John Mueller points to a Google case study showing how customizable layouts can skew which element the browser measures as LCP, plus the fixes. The post Google’s Mueller Flags A Case On Why LCP Fixes Miss the Target appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google Search now takes searchers directly to a domain’s AMP host pages, ending the viewer/cache serving path. AMP still ranks as normal.

Cloudflare now lets all sites manage AI crawlers as Search, Agent, or Training, with Sept. 15 defaults that can block Googlebot for sites blocking training

Cloudflare now lets all sites manage AI crawlers as Search, Agent, or Training, with Sept. 15 defaults that can block Googlebot for sites blocking training

Platforms lost younger audience share, too. Publishers still have the bigger problem. The data explains why.

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

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

Bing’s latest AI reporting confirms that rankings and citations measure different outcomes, requiring new visibility strategies across AI search. The post Microsoft Just Proved A Point About Search Today appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google Ads, as we covered earlier, made changes to Target CPA & Target ROAS.

Here is the monthly Google Webmaster report, where I summarize the major organic Google Search news and SEO topics from the past month. The big news was the Google June 2026 spam update, which took only two days to roll out and felt like it started earlier and was substantial.