Google has released version 24.2 of the Google Ads API, this is a minor release with dozens of updates. This update includes “critical security updates, new AI transparency features, reporting enhancements, and powerful planning insights,” Google announced.

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Google’s John Mueller explained when Google will count an impression for a web page within the generative AI features in Google Search. In short, there needs to be a link to your site being shown in AI Overviews / AI Mode for it to show as an impression in the new Google Search Console AI performance reports.

Google is testing autocomplete within the Ask Anything follow-up box within Google Search’s AI Mode. So when you start to type a follow-up question, Google will suggest autocomplete suggestions.

The page indexing report within Google Search Console is now two weeks delayed. It is stuck at June 11, 2026, for me, and has not been updated in 14 days. Google has been reporting issues with Search Console often enough, so this is not unusual, but this delay is significant enough to cover, since we are now at the two-week mark.

WP Rocket now offers free CDN, lowering the barrier to meaningful performance improvements on the most important pages.

WordPress developers question whether the platform’s AI ambitions are pulling attention away from what users have been asking for all along.

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John Mueller explained that impressions in Google’s Search Console AI report track links to your pages, and user-activated links only count after they’re activated. The post Google’s Mueller Explains How AI Search Impressions Get Counted appeared first on Search Engine Journal