This week, we, of course, covered the ongoing Google Search ranking volatility.
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Volatility, AI Mode Taking Over Search, Search Console AI Configurator & 22 Year Anniversary
Over the years, we have written that service areas are not used as a local ranking factor by Google Search. Well, the API leak document also implies this to be true.
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Google API Doc Hints Service Areas Not A Local Ranking Factor
Google is testing a new AI-powered configuration tool, as it calls it, to help you build instant reports based on your natural language questions. So basically Ads and Analytics Advisor but for Search Console, plus this just builds reports and doesn’t do actions – yet.
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Google Search Console Performance Report Tests AI Powered Configurator
If you look at some of the profiles/sites in your Google Search Console performance reports, you may notice a significant increase in the average position being reported. This happened when Google removed the num=100 parameter and is likely due to scrapers not messing up your data.
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Google Search Console Average Impression Increased For Many
Google Merchant Center is now beta testing regional member pricing, where you can offer different member prices based on the shopper’s regions. This will essentially override the member price in the regional inventory feed.
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Google Merchant Center New Regional Member Pricing (Beta)
Google Ads may be testing placing an ad extension button at the top right of the sponsored result on the desktop interface. This button, in this example, shows the text “Learn more.”
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Google Ads Learn More Button At Top Right
Control AI visibility and server strain with a log-validated index of bots, complete with user-agent strings, official IP ranges, crawl rates, and allowlist/block best practices.
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Complete Crawler List For AI User-Agents [Dec 2025] via @sejournal, @vahandev
This week’s SEO Pulse examines new data what drives AI citations, plus ChatGPT launches shopping research.
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SEO Pulse: Google Updates Console, Maps & AI Mode Flow via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
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Breaking news: Cloudflare is experiencing another major service disruption, causing widespread 5xx errors and connectivity issues for websites and services globally. The post Cloudflare Outage Returns, Triggering Fresh Wave Of 5xx Errors appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Cloudflare Outage Returns, Triggering Fresh Wave Of 5xx Errors via @sejournal, @theshelleywalsh
Has Google reached “Peak AI Overview”? In this episode of Whiteboard Friday, Tom analyzes late 2025 data, revealing a drop in AIO frequency for informational queries and a new trend of AI results appearing below position one
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Did We Pass Peak AIO? — Whiteboard Friday