Archive of March, 2026

March, 9 2026

Google: You Can Disavow Entire TLDs Like .XYZ With Domain Directive via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller shared the Disavow File Domain Directive which disavows entire Top Level [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s undocumented method to disavow a whole TLD Google does not document it because it is not something the company recommends. - Search Engine Land
Organic search is fundamentally disrupted. Here’s what to do about it. by Brightspot With Google referrals down and LLM use rising, discoverability now depends on metrics, structure [...] - Search Engine Land
The Digital Markets Act promised fairer search. It’s failing. Two years after the DMA took effect, user experience is worse, business metrics are down, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google's Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search Alex Heath and Ellis Hamburger interviewed Google's head of Search, Liz Reid, on Google's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Discover Follow Widget Home Card Google is testing a new widget for the Google Discover feed where you can follow news publishers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Trending Posts & Discussions Added To What People Are Saying Google added "Trending posts & discussions" title under What People Are Saying [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console BigQuery Exports Not Working? There are a number of complaints that the Google Search Console bulk data export to BigQuery is not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Sends Notices For European Union Political Ads Google has sent notices to some advertisers asking them to confirm whether their campaigns contain [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 9, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
AI assistants now equal 56% of global search engine volume: Study Mobile apps drive most activity as ChatGPT, Gemini and others push AI discovery to 45B monthly [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Marketing Live 2026 set for May 20 An email from the Accelerate with Google program inviting entries to the Google Ads Impact Awards [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads adds AI voice-over to Performance Max video ads Google is enrolling advertisers in an AI voice-over program that will automatically narrate their [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 8 2026

10 Reddit comment frameworks that drive engagement without sounding like ads Learn practical comment structures that help brands add value in Reddit threads and attract [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 6 2026

The latest jobs in search marketing Land your next job in SEO or PPC. These brands and agencies are hiring to fill open search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Says Disavow Links If You’re Conflicted And Need To Be Sure via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller confirmed that most sites don't need to use a disavow file but if you need to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Local Service Ads Won't Credit Calls For Existing Clients (Not Lead) Google Local Service Ads can be super expensive; each call or click can cost hundreds of dollars. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Customer Match Data Uploads Changes Coming April 1 Google sent out emails to some advertisers about changes coming to the Customer Match uploads in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing With Asian Owned Labels On Microsoft Ads A few years ago, Microsoft Advertising the support of Asian owned labels and attributes on its [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Heat Continues, AI Mode Recipe Link Cards, ChatGPT Web Search With Fewer Links & AI-Generated Search Landing Pages This week... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Most Sites Don't Need To Disavow Links But That's Not All Sites Google's John Mueller again spoke about the disavow link file. This time he said that while [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Search Tests Go To Shopping Button Microsoft is testing a "Go to Shopping" button within the Bing Search results. This is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Break down data silos: How integrated analytics reveals marketing impact Channel dashboards don’t tell the whole story. Connecting paid media, analytics, and CRM data [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 6, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
How structured data supports local visibility across Google and AI Schema helps Google and AI systems verify business information and reduce conflicts across local [...] - Search Engine Land
Google contacts advertisers with a mandatory EU political ads deadline Advertisers have until March 31 to complete a mandatory EU political ads declaration — or [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Liz Reid: Search and Gemini may converge, or diverge further Google’s search chief says the line between web discovery and AI assistants is still [...] - Search Engine Land
OpenAI’s big ChatGPT Instant Checkout plan just changed Shoppers browse in ChatGPT but finish orders elsewhere, pushing OpenAI to rethink how AI drives [...] - Search Engine Land
10 advanced ecommerce SEO tips that boost rankings and revenue Go beyond basic SEO efforts with these small-but-mighty ecommerce plays. Learn how to use filters, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s AI Mode is citing Google more than any other site: Study Nearly one in five sources in Google’s AI answers now comes from Google itself, with many [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 5 2026

Google Removes JavaScript SEO Warning, Says It’s Outdated via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google removed its JavaScript accessibility guidance from help documents, saying the advice is [...] - Search Engine Journal
Accessibility Can’t Stop at the Shelf: An $18 Trillion Lesson for Marketers by AudioEye Why accessibility is emerging as a brand differentiator and a measurable growth driver for modern [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Overviews Expandable Drop Downs Google seems to be rolling out a new format for some of the AI Overviews it shows within search. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode Adds More Links To Recipe Sites Google announced it updated AI Mode to link to more recipe sites and bloggers. "Starting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds Build to Order Attribute For Vehicle Listings Google has added a new attribute to the Google Merchant Center availability options within vehicle [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to use AI for SEO without losing your brand voice AI excels at scale and data-heavy SEO tasks. But without clear brand voice, automation can make [...] - Search Engine Land
Loading Content With JavaScript Does Not Make It Harder For Google Search Google has removed a whole section from its JavaScript SEO documentation because it was outdated [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode Recipe Widget Sucks Searchers Into AI Frankenstein Recipes Google is testing a new AI Mode widget within the main search results that drives searchers away [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How the DOM affects crawling, rendering, and indexing Learn how the DOM structures your page, how JavaScript can change it during rendering, and how to [...] - Search Engine Land
How to chunk content and when it’s worth it Clear structure helps readers scan content and AI systems identify answers. Here’s how to [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 5, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
200+ AI audits reveal why some industries struggle in AI search Audit data across 10 industries shows access failures, weak evidence, and low utility make some [...] - Search Engine Land
New finding: ChatGPT sources 83% of its carousel products from Google Shopping via shopping query fan-outs A new study reveals what data sources ChatGPTs product carousels prefer to use. Here’s how we [...] - Search Engine Land
Ask a Techspert: How does AI understand my visual searches? Learn more about AI Mode in Search’s query fan-out method for visual search. - Inside Search
AI Max increases revenue 13% but drives higher CPA: Study Independent research and an exclusive with Google's Ads Liaison confirm AI Max's real-world [...] - Search Engine Land
NanoClaw Creator Loses SEO Battle To Impostor Website via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern NanoClaw's creator says Google ranks a fake website above his project's real site despite 18K [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 4 2026

Yoast SEO’s New Schema Aggregator Improves Entity Disambiguation via @sejournal, @martinibuster Yoast SEO introduces a feature that consolidates site schema and disambiguates entities like [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Google Help Doc About Google's Web Crawling Google has posted a new help document named Things to know about Google's web crawling. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Wider Images For Some Travel Queries Google Search may have rolled out an update for the images it shows in the search results All tab. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Confirms Discover Feed Shows More Social Posts Google has reportedly confirmed that the Google Discover feed has recently increased how often it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
WebMCP explained: Inside Chrome 146’s agent-ready web preview WebMCP exposes structured website actions for AI agents. See how it works, why it matters, and how [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google help document says frequent crawling is a good sign Google has a new help document on how Google's crawlers work. - Search Engine Land
ChatGPT's GPT-5.3 Instant May Show Fewer Links In Web Search Results OpenAI announced GPT-5.3 Instant and said it "delivers more accurate answers, richer and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Bold Site Names In Search Results Google is testing bolding the site names in the search results. We've seen Google bold many other [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to turn Claude Code into your SEO command center Most SEO work means tab-switching between GSC, GA4, Ads, and AI tools. What if one setup could [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 4, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Click fraud in Google Ads: Where exposure rises and how to reduce it From Video Partners to Search, fraud exposure isn’t equal. Learn where invalid clicks spike [...] - Search Engine Land
Google removes accessibility section from JavaScript SEO section This change was made because the advice was "out of date" and Google handles JavaScript [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to disable Customer Match uploads in Ads API From April 1, 2026, Google will block inactive developer tokens from uploading Customer Match data [...] - Search Engine Land
Are your PPC ads still authentic in the age of AI creative? AI can generate endless ad variations, but not every edit is ethical or policy-safe. Here’s a [...] - Search Engine Land
Use Canvas in AI Mode to get things done and bring your ideas to life, right in Search. Canvas in AI Mode is now available for everyone in the U.S. Plus, it can now help you draft [...] - Inside Search
Google Ads status dashboard flags Ad Manager reporting issue Advertisers may see reporting discrepancies in Google Ad Manager, affecting how they track [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Merchant Center adds “build to order” for vehicle listings Google has added a “build to order” availability option in GMC giving vehicle sellers a [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Mode updates recipe results to better connect people with recipe creators These changes are based on feedback from recipe bloggers - but will it be enough? - Search Engine Land
How to QA AI-generated content: A complete workflow Learn how to review and QA AI-generated content with a step-by-step QA workflow: Check for [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Updates AI Mode Recipe Sites Results In Response To Backlash via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google updated AI Mode to change how it displays recipes and links to the creators - Search Engine Journal

March, 3 2026

Google AI Generated Landing Page Patent Is Limited To Shopping & Ads via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's landing page generator patent is limited to low conversion shopping pages, product feeds [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Titans And MIRAS: Significant Advancement In Long-Context AI via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Titans architecture and MIRAS framework enable AI to handle massive amounts of data and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google launches VRC non-skip ads globally VRC Non-Skip ads are now globally available in Google Ads, giving advertisers AI-optimized, [...] - Search Engine Land
How Google Search & Google Discover Picks Image Thumbnails Google updated its image SEO best practices and Google Discover documentation to clarify how Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Updates Alcohol, Prescription Drugs, Gambling & Government Policies Google has updated or is updating a number of Google Ads and Google Merchant Center policies. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Help Document On Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) Checkout Google has published a new help document titled About the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
4 CRO strategies that work for humans and AI Before overhauling your CRO for AI, focus on fundamentals. Clear messaging, strong UX, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Mode Sidebar Links Don't Pass Referrers - Google To Fix Google AI Mode doesn't always pass referrer data from the links on the sidebar. This is supposedly [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Knowledge Panels With Colored Table Elements Sections Rolling Out Google seems to be rolling out colorful sections in the knowledge panels. Sometimes you will see [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Content marketing in an AI era: From SEO volume to brand fame AI is collapsing informational SEO. Learn why discoverability is now an economic problem — [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads’ three-strikes system: Managing warnings, strikes, and suspension Google can suspend your account after three policy strikes in 90 days. Here’s how the warning [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 3, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
The AI engine pipeline: 10 gates that decide whether you win the recommendation AI recommendations are decided upstream. Understand the 10-gate pipeline, where brands fail, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads API enforces daily minimum budget for Demand Gen campaigns Starting April 1, Google will require a $5 daily minimum budget for Demand Gen campaigns in the [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 2 2026

New “Voiceprint” Claude Plugin Clones Your Writing Style via @sejournal, @martinibuster Voiceprint Claude plugin clones your writing style based on five writing samples. Works with any [...] - Search Engine Journal
Will Google To Allow Publishers To Claim Google Discover Profiles Google might be allowing publishers to claim their profiles and publications on Google Discover. I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
March 2026 Google Webmaster Report Are you ready for the monthly Google Webmaster report... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Label: Sponsored Options In The Area Google Ads has often used dynamic labels for some of the ad groupings. I mean, we've seen tons of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to increase Google Discover traffic with technical fixes Discover traffic is shifting toward social posts and AI summaries. Learn which publisher, image, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Patent: Sending Searchers To AI-Generated Pages Over Your Site There is a Google patent named AI-generated content page tailored to a specific user. It describes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Into March Google Search rankings remain heated into March - I mean, I can post about this every day but now I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol changes ecommerce SEO Product feeds, structured data, and Merchant Center now determine visibility in Google’s AI [...] - Search Engine Land
How to revise your old content for AI search optimization AI rewards clear answers and structured, retrievable content. Learn how to reformat, prioritize, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google publishes Universal Commerce Protocol help page Google released new guidance explaining how its Universal Commerce Protocol powers AI-driven [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 2, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google uses both schema.org markup and og:image meta tag for thumbnails in Google Search and Discover Google clarified this within its Google image best practices and Google Discover documentation. - Search Engine Land
Google Clarifies How It Picks Thumbnails For Search, Discover via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google updated its Image SEO and Discover documentation to explain how schema markup and the [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google expands recurring billing policy Certified online pharmacies can now offer prescription drug subscriptions and bundled services [...] - Search Engine Land
Googlebot: What it is, how it works & how to optimize Learn how Googlebot crawls, renders, and indexes your site. See every crawler type, how crawl [...] - Search Engine Land
VRC Non-Skip ads are now generally available, allowing brands to reach TV audiences with Google AI. VRC Non-Skip ads are now generally available globally in Google Ads and Display & Video 360. - Inside Adwords

March, 1 2026

Google AI Overviews Surges Across 9 Industries via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google AI Overviews shows fast growth across nine industries, now triggering AI Search in nearly [...] - Search Engine Journal