Archive of September, 2026

September, 8 2026

Search Central Live is coming to Bogota and Ciudad de México Leer en español - Google Webmaster Central
Why growing restaurant chains win at local search and AI visibility by SOCi Research finds a measurable digital visibility gap between expanding and shrinking restaurant [...] - Search Engine Land
How to build an AI governance framework for SEO From hallucinated metrics to exposed customer data, here’s how to spot common AI risks and [...] - Search Engine Land
The 11x ROAS account that lost money on every order High ROAS can mask negative contribution, weak incrementality, and costly inventory decisions. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google says DMA changes in EU resulted in worse degradation of search quality ever Google said "the changes mark the largest reduction in quality of service ‌at the world's [...] - Search Engine Land

September, 7 2026

Google Can Lose Faith In Sites Based On Low Value Programmatic SEO Google's John Mueller went off again on programmatic SEO, this time saying that programmatic SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Ads Automated Promotions Google Ads posted a new help document about automated promotions that describes how Google Ads can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Booking Partner Prices Are Customized Google's new DMA booking search widgets now carry a disclaimer to explain that the prices listed in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Merchant Center Shows AI Prompts For Top Performance Insights Google accidentally showed the prompts it uses for some of the insights reports within Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shopping Ads Have A Reverse Crocodile Effect With AI Overviews Since Google added AI Overviews to Google Search, many of us have been experiencing what some call [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Site Rules For Applebot-Extended Are Not Considered In Ranking For Search Apple has updated its help documentation for Applebot over the weekend and added a single line at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Overviews Get A Character Counter Tool Google will now give you an interactive widget within AI Overviews for when you are looking for a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google tests traditional Search campaigns in AI Mode Google is testing exact and phrase match Search ads in AI Mode when users show clear, direct intent. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 7, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
AI Overviews may be affecting Shopping ad CTR and impressions AI Overviews may be reducing Shopping ad impressions while concentrating clicks among higher-intent [...] - Search Engine Land

September, 4 2026

The latest jobs in search marketing Land your next job in SEO or PPC. These brands and agencies are hiring to fill open search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to fix citation bug with Gemini 3.8 Flash in AI Mode The latests Gemini model was unlikely to link or cite its sources. Google has confirmed the issue [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Collapsing Sitelinks That You Can Expand Google Ads is testing another variation of expandable sitelinks, where sitelinks are collapsed by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Tests Bolded HTTPS URLs In Snippets Microsoft is testing bolding the https portion of the URLs in the Bing Search results. We've seen [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Pushing Dismissed Recommendations Google Ads is now pushing notifications to advertisers for recommendations they have previously [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
ChatGPT Ads Manager Plugin, Audience Updates, Product Feeds & More We got a number of updates coming from OpenAI about ChatGPT Ads and the ChatGPT Ads Manager, we [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to build a defensible SEO budget for 2027 Show leadership what your SEO investment protects, where growth is justified, and which bets are [...] - Search Engine Land
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ad Tech Monopoly Wonât Be Broken Up, AI Mode Takes Over, Gemini Not Citing, AdSense Impression Changes & Bugs This week, we covered how Google for the second time dodged being broken up, this time over its ad [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Business Profiles Submit A Business Photo For Verification Google Business Profiles seems to be adding a fifth way to verify your business, this new method is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Expands Waze Ads Beyond The United States Google has expanded access to Waze Ads beyond the United States and to a total of 42 countries. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Limited Ad Serving: Why Google Ads suddenly show less often Google can limit ad serving without disapproving your ads. Learn what puts accounts at risk, how to [...] - Search Engine Land
SEO and PPC are sitting on each other’s best insights The keyword that’s too expensive for PPC could be your next SEO priority. The page that ranks [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 4, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
7 proven blog post templates (That work like a charm) This is a list of 7 detailed blog post templates that are proven to drive traffic to your blog. - Search Engine Land
The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year ChatGPT surged 48% while Bing fell 50% in U.S. traffic. See which sites gained, which lost, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Job Search Not Showing New Jobs? Google may have a bug with its job search feature because it is barely showing any new jobs within [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
USA TODAY overhauls audience strategy, citing search pressure The overhaul includes layoffs and a new audience team structure as AI platforms send fewer users [...] - Search Engine Land
Semrush is bringing AI visibility under the Spotlight This October, Semrush, an Adobe company, will bring its Spotlight conference to London to discuss [...] - Search Engine Land
OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads globally and builds out its ad stack OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT Ads, alongside new tools for audience targeting, conversion [...] - Search Engine Land
Google opens YouTube personalized ads to alcohol advertisers Google will allow personalized alcohol advertising on YouTube starting Oct. 30, in markets where [...] - Search Engine Land
Google rolls out AI-powered AdSense Help guide to all English Help Center traffic Google’s AI-powered AdSense Help guide answers publisher questions and helps with onboarding [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Tests Serving Search Ads With Restrictive Match Types In AI Mode Google has confirmed it has recently begun running a "small experiment" where it is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

September, 3 2026

3 SEO priorities to win organic traffic in 2027 Prioritize commercial content, make your best answers easy to extract, and build authority signals [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Says Ranking Recovery Takes Months After SEO Issues Are Fixed via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google explains why fixing what caused a ranking drop doesn’t necessarily mean rankings will [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Expands Merchant Center AI Performance Insights In July, Google began to roll out AI performance reports within Google Merchant Center to United [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Under Re-Review Label Status Google Ads is showing under the status of your ads a label that says "Under Re-Review." [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads New Phone Call & Offline Conversions Details Google added some new nuggets to its Google Ads help documentation on about conversion measurement, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
AI works best when it removes work, not judgment AI becomes risky when you delegate judgment. It becomes an “easy button” when you [...] - Search Engine Land
Publishers Noticing Google News Tab Content Disappearing Over the past several days, I have been hearing from some publishers that while their content is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode Gemini 3.8 Flash Not Link / Citation Friendly? As you know, Google rolled out Gemini 3.8 Flash for subscribers to AI Mode and some have started to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
What your Google Ads hour-of-day report doesn’t tell you Smart Bidding sees the auction-level signals your hourly report can’t. Know what you’re [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 3, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The SEO warning signs before organic traffic falls A healthy traffic graph can mask lost commercial visibility. Find the signals hiding in your [...] - Search Engine Land
SMX Now: Find the entity gaps holding back your content strategy See how to audit entity recognition, uncover competitor advantages, and strengthen your brand's [...] - Search Engine Land
SEO budgets: Where to invest for maximum impact as search evolves With so many changes in search, where should you invest? Find out with our detailed guide and get [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s New Weather AI In Search Continues Shift Away From 10 Blue Links via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's latest Search integration is another step to a future where users get things done without [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 2 2026

Google Analytics September 1 Data Missing Google Analytics seems to have another bug, this time with data missing from the main charts. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google DeepMind Says Gemini Is Evolving From Chatbot To AI Agent via @sejournal, @martinibuster Interview with head of Google DeepMind explains how Gemini is moving beyond answers toward AI that [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google AdSense Begin-to-Render Impression Measurement Coming Google AdSense will change how it counts impressions for display ads starting on February 17, 2027. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tell Maps Starts To Roll Out About a month ago, Google announced Tell Maps, a way for Google Maps contributors to use AI to tell [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Tests Search Result Snippets Without Site Names Microsoft is testing removing the site names from the Bing search results and instead showing only [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: The Disavow Tool Does Have Effects Google's John Mueller said the Google disavow tool "does have effects," adding, "but [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads New Pre-Fill Asset Groups With Generated Assets Google Ads added a new section to the how asset groups work help documentation for pre-fill asset [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Analytics showing zero traffic on September 1st This seems like a widespread bug impacting a lot of GA4 accounts. - Search Engine Land
What makes a good listicle? New research into 3,000 listicles reveals the signals associated with higher rankings — from [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Trends adds category filters You can now filter Google Trends by pre-defined categories, without having to enter a query. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 2, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Trends Explore Page Adds Category Filtering Google Trends now lets you filter your results by category, either with or without a query. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Evolving SEO for 2027: What still needs to change Search visibility now extends from Google results to AI citations and community conversations. [...] - Search Engine Land
Lily Ray on why shortcuts rarely win in SEO or AI search From buying links to AI search, Lily Ray shares why lasting visibility comes from E-E-A-T, real [...] - Search Engine Land
Judge Rules Google Ad Tech Business Won't Be Broken Up A federal judge in Virginia ruled against breaking up Google's ad tech business after Google was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Gemini 3.8 Flash rolling out in Google Search This too is first rolling out AI Mode for Google AI Pro & Ultra subscribers in English, like we [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Using Gemini 3.8 Flash In AI Mode Google's Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google Search, said on X, "Gemini 3.8 Flash has landed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Build a measurement stack you can rely on to steer your campaigns. In this Ads Decoded episode, we discuss how to assess marketing campaigns with attribution, [...] - Inside Adwords
From content creation to content orchestration: How agentic AI changes the role of content strategists Agentic AI is shifting content strategists from writing copy to orchestrating workflows. Here's [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Responds To Sitemap SEO Technique That Forces Daily Crawling via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Mueller comments on a sitemap SEO method that forces search engines to crawl and index web [...] - Search Engine Journal

September, 1 2026

Google Ads Performance Max Help Docs Updated On Friday, Google pushed out a pretty big overhaul of the Performance Max documentation within the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Verifying Your Request To Continue To Search Results In early August, Google was testing requiring searchers to sign in to verify they are humans to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads AI Max Keyword Prioritization For Exact Match Google Ads added a new paragraph to the AI Max help documentation for AI Max keyword [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
September 2026 Google Webmaster Report It is time for the monthly Google webmaster report, where I recap the larger stories from the past [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Discover Not Loading Or Loading Slowly Google Discover has been having issues for the past hour or so. Some are reporting that Discover [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Anthropic AI watermarking: What it means for content and SEO Confused by the AI watermark debate? Cut through the noise with a clear look at what Claude [...] - Search Engine Land
Global: Google Search Console AI Performance Report & AI Control For real this time, Google has released the Google Search Console generative AI performance reports [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads AI-Generated From The Store Rating Reviews Label Google Ads has been testing AI-generated snippets and summaries in the sponsored results within [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
10 technical SEO audit mistakes that lead to bad recommendations Your crawler can find the symptom. Your audit needs to explain the cause, why it matters, and what [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 1, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense to change how it counts impressions: Begin-to-Render This change is happening on February 17, 2027 and will result in a change in total impressions. - Search Engine Land
Google Details Who Can License Its Search Data In Europe via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google published eligibility rules, samples, and key dates for licensing ranking, query, click, and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Working On Fixing Local Service Ads Bug Google is working on fixing a bug with Local Service Ads where it seems Local Service Ads are being [...] - Search Engine Roundtable