Google: Cloudflare Content Signals Robots.txt Directive Has No Effects
John Mueller from Google said that the new Content Signals robots.txt directive invented by Cloudflare last year has “no effects whatsoever for any crawler or LLM.” He added that it “just adds bloat and future maintenance to your robots.txt file.” As f…
ChatGPT Ads Can Generate Ads For You
OpenAI’s ad platform, ChatGPT Ads, is now using AI (I guess) to generate ads for you. The ad platform lets you click on “add new ad,” which then says, “Generated ads for you,” and then lets you review, edit, and approve that generated ad.
Further Exploration Found In The Wild Within Google AI Overviews
Back in early May, Google announced five new ways to explore the web with generative AI in Google Search. One was a feature that was titled “Further Exploration” at the bottom of the AI Overview within Google Search. Well, now it seems some are seeing …
Google & YouTube Shopify App Sync May Cause Mess After August 18th
Those of you who use the Google and YouTube Shopify app to sync your products automatically from Shopify to Google Merchant Center may have a huge headache to deal with after August 18, 2026. The rumor is that you will need to reinstall the app by thi…
Bing Tests Product Detail Overlay With Retailer Pricing, Price Insights & More
Microsoft Bing is testing product detail screens, overlays, when you click on a product listing within the Bing search results. Bing will overlay a product detail screen, with the products images, description, the retailers and prices they sell it at,…
Yoast SEO now works with Elementor’s new atomic editor
Elementor recently introduced a new way to build pages, called the atomic editor. If you’d switched to it, you may have noticed something annoying: Yoast SEO couldn’t see your content. Your text length, keyphrase checks, and readability results came back empty, even on a page full of content. We’ve fixed that. Yoast SEO now reads […]
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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 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 Local reviews are disappearing from many businesses…
Google Page Indexing Report Has Been Fixed & Updated
Google has fixed the page indexing report within Google Search Console after it was struck and delayed for over three weeks. It was literally just fixed within minutes of this story going live, as I continuously check the report like an unwell-OCD man.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google June Spam Update Done, Fraud DMCA Takedowns Breaks Google, Costly Google Ad Budget Changes & More
This week, I covered that Google’s June 2026 spam update completed last Friday afternoon. Fraudulent DMCA takedown requests are breaking Google Search and no one seems to be doing anything. Google AI Mode improved links…
Google Local Reviews Go Missing For Many Businesses
Google reviews seem to be disappearing from Google Business Profile local listings. In the past few days or so there has been an influx of complaints in the Google Business Profile forums. I have not seen Google respond to the complaints, but either t…
Google Business Profile Restrictions & Penalties Are Additive
Google will add to existing penalties or restrictions on your Google Business Profiles if you continue to violate the same policy over and over again. The initial restriction might be 30 days but then if you are caught doing the same thing, Google can…
Google Tests New Local Places Layout Design
Google is testing updating the design for the local pack and places listings within Google Search. The map was moved to the top, instead of on the right and the action buttons are also moved and changed. I am not sure which version I like more, but he…
Google Fourth Of July 2026 Doodle Celebrating 250 Years Of The USA
Google has posted its Fourth of July Doodle for 2026, the United States Semiquincentennial celebrates the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. The Doodle is an animated GIF of the American flag in the background.
Google Third-Party Rates For Hotel Ads Feature Going Away On Sept. 30
Google added a note to the About Google third-party rates for hotel ads saying after September 30, 2026 this will become unavailable. Google said campaigns will stop serving ads across all Hotel Ads inventory after September 30th.
Google Third-Party Rates For Hotel Ads Feature Going Away On Sept. 30
Google added a note to the About Google third-party rates for hotel ads saying after September 30, 2026 this will become unavailable. Google said campaigns will stop serving ads across all Hotel Ads inventory after September 30th.
Microsoft Advertising Performance Max Experiments Beta Types
Microsoft Advertising has opened up a new betas for Performance Max experiments. There are now Max upgrade or uplift experiment available in Microsoft Advertising.
Microsoft Advertising Performance Max Experiments Beta Types
Microsoft Advertising has opened up a new betas for Performance Max experiments. There are now Max upgrade or uplift experiment available in Microsoft Advertising.
Google Ads Makes Changes To Bidding For Campaigns Limited By Budget
Google Ads, as we covered earlier, made changes to Target CPA & Target ROAS. But now, Google sent out an email about even more changes starting on August 17, 2026 around bidding for campaigns limited by budget. It seems like this bidding update will e…
July 2026 Google Webmaster Report
Here is the monthly Google Webmaster report, where I summarize the major organic Google Search news and SEO topics from the past month. The big news was the Google June 2026 spam update, which took only two days to roll out and felt like it started ear…
Bing Webmaster Tools Backfilled Data For AI Performance Reports On June 1st
If you take a look at the Bing Webmaster Tools newish AI performance reports, you may see more data, impressions, etc showing up on and after June 1, 2026. Microsoft said this is just “regular data backfilling” and there are “no anomalies” (which I th…