Google replaces Dynamic Search Ads with AI Max. Learn what’s changing, when migrations begin, and what advertisers should do before September upgrades.

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Google just handed SEOs a new way to hit spammy sites with manual actions and get them deindexed from search results.

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A Google Search Console glitch resulted in a message to site owners implying that impressions have only just started being reported.

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Google is rolling out Skills to Gemini in Chrome on desktop, letting users save prompts as reusable one-click tools and run them across selected tabs.

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Google's John Mueller lists nine scenarios that lead Google to choose one URL as the canonical over another.

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Google added back button hijacking to its malicious practices spam policy. Enforcement starts June 15, 2026. Sites have two months to remove offending code.

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A recent announcement by Google signals the start of a massive change in how the internet and search work.

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Sundar Pichai outlines search as an “agent manager,” signaling a shift from link-based results to task completion and multi-step workflows.

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Google's Mueller answers whether links pass negative signals and says unhelpful links may be ignored.

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SISTRIX analyzed German search results after the March core update and found uneven visibility shifts across categories, with some site types hit harder than others.

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An analysis of 400+ websites found five characteristics associated with estimated organic traffic gains.

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Google's CEO says that informational queries will become agentic search and that search itself will be an agent manager.

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Akamai breaks down which AI bots are hitting publishing, who operates them, and why fetcher bots may pose a more immediate risk.

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Google's March core update finished rolling out. Here's what to know about the rollout and when to check your data.

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Google's John Mueller answers question about how Google handles multiple URLs and duplicate content.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai said AI models could expose more software vulnerabilities and agreed it was plausible AI is affecting zero-day exploit markets.

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Google explains why it doesn't matter if websites are getting heavier and the takeaway has everything to do with SEO.

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Google's John Mueller says that those who self-identify as SEO gurus are clueless imposters.

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An Ipsos survey of U.S. adults found 63% say ads in AI search results would reduce trust. Early advertiser data offers limited, mixed signals.

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ChatGPT Search is citing fewer websites per response after GPT-5.3 Instant became the default experience.

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Will WordPress's troubled real-time collaboration feature be worth delaying the release of WP 7.0?

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Agentic AI shopping may not be good for SEO. But there's a reason why SEOs won't need to worry about it.

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Matt Mullenweg invokes Will Smith's Oscars slap in response to Cloudflare's boat that EmDash is a successor to WordPress.

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Google's John Mueller answers question of whether splitting a sitemap is worth the extra work.

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AI led all cited reasons for U.S. job cuts in March at 25% of the total, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

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