After several days of complaints from businesses, Google has confirmed it is investigating reports of missing reviews from Google Local listings and has paused the ability of Google Business Profile listings to receive reviews. What Google said. A Google spokesperson told us: “When our systems detect suspicious reviews, we take a range of actions including […]
The page indexing report within Google Search Console has finally been updated after a long three-week delay. Instead of it showing data from June 11, 2206, it now shows data from June 29, 2026 – note that it was just updated within the hour. The delay. As we documented previously, this is what the page
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Where AI Overview clicks go, what agents skip on sites they can’t read, and who’s leaving Bing, plus the rest of the week’s search news. The post Where Clicks Go, What Agents Skip, Who’s Leaving Bing – SEO Pulse appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Technical SEO now sits at the center of AI search readiness, giving LLMs the structure and signals they need to retrieve and cite content. The post AI Search Is Nothing Without SEO & It Knows It appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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John Mueller points to a Google case study showing how customizable layouts can skew which element the browser measures as LCP, plus the fixes. The post Google’s Mueller Flags A Case On Why LCP Fixes Miss the Target appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google Search now takes searchers directly to a domain’s AMP host pages, ending the viewer/cache serving path. AMP still ranks as normal. The post Google Ends Cache-Served AMP Pages In Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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A client receives two deliverables… Both solve the problem they were hired to solve. Both are accurate and useful, and they lead to the same business outcomes. The client is happy with the work and sees no meaningful difference in the results. Then they learn that one deliverable took 20 hours to create while the
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Cloudflare now lets all sites manage AI crawlers as Search, Agent, or Training, with Sept. 15 defaults that can block Googlebot for sites blocking training. The post Cloudflare’s AI Crawler Rules Can Block Googlebot appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Publish original numbers. It’s the single most reliable lever for making a page more original, and the most defensible numbers are a byproduct of the business itself… not data you assembled to feed a content calendar. The old play was paying a PR or research firm for a survey loosely tied to your product, like
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Advertisers are estimated to lose $172 billion a year due to ad fraud by 2028. The problem is especially common in industries with high competition and CPCs. One of our clients operated in just such an industry, where high invalid click activity was tanking campaign performance. By adjusting Google Ads targeting, we reduced invalid-click activity
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