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Google confirms no conversion minimums for AI Max for Search, but Smart Bidding is required for search-term matching.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

From hosting to plugins, your WordPress stack shapes performance and growth. Here’s what CMOs need to audit for a marketing-driven setup.

This week we had our first Google spam update in 8 months, the August 2025 spam update. This update touched down very quickly, likely within 24 hours.

Often, but not always, when Google releases an algorithm update, we don’t see the impact for the first few days. However, with the August 2025 spam update, we are likely seeing the effect within 24 hours after it was announced.

Some SEOs are noticing that when you look at your sitemaps report in Bing Webmaster Tools, for some sitemaps, some are missing the Index Coverage button. I personally can see the same thing for some of the properties I have access to within Bing Webmaster Tools.