Archive of November, 2026

November, 10 2026

ChatGPT Ads While It Creates Your Image Live OpenAI announced a month ago that it would release a "new visual ad format in ChatGPT" to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: It Can Take Time To Understand The Unique Value Of New Websites Google's John Mueller said it can take Google Search some time to understand a new site's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Overview Local Pack Dropping Action Buttons, Photos & Reviews Google is testing removing the action buttons, reviews, photos, etc from the AI Overview version of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads: Ads With Pay-Per-Lead Goals Terms Google Ads is rolling out a new option named "Ads with pay-per-lead goals terms." [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 9 2026

Google Aggregator & Supplier Units Gain 'Things To Do' Query Support Google has updated two help documents, the aggregator unit and supplier unit documentation to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Holiday 100: Your guide to this year’s top trending gifts Google’s Holiday 100 is here. Shop the gifts that are most popular this year and see the [...] - Inside Adwords
Bing Ads At Top Of AI Mode Results Microsoft is showing ads at the top of the Bing AI Mode (formerly Copilot Search) results. Bing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads AI-Generated Summaries Above & Within Ads Google is testing more AI-generated summaries within its search ads. This one shows AI-generated [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Data Manager In Google Analytics Beta Google has launched Data Manager in Google Analytics. Data Manager in Google Analytics, "is a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads New Asset Activity Section Google Ads is testing a new section in the advertiser console named "Asset Activity." [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Volatility Status: Update November 8th/9th? It's been about two weeks since we reported on a Google Search ranking update, whether confirmed or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode Multiturn Ads Are Live - Follow-Up Query Ads A couple of weeks ago, Google announced Multiturn ads, ads show up on responses to follow-up user [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adding Booking Links To Business Profiles Automatically? Google may automatically add booking links to some local business profile listings. I noticed that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 9, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 8 2026

Tripadvisor Says SEO Will Still Weigh On Growth In 2027 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Tripadvisor tied a writedown largely to search changes, expects SEO to weigh on growth next year, [...] - Search Engine Journal

November, 6 2026

Google Expands Business Messaging To Google Maps On iOS & Android Google published its monthly "Google Small Business Bulletin" where it gives tips and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Pushing AI Mode Users To Opt In To Personal Intelligence Google is throwing up pop-up notifications in AI Mode to encourage searchers to turn on Personal [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Search AI Visual Summary Snippet Microsoft Bing has a new AI feature in its search results named "AI visual summary." This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Confirms Issues With Merchant Center, API & Feeds Google has confirmed there is an ongoing issue right now with Google Merchant Center. The issue is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Scaled Content Abuse From Facebook, ChatGPT Search 20% Of Google & More SEO, PPC & Local This week, we covered Facebook's latest AI-slop strategy that likely will get hit by Google's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profiles Manage Offers Help Document Google has created a new help document named Manage offers on your Business Profile. Offers in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode Asking Searchers To Continue With This Search Google is now asking searchers to "continue with this search" when they go to AI Mode. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shopping Dominating The European Product Search Results As you know, Google dropped its free product listings in Europe because of the Digital Markets Act. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 6, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
OpenAI Working On ChatGPT Tools For Business For Analytics & Citations OpenAI is developing a Search Console- or Webmaster Tools-like tool that lets businesses manage and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 5 2026

Google Explains How Redirects Affect Ranking Signals via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google clarifies how server-side redirects influence ranking signals and canonicalization. - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Gains A New Telemedicine Certification Option Google Ads announced that in addition to the original telemedicine certification options, Google is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode Integrates With Home Services Booking Google has added home services booking integration within AI Mode. Google has partnered with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Can Temporarily Protect Important URLs From Being Deindexed Gary Illyes from Google said that when important URLs serve a 4xx status code, Google Search can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profiles Car Dealership Inventory Limited Pilot Google Business Profiles is testing a "new feature pilot" for car dealership inventory, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Profiles Spotted Adding LinkedIn Google Search Profiles officially supports YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and X, plus you can also add [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook Answers AI-Generated 6 Million Pages Is Google Scaled Content Abuse If you looked at the Google Search results recently, you may have stumbled on content from Facebook [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Expands AI Content Disclosure Label To More Regions Google Ads has expanded the regions where you must disclose whether AI was used in your ads. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads PMax Channel Report Definitions Coming To Search & Shopping Google updated its Definition: Performance Max channel help document to specify that channel [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 5, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
OpenAI Updates ChatGPT Ads Bidding Options For Max Bid or Max CPC OpenAI has just emailed advertisers within ChatGPT Ads about bidding options changes coming Monday, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 4 2026

Search Central Live in Zurich is back! Search Central Live is coming to Zurich on December 4, 2026! - Google Webmaster Central
OpenAI Says ChatGPT Is At 20% Of Google Search Volume OpenAI's Adam Fry said "ChatGPT's volume of search-like queries is now roughly one-fifth the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Server Side Google Tag Manager To See Full IP Addresses Server-side Google Tag Manager will soon be able to process and see your visitors' full IP [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
List Of Google Twiddlers For Re-Ranking Search Results Twiddlers are adjustable rules or systems that Google uses to fine-tune search results. They can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads New Help Document For Promotion Mode Google Ads has posted a super comprehensive help document for Promotion mode. Promotion mode lets [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode Now With Up To Four Ads Google can now show up to four Google Ads in the AI Mode responses for a single query. I mean, I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Clarity With New Agentic Analytics & Ask Clarity Microsoft Clarity added two, well, three, new features today, including agentic analytics, ask [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Performance Report Multi-Select Device Filters Google Search Console has rolled out the ability to select multiple device types within the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 4, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Emails: Site Reputation Policy Manual Actions No Longer Impact EEA Google just sent out emails to some sites that have site reputation abuse policy manual actions [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Explains Difference With Search Terms Match Type (Keywords) Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, explained why the Google Ads interface has two different [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 3 2026

Google Says It’s Okay To Block Some JavaScript Resources With Robots.txt via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller said it's okay, within a specific use case, to use robots.txt to hide [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google On How To Block Popups Using Robot.txt In Search Google's John Mueller explained how to prevent pop-up dialogs on your website from appearing in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Only Home Page Indexed? Might Be A Google Search Quality Issue Is your home page the only page indexed by Google Search? Were other pages of your site previously [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads PMax Campaigns May Filter Out Navigational & Brand Queries Google Ads updated its How Performance Max interacts with other campaigns in your account help [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Asset Scheduling With Day Grouping (Weekends/Weekdays) Google Ads improved the asset scheduling advanced options to let you group days, such as weekends [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode Biased: It Only Shows Links To Google Flights Over the weekend, I tested out using Google AI Mode to get flight information and 100% of the time, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Removing AI Mode Button From Search Bar Google is supposedly testing removing the AI Mode button from the Google Search bar. I cannot [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 3, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Will Turn Off Google Search For K-12 Schools & Testing Learning Beta Google announced it will "entirely" turn off Google Search, along with Gemini, Gemini [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Performance Reports Showing Weird Spike In Clicks For Some Sites Google Search Console's performance report is showing a weird spike in clicks for some sites over [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Rank Trackers Find Google Results About One Word Of A Query via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Rank tracker data shows unrelated Google results that follow one word of the query, mostly below [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Updates Crawled - Currently Not Indexed Details Google has updated the page indexing report help documentation, specifically the "Crawled - [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 2 2026

Google Says Technical SEO Remains Key For AI SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller cautioned against relying on short-term AI SEO tactics and explained why [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Strategists Using AI-Generated Fake Names & Profile Photos Google Ads Strategists, who are part of the Google Extended Workforce, are using AI-generated [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Reddit Stock Drops 33% After CEO Confirms Declining Google Search Traffic Reddit's stock dropped 36% over the past week after Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman, confirmed Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Promotion Offers Within Promotions Google has added a new "Promotions offers" section within the Promotions section in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
November 2026 Google Webmaster Report It is time for the big Google Webmaster report, the November 2026 edition, where I recap all the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Gary Illyes Implies Click Data Not Coming To Google Search Console AI Reporting Gary Illyes from Google has implied that click data and query data are likely not coming to the AI [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 2, 2026 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Overviews For Brands Moved To Right Column Google has moved the AI Overviews for many brand-related keywords to the right-hand column of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
PageSpeed Insights Scores May Rise After Lighthouse Update via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern A Google Lighthouse update changes how PageSpeed Insights simulates page loads, which can raise lab [...] - Search Engine Journal