As many of you know, the Google Content API for Shopping is being replaced by the Google Merchant API by August 18th. Google has opened up a request form to ask Google to give you an extension on the August 18th deadline.

Google updated its use AI content labels help document, which it first created on July 9th when it announced it will label ads created or edited with AI. The update now says that when you add your own labels to image assets, you should not place labels in the very corners.

Is it a technical issue or a quality problem? A step-by-step look at why Google crawled your pages but refused to index them

Google may have released yet another unconfirmed Google search ranking update this weekend. I am seeing some signs of ranking movement from the third-party Google tracking tools and the SEO chatter spiked a bit this weekend.

AI visibility tools count citations. Citations aren’t recommendations. Here’s what to measure instead, and why the gap keeps widening.

Google’s Mueller explained how an “are you a bot” screen can push a site’s pages out of Google, and get another site picked as canonical. The post “Are You A Bot” Screens Can Get Your Pages Dropped By Google appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s John Mueller explained what happens when you click Validate Fix in Search Console, and when the button is worth using. The post When To Use Search Console’s ‘Validate Fix,’ According To Google appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google’s NotebookLM rebrand may expose websites to more AI scraping with zero attribution unless site owners take action right now. The post Google NotebookLM Rebrand May Expose Your Site To More AI Scraping appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s Nick Fox said AI features in Search send billions of clicks to websites weekly, alongside Google’s daily count.

Publishers allege works supplied to Google Books, Play Books and Scholar were used to train Gemini without permission.