Google explains why HTML sitemaps may still be useful even though the XML standard has largely replaced it. The post Google Explains How To Use HTML Sitemaps For SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google launched a new UGC fresh data program document that Reddit…
was a super busy week, so there is a lot more content in this recap compared to most. We start off with the Google September 2026 spam update completing, it had its third and final phase earlier in the week
Recent tracking data found AI Overviews on most brand-name searches it checked. The post AI Overviews Have Spread To Most Big-Brand Searches appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Google Ads now lets you preview the assets generated by Google AI for your Google Ads AI Max campaigns. Google added these details to the About text customization in Search campaigns help page under a new section named “Text customization asset previews.”
Google Ads now lets you preview the assets generated by Google AI for your Google Ads AI Max campaigns.
Microsoft Bing is testing showing the local pack results without borders. Normally, the local pack has a small outline border around the results, but for some reason, Microsoft is testing not placing the outline around the local results.
Google has made major updates to the Reader Revenue Manager homepage. It was a large redesign of the page, it also now lists AI Mode, AI Overviews, and Gemini, added a matrix to the page and moved things around as well.
Microsoft Bing is getting fancy and stylish with its line separators in Bing Search. Bing is testing fading the line separators at the end of the lines.
Microsoft Bing is testing dropping favicons from Bing search result snippets.