Impressions/Clicks dipped the day – AI Overviews rollout in France
Exactly the day Google started rolling out AI Overviews in France search results on 21 July 2026. There was significant dip in impressions/clicks of this domain. Lily Ray shared this screenshot showing search console performance report. If in case you’re also aiming to rank in France search results and noticed this kind of dip then […]
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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 tech monopoly. Google AI Overviews are expanding by default…
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 by submitting a photo of your business location. The other methods are phone or text, email, live video call or a postcard in the mail.
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. Google updated the PMax help documents in the Google Ads help center with this new information. It now says, “Waze Ads are currently available across selec…
Google Ads Collapsing Sitelinks That You Can Expand
Google Ads is testing another variation of expandable sitelinks, where sitelinks are collapsed by default and a number indicator shows how many more are available. You can then click to expand the sitelinks to show more.
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 Microsoft test HTTPS labels in various forms over the years, including using lock icons. But here, Microsoft Bing is being more subtle about it by just b…
Google Ads Pushing Dismissed Recommendations
Google Ads is now pushing notifications to advertisers for recommendations they have previously dismissed. Google shows a message in the ads console that reads, “You still have dismissed recommendations for this campaign,” which you can dismiss once ag…
Google tests new sitelinks display design for sponsored ads
Google is testing a new way to display sitelinks in Google Ads. Previously, if a website’s ad had more than two sitelinks, Google would show them all. Now, Google is showing only two sitelinks with a “+2” indicator. Clicking “+2” expands to show all sitelinks for that site. We spotted this yesterday Here is a […]
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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 also suspect that the shopping results coming from ChatGPT only come from those who submit product feeds. The other updates include a plugin for integration…
Google Business Profile adds new photo verification method
Google Business Profile now has a new way to submit a business photo as part of verification. Ben Fisher spotted this and shared it on LinkedIn along with screenshots. He wrote: “New: This could be a pretty significant change in Google Business Profile verification. We’re now seeing ‘Submit a business photo’ appear as a verification […]
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Bing has retired its legacy SOAP and POX Webmaster APIs
Bing Webmaster Tools officially retired its legacy SOAP and POX/HTTP APIs on August 31, 2026. If you missed this, and your integration was still calling those endpoints, requests to them have now stopped working entirely. What changed Bing Webmaster Tools previously supported three API protocols — SOAP, POX/HTTP, and JSON/HTTP. Bing has now consolidated everything […]
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Easy & Simple way to use AI for generating amazing and relevant images for blog content
Take all of your blog post content and paste it in Gemini chat bot with this at the start “If following is content of a blog post then suggest me some prompts which I can use in Gemini to do some featured images generations for this blog post” then enter title and whole content of […]
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Using Fable 5.1 to filter Search Console data and find Real Human Queries!!
Recently Google Search Console is showing some weird queries, which are highly unlikely to be something which a real human user is going to do like a Google Search. And it might be possible that those queries are from some AI Search systems (like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude) and while doing SEO Analysis it’s important to […]
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SEO Migration Mishap Costed This Aussie Brand Millions!!
Per the report form Inspirepreneur – “Maggie Beer Holdings reported a $9.53 million FY26 statutory loss after organic search traffic fell following a website migration at Hampers & Gifts Australia”. The Hamper Emporium is an Australian online premium gifting and hamper retailer. It sells curated gift boxes and baskets for personal occasions and corporate gifting—typically […]
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SEO Tools Which Are Handling Google’s Goto URL Change Properly
Google is now masking URLs in search results so that it’s not clear what the exact URL of the page is and where it’s going. This is breaking how different SEO tools scrape and rank track Google’s search results, which of course is leading to SEO teams having some trouble because rank tracking setups in […]
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Grok Claude ChatGPT – Everything is down right now?
Right now all of your favourite models are having serving issues. It’s not certain what might be causing this issue across so many companies. But except Gemini, all the models are having some serving issues. Also I guess it might be possible that there is some issue from Cloudflare because most of these AI companies […]
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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 Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Google has dodged being broken up for a second time on its monopoly ruling…
Profound launches Context Manager for AI Marketer
Generic AI produces generic work. It can draft a blog post, summarize a competitor, or turn a data pull into a report in seconds. But it can’t know that your team never publishes listicles, that one competitor matters way more than the rest right now, or that this quarter’s report needs to center on an […]
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Profound launches Context Manager for AI Marketer
Generic AI produces generic work. It can draft a blog post, summarize a competitor, or turn a data pull into a report in seconds. But it can’t know that your team never publishes listicles, that one competitor matters way more than the rest right now, or that this quarter’s report needs to center on an […]
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Publishers Noticing Google News Tab Content Disappearing
Over the past several days, I have been hearing from some publishers that while their content is being crawled, indexed, and served in Google Search results, some of it is missing from the news tab. It may then later show up in the news tab, much late…