Archive of August, 2026
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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