YouTube announced Partner Program changes taking effect in 2027, including new Shorts earnings rules, activity checks, and a terms deadline. The post YouTube Updates Partner Program Terms & Shorts Payout Rules appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google is testing placing the list of advertisers in the group of sponsored results at the top of the ad block in the mobile search results. So if the sponsored results group has two advertisers in it, Google will show the favicon and domain name of the ads that will be shown below, all the way at the top, directly under the “Sponsored results” header and directly above the actual ads.

Six real non-linear campaigns showing which adjacent Google Ads segments actually reach restricted or niche audiences. The post The Scenic Route To ROI: Mastering Non-Linear Targeting In Google Ads appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google announced that its Ask Advisor AI agent will compare campaign performance in Google Analytics against anonymized averages from similar businesses. The post Google Announces Campaign Benchmarking In Google Analytics appeared first on Search Engine Journal

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

Clarity now splits AI citation queries into branded and non-branded.

Check captures, robots.txt history, block fingerprints and a live CCBot probe for any domain, free, straight from Common Crawl’s own archives. The post Common Crawl Published A Manual For Being Visible To AI, I Automated It appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Meta, the social media company that operates Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads, is allegedly crawling the web and in the process of building its own search engine. Pieter Levels posted about this pattern on X and wrote, “Meta is ALLEGEDLY building their own Google search engine…”

Google has updated its guidelines for representing your business on Google in the Google Business Profiles help documentation to add a new rule.

Google’s Gary Illyes said that hreflang alternates, hreflang URLs are not “indexed in the proper sense.” In short, Google just keeps the hreflang URL as alternate URLs. So the URL is not what is getting the page indexed, it is just being stores as an alternative to the main page URL.