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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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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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…
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 play with it. And the early feedback is that AI Mode running Gemini 3.8 Flash is not link or citation friendly. Meaning, AI Mode with Google’s latest AI…
Google Expands Merchant Center AI Performance Insights
In July, Google began to roll out AI performance reports within Google Merchant Center to United States based merchants. Google said the AI reports are now available to merchants within Australia, Canada, India & New Zealand as well.
Google Ads Under Re-Review Label Status
Google Ads is showing under the status of your ads a label that says “Under Re-Review.” It says the ad is eligible but limited and “this ad is serving to a limited audience.” It then breaks down where the ad may not be serving.
Google Ads New Phone Call & Offline Conversions Details
Google added some new nuggets to its Google Ads help documentation on about conversion measurement, specifically on phone call conversions and offline conversions.
Google responds to user who lost ranking after disavowing backlinks
A user posted on Reddit describing a ranking drop after using Google’s Disavow Tool, asking for advice on recovery. Here’s what he wrote on reddit: “Accidentally Disavowed Valuable Backlinks — Lost My #3 Ranking. How Can I Recover?” John Mueller replied on reddit: There’s a lot of hate on the disavow tool here – but […]
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Gemini 3.8 Flash in AI Mode But Showing Less Citations
On 2 Sep 2026, Google introduced their latest version of Gemini Flash model series – Gemini 3.8 Flash and same day Google pushed this model in AI Mode too, available as a selector in models list. Whenever there is a new model from Google, I’ve been running tests to figure out what exactly changed in […]
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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 in Search.” This comes only a couple of weeks after Google brought Gemini 3.7 Flash to AI Mode within Google Search.