Best AI SEO WordPress plugins for the content you already have
7 picks for a publishing site’s less glamorous work: refreshing metadata, finding missing internal links and dealing with the image library.
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Poland accuses Google of making publishers negotiate blind over news payments
The competition case targets negotiations for content used in Search, News and Discover, with potential penalties of up to 10% of turnover.
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Ad giant says Apple’s Safari is blocking its ads
A public WebKit complaint concerns the domain used for ad requests and delivery; the ticket remained open when checked.
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Is Google Search Console finally getting dark mode?
A photographed conference slide credits Nano Banana for the dark interface, while a launch date remains unconfirmed.
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Google tests grey box design in Shopping ads
Google is testing a grey box design for Shopping ads instead of the usual white background, though the new version appears to be missing the ‘Shop now’ button
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OpenAI tests new visual ad format in ChatGPT
OpenAI is testing a new visual ad format that appears during ChatGPT’s image generation process, alongside expanded ad measurement tools and brand safety partnerships with DoubleVerify and IAS.
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OpenAI tests new visual ad format in ChatGPT
OpenAI is testing a new visual ad format that appears during ChatGPT’s image generation process, alongside expanded ad measurement tools and brand safety partnerships with DoubleVerify and IAS.
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Yahoo pushes scout with new homepage button and product recommendations
Yahoo is pushing Yahoo Scout more aggressively, adding a dedicated homepage button similar to Google’s AI Mode buttons, while Scout now shows product recommendations for ecommerce queries.
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Yahoo pushes scout with new homepage button and product recommendations
Yahoo is pushing Yahoo Scout more aggressively, adding a dedicated homepage button similar to Google’s AI Mode buttons, while Scout now shows product recommendations for ecommerce queries.
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Google Local Results test new WhatsApp button
Google is testing a WhatsApp button within Local Results that may let users message a business directly, though it disappeared on a second check.
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Google Local Results test new WhatsApp button
Google is testing a WhatsApp button within Local Results that may let users message a business directly, though it disappeared on a second check.
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ChatGPT tests new “This might also interest you” heading above ads
ChatGPT is testing a new ‘This might also interest you’ heading above ads, a small addition to its ongoing ad design experiments.
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ChatGPT tests new “This might also interest you” heading above ads
ChatGPT is testing a new ‘This might also interest you’ heading above ads, a small addition to its ongoing ad design experiments.
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Dark Mode Coming To Google Search Console
Google will soon support dark mode in Google Search Console. Ariel Kroszynski, a Senior Software Engineer at Google, announced this at the Google Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026 in Barcelona last week.
Google Search Spam Updates Use AI To Find AI Spam & More
Google spoke at the three-day Google Search Central Live Deep Dive event in Europe about why it has rolled out so many spam updates in 2026, according to John Campbell’s recap at We Are Roast. He said that Google has been doing more spam updates becaus…
Google Ads To Automated Promotions For Search & PMax Campaigns Soon
Google Ads sent an email notifying some advertisers that it will automatically identify and extract high-quality promotions from your website and apply them directly to your campaigns starting on October 12, 2026. This is called automated promotions an…
Google Ads With Doubled About This Ad Button
Google seems to have a bug of sorts where sometimes it can show the three dots about this ad or search result button twice, instead of just once. I can replicate this for some queries but not all.
Google Search Data On Crawling, Indexing & Serving Timelines
Gary Illyes from Google reportedly presented new data from Google Search on how long Google for crawling, indexing and serving on average. This is broken down by process, withing crawling, indexing and serving and shows the typical timeframe versus th…
Google Ads AI Campaign Localization Tool (Beta)
Google Ads has a new AI campaign localization tool for Search campaigns (beta), at least according to a new help document I found late last week. “You can use the AI campaign localization tool to quickly localize entire Search campaigns for new languag…
OpenAI To Test Visual ChatGPT Ad Format During AI Image Generation
OpenAI announced “new visual ad format in ChatGPT” that it will be testing “later this month in the US with an initial group of advertisers.” The new visual ad format is an “ad format during image generation in ChatGPT.” So if you ask ChatGPT to make a…