Google’s Liz Reid told Bloomberg AI Overviews cut “bounce clicks,” not deeper visits, but Google still hasn’t shared data backing that claim.

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Google documents deep link best practices and signals robots.txt doc expansion. The EU proposes Google share search data with rivals and AI chatbots.

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Google updated their spam reporting tool to warn they won't process reports that contain personal information.

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Google may expand its unsupported robots.txt rules list using HTTP Archive data and could broaden how it handles common misspellings of disallow.

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OpenAI's public crawler docs now list OAI-AdsBot, a bot that may visit pages submitted as ChatGPT ads to check policy compliance and ad relevance.

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Google adds view-through conversion optimization to Demand Gen and expands Commerce Media Suite support.

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What Google's systems actually do with click data and what it means for SEO and rankings.

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Google posted a GEO Partner Manager role in its ads sales organization, using “Generative Engine Optimization” terminology in an ads-side job description.

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Google and WooCommerce announced today that the Google for WooCommerce extension now enables merchants to sell products directly through YouTube. The update connects WooCommerce stores to YouTube channels enabling them to tap into 2.7 billion shoppers. Merchants can tag products in videos and Shorts, where they appear as shoppable cards during playback and in a dedicated shopping tab on the channel. The cards are pulled from the merchant’s existing product catalog They stay synced automatically through Google Merchant Center The same data is reused across YouTube, Shopping, and ads Connect WooCommerce Stores To YouTube Shoppers WooCommerce is an open source […]

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Digiday reports an early ChatGPT ads manager build now shows $3-$5 CPC bids for some pilot advertisers, as OpenAI continues expanding its ad tools.

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Google Ads now enables call recording by default for eligible AI-qualified call leads, changing how call conversions are evaluated in the U.S. and Canada.

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Google announced new tools that further transforms Search to a tasked-based platform.

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The European Commission proposed Google share data with rival search engines and qualifying AI chatbots in the EU/EEA.

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Google has outlined best practices that can increase the likelihood of "Read more" deep links appearing.

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Research on 68 million AI crawler visits show what SEOs should do to improve AI search performance

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Stanford's 2026 AI Index covers 400+ pages of data. Here's what search professionals should take from the adoption numbers, reliability gaps, and transparency decline.

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Google is updating AI Mode in Chrome with side-by-side page viewing and a plus menu for adding tabs, images, and files as context.

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New Ahrefs data shows Reddit pages appeared often in ChatGPT retrievals but rarely as visible citations.

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Gen Z workers surveyed by Gallup said they would trust work done without AI over AI-assisted output by more than 2-to-1, with the gap widening.

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IAB's annual report shows search ad growth fell while social media and digital video posted stronger year-over-year gains.

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A recently updated patent describes how an automated assistant can circle back to a user when an answer is available at a later date.

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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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