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

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

Buying groups arrive with vendors already chosen. AEO cannot fix a shortlist formed months earlier

It looks like spammers are taking advantage of Gemini Notebook, public NotebookLM, pages to spam Google with all sorts of content. This includes pages on sex toys, porn, peptides, coupon codes and more.

Google is placing links, normal looking links, within the AI Overviews that take you into AI Mode instead of taking you to web pages and web sites. These links appear at the bottom of the AI Overview and prompt follow-up questions that take you into AI Mode.

Google added a new section to the Google Store ratings: An overview for Merchants within Google Merchant Center detailing the requirements for Google Store ratings. This was added a week or so ago, and it says you need at least 100 reviews, an average star rating of 3.5 to 5, a 24-hour timeframe and the ratings are geo-segmented.

Google Analytics supports Include data filters for hostnames, so a property can keep event data from approved domains instead of excluding spam one by one. The post Google Analytics Adds Include Filters For Hostnames appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Job site operators report months-long waits for Google Indexing API approval, with no stated review timeframe in Google’s documentation. The post Job Boards Say Google Indexing API Requests Get No Response appeared first on Search Engine Journal

A single .com works for The Guardian because of brand power. For most news publishers, separate country-code domains are the strategy that holds up.

A single .com works for The Guardian because of brand power. For most news publishers, separate country-code domains are the strategy that holds up