Google Business Profile Suspensions Spike
A number of local SEOs are noticing a lift in the number of suspensions they are dealing with in Google Business Profiles. Many local SEOs are reporting that they are dealing with these suspensions and reinstatements more often now than before.
Google To Remove More Lodging Listings With Inaccurate Prices
Google said it will be strict in enforcing accurate pricing for lodging listings on Google, both for ads and free booking links. There is no policy change but they will have a “higher standards for price accuracy.”
Go beyond CTR with 6 AI-powered SEO discoverability metrics
Thanks to AI-generated answers, CTRs are failing fast, and even page-one rankings no longer guarantee clicks. Google’s top organic results saw a 32% CTR drop after AI Overviews launched, plummeting from 28% to 19%. Position #2 fared even worse, with a 39% decline. Meanwhile, 60% of searches in 2024 ended without clicks; also, the projections […]
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Search Engine Optimisation – SEO Strategy in 2025 – The End of Guesswork
The recent seismic events in the Google SEO industry – namely, the landmark DOJ v. Google antitrust trial and the unprecedented content warehouse data leaks – are not disparate occurrences. They represent a single, clarifying moment of vali…
AI Search Citation Mining
This is the raw data dump from our citation mining pipeline demo on social media. Entered Entities ✅ AEO (10 prompts) ✅ AI Marketing (10 prompts) ✅ AI Optimization (10 prompts) ✅ AI SEO (10 prompts) ✅ AIO (10 prompts) ✅ Answer Engine Optimization (10 prompts) Mining Parameters Available Prompts: 60GPT-5 Citations: 141Gemini Citations: 400Total […]
Using GPT-5 Structured Output Markers to Detect AI-Generated Content Online
When you populate your website with language model–generated text, you inherit a subtle but real risk: AI-specific artifacts may leak into the published content. These markers aren’t always obvious to human readers, but they can be highly visible to search engines, researchers, and competitors. One such artifact is the structured output marker that GPT-5 (and […]
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 26, 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.
The Google Ads sponsored results grouping interface expanded and it is borderline deceptive…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Spam Update And Post Volatility, Cloudflare Fights AI Overviews, Sneaky Google Ads
This week we covered the completion of the Google August 2025 spam update and then we saw ranking volatility heat up again post spam update. Google Search Console impressions are impacted by Google blocking bots…
Google Ads New Campaign Set Up Screen Updated
Google Ads seems to be rolling out a change to the campaign set up screen and flow. Instead of being asked what ad format you want to run, you must select all for PMax or specific campaign types for display, search, discover and so on.
Google Local Pack At Top Of Google Shopping Tab
Google seems to be testing showing the local pack, Google Business Profile listings, at the top of the Google Shopping results in the Shopping tab. Normally, Google does not show local packs in the Shopping tab, I believe…
Google Large Sponsored Results Grouping Label Rolling Out To More
Back in May, we covered how Google was testing a new sponsored results label that placed a few ads beneath it, as opposed to labeling each and every ad as sponsored. Well, that version seems to be expanding and more and more people are seeing it and ma…
Google AI Mode Agentic Features Go Live For Some
A month ago, Google announced new agentic (agent based) features for AI Mode. Well, some are now seeing this live in AI Mode, specifically making reservations at recommended restaurants.
Google AdSense Dropping Session-Related Metrics
Google is sunsetting the session-related metrics for Google AdSense. Google said this includes all metrics that rely on ad sessions, such as “Ad sessions”, “Ad session RPM”, etc.
TimesFM-ICF
In-Context Fine-Tuning for Time-Series: The Next Evolution Beyond Prophet and Traditional Forecasting How Google’s TimesFM-ICF achieves fine-tuned model performance without training – and why this changes everything for production forecasting systems If you’re reading this, you’ve likely wrestled with time-series forecasting in production. Perhaps you’ve implemented Facebook Prophet for its interpretable seasonality decomposition, experimented with […]
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Agentica: Invoking ‘Skills’ for LLMs and AI Assistants
This article is a record of a multi-stage dialogue with AI tools that deconstructed, analysed, and evaluated a novel methodology for interacting with Large Language Models (LLMs). The methodology, developed by me and named “Agentica” during…
Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated After August Spam Update
Over the past couple of days, especially since the Google August 2025 spam update officially completed, the Google search results have been rumbling. It is a bit hard to track due to the changes with the third-party rank checking tools, but there has b…
Cloudflare Tries To Give Sites A Way To Block Google AI Overviews – Will It Work?
Cloudflare announced Content Signals Policy, a new addition to robots.txt that allows you to express your preferences for how your content can be used after it has been accessed. This aims to block Google from using your content in AI Overviews, but Go…
Google Ads Dishonest Pricing Practices Policy Updates
Google is updating the Google Ads Misrepresentation policy concerning Dishonest Pricing Practices. This will require advertisers to disclose the payment model or full expense that a user will incur before and after purchase, and clarify any false or mi…
Google Search Live No Longer Requires Labs Opt-In Within US
Google announced that Search Live is now fully live in the US and no longer requires opt in to Search Labs. In July, Google released it on mobile in the U.S. for users enrolled in the AI Mode Labs experiment but now it is open to everyone in the US in …