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.
Judge Rules Google Ad Tech Business Won’t Be Broken Up
A federal judge in Virginia ruled against breaking up Google’s ad tech business after Google was found to be a monopoly over its ad technology platforms. The judge ordered Google to end its practices that depress ad rates for web publishers, but declin…
Google Search Console social properties show strange search queries
Google Search Console recently introduced a new feature that allows property owners to see performance data for their social accounts. This property type includes query, post, country, device, search appearance, and date data. Gagan Ghotra posted something interesting related to on X, wrote: “Social properties in search console – it’s showing really really weird queries….. […]
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Prompts to programming: Vibe coding vs. traditional coding a website
Good vibes can spark great ideas, and now they can even help you build a website. With vibe coding, you don’t need to start by writing lines of code. Instead, you tell AI what you want to create, refine the results through conversation, and watch your website take shape. While it won’t replace every aspect […]
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Google Trends Explore Page Adds Category Filtering
Google Trends now lets you filter your results by category, either with or without a query. This can give you a more refined view of the trends for a specific query or zoom you out more on category level trends within Google Search.
Google introduces new category filter in Google Trends
Google has introduced a new category filter within Google Trends. Google announced this on LinkedIn, wrote: “We’re excited to introduce Trends category filters on the new Explore page! This update makes it easier to refine trends data more precisely for specific categories such as ‘All Books & Literature.’” Google also shared a pro tip alongside […]
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