Archive of February, 2026

February, 27 2026

Google Explains Why Its Crawler Ignores Your Resource Hints via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Gary Illyes clarifies why resource hints do not influence Googlebot's crawling behavior, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google February 2026 Discover core update is now complete Again, this update only impacts Google Discover within the US for English content. - Search Engine Land
February 2026 Google Discover Core Update Is Done Rolling Out After 3 Weeks Google's February 2026 Google Discover Core Update has officially completed rolling out after just [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to see AI search prompts inside Google Search Console See how long-tail Google Search Console queries reveal AI-style prompts, plus a regex trick and [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Tests 2x2 Video Grid Layout Microsoft Bing Search is testing a new layout for videos within the search results. Instead of a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Text Guidelines Rolling Out To All In AI Max Google Ads is rolling out text guidelines for all advertisers globally in AI Max. We thought the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Web Mentions In Retailer Store Pages Google is testing adding "web mentions" to the retailer store page under the reviews [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to become an SEO freelancer without underpricing or burning out Specialize, productize, and price your services strategically. Here’s how to build a [...] - Search Engine Land
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Discover Core Update Done, Search Volatility, Search Serving Bug, AI Prompt Injection, Google Ads, Local & Bing This week... - Search Engine Roundtable
Videos: Google Search On HTML & Google Ads On Search Experiences The Google Search team and the Google Ads team released two different videos this week that I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Rolls Out Self-Service Negative Keyword Lists Microsoft Advertising has now rolled out the self-serve negative keyword lists. This launched a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Discover Core Update Finishes Rolling Out via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's February Discover core update is complete after a roughly 22-day rollout. Early data [...] - Search Engine Journal
The dark SEO funnel: Why traffic no longer proves SEO success AI drives vendor discovery before Google ever sees the click. Learn how brand mentions, LLM [...] - Search Engine Land
How to build a context-first AI search optimization strategy AI-driven discovery depends on semantic depth and retrievable structure. Align language, taxonomy, [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 27, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
OpenAI: ChatGPT now has 900 million weekly active users OpenAI reports the new usage milestone as paid subscriptions surge — the latest evidence that [...] - Search Engine Land
Google patent hints searchers will land on AI-generated pages and not web pages To be clear, this is just a patent document and not something implemented in Google Search. - Search Engine Land
Google publishes new Google Ads passkey help doc Google has published new passkey guidance for Google Ads, helping advertisers strengthen security [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 26 2026

Google To Test Search Changes In EU After DMA Charges, Per Report via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is preparing to test search result changes in the EU that would show rival vertical search [...] - Search Engine Journal
Microsoft Updates Bing Webmaster Guidelines (A Bit) Microsoft has updated the design of the Bing Webmaster Guidelines section and changed some of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Test Showing Vertical Search Services In EU Reuters has a headline that reads Exclusive: Google to test changes to search results, source says [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Post Reoccurring Scheduling Coming Recently, Google rolled out the ability to schedule Google Posts. Supposedly, soon, Google will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s spam update vs. AI affiliate sites: An SEO experiment An experiment with AI affiliate sites shows how Google’s spam systems treat low-trust, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Circle to Search Looks At The Whole Image Google announced updates to Circle to Search where it now doesn't just look at the part you circles [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads API Version 23.1 Now Available Google has released a minor version update to the Google Ads API, version 23.1. This update has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Researchers Reverse-Engineered LLMs For A Ranking Experiment via @sejournal, @martinibuster Researchers compared two ways to improve rankings in LLMs: Shadow Model and Query-based solutions. - Search Engine Journal
Google expands AI Max text guidelines globally Google’s AI Max now lets you guide AI-generated ad copy worldwide with custom text rules to [...] - Search Engine Land
We’re expanding beta access to text guidelines for all advertisers globally in AI Max. AI-powered creatives are essential for staying relevant in today’s complex search landscape, [...] - Inside Adwords
ChatGPT ecommerce traffic converts 31% higher than non-branded organic search AI referrals drove stronger purchase intent, faster growth, lower average order value, and just [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 26, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
How to use AI response patterns to build better content LLM answers vary widely. Here’s how to extract repeatable structural, conceptual, and entity [...] - Search Engine Land
How to use Google Ads Performance Planner and Reach Planner Model budget shifts, forecast KPI impact, and estimate YouTube reach before scaling. See how these [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Nano Banana 2, merges pro-level image quality with flash speed Nano Banana 2 delivers Pro-quality, production-ready images at Flash speed, enabling faster, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Nano Banana 2 promises smarter, faster image generation Google rolls out new AI image model with real-time web grounding, cleaner in-image text, and 4K [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 25 2026

Google fixed a serving issue with search results This seems like it was a brief outage over night. - Search Engine Land
Anthropic Updates Crawler Docs: ClaudeBot, Claude-User & SearchBot Anthropic updates its crawler documentation explaining what its crawlers do, and what blocking them [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Shopping Pushing Show More Products Google's AI Shopping tab is now pushing shoppers and searchers to find more products. The prompt [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Brief Serving Issue This Morning Google had a brief issue with serving search results this morning, February 25th. Google documented [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Careful With Google Business Profile Verification Flow Some time ago, Google updated the flow for the Google Business Profile verification. And the issue [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode See More Button Google is showing a "See more" button in some of the AI Mode results. This has been [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How ChatGPT uses SEO to drive growth and revenue An SEO audit of ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity reveals how the platforms use technical [...] - Search Engine Land
Ads Decoded episode 3 explores how Google is reimagining Search ads experiences in a way that delivers value for both users and advertisers. Ads Decoded explores how the updated Search ads experience aims to deliver value for both users and [...] - Inside Adwords
The AI writing tics that hurt engagement: A study An analysis of 1,000+ URLs reveals which AI writing tics correlate with engagement. Some common [...] - Search Engine Land
Anthropic clarifies how Claude bots crawl sites and how to block them Anthropic explains how its bots handle AI training, live queries, and search results, and what [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 25, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
What 13 months of data reveals about LLM traffic, growth, and conversions An analysis of LLM referral traffic shows low volume, rapid growth, shifting citations, and an 18% [...] - Search Engine Land
How Google Discover qualifies, ranks, and filters content: Research New SDK findings reveal why some pages never reach ranking, how pCTR predicts clicks, and why [...] - Search Engine Land
A more intelligent Android on Samsung Galaxy S26 At Samsung Unpacked 2026, we showcased how Samsung Galaxy S26 devices are getting the latest in [...] - Inside Search
See the whole picture and find the look with Circle to Search We’ve updated Circle to Search so you can now explore multiple items in a single image. - Inside Search
Google to change budget pacing for campaigns using ad scheduling Google’s new pacing update could increase monthly spend for ad-scheduled campaigns by pushing [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 24 2026

Google Tests Removing Dates From Articles In Discover Feed Google is testing removing the dates from the articles shown in the Google Discover feed. This is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Updates Shopping Ads Design Microsoft Advertising seems to be testing a new design for the Bing shopping ads carousel. The new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Tests Shopping Carousel With Multiple Images Toggle Microsoft Advertising is testing an update to the shopping ads carousel that can show multiple [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Thwarts AI Prompt Injection Attacks Aimed To Manipulate AI Engines Microsoft has implemented and continues to deploy mitigations against prompt injection attacks in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Support Form Requires You To Authorize Google To Make Changes Google reportedly updated its Google Ads support contact form to add a disclaimer and checkbox to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The perfect local business contact page built for Google and conversions Google crawls and parses your contact page. Structure it with the right signals and trust factors [...] - Search Engine Land
AAO: Why assistive agent optimization is the next evolution of SEO Incomplete terminology leads to incomplete strategy. Here’s a clearer framework for [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 24, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
How to keep your content fresh in the age of AI AI made publishing easier, but differentiation is harder. See how clarity, intent alignment, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Our February Demand Gen Drop has more ways to unlock high-performing Demand Gen campaigns. Learn more about our latest Demand Gen Drop and ways to maximize campaign performance in Demand Gen [...] - Inside Adwords
Shop visits now available in Google Ad grants Google Ad Grants accounts can now optimize for shop visits, allowing nonprofits to drive real-world [...] - Search Engine Land
GMC video assets section now showing populated content Google’s move to auto-populate video assets in GMC allows video to be a built-in, [...] - Search Engine Land
How to detect AI-written content & plagiarism accurately Learn how to detect AI-written content and plagiarism using tools, manual techniques, and best [...] - Search Engine Land
Site redesign checklist to preserve SEO & improve visibility Redesigning your site doesn’t have to destroy your rankings. Use this advanced SEO checklist [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 23 2026

The SEO’s guide to Google Search Console Dive into Google Search Console's features and reports, plus how to navigate the tool like a pro, [...] - Search Engine Land
8 tips for SEO newbies Early-career SEOs should prioritize business context, search intent, technical basics, and hands-on [...] - Search Engine Land
SEO Fundamental: Google Explains Why It May Not Use A Sitemap via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller points to site content as the reason for Search Console sitemap error messages - Search Engine Journal
Google Email: Fake Or Incentivised Reviews Found On Your Business Profile Google is now (past few weeks?) sending out emails when it detects fake or incentivised reviews on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Discover Update: Early Data Shows Fewer Domains In US via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Early third-party tracking data offers a first look at how Google's February Discover core update [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Business Knowledge Panels With AI Generated Services We've seen Google use AI for local panel descriptions, menus and more. But now Google is also [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: A Spike In Impressions Doesn't Cause Problems For Search Google's John Mueller said a spike/increase in impressions within Google Search Console does not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Tests New UI For AI Responses With New Links & References Microsoft is testing a new user interface for the Bing Copilot AI responses. The new interface [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Page Indexing Report Missing A Chunk Of Data The Google Search Console page indexing report seems to be missing a chunk of data. The missing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SerpApi moves to dismiss Google scraping lawsuit SerpApi says Google is stretching the DMCA to protect ad revenue, not copyrights — casting [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console page indexing report missing data prior to December 15 This seems to be impacting everyone - so it is likely a Google reporting bug. - Search Engine Land
Google Won't Use Sitemap Files If Its Not Convinced Of New/Important Content Google's John Mueller said that if Google is not convinced that there are new and important content [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Content scoring tools work, but only for the first gate in Google’s pipeline Google’s first-stage retrieval still runs on word matching, not AI magic. Here’s how to [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 23, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
What it takes to make demand gen work for B2B and ecommerce From scroll-stopping creative to smarter budgets, learn why search tactics fail and what actually [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads support now requires account change authorization Advertisers contacting Google Ads must now authorize support-led account changes — while [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 22 2026

Google Search Ranking Volatility Beginning To Cool? Some are wondering when the Google Search ranking volatility will begin to cool down a bit. While [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 20 2026

Google Discourages Force Indexing Pages To Search Google's John Mueller said that he discourages large sites from force indexing its pages to Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Updated The Business Profile Review Policies As I noted in my story yesterday about Google reviews dropping out, Google has updated the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Updates Budget Pacing For Ad Scheduling Google sent out an email to some Google Ads advertisers about changes coming to Google Ads budget [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
ChatGPT Ads From Expedia Spotted In The Wild As you know, OpenAI said they would release ads in ChatGPT and then about ten days ago, said the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Volatility Heated All Week, Google Reviews Vanishing, AI Overview & AI Mode Links Updated, Google Ads News and more For the original iTunes version, click here. This week... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads shows how landing page images power PMax ads Google Ads now gives advertisers clearer visibility into how Landing Page Images may be [...] - Search Engine Land
How to vibe-code an SEO tool without losing control of your LLM Vibe coding isn’t just prompting. Learn how to manage context windows, troubleshoot smarter, [...] - Search Engine Land
How to use GA4 and Looker Studio for smarter PPC reporting Unify GA4 and ad platform data into dashboards that pace spend, flag wasted budget, and reveal [...] - Search Engine Land
Google now attributes app conversions to the install date Google's app conversion attribution just shifted from ad click to install date — and it could [...] - Search Engine Land
AI agents in SEO: A practical workflow walkthrough A practical look at how AI agents like n8n automate SEO workflows, from scraping to structured [...] - Search Engine Land
This press release strategy actually earns media coverage Want to maximize the impact of your next press release? Use this framework to turn announcements [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 19 2026

Retire these 9 SEO metrics before they derail your 2026 strategy Organic traffic, average position, and DA won’t prove SEO ROI. Here’s what to retire [...] - Search Engine Land
Google launches no-code Scenario Planner built on Meridian MMM Google’s Scenario Planner gives you a no-code way to turn Marketing Mix Model insights into [...] - Search Engine Land
LLM consistency and recommendation share: The new SEO KPI Traditional SEO metrics miss recommendation-driven visibility. Learn how LCRS tracks brand presence [...] - Search Engine Land
Complaints Over Google Reviews Being Removed Again There has been an uptick in complaints from businesses around Google local reviews disappearing or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode Works In 53 New Languages Google has added 53 new languages to AI Mode, which means the AI Mode works in just under 100 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
ChatGPT ads collapse the wall between SEO and paid media ChatGPT ads signal a shift, forcing SEO and paid media to align around prompt intelligence, fanout [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 18 2026

44% of ChatGPT citations come from the first third of content: Study ChatGPT pulls most from early sections, favoring direct definitions, balanced tone, and dense [...] - Search Engine Land
How to apply ‘They Ask, You Answer’ to SEO and AI visibility AI rewards clarity over spin. Map real buyer questions on pricing, problems, and reviews to win [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console AI-Powered Configuration Goes Live Google has finally fully rolled out the Google Search Console AI-powered configuration tool. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads shows PMax placements in “Where ads showed” report Google Ads now shows where Performance Max campaigns run, giving advertisers clear insights to [...] - Search Engine Land
How to build AI confidence inside your SEO team From shared tool selection to celebrating wins, here are four practical ways to reduce fear and [...] - Search Engine Land
Hover Pop Up Links Official In Google AI Overviews & AI Mode Earlier this month, we covered Google testing what we called contextual overlay link cards in AI [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 18, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads adds Results tab to show impact of applied recommendations Google Ads now shows the real performance impact of applied recommendations in a new Results tab, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Tool Auto Enabling Paused Keywords? Google Ads may be automatically enabling paused keywords in your advertising accounts. I am [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Is Losing A Knowledge Graph Source - CIA World Factbook Google is losing one of its main sources of information for its Knowledge Graph, the CIA World [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Anchor & Vignette Ads Bug Won't Close Ads There is a bug impacting a number of Google AdSense publishers where the anchor and vignette ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 17 2026

Google Ads Recommendations Doc About The Results Tab There is a new Google Ads help document named About the Results tab in Google Ads Recommendations. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Jeff Dean: AI Search relies on classic ranking and retrieval Behind the AI interface, a staged system narrows tens of thousands of documents to a few, showing [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Allowing Opting Out Of AI Overviews Is A Huge Engineering Project A few weeks ago, we reported Google was exploring ways to allow sites to opt out of showing up in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why AI optimization is just long-tail SEO done right LLMs still rely on search, shifting SEO from head terms to the long tail. Here’s how to use [...] - Search Engine Land
How to create a persona GPT for SEO audience research Build persona-based GPTs to pressure-test your content, surface gaps, and align SEO with real [...] - Search Engine Land
Meta adds Manus AI tools into Ads Manager Meta is embedding Manus AI into Ads Manager, giving advertisers built-in AI tools to streamline [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console AI-powered configuration rolling out This is now live for all users, so check it out. - Search Engine Land
Google launches more visible links in AI Overviews and AI Mode These links appear as pop ups as you hover your mouse over them. - Search Engine Land
Google AI Mode Ask About Feature Now Triggers On Overlay Google AI Mode has this feature where you can ask about a specific product, it is called "Ask [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 17, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Overviews Have Blue Links Before Click & Gray After Click Did you know that the Google AI Overviews link citation paperclip icons are blue before you click [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Links In Recipe AI Overviews Google seems to be testing links in AI Overviews, that link to more AI Overview responses. These [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Rand Fishkin proved AI recommendations are inconsistent – here’s why and how to fix it AI outputs vary because confidence varies. Corroboration and entity optimization turn inconsistent [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 16 2026

Antitrust Filing Says Google Cannibalizes Publisher Traffic via @sejournal, @martinibuster Antitrust filing argues Google cannibalizes audience visits to sites it uses to power AI results. - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads tool is automatically re-enabling paused keywords Google Ads may be re-enabling paused keywords automatically, raising concerns about unexpected [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Warns Not To Serve "Not Available" With JavaScript Google's John Mueller warned one site owner not to load "not available" in the JavaScript [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to work with your SEO agency to drive better results, faster From kickoff to technical execution, learn how to remove bottlenecks, empower cross-functional [...] - Search Engine Land
Google & Bing: Markdown Files Messy & Causes More Crawl Load We covered the topic of markdown files before but now we have more commentary from official [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Ads Calculate Your Conversion Value For New Customers Google Ads has this new feature that lets advertisers calculate your conversion value for new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 15 2026

Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through The Weekend On February 10th, we reported the beginning of yet another unconfirmed Google Search ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 13 2026

Cloudflare’s New Markdown for AI Bots: What You Need To Know via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Cloudflare launched Markdown for Agents, converting HTML pages to markdown automatically when AI [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Product Eligibility View Across Campaigns Google Ads added to the Products section of your ads account the ability to see product eligibility [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents AI feature has SEOs on alert Cloudflare will auto-convert HTML to Markdown for AI crawlers, cutting tokens by 80% — but it [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Shows A Site Is Offline Due To JS Content Delivery via @sejournal, @martinibuster A site owner blamed Google AI Search for falsely reporting their site offline. The answer was a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Volatility, Bing AI Performance Reports, New AI Mode Retail Ads, UCP Checkout & ChatGPT Ads Go Live This week in search we have more ongoing Google search ranking volatility. Bing Webmaster Tools [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Search Relations Team Debates If You Still Need A Website via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Search Relations team discussed whether you still need a website in 2026, and outlined [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEO leaders: stop chasing rankings, start building visibility systems Learn how to build visibility gates, embed shared OKRs, and align product, PR, and content teams [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 13, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Why creative, not bidding, is limiting PPC performance Smart Bidding and Meta’s delivery systems have leveled the field. To scale PPC, fix creative [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Tests Underlining Name & Price In Shopping Ads Carousel Microsoft is testing underlining the product name and product price in the shopping ads carousel at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Recommended Experiments Google Ads now has a new recommended experiments box in the Experiments page. This should offer you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to optimize news content for today’s social-first Google SERP Google now blends social posts, short-form video, and AI into news results. Adapt your strategy for [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 12 2026

The real story behind the 53% drop in SaaS AI traffic AI traffic isn’t collapsing — it’s concentrating. Copilot surges in-workflow, 41% [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 12, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
OpenAI Wants Advertisers To Prompt To Create Ads & Skip Agencies Asad Awan, who is in charge of monetization at OpenAI was interviewed by his own company on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Local SEO sprints: A 90-day plan for service businesses in 2026 From GBP fundamentals to reviews and service pages, this framework helps you turn local visibility [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Releases Early Preview Of WebMCP The Google Chrome team announced its early preview of WebMCP, "a standard way for exposing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
If SEO is rocket science, AI SEO is astrophysics AI search runs on entity mass, not surface signals. See how citations and extractability shape AI [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AdSense Adds New Triggers For Vignette Ads Google AdSense has added additional triggers for vignette ads. There are now a total of six [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 11 2026

Generative Engine Optimization: The Patterns Behind AI Visibility Understand what GEO is, how it's revolutionizing digital marketing and key strategies to optimize [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Clarifies Google's Crawler File Size Limits Doc Again Earlier this month, we reported that Google updated two of its help documents around Google's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What to expect in digital advertising and commerce in 2026 Google VP Vidhya Srinivasan shares how Google is reimagining commercial experiences to be fluid, [...] - Inside Adwords
Hidden HTTP Page Can Cause Site Name Problems In Google via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller explains how a leftover HTTP homepage invisible to Chrome users can cause [...] - Search Engine Journal
How AI-driven shopping discovery changes product page optimization Product pages supply the data AI uses to recommend products. Learn which details matter most for AI [...] - Search Engine Land
Google releases preview of WebMCP – how AI agents interact with websites Is this the new technical SEO frontier? - Search Engine Land
Is your campaign structure holding you back in the era of AI? For years, the gold standard in Search ads was granularity. Advertisers built elaborate, [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Ads simplifies product campaign tracking Google Ads now shows per-product campaign eligibility, making gaps and overlaps easier to spot. - Search Engine Land
Google Business Short Names Being Removed From Business Profiles Google will stop showing the business short names on Google Business Profiles in Search and Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Webmaster Tools Rolls Out AI Performance Report (With New Design) A couple of weeks ago I reported Bing was beta testing a new AI performance report within Bing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why video is the canonical source of truth for AI and your brand’s best defense A five-minute video provides more data for an LLM than most blog posts. Here’s how to [...] - Search Engine Land
How to reduce low-quality leads from Performance Max campaigns Performance Max often optimizes for cheap conversions by default. Learn how guardrails and better [...] - Search Engine Land
Would You Give Google Your ID Numbers To Remove Results About You Google announced a number of updates to help people find and remove personal information and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

February, 10 2026

Introducing AI Performance in Bing Webmaster Tools Public Preview Now in public preview, AI Performance in Bing Webmaster Tools shows when your site is cited in [...] - Bing Webmaster
New Data Shows Googlebot’s 2 MB Crawl Limit Is Enough via @sejournal, @martinibuster New data shows that most web pages fall well below Googlebot's two-megabyte crawl limit. - Search Engine Journal
Stay in control of your personal information online Results about you tool now helps you find and request the removal of Search results containing your [...] - Inside Search
Bing Webmaster Tools officially adds AI Performance report New insights include total citations, average cited pages, grounding queries, page-level citation [...] - Search Engine Land
How SEO leaders can explain agentic AI to ecommerce executives Agentic AI is entering executive conversations. Here's how to explain what's changing, what isn't, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Ranking Volatility Gets Heated Again February 10th I am seeing some early signs of yet another unconfirmed Google Search ranking update with more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
OpenAI ChatGPT Ads Go Live With User Ad Controls OpenAI has officially launched ads in ChatGPT yesterday. The company announced, "Today, we're [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Tests Dynamic Results Count Under Search Box Microsoft Bing is testing a dynamically loading results count under the search box. So when you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Performance Max A/B Experiments In The Wild A month ago, we reported on a new help document on Google Ads for Performance Max optimization [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Grokipedia Seeing Decline In Google Search Visibility There are some reports coming out that Grokipedia, the AI-based Wikipedia, is now showing a decline [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Can Now Monitor Search For Your Government IDs via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Results about you tool now monitors Search results for government-issued IDs like [...] - Search Engine Journal
A simpler way to remove explicit images from Search There’s a new, simpler way for people to request the removal of non-consensual explicit [...] - Inside Search
Google pushes AI Max tool with in-app ads Google is now advertising its AI Max feature inside Google Ads campaign settings, promoting its own [...] - Search Engine Land
What repeated ChatGPT runs reveal about brand visibility Running the same 12 prompts 100 times shows how inconsistent ChatGPT brand recommendations are [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Mode Tests Citation Icons At Bottom Of Answers Google appears to be testing showing the citation favicon site icons at the bottom of the answer in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 10, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Introducing AI Performance in Bing Webmaster Tools Public Preview AI - Bing Webmaster

February, 9 2026

Google AI Overviews Tests Contextual Overlay Link Cards Over the past week or so, Google has been testing a new format for link cards in the AI Overviews [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google On If A Younger Web Site Can Beat An Older Website In Search A thread at Reddit asked if a one-year-old website can beat a four-year-old website in SEO and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What Google and Microsoft patents teach us about GEO Search patents reveal how AI search systems interpret intent, evaluate content passages, and build [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Preferred Sources Deeplink Button Is Broken The Google preferred sources deeplink button feature is broken and has been since at least last [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads API Developer Token Access Applications Delayed Google announced on Friday that there is a delay with the Google Ads team reviewing and thus [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Reddit On Google & ChatGPT AI Responses Citations & Lack Of Links On the Reddit Q4 2025 Earnings Call (see transcript here), Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Reddit says 80 million people now use its search weekly Reddit is unifying search with its AI Q&A. It's goal: to become an end-to-end discovery engine [...] - Search Engine Land
7 Insights From Washington Post’s Strategy To Win Back Traffic via @sejournal, @martinibuster The Washington Post's controversial strategy begins with a foundation, then adjusts based on what [...] - Search Engine Journal

February, 7 2026

Amanda Farley talks broken pixels and calm leadership Amanda Farley shares lessons on overcoming setbacks and balancing AI with human insight in modern [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 6 2026

Google Revises Discover Guidelines Alongside Core Update via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google updated its "Get on Discover" docs, adding page experience guidance and naming [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 6, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads adds a diagnostics hub for data connections Google Ads’ new diagnostics tool helps advertisers catch data connection issues early, [...] - Search Engine Land
Report: ChatGPT & Perplexity Treat Structured Data As Text On A Page To fuel the debate in the SEO world of the topic of structured data and LLMs and AI engines, we are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How PR teams can measure real impact with SEO, PPC, and GEO A practical approach for tying earned media to search behavior, downstream conversions, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Mixed Campaign Type Experiments Live For Some The Google Ads mixed campaign type experiment beta, which we covered the help document last month, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google & Bing don’t recommend seperate markdown pages for LLMs This is a heated debate now, but it seems that the major search engines are not recommending this [...] - Search Engine Land
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Discover Core Update, Listicles Hit, Google Ads, ChatGPT Ads Ready & Microsoft Publisher Content Marketplace This week, we covered the first core update of 2026, the February 2026 Discover core update. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode Follow Up Search Suggestions We saw Google test follow up questions below the AI Mode responses back in July. Now Google is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Unshipping Frankenstein Recipes In Search We covered how horrific the AI-based Frankenstein recipes can be in Google Search, where it mashes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why most B2B buying decisions happen on Day 1 – and what video has to do with it 86% of buyers pre-select vendors on Day 1. Learn how a three-play video strategy reaches buying [...] - Search Engine Land
Why content that ranks can still fail AI retrieval AI systems don’t evaluate pages the way search engines do. Learn how extraction, embeddings, [...] - Search Engine Land
Performance Max built-in A/B testing for creative assets spotted Performance Max now supports built-in A/B testing for creative assets, giving advertisers a clearer [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 5 2026

Google's February 2026 Discover Core Update Today we've released the February 2026 Discover core update. This is a broad update to our [...] - Google Webmaster Central
February 2026 Google Discover Core Update Rolling Out - Local Impact Google has released its first core update of 2026, which is focused on just Google Discover. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Your local rankings look fine. So why are calls disappearing? AI local packs and ads are shrinking organic space. New data shows why calls drop even when 3-pack [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads no longer runs on keywords. It runs on intent. If you’re still building Google Ads around keywords, you’re behind. Here's what that [...] - Search Engine Land
Google releases Discover core update – February 2026 This Discover update will show more locally relevant content based on the users country. - Search Engine Land
Google Shows How To Check Passage Indexing via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller offered a simple solution to the question of whether a passage is indexed and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Hits $63B, Details AI Mode Ad Tests via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is testing ads in AI Mode as Search revenue grew 17% to $63 billion. AI Mode queries run 3x [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 5, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Why SEO teams need to ask ‘should we use AI?’ not just ‘can we?’ Automation can save SEO teams time—but at what cost? Explore where AI boosts speed, where it [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Releases Core Update Targeting Discover Feed via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google has started a Discover core update. The rollout may take up to two weeks, with expansion to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Microsoft Advertising Tests Magazine Answer Card Ad Format Microsoft Advertising is testing a new ad format within its newish Answer Card format called a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How AI is reshaping local search and what enterprises must do now AI now mediates how customers discover and choose local services. Learn how AI systems evaluate [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 4 2026

Why Google’s Performance Max advice often fails new advertisers Early Performance Max adoption often reduces insight and control. Shopping campaigns provide [...] - Search Engine Land
Google's First 2026 Winter Olympics Doodle: Curling Google posted its first Winter Olympics Doodle, special logo, for the 2026 Winter Olympics. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The latest AI news we announced in January Google AI announcements from January - Inside Search
Google Ads adds a second set of eyes for high-risk account changes Google Ads’ new multi-party approval feature adds an extra safeguard against unauthorized or [...] - Search Engine Land
Google On Serving Markdown Pages To LLM Crawlers Google's John Mueller responded to a question on the pros and cons of serving raw markdown pages to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Publisher Content Marketplace - Pay For AI To License Content Microsoft announced the expansion of the Microsoft Publisher Content Marketplace. This marketplace [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Googlebot File Limit Is 15MB But 64MB For PDF & 2MB For Other File Types We have known for a long time that Google can crawl web pages up to the first 15MB but now Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up Big Time Starting On February 2nd I was hoping, well, not really, that Google would calm down a bit since we had such a volatile [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What higher ed data shows about SEO visibility and AI search Search behavior has evolved, but many SEO strategies have not. New research reveals what’s [...] - Search Engine Land
Anthropic says Claude will remain ad-free as ChatGPT tests ads Anthropic argues ads inside AI chats would erode trust, warp incentives, and clash with how people [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 3 2026

Here’s how to tune into the Winter Olympics with Google Learn more about using Google tools to stay in the know on the 2026 Winter Olympics. - Inside Search
Google: Search Algorithms, Spam Detections & Policies Don't Fundamentally Change With AI Search Google's John Mueller said that when it comes to AI Search and the changes that come with that, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s biggest crawling challenges are faceted navigation, action parameters and more Crawlers can cause your site to load slowly if you do not manage the URLs on your website properly. - Search Engine Land
Google Updates Googlebot File Size Limit Docs via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google updated its Googlebot documentation to clarify file size limits, separating default limits [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Don't Spend Too Much Time On Redirects Analysis For SEO Google's John Mueller said he would "caution against assuming that you need to do this level [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why most SEO failures are organizational, not technical SEO performance often degrades months before traffic drops. The cause is usually hidden in decision [...] - Search Engine Land
Are we ready for the agentic web? The agentic web is emerging fast. Definitions, practical applications, and pros and cons help [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Multi-Turn Search Rolls Out Worldwide Bing Search has rolled out what it calls multi-turn search in Bing globally. This is something we [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Crawl Team Filed Bugs Against WordPress Plugins via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's crawl team filed a bug against WooCommerce for add-to-cart parameters wasting crawl [...] - Search Engine Journal
Inspiring examples of responsible and realistic vibe coding for SEO Learn vibe coding: Use AI tools to build apps without coding. This guide covers setup, limits, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google's Top Crawling Challenges In 2025 Gary Illyes, along with Martin Splitt, of Google posted a podcast explaining the top crawling [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
7 digital PR secrets behind strong SEO performance As informational search declines, digital PR is driving authority, relevance, and high-intent [...] - Search Engine Land
LinkedIn: AI-powered search cut traffic by up to 60% LinkedIn says Google’s AI Overviews cut non-brand B2B awareness traffic, forcing a rethink of [...] - Search Engine Land

February, 2 2026

Advanced ways to use competitive research in SEO and AEO Learn how to combine SEO and AEO competitive research to uncover demand, shape positioning, and [...] - Search Engine Land
OpenAI Prepares ChatGPT Code To Allow Ads? If you look at the source code in some of the responses OpenAI's ChatGPT gives you, you may now see [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shows How To Get More Traffic From Top Stories Feature via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's new documentation shows how to get traffic from their Top Stories search feature. - Search Engine Journal
Google On Recent Google Search Ranking Volatility - No Insights To Share As you know, January was an incredibly intense month of Google Search ranking volatility. It [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 2, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Controversial Proposal To Label Sections Of AI Generated Content via @sejournal, @martinibuster A new proposal suggests using semantic HTML to label sections of a page that are AI generated to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Human experience optimization: Why experience now shapes search visibility Search performance is shaped by engagement, trust, and post-click behavior. HXO connects SEO with [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Replacing Support Form With AI Agent Google seems to be replacing its Google Ads support form with an AI agent, maybe from its Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Adding AI Visibility Reporting? John Mueller from Google dropped a very John-like hint that maybe, just maybe, Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to build a modern Google Ads targeting strategy like a pro Learn a practical PPC framework that predicts intent, reaches beyond search, and connects the right [...] - Search Engine Land