A Google Spam Update That Took Fourteen Days: Search and Social Update, 9 October 2026
Google's September spam update took fourteen days to finish instead of the usual two, and it is now confirmed done. Manual penalties…
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Google’s Spam Update Will Take Two Weeks: Your Friday Brief
Google's September 2026 spam update began rolling out on Thursday with a warning that it may take two weeks, four times longer…
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Google Has Started Paying for the Answers: Search and Social Update, 15 September 2026
Google has begun paying some publishers when their pages shape an AI answer, through an invitation only pilot inside Search Console with…
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Chatbots Are Talking Your Customers Out of Buying: Search and Social Update, 9 September 2026
New survey data shows 57.5 percent of AI users have been talked out of a purchase by a chatbot, and nearly nine…
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One Google Rule, Two Different Answers: Search and Social Update, 30 August 2026
From today Google stops applying its site reputation abuse penalty to anyone searching inside Europe, after pressure from the European Commission. Also…
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Tuesday Brief: That Search Console Security Email Was a Google Fault
Search Console emailed thousands of site owners on Monday claiming a new owner had been added, and it was a bug. Google…
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Monday Brief: Google Quietly Repaired Two of Its Own Faults Over the Weekend
Google confirmed on Sunday that the search favicon bug is fully fixed, and repaired the Search Console crawl stats gap over the…
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Search and Social Update: 12 August 2026
Google has opened its generative AI performance report to every Search Console account, complete with a pop-up pointing you at it. It…
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Search and Social Update: 1 August 2026
Google Search Console platform properties are now available to everyone, so you can finally see which searches surface your Instagram, TikTok and…
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Google Search Console Now Tracks Your Social Posts
Google Search Console platform properties went global this week, so you can now verify your Instagram, TikTok, X or YouTube account and…
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Search and social update: 30 July 2026
Google Search Console can now report on your Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube posts, and it arrives just as zero-click searches hit…
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Google’s Third July Shake-Up, ChatGPT Ads for Everyone, and Search Console Goes Social
Google search rankings shifted for the third time this month and Google has confirmed nothing. Meanwhile ChatGPT opened self-serve ads to every…
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