th. Google has opened up a request form to ask Google to give you an extension on [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Warns Not To Place AI Labels On Corners Of Images

Google updated its use AI content labels help document, which it first created on July 9th when it announced it will label ads created or edited with AI. The update now says that when you add your [...] Search Engine Roundtable