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. We are seeing Google Search ranking volatility starting on August 1st and kicking up today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 3, 2026
One of the most advanced SEOs of all time, Bill Hartzer, is giving away free advanced link training lessons. The post Free Advanced Link Training Lessons appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Free Advanced Link Training Lessons via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Aug 26
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Google’s updated crawl budget documentation recommends serving a 304 response code to Googlebot for pages that haven’t changed.
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Google Recommends Using 304 Status Code To Conserve Crawl Budget via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google Earth’s AI image generator was rolled back after the internet used it to create realistic scenes of destruction. The post Google’s AI Image Generation In Google Earth Literally Became Disastrous appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google’s AI Image Generation In Google Earth Literally Became Disastrous via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Aug 26
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Listing inconsistencies, review language, and third-party citations now decide whether AI assistants name your business. Fix them in this order before chasing AI visibility tactics. The post Reviews, Reputation & Listings: The Local Signals AI Now Reads appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Reviews, Reputation & Listings: The Local Signals AI Now Reads via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
I am seeing signs of another Google Search ranking update with a lot of volatility hitting this past weekend again.
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Google Search Ranking Volatility Hits August 1st & Heats Up Into August 3rd
The Google Business Profile help page on Help protect against fraudulent calls and texts has been updated. It now includes how to identify legitimate texts over WhatsApp and RCS messages, it also updated a lot of the examples of the types of calls and messages you get, plus more.
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Google Business Profiles Protect From Fraudulent Calls and Texts Updated
Microsoft has confirmed it is working on bringing filtering capabilities to the Bing Webmaster Tools performance reports.
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Bing Webmaster Tools Page & Query Level Filtering Coming To Reports
Aug 26
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The European Commission’s AI transparency law that has taken effect contains four exemptions from its AI labeling requirements. The post EU Commission Article 50 AI Transparency Law Has Four Exemptions appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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EU Commission Article 50 AI Transparency Law Has Four Exemptions via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google Search is testing asking searchers to sign in to verify they are humans and not bots conducting the searches. I don’t think Google has done this before, geneally when Google tries to verify human versus bot activity, Google will serve a captcha and has done so for many years. But this test is asking the searcher to sign in.
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Google Search Tests Sign In To Verify Searches Are Human (Not Captcha)