Google is rolling out a new look and feel for the Google Ads campaign status notifications and icons. The new statuses are no longer highlighted fully, instead they are just outlined in various colors. It makes it a bit less extreme to look at, and I am not sure if that is a good or bad change.
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Google Ads Updates Its Campaign Status Interface
Google added a new summary tab to the access and security section that shows the security tasks you completed and what tasks you have not completed.
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Google Ads New Security Tasks Summary Tab
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Search Console reported 51,000 URLs as “Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt,” and Google says that’s not necessarily a problem. The post Google Explains Why URLs Blocked By Robots.txt Can Still Be Indexed appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Why Publishing More Content Is Making Your SEO Worse via @sejournal, @cshel
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Microsoft is beginning to roll out Citation Share, Intents, Topics, and Compare in the Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance dashboard preview. The post Bing Rolls Out AI Citation Share In Webmaster Tools appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Bing Rolls Out AI Citation Share In Webmaster Tools via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
In a fresh-account test, Kapwing found 59% of TikTok For You videos were AI slop, roughly three times the rate on YouTube. The post TikTok Shows 3x More AI Slop Than YouTube, Report Finds appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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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 said that LLMS.txt files won’t help or hurt your search rankings, Google just ignores it…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 16, 2026
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