Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 20, 2026
Wrong postcodes, closed-business claims, invented services: what vendor tests reveal about AI answers, and how to audit yours across five platforms.
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AI Answers About Your Locations Are Often Wrong – Check Before Customers Do via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google is moving Local Services Ads into Google Ads as Performance Max pay-per-lead campaigns, with bidding, reporting, and management changes beginning August 2026. The post Google Is Bringing Local Services Ads Into Google Ads appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google Is Bringing Local Services Ads Into Google Ads via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson
Nick Fox, Google’s head of search, said on Friday that Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews – its AI search features – send billions of clicks to websites every week. He said Google Search overall is still sending billions of clicks daily, is only seeing growth…
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Google: We Send Billions Of Clicks To Websites Weekly Through AI Search
Google has updated us on the Google and YouTube Shopify app issue with uninstalling and reinstalling the app. In short, do not do it, do not uninstall and reinstall the app
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Google Warns Not To Uninstall/Reinstall Google & YouTube Shopify App
OpenAI seems to have started to show two ads in the footer of the ChatGPT responses. Generally, we have only really seen one ad from one advertiser
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ChatGPT Showing Two Ads In Footer Of Results
Learn the essentials of MCP for marketers and its role in connecting AI assistants to enhance marketing effectiveness.
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MCP For Marketers: What To Connect First & Why Your Data Wins
As many of you know, the Google Content API for Shopping is being replaced by the Google Merchant API by August 18th. Google has opened up a request form to ask Google to give you an extension on the August 18th deadline.
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Google Content API Extended Access Form Now Available
Google updated its use AI content labels help document, which it first created on July 9th when it announced it will label ads created or edited with AI. The update now says that when you add your own labels to image assets, you should not place labels in the very corners.
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Google Warns Not To Place AI Labels On Corners Of Images
Is it a technical issue or a quality problem? A step-by-step look at why Google crawled your pages but refused to index them
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Why Your Pages Are Stuck In Crawled-Currently Not Indexed & What To Do About It via @sejournal, @marie_haynes