Google Technical SEO & Programmatic SEO Are Different
Google’s John Mueller does not want you to lump programmatic SEO with technical SEO. He said they are different things and that while technical SEO “will definitely continue to be a thing,” programmatic SEO is another story.
Google Tests AI Overviews Follow Up In AI Mode vs Dive Deeper in AI Mode
Google is testing replacing the “Dive deeper in AI Mode” button with “Follow up in AI Mode.” This is the button you can sometimes see at the bottom of the AI Overview, after you expand the AI Overview within Google Search.
Bing Travel Stories
Bing added a new section to its search results named “travel stories.” You can see them when you enter in a popular travel country or city, and then look on the right side of the page. The travel stories pull from Bing Travel.
Google AI Overviews With Image Carousel
Google AI Overviews can now show an image carousel that you can swipe through to go to images. I am not able to replicate this myself but it seems like when you click on the images, it takes you into Google Image Search.
Google Ads Help Doc On Ads In AI Overviews & Experiences
Google has released a new help document named About Ads and AI Overviews, plus, they added a new landing page that contains a link to this single document named Ads in AI-Powered experiences. I assume Google will eventually add a new section named Ads …
SEO Complaints About Google’s Live Broadcasting & Indexing API
I am seeing a number of complaints from the SEO industry in India and those regions around Google not indexing live broadcast types of content fast with the Google Indexing API. There are quite a number of complaints on X this morning about the issue -…
Google Ads Lowers Customer Lists To 100 Visitors For Targeting On Search Campaigns
Google Ads, sometime after June 2024 and November 2024, updated the size of your data segment requirement from 1,000 active visitors in a 30-day period to 100 active visitors in the same period. This is for the requirement to serve your ads varies base…
Google Shopping Tests New Menu Under Search Bar With Super G Logo
Google is testing a new menu, tab bar, under the search bar within Google Shopping. This new bar most visibly has the super G logo and then contains additional options that take you to search, nearby, deals and for you searches.
Google: Stop Using Indexing API For Unsupported Content
Google’s John Mueller once again told SEOs to stop using the Google Indexing API for unsupported content types. The Google Indexing API is supported for job postings and live stream content and nothing else, but yet many still try to use it for other t…
Google AI Mode Reporting Coming To Search Console
Google has confirmed that AI Mode reporting will be coming to Google Search Console. It is currently not yet in Search Console, but it will be coming as part of the AI Mode rollout.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 23, 2025
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 confirmed there is a bug with the referrer links in AI Mode…
Google I/O, Marketing Live, AI Mode, AI Overviews, AI Ads, Search Volatility & More
This week was a huge week for search; between Google I/O and Google Marketing Live – it was just a lot. We had two unconfirmed Google ranking updates, one on I/O day and one on May 16th. Google announced AI Mode was…
Google AI Mode Tracking Referrer Issue A Bug
Google released AI Mode in the U.S. a couple of days ago and Tom Critchlow and Patrick Stox noticed that Google prevented you from tracking referrer data from AI Mode. Well, that turned out to be unintentional and Google said it is a bug and it will b…
Spike In Google Business Profiles Name Changes?
I am seeing some complaints within the local SEO community about a surge or spike in name changes happening to Google Business Profiles. It is unclear how widespread the issue is, or if there is a pattern to the issue or not – at least at this point i…
Google AdSense Anchor Ad Positions Setting
Google has added a setting for AdSense publishers to pick the positions of their anchor ads. They can pick from up to six different settings depending on top/bottom or side anchor ads.
Google Search Tests Recently Viewed Label
Google is testing a “recently viewed” label in the search results, next to search result snippets that you have clicked on in your recent search history. This is similar to the you visit often label and the other recently visited examples we’ve seen ov…
Google AdSense Ad Intents New Display Ads Option
Google has added a new display ads option for ad intents. The new option lets you pick between always show display ads with organic search results or show search ads with organic search results, and display ads if search ads are unavailable.
Bug: Google Search Console Discover Performance Report Hashtag Notice
Google Search Console’s Discover performance report has a weird bug. It started early yesterday morning where a blue notice prompt would show up and have a mysterious hashtag, with the text “Learn more” and “Got it.” This is obviously a bug.
Google Ads Come To AI Mode & AI Overviews Desktop
Google is now pushing search ads on AI Mode and the desktop version of AI Overviews. Google’s Vidhya Srinivasan said at Google Marketing Live, “we’re expanding ads in AI Overviews to desktop, and bringing ads to AI Mode to create new opportunities for …
New Google Ads Smart Bidding Exploration: Bidding Update
Google announced a new bidding update to Google Ads named Smart Bidding Exploration. Google said this is the “biggest update to bidding in over a decade.”