Ensuring continuous discoverability with agentic AI for SEO
In our Rethinking SEO in the age of AI article, we briefly explored how AI might move beyond simple prompt-and-response interactions. One emerging direction is agentic AI. Systems that can take action, not just generate answers. While this space is still evolving, we’re already seeing early signs of tools that can identify gaps, suggest improvements, […]
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Google Click Through Rates Improving For Organic Results With AI Overviews
Google may be doing something right with improving the click-through rates from the organic search results page that contain AI Overviews. An update report shows the CTR is improving, after numerous times showing the CTR has been declining.
Google Ads Confirms Demand Gen Image Ads Approval Delays
Google’s Ginny Marvin, the Ads Liaison, has confirmed there are delays for some Demand Gen Image ads to be approved. Some of these delays are several days pending, not hours, but several days.
Bing Tests Less Clickable Links In Copilot Search Results
Microsoft Bing is testing making the links within the AI results, the Copilot Search results, less clickable. Typically, the whole line of text is clickable to the citation but here, Bing is testing only linking the citation mark at the end.
Google Tests AI Label On Search Ads
Google is testing adding an AI label to some of the search ads, the sponsored results, within the search results. Clicking on the AI label does nothing, according to Brodie Clark who spotted this.
Google Maps Video Editing Within Google App
Google now lets you edit videos within your Google Business Profiles, directly in the Google app. There are basic editing tools, probably more than most businesses require, to update and edit the videos that they want to show in Google Maps and Google …
The Google Algorithm Update Correction Hypothesis
The Google Algorithm Update Correction Hypothesis by Shaun Anderson AKA Hobo.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 24, 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 now won’t use spam reports with personal identifiable information. Google’s head of search…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Heated Google Ranking Volatility, Commodity Content, Getting SEO Right, Search Ads
This week, we covered new heated Google search ranking volatility. Google’s Danny Sullivan spoke about commodity versus non-commodity content. Google now wont use spam reports with personality identifiable…
Liz Reid Of Google Interviewed By Bloomberg On Google Search & AI
Here is another interview from Google’s head of search, Liz Reid. This one was done on the Odd Lots Bloomberg podcast and is titled “Google’s Liz Reid on Who Will Own Search in a World of AI.”
Google To Fix AI Mode Bug Where It Changes Title Links
Google is working to fix a bug in AI Mode where it is changing the title links and citations. This bug was spotted by Lily Ray who wrote on X, “Google is changing title links / citations in AI Mode – just the name of the person, with a link to the pla…
New: Google Won’t Use Spam Reports With Personally Identifying Information
A couple of weeks ago, Google stunned many by saying that they updated their spam report to pass along all information to the site that you enter in the spam report. There was a lot of backlash to that and Google reverted, now saying if there is person…
Google Testing Audio Overviews In The Wild (Not Just In Labs)
About a year ago, Google announced you can opt in, within Search Labs, to see Audio Overviews within the Google Search results. But now, I saw two different people say they saw it without opting into the experiment. So Google may be testing this in the…
Google Business Profiles Sorts Photos By Most Recent
Google Business Profiles lets you upload photos of your business to your Business Profile. Those photos can be viewed on Google Search and Google Maps. And now, these photos are reportedly sorted by most recently uploaded.
What is AgaaS? “Agentic as a Service” Explained by Jensen Huang
Agentic as a service described by Jensen Huang.
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What is Commodity Content to Google in 2026?
Example: Commodity vs Non-Commodity Content
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What is Non-Commodity Content? Meet The New Helpful Content
This is how you cover a conference and pick up links, via JC Chouinard. Non-Commodity Content, in short, is the new Helpful Content benchmark from Google – at least, what they are talking about on stage. It is clear that Google want to leave help…
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 23, 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.
We are seeing Google volatility get heated again…
Why your product is your most important SEO asset
For a long time, we defined SEO success by rankings and traffic. If you reached the top of the search results and brought people to your site, you did your job. That approach worked when discovery was linear, and search engines were the primary gatekeepers. But modern search behavior does not stop at discovery. Users […]
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Google On Publishing Commodity Content
Danny Sullivan from Google spoke at the Google Search Central event in Toronto a couple of days ago and a few of his slides spoke about it is important to produce “unique, authentic and non-commodity content.” And then Sullivan dug into what commodity…