Google’s Gary Illyes showed timing ranges for crawling, indexing, site moves, and core update recovery at Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe in Barcelona. The post Google Shows How Long Crawling, Indexing & Recovery Can Take appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google adds fact-checking to its AI content guidance, Gemini links show UTM tags, desktop CTR fell in Q2, and a judge dismisses two AI suits. The post Google Wants AI Content Fact-Checked, Gemini UTM Tags – SEO Pulse appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Shopify merchants: your agentic storefronts setting now shares products with Meta and unnamed startups.

Andrej Karpathy suggests asking LLMs to explain topics in an aerospace writing standard, or to answer with diagrams, HTML pages, or custom explainer videos. The post OpenAI Founding Member: Make LLMs Write Like An Aircraft Manual appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s people-first content guidance now warns site owners against fabricated author profiles, a form of deception its rater guidelines already described. The post Google Adds Fake Author Warning To Helpful Content Guidance appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

A step-by-step process for building an SEO content roadmap that accounts for AI Overviews, from keyword gaps to a prioritized, citation-ready plan. The post How We Build An SEO Content Roadmap For The AI Search Era (Step-By-Step) appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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

This week, we covered the first impact felt by the Google September 2026 spam update. And then on Wednesday and Thursday we had the second impact of this spam update. Remember the AI contribution report…

Google’s AI Mode monitoring and OpenAI’s dots keep requests active, with different tasks, sources, controls, and questions about site visibility. The post When A Search Query Becomes A Standing Instruction appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google made several changes to the about merchant loyalty program within the Google Merchant Center help documentation. The key changes are that Loyalty Customer Match expanded to AI Mode and Gemini and to more regions, but there are even more changes noted in the help documentation.