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When AI Has Nothing On Your Company, It Describes Someone Else via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester

Posted by admin on 2026/09/03 at 2:30 pm

Publishing more content won’t fix AI substitution.

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 3, 2026

Posted by admin on 2026/09/03 at 2:00 pm

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 has dodged being broken up for a second time on its monopoly ruling…

Should I Block AI Crawlers At Robots.txt Or Server Level? – Ask An SEO via @sejournal, @HelenPollitt1

Posted by admin on 2026/09/03 at 12:00 pm

Robots.txt relies on bot compliance, while WAF, CDN, and server-level blocks enforce it.

Publishers Noticing Google News Tab Content Disappearing

Posted by admin on 2026/09/03 at 11:51 am

Over the past several days, I have been hearing from some publishers that while their content is being crawled, indexed, and served in Google Search results, some of it is missing from the news tab. It may then later show up in the news tab, much later

Google AI Mode Gemini 3.8 Flash Not Link / Citation Friendly?

Posted by admin on 2026/09/03 at 11:41 am

As you know, Google rolled out Gemini 3.8 Flash for subscribers to AI Mode and some have started to play with it. And the early feedback is that AI Mode running Gemini 3.8 Flash is not link or citation friendly.

Google AI Mode Gemini 3.8 Flash Not Link / Citation Friendly?

Posted by admin on 2026/09/03 at 11:41 am

As you know, Google rolled out Gemini 3.8 Flash for subscribers to AI Mode and some have started to play with it.

Google Expands Merchant Center AI Performance Insights

Posted by admin on 2026/09/03 at 11:31 am

In July, Google began to roll out AI performance reports within Google Merchant Center to United States based merchants. Google said the AI reports are now available to merchants within Australia, Canada, India & New Zealand as well.

Google Ads Under Re-Review Label Status

Posted by admin on 2026/09/03 at 11:21 am

Google Ads is showing under the status of your ads a label that says “Under Re-Review.” It says the ad is eligible but limited and “this ad is serving to a limited audience.” It then breaks down where the ad may not be serving.

Google Ads New Phone Call & Offline Conversions Details

Posted by admin on 2026/09/03 at 11:11 am

Google added some new nuggets to its Google Ads help documentation on about conversion measurement, specifically on phone call conversions and offline conversions.

Google Ads New Phone Call & Offline Conversions Details

Posted by admin on 2026/09/03 at 11:11 am

Google added some new nuggets to its Google Ads help documentation on about conversion measurement, specifically on phone call conversions and offline conversions.