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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)
Google Trends now lets you compare up to 400 search terms across 8 groups of terms and up to 50 terms in each group. Previously, it was 125 search terms across 5 groups of terms and up to 25 terms in each group. That is a 220% increase, if my math is correct.
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Google Trends Lets You Compare 220% More Search Terms
Microsoft will be retiring the Bing Webmaster Tools SOAP/POX APIs on August 31, 2026. If you use these legacy APIs you should begin to migrate to the JSON/HTTP (REST) API version.
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Bing Webmaster Tools SOAP/POX APIs To Be Retired On August 31, 2026
Aug 26
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Google’s updated documentation refresh shows where to focus on when updating your own content for SEO. The post Google’s Documentation Refresh Offers Ideas For SEO Content Updates appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google’s Documentation Refresh Offers Ideas For SEO Content Updates via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Turn plain-English prompts into instant, full-stack SEO dashboards with the new Moz API MCP server.
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How to Build a Full SEO Analysis Dashboard with the Moz API MCP Server