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

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Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ad Liaison, explained why you might see weekly spend fluctuations in your Google Ads account. “Weekly spend fluctuations are typically due to changing market conditions (weather events, industry trends, etc.) and/or any recent budget changes in the campaign,” Ginny Marvin wrote on X.

Google has added a new source column to the Google Ads search terms insights report for Performance Max. The source column can show search themes, URLs, creative assets and more.

Google is testing placing a new products carousel, a trending products carousel, on the right side where the brand’s knowledge panel would appear. So, instead of having details of that brand, it can show trending products from that brand.

Chris Nelson, Senior Staff Analyst, Search Ranking at Google has updated his LinkedIn bio to specify that he manages a large team that builds ranking solutions for Google Search. One line says, “Address novel content issues (e.g., detection and treatment of AI-generated content).”

Google’s John Mueller said that since the robots.txt file is cached by Google for about 24-hours, it does not make much sense to dynamically update your robots.txt file throughout the day to control controlling. Google won’t necessarily see that you don’t want Google to crawl a page at 7am and then at 9am you do want Google to crawl that page.

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