Archive of July, 2026

July, 15 2026

Google’s Mueller On First Link Priority & Link Obfuscation via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern John Mueller responded to a plan to hide homepage links from Google in hopes only one internal [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: Significant Differences With A/B Tests Can Show In Search Results Google's John Mueller noted that if your A/B tests are "significantly different" from one [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Bans Prediction Markets Product Ads Michigan & New York; Expands Shopping Ads & Free Listings Google announced it is no longer allowing the advertisement of prediction markets contracts and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Your next customer may discover your brand on TikTok before Google The first decision is often emotional. Google increasingly becomes the place to validate it. Here's [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Image Search Home Page Goes From Simple Search Box To Gallery Google Image Search turned 25 years old and to celebrate, Google revamped the Google Image Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
AI Image Generation Now Within Google AI Overviews Google AI Overviews can now generate AI images based on your questions, directly in the AI Overview [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
ChatGPT Ads Get Location & Audience Exclusion Controls OpenAI added more features to ChatGPT Ads Manager, the ability to exclude your ads from showing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Confirms Testing Hide Sponsored Products In Shopping Results Google has confirmed that it is testing the hide and show sponsored results within the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Says No SEO Penalty For Year-Long A/B Tests? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Mueller says long A/B tests won't result in SEO demotions, contradicting official guidance [...] - Search Engine Journal
Why the SEO vs. PPC debate is finally over AI shifted buying decisions beyond the click, making SEO and PPC complementary parts of the same [...] - Search Engine Land
Why CPC inflation starts before the auction Rising CPCs start before the auction. Learn how brand, reach, and post-click experience shape paid [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 15, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google is AI Mode’s No. 2 most-cited domain: Report Google-owned business and product cards are taking a bigger role in AI Mode, especially for local [...] - Search Engine Land
Where AI agents get stuck on your site AI agents retrieve most B2B website content, but pricing often sends them to third-party sources. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google tests Performance Max network controls with new Partners (Alpha) setting Google is testing new PMax controls that let advertisers control ads showing on Search Partners and [...] - Search Engine Land
EU expected to rule Google favored its own services in search Required search changes could affect how comparison sites, travel platforms and shopping services [...] - Search Engine Land

July, 14 2026

OpenAI Crawlers Can Update Its User Agent String OpenAI made a number of clarification changes to its crawler help documentation to say that version [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Merchant Center AI Performance Insights For AI Mode & AI Overviews Google Merchant Center is rolling out a beta AI Performance report that shares how well your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
ChatGPT Ads Manager Gains Attributed Sales Value & Sales ROAS & Products OpenAI has added new metrics to the ChatGPT Ads manager advertiser control center. The new metrics [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Fixes Google-InspectionTool User Agent String In Help Doc Google has updated its Google crawlers help documentation to fix a typo under the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How AI search gives old negative content new life AI-generated answers can turn outdated articles into influential citations. Learn how to reduce [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Expands Alcohol, Gambling & Games Policy Google Ads has posted that it has (1) expanded its alcohol policy to expand the approved geographic [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Asks For Justification When Requesting Removal Of Access Google Ads is now asking you to note a justification for when you request the removal of access for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Hidden gem publishers outperform major media on audience affinity: Study Media lists still prioritize traffic and domain authority, even as AI visibility depends on [...] - Search Engine Land
Why standard SEO advice fails for travel websites Feed management, entity optimization, and modular content matter more than traditional ranking [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 14, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Visual semantics: The missing piece of topical authority Patents, research, and case studies suggest Google looks beyond text. Learn how page design [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Overviews now lets you create image Google uses the latest Nano Banana model to create images directly in Google Search's AI Overviews. - Search Engine Land
Google Image Search drops clean search box and adds gallery of images Google Image Search has turned 25 years old and is now making its biggest change to its home page [...] - Search Engine Land
Celebrating 25 years of visual search innovation Google Images is turning 25. Here’s a look back at some major milestones — and new ways [...] - Inside Search

July, 13 2026

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 [...] - 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 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 [...] - 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 [...] - 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 [...] - 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" [...] - 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 [...] - 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 [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Ranking Volatility Around 7-Eleven We may have had another unconfirmed Google Search ranking update around July 11th, which I will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
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 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
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 [...] - Search Engine Land
Optimize your reach and frequency across campaigns with video campaign groups. Coordinate reach and frequency across campaigns while still maintaining individual campaign [...] - Inside Adwords
SMX Now: Build better site architecture for SEO, AI, and users Learn a proven five-phase framework for clearer navigation, stronger taxonomy, and content AI can [...] - Search Engine Land
How to justify GEO investment without perfect attribution You don’t need perfect attribution to prove GEO’s value. Track the metrics that connect [...] - Search Engine Land

July, 10 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
Link building for legitimacy: Building brand credibility in a competitive search environment by Resolve Don’t get distracted by flashy metrics like search volume. Instead, focus on the metrics that [...] - Search Engine Land
Hack: Google AI Performance Reports For Platform Properties There is this hack (or trick) to force Google Search Console to show you the generative AI [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Canonicalization Issues May Take Up To Two Weeks To Resolve Google has updated the Fix canonicalization issues help documentation to add a new section to the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
ChatGPT Ads New Overview Tab, Expands To Japan & South Korea OpenAI has been busy adding and expanding its ad platform, ChatGPT Ads. OpenAI sent out an email [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Gemini Intelligence signals a new era for search and commerce Google's latest AI announcement signals a future where agents use websites on behalf of people. [...] - Search Engine Land
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Breaks Usage Records, Social & Video Platforms Show In Search Console & More Google Ads, ChatGPT Ads & More This week in search, we covered how Google's Nick Fox announced Google Search broke all usage [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Now Show AI Creation/Edited Labels Google Ads will now show if an ad was credited with AI or edited with AI across Search, YouTube and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Automatically Assigns Product Categories With Evolving Taxonomy Google Ads updated its About product category insights help document to say that it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google clarifies canonicalization fixes can take up to two weeks to resolve Google made updates to some of its canonicalization documentation to clarify timing and more [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol: The SEO implications AI can discover, compare, and buy products on users' behalf. Learn how to prepare your product [...] - Search Engine Land
OpenAI sets Aug. 9 end date for ChatGPT Atlas Atlas will retire less than a year after launch as OpenAI shifts AI browsing and task automation [...] - Search Engine Land
Why frontloading your ad spend usually backfires Launching with a bigger budget doesn't guarantee faster growth. Here's how to build momentum [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 10, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
How to win SEO budget conversations with your CFO Your CFO doesn't care about rankings or traffic. Frame SEO around business risk, CAC, and pipeline [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Business Profiles Showing Empty Review Dashboards via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Some Google Business Profile dashboards show “no reviews yet” even though public review [...] - 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 [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 9 2026

Google Says Search Hit All-Time Usage High During World Cup via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Nick Fox said Search saw its highest usage on record during Argentina's comeback win over [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s New Merchant Listing Structured Data Improves SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's new Category and Sale Duration structured data properties give merchants a way to rank [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Generative AI Controls Rolling Out Beyond UK Sites Google seems to be rolling out the new Generative AI controls in Google Search Console to sites [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Tests Favicons In Sponsored Results Sitelinks Google is testing placing favicons in the sitelinks portion of the sponsored results from Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Travel Search Campaigns Expands For Things To Do & Events Beta Google announced it has expanded Search campaigns for Travel to an open beta for the Things to Do [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Stop saying ‘best practice’ and start bringing proof SEO stops sounding like black magic when you can point to the exact Google doc that backs it up. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google drops Next from Merchant Center Next Google Merchant Center Next is now know as just Google Merchant Center. - Search Engine Land
Google Merchant Center Next Is Now Just Google Merchant Center Google has removed "Next" from Google Merchant Center Next and it is now to be known as [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Formats That Don't Allow Alcohol Ads Google Ads updated its alcohol policy to provide more examples of ad formats that don't allow [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
7 ways AI can turn Google Search Console data into action Find hidden patterns, classify search intent, spot trends, and prioritize SEO opportunities without [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 9, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Winning the AI decision layer: From AI discovery to agentic commerce AI engines now decide which brands to recommend, trust, and transact with. Learn the six steps to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google expands AI ad disclosures across Search, YouTube, Discover Google will show whether ad creative was created or edited with AI. The AI-made ad disclosures are [...] - Search Engine Land
Expanding AI transparency in ads We're introducing new AI transparency features to help people understand the ads they see and give [...] - Inside Adwords
Ask YouTube AI search experience expands to U.S. desktop users Signed-in U.S. viewers can now ask natural-language questions and get AI responses with videos, [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google Reviews Bug: You Have No Reviews Yet A new day and a new Google Business Profiles review bug. It seems a ton of business owners are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 8 2026

Want to present at SMX Next? Now’s the time to submit a pitch! If you’re on top of the latest techniques and what’s to come in SEO, PPC, and AI [...] - Search Engine Land
The future of performance marketing isn’t more vendors. It’s making your stack work harder. by Rokt mParticle As performance pressures mount, the future of marketing success lies in transforming your data [...] - Search Engine Land
An Easy Digital PR Strategy For AI SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster Marketing a brand online for AI Search can be easier than you think. Here's a strategy to get you [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads New AI Max FAQs Google has posted some new frequently asked questions to the Google Ads AI Max help document. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Product Results Contact Store For Price Label Google Search normally shows product listings with pricing on them, but sometimes it can show [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profiles Appeals Adds Evidence Uploads In Workflow Google has updated its Google Business Profile appeal process and flow to allow businesses to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to build an AI-powered content gap analysis workflow See how to combine Semrush, Google Search Console, Google Analytics, and Claude to prioritize the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Tests google.com/goto Tracking URLs In Search Results For the past week or so, I have heard a few folks notice that Google is appending tracking URLs to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Conversions Last Event Ping Timestamp Google added a useful detail to the active conversions screen, to show you when was the last time [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to make your SEO strategy more commercially aware Prioritize SEO using the metrics that matter most to the business, including revenue, [...] - Search Engine Land
5 questions to ask AI vendors before buying a tool Separate genuine solutions from AI hype by evaluating business value, data policies, customer [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 8, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why most original data never gets cited Primary research is rare, but it earns 3.3x more AI citations per page. Learn why benchmark studies [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Broke All Usage Records With Highest Usage Yesterday Nick Fox, Senior Vice President of Knowledge & Information at Google, said Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
ChatGPT citations change when hidden search pipelines switch Two analyses found ChatGPT’s hidden search systems can change its sources, making citation [...] - Search Engine Land
AI Search Is Exposing SEO’s Risk Of Losing GEO Outcomes via @sejournal, @martinibuster Search marketer Tom Critchlow says AI Search is exposing the question of whether SEO still owns GEO [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 7 2026

Google On Using Markdown For AI SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller responds to the trend of creating a set of markdown pages to mirror HTML [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Tests Visit Site Button On Google Ads Sponsored Results Google is testing a large "Visit site" button on the sponsored results, the Google Ads, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Expert Personalized Advice Google AdSense may have added a new setting that lets you specify if you want Google AdSense [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
ChatGPT Ads Gain New Audiences Targeting OpenAI is rolling out Audiences as a targeting option within ChatGPT Ads. I don't see a help [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Building a brand worth finding: Signals that fuel discovery AI search favors brands with strong reputations, consistent messaging, and trusted third-party [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Adds Product Category & Sale Duration To Merchant Listing Doc Google has added to its Merchant listing structured data documentation help page that it now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Newish Apply Theme To Asset Group Google Ads has a newish option when you create an asset group named "Apply theme to asset [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console gains reporting on social and video platforms There is a new way to verify and filter your performance reports, insights reports and achievements [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Now Shows You Instagram, TikTok, X & YouTube Content Search Performance Google Search Console can now show how your social and video content perform within Google Search. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Used or cited: The two ways brands appear in AI search Learn how AI engines use and cite brand information, how to measure both, and why traditional SEO [...] - Search Engine Land
Google merchant listings support sale duration and product category These changes aim to align more with the Google Merchant Center feed and capabilities. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 7, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Hydration and SEO: How it works and why it matters From server-rendered HTML to interactive pages, understand where hydration fits and when it can [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Business Profile Playbooks: What does Google recommend? All of Google's Business Profile best practices in one place, with what's unique to restaurants, [...] - Search Engine Land

July, 6 2026

Google Answers Question About LLMs-Author.txt For SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller responded to an SEO using LLMs-Author.txt to separate themself from others [...] - Search Engine Journal
Further Exploration Found In The Wild Within Google AI Overviews Back in early May, Google announced five new ways to explore the web with generative AI in Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google & YouTube Shopify App Sync May Cause Mess After August 18th Those of you who use the Google and YouTube Shopify app to sync your products automatically from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Tests Product Detail Overlay With Retailer Pricing, Price Insights & More Microsoft Bing is testing product detail screens, overlays, when you click on a product listing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why Meta AI could become search’s sleeping giant Meta AI is bringing AI-powered search to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Learn why its [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Cloudflare Content Signals Robots.txt Directive Has No Effects John Mueller from Google said that the new Content Signals robots.txt directive invented by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
ChatGPT Ads Can Generate Ads For You OpenAI's ad platform, ChatGPT Ads, is now using AI (I guess) to generate ads for you. The ad [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Engine Land welcomes Traffic Think Tank to its community portfolio Traffic Think Tank will continue operating as a private Slack community while expanding member [...] - Search Engine Land
How to measure prompt-level visibility in AI search You can't measure every AI recommendation, but you can build a reliable picture of your brand's [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 6, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
6 SEO priorities to rethink for AI search AI search is changing which SEO efforts have the biggest impact. Learn the three priorities to [...] - Search Engine Land
ChatGPT commands 92% of AI referral traffic. Here’s what 6.77 million sessions reveal. AI referrals are surging, volatile, and shaped by internal search, landing page fit, and [...] - Search Engine Land

July, 5 2026

Safari’s New MCP Server Enables AI Debugging For SEO And CWV via @sejournal, @martinibuster Apple's WebKit announced a new MCP server for Safari that enables AI-based website debugging for [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 3 2026

Google Tests New Local Places Layout Design Google is testing updating the design for the local pack and places listings within Google Search. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Fourth Of July 2026 Doodle Celebrating 250 Years Of The USA Google has posted its Fourth of July Doodle for 2026, the United States Semiquincentennial [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Third-Party Rates For Hotel Ads Feature Going Away On Sept. 30 Google added a note to the About Google third-party rates for hotel ads saying after September 30, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Performance Max Experiments Beta Types Microsoft Advertising has opened up a new betas for Performance Max experiments. There are now Max [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google June Spam Update Done, Fraud DMCA Takedowns Breaks Google, Costly Google Ad Budget Changes & More This week, I covered that Google's June 2026 spam update completed last Friday afternoon. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Reviews Go Missing For Many Businesses Google reviews seem to be disappearing from Google Business Profile local listings. In the past few [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profile Restrictions & Penalties Are Additive Google will add to existing penalties or restrictions on your Google Business Profiles if you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Page Indexing Report Has Been Fixed & Updated Google has fixed the page indexing report within Google Search Console after it was struck and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google is investigating reports of reviews going missing and pausing reviews on local listings Google has confirmed it is investigating the reports of bugs with reviews in Google Business [...] - Search Engine Land
Google indexing report in Google Search Console fixed After a long three-week delay, Google has finally updated the page indexing report with new data. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 3, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

July, 2 2026

Google’s DMCA Crisis Is Disrupting The Web. It Will Only Get Worse. via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's DMCA Crisis is turning a copyright protection system into a tool that bad actors can use [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Updates All Campaigns Drop Down Google has reportedly updated the Google Ads "All Campaigns" drop-down selection box to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Sends Searchers To Site-Hosted AMP Pages Instead Of Cached Page Google updated how it handles sending searchers to AMP pages within Google Search. Now Google will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
You Can Now Unsubscribe From Google Ads Expert Book Call Emails Google has now added an unsubscribe option to those book a call with your Google Ads expert emails [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Performance Max Channel Diagnostics Google Ads is testing a new Channel Diagnostics feature for Performance Max campaigns within [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Makes Changes To Bidding For Campaigns Limited By Budget Google Ads, as we covered earlier, made changes to Target CPA & Target ROAS. But now, Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
July 2026 Google Webmaster Report Here is the monthly Google Webmaster report, where I summarize the major organic Google Search news [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Webmaster Tools Backfilled Data For AI Performance Reports On June 1st If you take a look at the Bing Webmaster Tools newish AI performance reports, you may see more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How competitors target your branded traffic with Google Ads Learn how dynamic keyword insertion, comparison pages, and brand modifier keywords influence [...] - Search Engine Land
What 1 million keywords reveal about AI’s impact on search A large-scale study of search behavior shows which industries are losing demand, where it is [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 2, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
A Google Ads targeting tactic that cut invalid clicks by 50% After Google said it had already filtered suspicious activity, this unexpected approach restored [...] - Search Engine Land
Why proprietary data is your most defensible AI citation asset Original data helps pages stand out in search, but structure determines whether AI cites it. Learn [...] - Search Engine Land
Cloudflare’s AI Crawler Rules Can Block Googlebot via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Cloudflare now lets all sites manage AI crawlers as Search, Agent, or Training, with Sept. 15 [...] - Search Engine Journal
Why AI deliverables should be judged by outcomes, not effort If two deliverables produce the same outcome, should it matter whether one took 20 hours or 20 [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ends Cache-Served AMP Pages In Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google Search now takes searchers directly to a domain's AMP host pages, ending the viewer/cache [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Mueller Flags A Case On Why LCP Fixes Miss the Target via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern John Mueller points to a Google case study showing how customizable layouts can skew which element [...] - Search Engine Journal

July, 1 2026

Fabrice Canel retires from Microsoft Bing after legendary career Canel worked at Microsoft for about 30 years and was responsible for indexing, Bing Webmaster [...] - Search Engine Land
Fabrice Canel Retires From Microsoft After Almost 30 Years Of Service Fabrice Canel has announced he has retired from Microsoft as of today. This comes after almost 30 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Trends Adds Comparison Over Time Data & Chart Google Trends now lets you plot the change of interest in keyword phrases over time and then [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New WordPress Plugin Safely And Easily Connects AI To Your Website via @sejournal, @martinibuster WPVibe WordPress plugin makes it easy to connect virtually any AI to your WordPress site and safely [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Tests AI Generated Summaries Under Descriptions Google is testing the placement of AI-generated summaries in Google Ads sponsored results, right [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Fraudulent DMCA Takedowns Wreak Havoc In Google Search Google has always allowed you to request that content be removed from Google Search via the legal [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Ad Intents To Add AI-Gemini-Generated Content Google is adding AI-generated content, generated by Gemini, to Google AdSense ad intents formatted [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How campaign structure shapes Google Ads performance Better automation starts with better account architecture. Learn how to strengthen signals, reduce [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Mode Improves Links For Recipes, Again Recipe bloggers really have Google's ear, as Google has made yet another official change to its AI [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Overviews Showing Markdown Files In Snippets Unexpectedly Google AI Overviews can show the contents of the markdown files of web pages directly in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Trends adds previous time period comparison You can now quickly add a line to the chart to show previous time period comparison. - Search Engine Land
Why TikTok deserves a place in your SEO strategy TikTok is adding new ways for businesses to be discovered, from Local Feed and AI summaries to [...] - Search Engine Land
Fabrice Canel, Longtime Bing Search Leader, Retires From Microsoft via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Fabrice Canel, the Principal Product Manager who led Bing's crawling and indexing team and [...] - Search Engine Journal
GraphRAG: What entity-first retrieval means for SEO GraphRAG explains why AI is shifting from isolated text to connected knowledge, and what that means [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 1, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
In memoriam: A tribute to Bruce Clay A longtime search leader’s final industry conversation explores AI, content structure and the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google tests AI-generated summaries in Search ads Google is testing AI-generated summaries beneath Search ads, potentially giving its AI a larger [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search now sends searchers directly to publisher-hosted AMP pages Google will continue to support the open-source AMPhtml format, the company told me. - Search Engine Land
Google adds Channel Diagnostics to Performance Max Google's Channel Diagnostics for PMax, helps advertisers identify missing or disapproved assets [...] - Search Engine Land
ChatGPT Thinking mode changes which brands get cited Only 25.6% source overlap between minimal and high reasoning across 100 prompts and 20 buyer [...] - Search Engine Land
The latest AI news we announced in June 2026 Here are Google’s latest AI updates from June 2026. - Inside Search