Archive of August, 2026

August, 31 2026

Google’s Mueller Shares Their Experience With Markdown For AI SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller shares what happened when he checked whether AI crawlers were actually asking [...] - Search Engine Journal
Microsoft Forcing Copilot Users To Login But Not For Copilot Search Answers Microsoft is now forcing all users to log in before using Copilot, but this currently does not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Confirms Search Spam Team Is Fighting & Well Resourced Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering for Google Search, has confirmed that the Google Search team is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode With Inline Shopping Carousel Ads & Single Ad Unit Google is now showing shopping ads in a carousel format inline within AI Mode results. Plus, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising New Updated Design Preview Microsoft Advertising is previewing a new design and usability update for its ad platform. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Merchant Center Popular Products Enhanced Coverage & Insights Google posted a note that it has made enhancements to the Merchant Center's Popular products [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to map AI search prompts to every stage of the sales funnel Your brand may win the shortlist and lose the buyer earlier. Map prompts to see where AI [...] - Search Engine Land
5 steps to building Reddit authority for Google and ChatGPT visibility Reddit can reveal why people choose, reject, or question a brand. Turn those insights into better [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 31, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console AI performance reports and Search generative AI control rolling out globally After a few months of slowing rolling out these features, everyone should soon have access to them. - Search Engine Land
Calls and clicks keep falling as Google Maps becomes the destination New findings show rankings remain stable while customer behavior changes, making profile quality [...] - Search Engine Land
Google European Search Dataset Licensing Program Details Google has updated its Google European Search Dataset Licensing Program page with details on the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Don't Penalize For Old Outbound Links With Shady Content Google's John Mueller was asked if Google would penalize a site for old outbound links to a site [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Rank Math SEO Plugin Pauses Controversial Feature. Says It Will Return via @sejournal, @martinibuster Rank Math paused its controversial feature, acknowledge a serious consent failure, and explains why [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 30 2026

Rank Math WordPress Plugin Accused Of Secretly Taking Admin Access via @sejournal, @martinibuster New allegations surfaced that Rank Math has introduced a functionality that silently gives the [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 28 2026

Update to the Site Reputation Policy In 2024, we introduced our site reputation policy to stop a practice where third-party content [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google won’t respect manual actions for site reputation abuse in European Economic Area Searchers outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), the manual action will apply but not within [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Won't Enforce Its Site Reputation Policy Manual Actions In Europe Google announced it will not enforce manual actions under the site reputation abuse policy in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Updates Site Reputation Abuse Policy: Removes Penalties In EEA via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google is replacing site reputation abuse manual actions in the EEA with a system that can rank [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Preferred Sources, Tailor Your Feed & Search Profiles Are Different Google has two, well, maybe three, features that are being confused as one. The preferred sources, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Alcohol Advertising Policy Update On September 30 Google will be updating its alcohol advertising policy on September 30, 2026. The update [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Having Indexing/Serving Issues August 28th Google Search seems to be having indexing or serving issues in the past hour or so. New content [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode Asking Searchers To Sign In Google is testing asking searchers to sign in within the AI Mode response. Google shows a big [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Now Lists The Supported Favicon File Formats Google has updated the favicon search developer documentation to list out the supported favicon [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
AI Is Changing Website Security. Here’s What SEO Teams Should Know via @sejournal, @vahandev More than 100 organizations, including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft, urge governments and website [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Answers If Updates Come With Actionable SEO Signals via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google explains why a named update can shake up rankings without giving affected site owners [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Book Buttons Expand To Search & Performance Max Google is expanding the book button through Reserve with Google partner integration to Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Announces Search Updates For Transparency, Actionable Updates Get Blog Posts Google's John Mueller said Google "primarily" announces search updates to provide [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Link building in 2027: 13 ways to win or fail Link volume tells only part of the story. See what separates earned authority from spam, recycled [...] - Search Engine Land
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google GoTo Parameter Fight, PDFs Go Missing In Google, SEO For AI Responses & Google and Microsoft Ads News Another week... - Search Engine Roundtable
7 ways to use AI for the SEO work that matters Find higher-value SEO tasks where AI can give you an edge, from experiments and gap analysis to [...] - Search Engine Land
Use Claude for SEO. Don’t let Claude do SEO. Claude can accelerate research, analysis, and drafting, but SEO execution still needs human [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 28, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google says better YouTube creative can more than double ROI Google’s new YouTube creative guidance highlights the ad elements associated with stronger [...] - Search Engine Land
Google announces October changes to Display & Video 360 API Google’s DV360 changes remove targeting exclusions and add new business identity requirements [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Overviews Pushing Searchers Into AI Mode, Drops Show More Button Google Search is testing pushing searchers into AI Mode from the AI Overview by default, without [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google is dynamically expanding AI Overviews for some queries This behavior pushes down the core search results and gives you an AI Mode type of experience [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 27 2026

Google confirms deploying goto URL redirects to search results links Google said it deploys technical measures against evolving forms of abuse and this is one of those. - Search Engine Land
OpenAI Pins Shopping To ChatGPT Sidebar OpenAI has pinned the Shopping tab to the left sidebar on ChatGPT. Clicking on it takes you to a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads New Troubleshoot Performance Fluctuations & Changes Google Ads has released several new "Troubleshoot performance fluctuations and changes" [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Search Term Landing Page Report For AI Max Microsoft Advertising, with the release of AI Max globally, has rolled out a new Search term [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Tests Swipeable Categories For Sponsored Results Again Google is testing once again testing swipeable Google Ads sponsored results, where you can swipe a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
If an AI watermark scares you, your content may be the real issue AI watermarks don’t determine search performance. What matters is whether your content is [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Tests Renaming Copilot Search Answer To AI Overviews Microsoft is testing renaming the Copilot Search AI answer box at the top of the Bing Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ask Advisor Soon To Get Shared Memory Across Tools Google posted on X that Ask Advisor, which is in Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Merchant [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Your images have a new job in AI search AI doesn't see your images the way a human does. See what it detects, what it misses, and whether [...] - Search Engine Land
Reddit is the keyword research tool you’re probably not using Use Semrush to mine Reddit's rankings for content gaps, unanswered questions, and opportunities to [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 27, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Moving from Google Display to Demand Gen: What you’ll lose and gain New inventory and AI-powered creative come with trade-offs. See which controls and capabilities [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s August 2026 spam update hit rankings harder than normal Google's spam update caused exceptional search disruption, with dramatic ranking losses across 20 [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Mode Adds Flight Price Tracking, Mile Rates & Hotel Booking Google is rolling out three new travel features within AI Mode in Google Search. These features [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search Book hotels and track airfares, plus view miles and rewards with AI Mode in Google Search. - Inside Search
Reach your audience in new ways with August’s Demand Gen Drop. Drive high-quality leads and acquire customers with new messaging, travel, and creative features in [...] - Inside Adwords
Google expands Demand Gen with messaging ads, travel tools and AI video creation Google's Demand Gen tools aim to shorten the path from discovery to conversion while making it [...] - Search Engine Land
IRS Website Drops Heavily In Google Search Over the past few days, the IRS website (and other government sites) has tanked within Google's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 26 2026

Google Ads Customer Lifecycle Optimization Within Conversion Goals Google Ads has placed Customer Lifecycle Optimization directly within the conversion goals section [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Tests Shorts Video Tab In Search Menu Microsoft Bing is testing a new "Shorts" tab in the search menu on Bing Search. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads AI-Created Product Titles Report Beta Google is beta testing a new Product title report within Google Ads. This is a special product [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Channel Settings Prioritization Slider (Alpha Test) Google is testing a new "Channels" slider that lets you adjust how much you prioritize [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Has Google demoted listicles? A 60,000-query analysis reveals where listicles still rank, where they’ve declined, and why [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Ranking Volatility Continues Post Spam Update As you know, Google's August 2026 spam update began on August 18th and concluded on August 21st. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Massively Expands Booking Partners On Local Services Ads Google has expanded the booking partners for Local Service Ads from about 20 partners to over 500 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode Also Gains Link Carousels For Developing Topics Back in June, Google released link carousels for top stories or developing topics to AI Overviews. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Is top-of-funnel content still worth it in 2027? New traffic data shows a widening divide between YMYL and B2B tech — and points to the TOFU [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 26, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Discover job posting confirms what the feed already shows A single Google Careers listing sheds rare light on Discover's recommendation system, reinforcing [...] - Search Engine Land
The SEO blind spot is what happens after the click Getting the click is only the first step. Here’s how to make SEO content help users move [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads adds reporting for AI-generated product titles Google’s new Product titles report shows advertisers which AI-generated product titles are [...] - Search Engine Land
Google adds link carousels for developing topics in AI Mode This is after Google has already added these link carousels for AI Overviews in Google Search. - Search Engine Land
Google Ads API Developer Assistant gets major AI agent upgrade Google Ads API Developer Assistant v4.0.0 brings specialized API dev, troubleshooting and reporting [...] - Search Engine Land
Tell Google What You Want From AI Mode Robby Stein, Google's Vice President of Product at Google Search, asked on X, "If you could [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Has A Special Dolly Parton Easter Egg 🦋 To commemorate the life of Dolly Parton, Google has released a new easter egg in its search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Rolling Out google.com/goto Tracking Parameters? Google Search seems like it is rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL within the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Judge In Penske Vs Google Says AI Situation “Seems Really Unfair” via @sejournal, @martinibuster Judge who ruled that Google is a monopoly said in the Penske vs Google hearing that the AI [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 25 2026

Cloudflare Says EmDash Version 1.0 Is Releasing Soon via @sejournal, @martinibuster Cloudflare's EmDash CMS, the spiritual successor to WordPress, is set to release version 1.0 soon [...] - Search Engine Journal
Reports Indicate Google’s Spam Update Focused On SEO AI Content via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's recent Spam Update may have partially focused on catching mass-generated SEO AI content. - Search Engine Journal
Google: There Is Nothing Special To Do For Generative AI Responses In Search Google's John Mueller said on Bluesky that there is nothing special for one to do for generative AI [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Says Google's Crawlers Don't Parse JSON Gary Illyes from Google reiterated this morning that Googlebot, Google's crawler, does not parse [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Copyable Emojis In AI Overviews About a year ago, Google added the ability to copy emojis directly from the search results in an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google To Charge For Missed & Subsequent Calls On LSAs Google sent out emails to some advertisers notifying them that starting October 1st, Google Local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shows AI Overviews Above Stock Charts For Stock Price Queries Google seems to be showing AI Overviews at the top of the search results page when you specifically [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Tests Loading Sponsored Results Using Gemini With Animation Google Ads is testing loading the sponsored results in the mobile search results interface with an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What 1.8 million Google Business Profiles tell us about local SEO success Specific primary and additional categories, plus complete profiles, correlate with stronger local [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 25, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
How to turn an SEO backlog into a roadmap SEO roadmaps should tie business goals to ownership, capacity, impact, and measurement. Otherwise, [...] - Search Engine Land
5 ways to upgrade your home decor with Google Search Learn how to use Google Search tools to find home decor inspiration, shop for furniture, and tackle [...] - Inside Search
Google Local Services Ads will charge for some missed calls starting Oct. 1 Google will start charging Local Services Ads advertisers for some missed and follow-up calls that [...] - Search Engine Land
Google expands direct booking for Local Services Ads Google is expanding LSA direct booking to more than 500 partners, making it easier for customers to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google brings Gemini Omni video creation to Google Ads Google is adding Gemini Omni to Asset Studio, making it easier to turn creative briefs and brand [...] - Search Engine Land
Google tests channel prioritization controls for Performance Max Google is testing new Performance Max controls that let advertisers influence which channels the [...] - Search Engine Land
AI visibility has two jobs: Execute SEO and mobilize the organization Getting cited by AI isn't enough. Discover why winning recommendations requires cross-functional [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Showing Fewer PDF Files. But Why? Google seems to be showing fewer and fewer PDF files, and when it does show PDF files, it seems not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
.Org Sites Are 34% Likelier To Generate Ecommerce Revenue Than .Com via @sejournal, @martinibuster Data shows that alternative domain extensions show stronger performance over traditional .com [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 24 2026

Google Fixed Favicon Bug & Crawl Stats Missing Data Google has fixed two bugs this weekend related to Google Search. The first is the bug with many [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Answers If Some Sites Can Ignore GEO And Just Focus On SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google explains whether some industries can get away with focusing on search and ignore GEO [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Aware Of Reviews Missing After Google Business Profile Reinstatement Google is aware of and in the process of addressing an issue where reviews are missing after a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Pink Highlights In Featured Snippets Typically, when Google highlights phrases in a featured snippet or AI Overview within Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Reduces Conversion Cycle For Maximize Conversion Value Bidding Google has updated the Google Ads help document for About Maximize conversion value bidding with a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Sends New Owner Email Notifications - Bug? Many of you may have woken up this morning to emails from Google Search Console notifying you of a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Makes Minor Updates To Canonicalization Help Docs Google has made some minor updates to the canonicalization help documents including the What is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Merchant Center Product Images Minimum Size Will Be 500x500 Pixels Google sent out an email to Google Merchant Center advertisers and users that the minimum size for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to build content briefs around audience situations Search volume tells you what people search for. The context behind those searches can reveal what [...] - Search Engine Land
Your Google Business Profile needs a business continuity plan Reduce the business impact of suspensions, verification issues, and missing reviews with practical [...] - Search Engine Land
AI search is here, but marketers still call it SEO New research shows how marketers define AI search, where they’re putting budget, and what [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 24, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google unifies Google tag and Tag Manager, adds no-code event tracking Google is unifying Google tag and Tag Manager with no-code event tracking, streamlined management [...] - Search Engine Land
How to build an AI content workflow from the ground up Build a reliable AI content system in Claude Code with the right context, specialized agents, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google expands Local Services Ads categories ahead of migration Google is expanding LSA categories ahead of its migration into Google Ads, giving businesses more [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 21 2026

Google August 2026 spam update done rolling out The update took 2.5 days to roll out and is now complete. - Search Engine Land
Google August 2026 Spam Update Has Finished Rolling Out The Google August 2026 spam update is now done rolling out. It started on Tuesday, August 18, 2026 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads & AI Max New Experimentation & Planning Features Google announced it is rolling out new experimentation and planning capabilities in Google Ads and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Service Ads Pre-Badge Ads & Expansion Of Verticals Google has made some big updates to Local Service Ads. Even though LSAs are transitioning to Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
JSON-LD Extraction For Googlebot Now Does One Pass Of HTML Unescaping Google's crawler now strictly enforces standard JSON formatting when reading your site's structured [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Discover Feed Can Be Tailored By Words Google is rolling out the ability to tailor your Google Discover feed by using your words, in a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tag & Google Tag Manager Updated Google updated the Google Tag and Google Tag Manager. Google said, "these changes are designed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
LLM visibility starts with better internal communication Better search outcomes depend on how your teams work together. See why communication is the [...] - Search Engine Land
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Unleashed The August 2026 Spam Update, Gemini 3.7 Powers AI Mode, Google and Microsoft Ads News & More Google has released its third spam update of the 2026 year, the August 2026 spam update this week [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Preferred Source Button Improved For Publishers Google has updated the Preferred Sources button that publishers have on their websites to make it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Max CPC Won't Be Available For New Campaigns On Oct 1 Microsoft Advertising sent out emails yesterday announcing changes coming to Max CPC bidding. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to measure the true value of creators and review content Learn how to separate meaningful engagement from vanity metrics using practical evaluation methods [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Crawl Stats Missing Two Days Of Data The crawl stats report within Google Search Console has a data gap again. This time the crawl stats [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to build an E-E-A-T checker with Claude Code Build an AI-powered E-E-A-T auditor that crawls websites, applies Google's quality guidance and [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 21, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Duane Forrester: AI is rewriting SEO, but the mission is the same AI is forcing SEO to evolve fast, but Duane Forrester says success still comes from serving users, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google working on fix for broken favicons in Google Search The issue started earlier this week and today, Friday, Google has confirmed it is a bug on its end. - Search Engine Land

August, 20 2026

Microsoft Advertising Rolling Out AI Max Globally Microsoft Advertising is rolling out AI Max globally and to all advertisers. If you log in to your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Bringing Back Google Posts Insights (People Viewed) In 2018, Google launched Google Posts Insights, a way to see how many views and clicks a Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Spike In Complaints On Favicons Disappearing From Google Search In the past couple of days, I have seen a spike in the number of complaints around favicons [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads API Version 25.1 Now Available Google has released version 25.1 of the Google Ads API, this is a minor release with several of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Enhanced Matching In Customer Match Google Ads seems to be rolling out a new customer match option named "enhanced matching." [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The next AI money grab: Charging for editorial corrections Publishers already monetized links, placements, and removals. Correcting the information shaping AI [...] - Search Engine Land
Why Google Announces Some Search Updates But Not All As you know, Google does smaller core updates and algorithm search updates all the time without [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Can Find Sitelinks For You Google Ads can now help you find sitelinks for your ad extensions. A new feature within the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO priorities for 2027: Your guide to search success Being found is only part of the challenge. See what it takes to make your brand understood, [...] - Search Engine Land
Make AI Max work for your business with new testing and planning tools. Use new AI Max tools — like A/B tests and performance planners for budget and bidding changes [...] - Inside Adwords
Google adds new AI Max testing and planning tools Google is expanding AI Max with new experiments and planning tools to help advertisers test [...] - Search Engine Land
3 phases to build authority and earn AI citations AI visibility compounds when technical accessibility, useful content, and third-party authority [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 20, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Discover lets you customize your feed using conversational search Google said this helps you customize your Discover feed "with content that genuinely matches [...] - Search Engine Land
Google makes the Preferred Source button more seamless Readers who click on the Google Preferred Source won't have to leave your page anymore. - Search Engine Land
Personalize the content you see on Search, Discover, and News New personalization features across Search, Discover, and Google News give you even more control. - Inside Search
Google Expands Personalization Across Search, Discover & News via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is rolling out a new embeddable Preferred Sources button, natural language Discover [...] - Search Engine Journal
Do meta descriptions matter? The latest research Do meta descriptions have value today? See what case studies say about AI Overviews, ChatGPT [...] - Search Engine Land
How to build topic clusters that AI will cite Learn how to build topic clusters that get cited in AI search, using emerging topics, semantic [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 19 2026

Google Trends Gains Explore Maps & Regional Breakdown Google Trends has added two new features this morning, explore maps and regional breakdown. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Analytics Real Time Outage Seems To Be Resolving Google Analytics seems to have had an outage starting at about 4 am ET this morning. The real-time [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Answers Why Search Updates Aren’t Announced Right Away via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller explains why updates aren't announced earlier when rankings are already [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Answers Why Spam Updates Need To Happen via @sejournal, @martinibuster Why does Google have spam updates every once in a while? Google’s John Mueller answers that [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Video Carousel Showing Less Often Google seems to be showing the video carousel within Google Search a lot less often. Semrush had [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Bidding Option For Customer Retention Loyalty Program Members Google Ads is now letting you bid more using the customer retention option named "Loyalty [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profiles Testing Revamped Q&A Feature Google seems to be testing a revamped and updated Q&A feature for Google Business Profiles [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Slop antibodies: The link between AI slop, watermarking, and commodity content From LinkedIn’s anti-slop systems to AI watermarking, platforms are building new ways to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: We Do Not Roll Out Updates Prior To The Announcement Google's John Mueller reiterated what Google has said numerous times already, that Google does not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
ChatGPT Ads Expanding To 31 European Countries OpenAI announced it is expanding its ChatGPT Ads service and product to 31 European countries. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads is finally building a stronger foundation for B2B lead gen Three months after Google Marketing Live, Google Ads is laying the groundwork for better B2B lead [...] - Search Engine Land
Technical SEO for AI search: 4 fundamentals that matter AI systems can miss content that search engines handle well. Learn what to check so your pages can [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 19, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
What 3 creatives built with unlimited access to Google Flow We asked three creatives to design campaigns for local businesses in Google Flow, an AI creative [...] - Inside Adwords
JavaScript links can make your pages invisible to AI search A 41-day experiment reveals how JavaScript-only navigation limits AI crawler discovery and why [...] - Search Engine Land
Reddit’s ChatGPT Search citations fell 86% in four days: Report Reddit's share of ChatGPT Search citations fell from 3.83% to an average of 0.52% between Aug. 14 [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads tests Enhanced Matching for Customer Match Enhanced Matching could help advertisers expand the reach of their first-party audiences using [...] - Search Engine Land
Business websites dominate Gemini local AI search citations: Study A study of 14,472 AI citations found business websites led Gemini's local results, but repeated [...] - Search Engine Land
5 new ways to level up your learning with Search Here’s how you can use Google Search tools to study for classes and standardized tests. - Inside Search
Google Ads API v25.1 expands measurement and insights Google Ads API v25.1 adds new tools for lift measurement, benchmarking, brand sentiment, and [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 18 2026

ChatGPT Ads Switching Advertisers On Load Sometimes when you look at the ads within OpenAI's ChatGPT, you might notice an ad from one [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Will Stop Euro-Denominated Check Payments August 7 Google is dropping support for Euro-denominated check payments for AdSense publishers after August [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Will Eventually Support HTTP QUERY Method Gary Illyes from Google said Google Search will eventually support the new HTTP QUERY method. He [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Local 5.0: The next evolution of local SEO is here The verification burden is moving from customers to AI. See what that means for location data, [...] - Search Engine Land
You Can Now Edit Your Handle On Google Search Profiles As expected, Google is now enabling those with Google Search Profiles to edit their handle, their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Related Searches For With Underline Hyperlink Google is testing underlining and maybe hyperlinking the word in the related searches for section [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Build your SEO strategy as if search engines don’t exist Search is only one part of discovery. Learn how distribution and brand visibility can create [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console now connects social content to search demand See how query data can reveal content gaps, guide creator partnerships, compare formats, and shape [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 18, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google updates Branded Searches conversion measurement Google has updated its Branded Searches documentation, with PMax notably no longer listed among [...] - Search Engine Land
What 9 months of AI Overview data and 51,000+ tracked events reveal Traffic swings, attribution gaps, and unexpected citation patterns offer a clearer picture of how [...] - Search Engine Land
Google releases August 2026 spam update The update will take a few days to roll out. - Search Engine Land
Google August 2026 Spam Update Has Been Unleashed Google has just announced the release of the August 2026 spam update and said it should only take a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Begins Rolling Out The August 2026 Spam Update via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google has begun rolling out the August 2026 spam update, applying globally and to all languages, [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 17 2026

Google: Subject/Object Entity Order Affects AI Answers via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's research shows that LLMs struggle to recall facts when questions reverse the usual [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Hiring A Product Manager For Content Automation Google has posted a job listing for a Product Manager for Content Automation, I kid you not. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Apple Adds Thousands Of New IP Addresses For Applebot To Crawl From Apple has added over 4,000 new IP addresses for Applebot, Apple's Siri and Apple Intelligence [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Testing Large Images In Sponsored Results Microsoft Advertising is testing displaying larger images in the Bing sponsored results. These [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Tests Blue Hyperlinks In Ad Descriptions Google is testing blue hyperlinks in the ad descriptions within the sponsored results. These are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Inside ChatGPT’s retrieval stack: The index, cache, and pages it actually reads New research exposes the mechanics behind ChatGPT citations, including what gets retrieved, what [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Using Gemini 3.7 Flash In AI Mode Late on Friday, Google's Robby Stein and Rajan Patel announced on X and X that Google Search is now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Tests New Review Layout With Supersized Star Google Ads is testing a new layout for review stars for a product in the mobile sponsored results [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The $113,000 paid search test: How much traffic did organic replace? Paid search looked valuable in the channel report. A 13-week test revealed how much of that value [...] - Search Engine Land
The AI visibility index: Which brands are vanishing from AI search? Some brands dominate Google yet barely surface in AI answers. Here’s where traditional [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 17, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google updates Demand Gen view-through conversion optimization Google is making view-through conversion optimization video-only for Demand Gen while expanding [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search pauses AI-generated images within AI Overviews Robby Stein from Google said, "This was a small experiment we're no longer running." - Search Engine Land
Want more AI visibility and citations? Start monitoring trends Learn how monitoring keyword and topic trends helps you publish early, build authority, and improve [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Performance Reports Drop In Impressions/Clicks ~August 12 There are a number of reports that the performance reports, both for Google Search and the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Generative AI Performance Report in Search data bug Google has confirmed the issue starting on August 13, and the result is a decrease in impressions. - Search Engine Land
ChatGPT draws more paid clicks from Google than any other top destination ChatGPT draws a higher share of Google clicks than any other top destination, highlighting overlap [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads will use generative AI to resize Performance Max video ads Google is expanding PMax video optimization with generative AI that automatically creates missing [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 15 2026

Anthropic Reveals What The Watermark Is And How It Can Be Defeated via @sejournal, @martinibuster Anthropic offers more details about its watermark including how it can be defeated. - Search Engine Journal

August, 14 2026

Google Merchant Center For Agencies Can Link Up To 1,000 Accounts Google updated a help document within the Google Merchant Center help area to document that Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Googlebot Say They Are Coming From California But Might Not As we know, Google has often declared that its crawlers, Googlebot, etc, come from Mountain View, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Report Owner Response Google has a new reporting option for reviews in Google Business Profiles and Google Local. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The missing step in vibe coding: Verify what actually shipped AI can build fast, but speed doesn’t prove the work is correct. Here’s how to verify [...] - Search Engine Land
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google AI Home Page Test, AI Local Pack Slop, Google Poaching Advertisers & Meta Building A Search Engine This week, we of course had more Google search ranking volatility, this time on the 12th. Google is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Language Targeting Update Coming In September Google Ads will roll out a change to language targeting that will remove the ability to manually [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Overviews With AI-Generated Images In The Wild A month ago, we reported that Google said it would be rolling out AI-generated images within AI [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Demand Gen shows why PPC can no longer hide behind intent PPC’s expanding role brings creative strategy, customer psychology, and full-journey [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 14, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google sets AI Max migration timeline for Search campaigns Google will begin automatically migrating legacy Search campaign features to AI Max in September, [...] - Search Engine Land
The 4-step roadmap to AI agents for Google Ads Know when to use off-the-shelf AI, when to build custom systems, and what foundations you need [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Merchant Center for Agencies now supports up to 1,000 linked accounts Google has clarified that Merchant Center for Agencies accounts can now link up to 1,000 client [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Analytics adds custom conversion attribution windows Google Analytics now supports custom conversion windows for click-through and engaged-view [...] - Search Engine Land
Gemini 3.7 Flash rolling out in Google Search This is first rolling out AI Mode for Google AI Pro & Ultra subscribers in English. - Search Engine Land

August, 13 2026

OpenAI Makes The ChatGPT Sources Less Visible OpenAI is testing or rolling out a change to how you can click to see the sources from the ChatGPT [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Misconfiguring Cloudflare Can Hurt Your SEO Badly This is just a random tip, make sure not to misconfigure Cloudflare, your content delivery network [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Spammy Google Selected Canonical In Search Console When you use the Google Search Console URL inspection tool, Google will show you what it calls the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why SEO uncertainty is creating opportunities for challengers When market leaders get nervous, years of competitive advantage become vulnerable. Search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Ranking Volatility Spikes On August 12-13 We saw a spike in volatility yesterday amongst the Google Search results rankings. There was a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Lowers Subscriber Requirements For Search Profiles Google has dropped the minimum number of followers needed to be approved for a Search Profile on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Most AI visibility gains are just technical debt repayment AI search may be making long-standing problems with site architecture, content, internal linking, [...] - Search Engine Land
Only 1.1% of news publisher visits come directly from AI: Study AI referrals made up 1.1% of publisher visits after AI chats, with most traffic coming from direct [...] - Search Engine Land
Your B2B SEO can win the click and lose the consideration The brands cited in AI Overviews can influence which companies buyers investigate next, even when [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 13, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Link building works better when you think beyond links The strongest off-page signals aren't always followed links. See how content, PR coverage, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Shopify: AI referrals up 197%, but organic search still leads traffic New Shopify data shows AI drives higher-converting, first-time buyers, but Google still delivers [...] - Search Engine Land
Microsoft Clarity AI Scrape-to-Referral insights report This report shows you the AI scrape activity against referral traffic as a metric to help you [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads is removing language targeting from Search campaigns Google’s shift to automated language matching removes a manual Search targeting control, [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 12 2026

Google AI Overview Local Results Pulling From Low-Quality Listicles Google will randomly show AI Overviews for local results, and when it does, It will often show [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Merchant Center Performance Reporting Update Coming August 24th Google announced several new updates to the Merchant Center performance report, starting on August [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
ChatGPT Ads With AI Descriptive Heading OpenAI is testing placing descriptive headings above the ads within ChatGPT responses. I assume it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads New Local Customer Optimization Help Doc With Google migrating Local Service Ads to the main Google Ads platform, Google is already [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Amends Lawsuit Against SerpApi Over Licensed Content After Google's lawsuit against SerpAPI, the Google Search scraper tool, was dismissed a month ago, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Community signals are AI’s largest third-party source UGC platforms out-cite review sites at every stage of the buyer journey. Here’s what you need [...] - Search Engine Land
The new search journey changes how SEO and PPC should work The first search is rarely the whole journey. See how AI answers, paid ads, organic results and [...] - Search Engine Land
How to use MCP to get more data from the tools you already use Your SEO tools already contain the answers. MCP makes it easier to ask questions your dashboards [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 12, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Cloudflare Gives AI Agents Wallets That Pay For What They Access via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic Cloudflare announced wallets and optional identity handles for AI agents on August 4, extending [...] - Search Engine Journal
Query templates: Expanding the scope of topical authority A single query can sit inside thousands of variations. Mapping those patterns can build topical [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to migrate Travel campaigns to Search campaigns for Travel Google will auto-transition Travel campaigns to Search campaigns for Travel starting in Q3 2026, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google updates YouTube and Discover Feed ad requirements Google says the update improves the clarity and readability of its YouTube and Discover Feed ad [...] - Search Engine Land
Google updates Merchant Center with cross-platform reporting Merchant Center is updating its reporting with new YouTube traffic classifications and expanded [...] - Search Engine Land
Google adds real-time reporting endpoint to Campaign Manager 360 API Developers can now retrieve Campaign Manager 360 reporting data in real time with a single API [...] - Search Engine Land
Google adds Local customer optimization to Performance Max Advertisers can now use PMax store-goal campaigns to prioritize nearby, high-intent visitors across [...] - Search Engine Land
Judge lets SEO sabotage lawsuit over toxic backlinks move forward The case could test whether businesses can use false advertising law to challenge harmful backlink [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 11 2026

Google confirms testing new buttons on home page to drive users to AI-powered search features Google said this is a limited test where they add create images, ask about files and brainstorm [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Generative AI Performance Report Available For All The Google Search Console generative AI performance reports seem to be live for everyone now. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads & Google Analytics Gain New AI Features Google announced a number of new AI features for Google Ads and Google Analytics aimed to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEOs Taking Over Expired Google X Accounts It looks like we are seeing some Googler accounts being taken over by sites that sell SEO services, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Still Aggressively Poaching Agency Ads Accounts I feel like a broken record and that Google simply does not care but again, I am seeing numerous [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to decide whether a keyword deserves its own page Use SERP overlap, content independence, and site structure to determine whether to create a new [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Sponsored Results Tests Advertiser Name & Favicon Summary Google is testing placing the list of advertisers in the group of sponsored results at the top of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Travel Campaigns Migrating To Search Campaigns For Travel Google will be migrating Travel campaigns to the new Search campaigns for Travel in Google Ads. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A 5-layer framework for measuring AI search performance Traditional attribution misses part of the AI buyer journey. Measure access, visibility, demand, [...] - Search Engine Land
DMCA as a weapon: How to fight fraudulent takedown claims A fraudulent DMCA notice can cost you search visibility. Here’s what to document, how to file [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 11, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google adds Campaign Data Import Validation Report Advertisers can now identify missing campaign metrics in imported data, improving the accuracy of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google tests advertiser list above mobile Search ads Google's mobile experiment displays participating advertisers' favicons and domain names above [...] - Search Engine Land
300 French newspapers file complaint over Google AI Overviews Publishers say Google's AI-generated search summaries have reduced referral traffic and may breach [...] - Search Engine Land
ChatGPT’s Search Index Serves Small Sites Too, Data Shows via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern New data finds no difference in how OpenAI's in-house search index served licensed and unlicensed [...] - Search Engine Journal
Anthropic adds AI text watermarking to Claude models worldwide Anthropic says detection tools and documentation are coming, while warning that watermarks can't [...] - Search Engine Land
SMX Now: The Target bidding apocalypse and how we’ve been here before Join us on August 19th for the latest SMX Now where Reva Minkoff will break down Google's August 17 [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 10 2026

Microsoft Advertising Bulk Edit/Appeal Disapproved Assets Microsoft has released the ability to adjust and appeal disapproved assets in bulk. This feature is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Home Page Create Images, Ask About Files & Brainstorm Buttons The Google home page is testing or rolling out now, new AI features and buttons in place of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Hreflang URLs Not Indexed In The Proper Sense Google's Gary Illyes said that hreflang alternates, hreflang URLs are not "indexed in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Labels On Local Pack & Google Discover Ads A month ago, Google said it would now label ads created or edited with AI with an AI label within [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How customers build confidence across the search journey AI, Google, Reddit, YouTube, and brand sites help resolve different kinds of uncertainty. Here's [...] - Search Engine Land
Meta/Facebook Crawling Web & May Be Building Search Engine Meta, the social media company that operates Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Disallows Repeated Bilingual Names & Transliterations Google has updated its guidelines for representing your business on Google in the Google Business [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Why the traditional link building model no longer works for AI search High-DR links, paid mentions, and link exchanges can look authoritative without giving AI systems [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 10, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Evolve your marketing with new AI tools Learn how new AI and agentic experiences across Google Ads and Google Analytics can simplify your [...] - Inside Adwords
Technical SEO testing: How to build a stronger experiment The hardest part of an SEO test is knowing what caused the result. Choose comparisons and metrics [...] - Search Engine Land
Google brings new AI agent capabilities to Ads and Analytics Google is bringing automated dashboards and conversational reporting to Google Ads and Analytics [...] - Search Engine Land
Google investigates Merchant Center outage Google says it is investigating reports of an issue affecting Merchant Center, but has not yet [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 7 2026

Google Ads Live Tests Of Strong Match Labels Google Ads is now testing the "Strongest match" and "Strong match" labels it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
You can’t demand the click if you won’t give the link Publishers demanding citations and traffic from AI platforms should give the same credit to the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Phone Conversions Report Gets View Call Report Link Google Ads added a "View call report" link in the Phone Call conversions leads report. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
On Sep 1 Google Ads To Migrate ACA & Campaign-Level Broad Match To AI Max Google Ads will begin migrating or "upgrading" Automatically created assets and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Crawlers Send HTTP Requests: HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, PATCH, DELETE Gary Illyes from Google said that Google's crawlers do not only send HTTP requests such as GET and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Your rankings aren’t telling you what your customers see Customers don't search in the controlled environment your SEO tools measure. That gap changes how [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google Ads Report On New Customers Acquired Google Ads is rolling out a new customer acquisition option named "Report on new customers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
ChatGPT Ads Updates: oCPC, Dynamic URLs, Muti-Product Carousel & More Earlier this week, OpenAI sent an email to advertisers about new ChatGPT Ads Manager product [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Wild Google Ranking Volatility, Reddit Special Preference, Big Google Executive Shakeup & More Search News This week, we covered two unconfirmed Google search ranking updates, one mid-week and one over the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Ex-AI Chief Jeff Dean Explains How To Improve Context Engineering via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's former Chief Scientist explains why AI models are less important and why context [...] - Search Engine Journal
What six perspectives reveal about demand generation in AI search SEO, PR, analyst relations, and publishers are solving the same AI measurement problem from [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 7, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
How business context changes AI recommendations See how three AI models responded as business context became progressively richer for the same [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads adds dedicated reporting for new customer acquisition Google now lets advertisers measure new customer acquisition without affecting bidding, replacing a [...] - Search Engine Land
YouTube tests image ads during horizontal mobile playback YouTube is overlaying static image ads during landscape mobile videos, potentially giving [...] - Search Engine Land
Google expands Limited Ad Serving policy across all Ads Google is introducing new qualification criteria based on trust signals, verification and account [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 6 2026

Google leadership changes with Jeff Dean out, Demis Hassabis role change and more Jeff Dean has been with Google for over 27 years, and helped build Google Search in the early days [...] - Search Engine Land
Microsoft Ads New Exclude Audience Ads Placements Within PMax Campaigns Microsoft Advertising is rolling out a new feature for advertisers to allow you to exclude Audience [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Video Q&A On August 17 Bidding Update Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, posted a video Q&A on the upcoming bidding update coming [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Product Listing Ads Deal Ends Experimental Annotation Google has a new specialized feature within Product Listing Ads within Merchant Center named Deal [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Won't Let Free Email Accounts Take Sensitive Actions Google Ads is testing a new security feature to disallow free domain email addresses (such as [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How SEO and PPC build trust across search: Case study A 26-week case study shows how connected search marketing efforts improved visibility, addressed [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up Into August 5th & 6th Yes, I reported Google Search ranking volatility over this past weekend, but I am seeing a large [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Leadership Changes: Jeff Dean Leaves, Demis Hassabis Change & More Google announced a number of big changes within its executive AI leadership ranks, including Jeff [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Shows AI Mode Queries, Not In Generative AI Reports While the Google Search Console generative AI performance reports do not share query data, you can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to spot an emerging category in search data Most trends fade. Some become entirely new markets. The difference is visible in search data if you [...] - Search Engine Land
The demand capture trap that’s making search more expensive Search can only capture existing demand. Learn why YouTube helps create future buyers, making [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 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 explains what advertisers should expect from Smart Bidding changes Google says its Aug. 17 Smart Bidding update will make budget-limited campaigns more predictable. - Search Engine Land
New Google Ads help doc outlines corporate email rules A new Google Ads help document explains how corporate email requirements will affect sensitive [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google help doc details Deal Ends annotations for Shopping ads A new Google help document explains how experimental Deal Ends annotations highlight eligible [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to auto-upgrade automatically created assets to AI Max Google will upgrade eligible Search campaigns to AI Max from Sept. 1, enabling search term matching [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 5 2026

Reddit CEO Intends To Show More Reviews And Recommendations via @sejournal, @martinibuster Reddit CEO Steve Huffman revealed intent to leverage the platform's vast amount of evergreen [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to launch a news publication that earns visibility in Google A six-month case study reveals what helped a new publication earn visibility in Google Search, AI [...] - Search Engine Land
Google releases help doc for Performance Max pay-per-lead goals The new guides explain how advertisers can set up, target and optimise Performance Max campaigns [...] - Search Engine Land
Google launches secure API access pilot for manager accounts The new pilot lets advertisers restrict sensitive API actions to approved applications, adding an [...] - Search Engine Land
Google tests clickable hyperlinks in Search ad descriptions Google is highlighting selected phrases within ad copy as clickable links, potentially helping [...] - Search Engine Land
Why the F.A.C.T.S. model is the key to search everywhere optimization by SOCi Learn how to boost visibility across search, social, reputation, and AI using SOCi's F.A.C.T.S. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Government Documents & Services Policy To Be Updated Google will be updating its Other restricted businesses: Government documents and services policy [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Top Source Search Feature Microsoft is testing a "Top Source" section within the Bing Search results interface. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Services Platform Policies Now Local Services Ads Requirements Google has renamed the Local Services platform policies document to Local Services Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Reddit Gets No Special Preference In Google Search Rankings Google's communications representative, Jennifer Kutz, told The Verge that Reddit gets no [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Assistant Shutting Down On Mobile Devices On September 4 We knew this day was coming, and now Google has sent out emails announcing the date when Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Assistant to be discontinued on Android starting September 4 Gemini will be replacing the Google Assistant on these devices. - Search Engine Land
What happens when AI Overviews contradict paid search ads? AI recommendations can steer users toward competitors, leaving advertisers to absorb the impact on [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 5, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
10 SEO use cases for auditing your accessibility tree for AI search Go beyond HTML with practical workflows to uncover rendering issues, weak site structure, and other [...] - Search Engine Land
Google tightens Ads policy for government document providers Advertisers now need to prove explicit government authorisation before promoting government [...] - Search Engine Land
Does topical focus make your brand more visible? New research reveals why AI cites brands across many topics but recommends them only where they've [...] - Search Engine Land
How to de-risk your SEO strategy when Google keeps changing the model behind your rankings Google keeps changing the models behind your rankings. How can you plan ahead and avoid risks? Read [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Loses Engineer Who Helped Build Search And Modern AI via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google loses Jeff Dean, who helped build Google Search and AI, replaced by DeepMind's Demis [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 4 2026

Google Ads Text Disclaimer Override Pinned Descriptions Position One Google Ads is testing a new text disclaimer feature that lets you set the text disclaimer to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Handle Swapping Coming To Google Search Profiles Google is currently beta testing a new Search Profiles feature named Handle Swapping. Handle [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Ad Preview & Diagnosis Captcha Bug The Google Ads Ad Preview and Diagnosis tool, where you can preview your ads in the Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
August 2026 Google Webmaster Report Here is the big Google Webmaster Report for August 2026, including of course the ongoing Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Tests Anchor Text Hyperlinks In Ad Descriptions Google is testing adding keyword-rich anchor text hyperlinks to the ad descriptions in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The latest AI news we announced in July 2026 Here are Google’s latest AI updates from July 2026 - Inside Search
Google Search testing forcing searchers to sign in to get more search results This is instead of using a captcha to verify the searcher is human and not a bot. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 4, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Report That Cloudflare AI Bot Blocking Prevents Googlebot From Indexing Sites via @sejournal, @martinibuster Anecdotal report that blocking AI training bots with Cloudflare blocks Googlebot from indexing [...] - Search Engine Journal

August, 3 2026

Google’s Documentation Refresh Offers Ideas For SEO Content Updates via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's updated documentation refresh shows where to focus on when updating your own content for [...] - Search Engine Journal
EU Commission Article 50 AI Transparency Law Has Four Exemptions via @sejournal, @martinibuster The European Commission's AI transparency law that has taken effect contains four exemptions from [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Webmaster Tools Page & Query Level Filtering Coming To Reports Microsoft has confirmed it is working on bringing filtering capabilities to the Bing Webmaster [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests Sign In To Verify Searches Are Human (Not Captcha) Google Search is testing asking searchers to sign in to verify they are humans and not bots [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Trends Lets You Compare 220% More Search Terms Google Trends now lets you compare up to 400 search terms across 8 groups of terms and up to 50 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Webmaster Tools SOAP/POX APIs To Be Retired On August 31, 2026 Microsoft will be retiring the Bing Webmaster Tools SOAP/POX APIs on August 31, 2026. If you use [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
GEO for people who have to hit revenue targets Most GEO advice optimizes for visibility. If you're accountable for business results, that's the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Ranking Volatility Hits August 1st & Heats Up Into August 3rd I am seeing signs of another Google Search ranking update with a lot of volatility hitting this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profiles Protect From Fraudulent Calls and Texts Updated The Google Business Profile help page on Help protect against fraudulent calls and texts has been [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Recommends Using 304 Status Code To Conserve Crawl Budget via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's updated crawl budget documentation recommends serving a 304 response code to Googlebot for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Keyword research meets prompt research: A smarter way to prioritize topics Some topics look small in search but dominate AI conversations. Compare keyword and prompt demand [...] - Search Engine Land
Free Advanced Link Training Lessons via @sejournal, @martinibuster One of the most advanced SEOs of all time, Bill Hartzer, is giving away free advanced link training [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 3, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to measure your brand’s visibility in Gemini Your brand could be influencing buying decisions in Gemini long before analytics ever sees it. [...] - Search Engine Land
4 Google Ads settings and recommendations worth a closer look Auto-apply, Display Expansion, Search Partners, and budget recommendations deserve a closer look. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google publishes guidance for text disclaimers in Search ads Google explains how advertisers can add legal disclosure assets to Search campaigns and what to [...] - Search Engine Land
Microsoft Clarity adds branded and non-branded AI queries You can now see numerous AI analytics reports broken down by branded and non-branded queries. - Search Engine Land
Google expands Data Manager API with smarter audience management Google is providing flexible audience management, smarter validation and richer Google Analytics [...] - Search Engine Land

August, 2 2026

Google Search Filter By Recent Broken If you try to filter you Google Search or Google News tab results by the recent search tools [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

August, 1 2026

What Opting Out Of Google’s AI Search Features Means Now via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's AI search opt-out is rolling out as Top Stories appear inside AI Overviews. What the [...] - Search Engine Journal