AI visibility numbers move between runs, so a single reading can mislead.

Google updated its canonicalization troubleshooting guide with new guidance on how long pages can stay in a duplicate cluster after you fix the content. The post Google Says Canonical Re-Evaluation Can Take Up to Two Weeks appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

The WordPress 7.0.1 maintenance release improves PHP compatibility and contains a bug fix to a security-related function. The post WordPress 7.0.1 Maintenance Release Contains 31 Bug Fixes appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Some Google Business Profile dashboards show “no reviews yet” even though public review counts remain visible on the live listing. The post Google Business Profiles Showing Empty Review Dashboards appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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

Google rolls out Search Console reports for social posts, updates product markup guidance, and warns against building separate markdown pages for AI. The post Google Adds Social Reporting; Mueller Warns Against Markdown – SEO Pulse appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

This week in search, we covered how Google’s Nick Fox announced Google Search broke all usage records when Argentina scored its winning goal in the World Cup. Google Search Console now shows third-party platform content performance data from Instagram, TikTok…

Google Ads will now show if an ad was credited with AI or edited with AI across Search, YouTube and Discover. This AI notation will primarily show in the My Ad Center panel under “How this ad was made” but in some regions, based on the local law, Google may show an ad AI label directly on the ad.

Google Ads updated its About product category insights help document to say that it “automatically assigns your products to categories using a continuously evolving product taxonomy.” This was previously not documented on the Google Ads side but has been on the Google Merchant Center side for several years.

There is this hack (or trick) to force Google Search Console to show you the generative AI performance report for your social and video content, the new platform properties feature. All you need to do is add “/ai” after “search-analytics” or “discover” in the URL within Search Console. This doesn’t work for normal properties but it currently works for the platform properties (at least for now).