Google is testing using a hot pink font for the live time for when a place is busy or not. This is part of the old popular times feature, but Google is testing or launching a hot pink font to make it really noticeable.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-maps-hot-pink-live-time-alerts-...

Bing may soon support more countries for the countries filter within Bing Webmaster Tools. Fabrice Canel from Microsoft wrote on X, "Well, we are now actively considering expanding this to show more individual countries."
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-webmaster-tools-country-reporting...

Google can show an "Activities" button in the Google Business Profiles dashboard within Google Search. I assume this button is reserved for venues that let you book activities including booking tickets or other activities.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-business-profiles-activities-ta...

Google is testing attributing where the 3D models are from that Google shows within the product detail screen in Google Search. I can't replicate this but the test shows "3D mode from [retailer name]."
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-3d-model-from-41515.html

Google seems to be showing content from publishers in the Google News Showcase more within the Google Discover feed. I don't have direct data to prove this but two people who follow Google Discover closely said this is to be true.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-discover-feed-google-news-showc...

Google has updated its site move and domain migrations help document to note that for domain migrations, you should make sure to submit Change of Address requests for all domain variations. Google said the "domain migrations work best when?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-domain-variants-site-moves-4152...

Bing Webmaster Tools is rolling out a preview release of those new AI reporting features demonstrated at SEO Week in late April. These include Intents, Topics, Citation Share, and Compare within the AI reporting section.
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-intents-topics-citation-share-com...

I've been watching the chatter in the SEO industry, and honestly, it hasn't calmed down much since my last report for the period of June 8-12. The Google search results seem more heated today, and there appears to be an unconfirmed Google s?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-ranking-volatility-41523...

The Competition and Markets Authority in the UK has told Google it must be transparent on how it ranks search results in Google and it must enable users to port its data to other third-party search services. I can't imagine Google will eve?
https://www.seroundtable.com/cma-google-search-results-ranked-data-...

Google is rolling out a new look and feel for the Google Ads campaign status notifications and icons. The new statuses are no longer highlighted fully, instead they are just outlined in various colors. It makes it a bit less extreme to lo?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-updates-campaign-status-int...

Google added a new summary tab to the access and security section that shows the security tasks you completed and what tasks you have not completed. Google continues to add more and more security features to the Google Ads advertiser platfo?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-security-tasks-summary-tab-...

Google's latest Off The Record podcast was titled Markdown vs HTML with John Mueller and Martin Splitt talking about the use cases for both. In short, both said that when it comes to SEO and Search...
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-html-vs-markdown-41508.html

John Mueller from Google said that when it comes to having a multinational site, making a specific US folder structure won't give you any practical SEO difference. It might be easier for you to manage or for your to analyze with your analyt?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-seo-us-site-folders-41506.html

Google has been mixing sponsored ads within its organic free search listings since October 2023. Eventually, Google said this is called dynamic ad placement, and it has become the new Google Search. Google has been doing this with the imag?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-image-search-mix-ads-41511.html

Microsoft Advertising has rolled out a new feature named Product Explorer. This tool gives advertisers a searchable view of your entire product catalog, letting you quickly see which of your products are active, serving, and performing.
https://www.seroundtable.com/microsoft-advertising-product-explorer...

Google has updated its guide for optimizing for generative AI search help document to clarify that (1) LLMS.txt files don't help or hurt with search rankings and (2) AI files, markdown files, etc are not used in Google Search.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-llms-txt-files-hurt-help-41512....

Google Ads announced a number of updates and changes this morning including changes to bidding target optimization, expanding access to Smart Bidding Exploration and promotion mode beta rolling out. My biggest concern is with bidding target?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-promotion-mode-smart-biddin...

Google is rolling out Information agents within Google Search AI Mode. Information agents was announced at Google I/O and is a search feature that you can pay for within Google AI Ultra subscription plans, allowing Google Search to perform?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-information-agents-41502...

It looks like Google has removed the pagination feature within the Google Local Finder interface. When you scroll through the local business profiles, it keeps adding more and more but the pagination bar is no longer there. I suspect the p?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-local-finder-interface-drops-pa...

Google sent out an email notice to some advertisers saying, "Google will update its Limited Ad Serving policy to cover additional scenarios on Google Search." "Google may limit ad impressions from unqualified advertisers on searches that ar?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-unqualified-advertisers-415...

There are reports of a bug with Google Business Profiles where using the feature to invite others with owner and/or manager access is not working. Supposedly, the invite emails are either not going out at all, or they are not being delivere?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-business-profile-invites-broken...

Google is showing a new label or extension on the Google Shopping product carousel named "Good price." Truth is, I am not sure if it is new, I mean, Google can show many different labels there but I've never seen "Good price" listed there b?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-shopping-good-price-41503.html

Google has finally fixed the link report within Google Search Console. It was broken for the past few weeks and all Google did back then was a temporary "fix" to revert the data to a previous state. But now that report is showing new, norma?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-console-link-report-fixe...

This week, we covered the post-Google core update volatility that hit some folks hard. An updated zero click study shows Google Search is sending less and less traffic to the open web. Apple announced the all new Apple Intelligence and Si?
https://www.seroundtable.com/video-06-12-2026-41487.html

Google is adding home listings to Google Local Service throughout the United States. Google mentioned this is in partnership with HouseCanary's rich data platform.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-local-services-ads-home-listing...

Google has pushed off its deadline and timeline for the transition from Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) to AI Max for Search campaigns. Previously, the deadline was this coming September, and now it is February 2027.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-dsa-ai-max-extended-41497.html

Google has a new help document in the Google Search Console tools and reporting section named Platform property tooltips. I don't see any other information about this document but it does imply that a new report or tool is coming to Search?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-console-platform-propert...

This week has been weird, in terms of Google Search ranking volatility. The volatility seems to have extended from this past weekend, throughout most, if not all, of this week. But again, like this past weekend, the tools are really not s?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-ranking-volatility-mid-j...

Google sent an email to some searchers notifying them that changes are coming to how to control your saved history and personalization within Google Search. Google added that "You'll see this change in your Google Account in the next few da?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-personalization-settings...

Google will soon allow you to connect Google Business Profiles with Gemini. This will allow you to ask questions about your reviews, your local listing and performance within Google Maps and Google Search.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-business-profile-integrated-gem...

Google seems to have added WhatsApp phone numbers to tons of Google Business Profiles automatically over the past week. Google has sent email notifications to some of those businesses, and in some cases, the numbers are wrong or they are no?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-business-profiles-adds-whatsapp...

Google Merchant Center has API issues, causing a temporary delay in product submissions. Google posted the notice in the Merchant Center portal and on its status page.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-merchant-center-delay-product-s...

Google is testing using a dotted underline and a shaded URL for the search result snippet's URL. Yesterday, we covered how Google was testing a blue dotted underline for sitelinks within the sponsored results. But now we are seeing dotted u?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-dotted-underlined-urls-41486.html

OpenAI has upgraded its ChatGPT Ads Manager tool to allow advertisers to upload product feeds that automatically create ads for each uploaded product. This obviously makes it easier to have ads on ChatGPT for retailers.
https://www.seroundtable.com/chatgpt-ads-product-feeds-41488.html

Google Ads is testing showing images within the sitelinks portion of the ad unit. I've seen plenty of images in the main portion of the sponsored search results but I don't believe I've seen images in the sitelinks area of the sponsored re?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-images-sitelinks-41491.html

Google Search and its search generative features like AI Mode and AI Overviews were unaffected by yesterday's Gemini outage. Gemini, which is Google's AI product, had several outages throughout yesterday and we know that Gemini powers some?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-gemini-outage-41492.html

A new study has been released that looks at the review replies that have been rejected by Google. Business owners take the time to reply to customer reviews and then Google deletes them, and often, the business owner has no idea the reply w?
https://www.seroundtable.com/rejected-google-review-replies-analysi...

Google is testing a new format for sitelinks within the search ads, sponsored listings. This format has the sitelinks underlined with blue dots. So these are blue dotted underlined sitelinks for Google Ads.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-blue-dotted-underlines-site...

Rand Fishkin and friends (Sparktoro and Similarweb) released an ongoing Google zero-click study that showed zero-click searches from Google Search have been sending less and less traffic to the open web and are declining at an even faster r?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-zero-click-searches-fall-41475....

The folks over at Schema.org have added usage statistics to each schema type. So if you want to see which schema type is used more, you can just check Schema.org. For example, author schema is used on over 10 million domains but event sche?
https://www.seroundtable.com/schema-usage-statistics-41464.html