Google is testing placing favicons in the sitelinks portion of the sponsored results from Google Ads. Generally, we only see the favicon in the main sponsored or organic listing, but here Google is testing showing favicons for all the link?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-favicons-sitelinks-41656.html

Google announced it has expanded Search campaigns for Travel to an open beta for the Things to Do and Events verticals. This brings you Search and AI Max features for those types of campaigns.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-travel-expands-41655.html

Google's new Category and Sale Duration structured data properties give merchants a way to rank more precise product data. The post Google’s New Merchant Listing Structured Data Improves SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-new-merchant-listing-st...

Google's Nick Fox said Search saw its highest usage on record during Argentina's comeback win over Egypt at the World Cup. The post Google Says Search Hit All-Time Usage High During World Cup appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-says-search-hit-all-time...

Google Ads expands its Travel campaign beta to Things to Do and Events, giving eligible advertisers a new campaign type for attractions and ticket sales. The post Google Ads Expands Search Campaigns for Travel Beta to Things to Do and Event?
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-search-campaigns-travel-...

Google clarifies its Smart Bidding update, explaining how August 17 changes will affect Target CPA, Target ROAS, and budget-limited campaigns. The post Google Clarifies Smart Bidding Update After Advertiser Concerns appeared first on Search?
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-clarifies-smart-bidding-...

Nick Fox, Senior Vice President of Knowledge & Information at Google, said Google Search "broke all prior usage records and saw its highest usage in history" after Argentina scored its winning goal in yesterday's World Cup match.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-broke-all-usage-records-...

For the past week or so, I have heard a few folks notice that Google is appending tracking URLs to the search results. So when you click on a search result, instead of the URL going directly to that site, Google is using a google.com/goto?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-com-goto-as-tracking-urls-41647...

Google added a useful detail to the active conversions screen, to show you when was the last time Google Ads was able to trigger a ping event on your conversion feed and data. When you hover over the conversions, it will show you the date?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-conversions-last-event-ping...

Google has posted some new frequently asked questions to the Google Ads AI Max help document. The questions cover what is AI Max, why you should use AI Max, that AI Max is not a new campaign type, how AI Max differs from PMax and what happ?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-ai-max-faq-41633.html

Google Search normally shows product listings with pricing on them, but sometimes it can show "Contact store for price" when it Google does not know the price. I am not sure if I've seen this before, and it might not be new, but it did real?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-contact-store-for-price-...

Google has updated its Google Business Profile appeal process and flow to allow businesses to upload their evidence for the business profile suspension. The old flow had a different form where you would later upload that evidence, and you o?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-business-profiles-appeal-eviden...

Google is adding platform properties to Search Console, letting creators track how their Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube posts perform in Search and Discover. The post Google Search Console Adds Social & Video Platform Properties appeared?
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-search-console-adds-soci...

Google Search Console can now show how your social and video content perform within Google Search. This includes channels such as Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube. Google kind of did this before, but now this data is going into the Perform?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-console-social-content-p...

Google has added to its Merchant listing structured data documentation help page that it now supports the Product.category property and a new Sale duration mechanism within the schema.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-product-category-sale-duration-...

Google Ads has a newish option when you create an asset group named "Apply theme to asset group." An asset group is made of images, logos, headlines, descriptions, videos, sitelinks, assets, and audience signals that you upload or that are?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-apply-theme-to-asset-group-...

Google is testing a large "Visit site" button on the sponsored results, the Google Ads, within the Google Search results. Google has done this before for organic sitelinks and map results, and even Bing did it for some branded-style search?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-visit-site-button-sponsored-res...

Google AdSense may have added a new setting that lets you specify if you want Google AdSense "experts" to call you offering "personalized advice." You can specify if you want or do not want messages, and how - i.e. via phone calls, SMS mess?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-adsense-expert-advice-41634.html

Google's John Mueller responds to the trend of creating a set of markdown pages to mirror HTML content for AI SEO. The post Google On Using Markdown For AI SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-on-using-markdown-for-ai...

Google's OKF and ARD specs are making noise, but HTML still runs discovery. Here's what actually matters for SEO in the new agentic-web stack. The post The Web Is Growing A Second Layer – Almost A Third Head appeared first on Search Engine?
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-web-is-growing-a-second-lay...

New Google research catches AI video spam by clustering accounts, not single videos. See what it signals.
https://www.semrush.com/blog/google-research-and-ai-spam-detection/

Build your own AI-ready knowledge system with insights from Marie Haynes on using Google’s Open Knowledge Format for search and automation. The post Build An OKF Brain Like Mine! appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/build-an-okf-brain-like-mine/58...

John Mueller from Google said that the new Content Signals robots.txt directive invented by Cloudflare last year has "no effects whatsoever for any crawler or LLM." He added that it "just adds bloat and future maintenance to your robots.txt?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-cloudflare-content-signals-4163...

Back in early May, Google announced five new ways to explore the web with generative AI in Google Search. One was a feature that was titled "Further Exploration" at the bottom of the AI Overview within Google Search. Well, now it seems some?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-further-exploration-41621.html

Those of you who use the Google and YouTube Shopify app to sync your products automatically from Shopify to Google Merchant Center may have a huge headache to deal with after August 18, 2026. The rumor is that you will need to reinstall th?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-youtube-shopify-app-sync-mercha...

Google's John Mueller responded to an SEO using LLMs-Author.txt to separate themself from others with the same name. The post Google Answers Question About LLMs-Author.txt For SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-answers-question-about-l...

Google's Open Knowledge Format turns your website's ideas into a linked graph agents can traverse. Here's what that means for how machines understand your site. The post Google’s Open Knowledge Format Could Work For Websites, Too appeared f?
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-open-knowledge-format-c...

Google filed AI visibility under search. Stop treating it as a separate workstream with its own budget and its own quarterly report. The post Google Put AI Visibility Inside The SEO Tool On Purpose appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-put-ai-visibility-inside...

Copyright complaints can remove live pages from Google search before the dispute is resolved. Here's how the takedown process works and how to spot it. The post Fake DMCA Complaints Keep Erasing Real Pages From Google – What To Watch For ap?
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/fake-dmca-complaints-keep-erasi...

Google has fixed the page indexing report within Google Search Console after it was struck and delayed for over three weeks. It was literally just fixed within minutes of this story going live, as I continuously check the report like an un?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-page-indexing-report-fixed-and-...

This week, I covered that Google's June 2026 spam update completed last Friday afternoon. Fraudulent DMCA takedown requests are breaking Google Search and no one seems to be doing anything. Google AI Mode improved links...
https://www.seroundtable.com/video-06-03-2026-41619.html

Google reviews seem to be disappearing from Google Business Profile local listings. In the past few days or so there has been an influx of complaints in the Google Business Profile forums. I have not seen Google respond to the complaints,?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-business-profile-reviews-vanish...

Google will add to existing penalties or restrictions on your Google Business Profiles if you continue to violate the same policy over and over again. The initial restriction might be 30 days but then if you are caught doing the same thing?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-business-profile-restrictions-d...

Google is testing updating the design for the local pack and places listings within Google Search. The map was moved to the top, instead of on the right and the action buttons are also moved and changed. I am not sure which version I like?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-tests-local-places-layout-desig...

Google has posted its Fourth of July Doodle for 2026, the United States Semiquincentennial celebrates the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. The Doodle is an animated GIF of the American flag in the backgrou?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-fourth-of-july-2026-doodle-4162...

Google added a note to the About Google third-party rates for hotel ads saying after September 30, 2026 this will become unavailable. Google said campaigns will stop serving ads across all Hotel Ads inventory after September 30th.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-third-party-rates-for-hotel-ads...

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?
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-mueller-flags-a-case-on...

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.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-ends-cache-served-amp-pa...

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?
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/cloudflares-ai-crawler-rules-ca...

Google’s move to extend AI Overviews into a wider variety of SERPs is disrupting not only informational searches, but also searches with commercial intent and advertising value.
https://www.semrush.com/blog/ai-overviews-commercial-search-study/