Craig Hordlow

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……

Google has now added an unsubscribe option to those book a call with your Google Ads expert emails that you find in your inbox just way too often. This has been a complaint for a while, like since 2005 and …

Google Ads is testing a new Channel Diagnostics feature for Performance Max campaigns within “Channel Performance” under the “Insights & Reports” section. This shows you the diagnostic data of all the channels together and of a specific channel in particular, …

Google updated how it handles sending searchers to AMP pages within Google Search. Now Google will send searchers directly to publisher-hosted AMP pages instead of the cached pages displayed in an AMP viewer. Google said this was done because it …

If you take a look at the Bing Webmaster Tools newish AI performance reports, you may see more data, impressions, etc showing up on and after June 1, 2026. Microsoft said this is just “regular data backfilling” and there are …

Google has reportedly updated the Google Ads “All Campaigns” drop-down selection box to be from the center of the screen to the top-left corner and added the full campaign hierarchy in an expandable view.…

Here is the monthly Google Webmaster report, where I summarize the major organic Google Search news and SEO topics from the past month. The big news was the Google June 2026 spam update, which took only two days to roll …

Google Ads, as we covered earlier, made changes to Target CPA & Target ROAS. But now, Google sent out an email about even more changes starting on August 17, 2026 around bidding for campaigns limited by budget. It seems like …

Google AI Overviews can show the contents of the markdown files of web pages directly in the snippets within those AI Overviews. Google’s John Mueller called this “unexpected” and that this does not mean Google treats markdown files any differently …

Recipe bloggers really have Google’s ear, as Google has made yet another official change to its AI Mode recipe results. Google’s Robby Stein announced on X the launch of “a new visual treatment making it even easier to discover and …

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 improved the recipe results in AI Mode, to make them more clickable……

Fabrice Canel has announced he has retired from Microsoft as of today. This comes after almost 30 years of service at Microsoft. Fabrice was most well-known in our community for his work on Bing and all of Microsoft’s search services.…

Google Trends now lets you plot the change of interest in keyword phrases over time and then compare those over the previous time. There is a new compare to previous time period button you can click on Google Trends to …

Google has always allowed you to request that content be removed from Google Search via the legal DMCA request form. But in the past year or so, this legal route has become a negative SEO nightmare. Real content, owned by …

Google is adding AI-generated content, generated by Gemini, to Google AdSense ad intents formatted ads. That means when a user interacts with the AdSense ad unit, a link, anchor or chip, it opens a dialog that shows the user ads …

Google is testing the placement of AI-generated summaries in Google Ads sponsored results, right below the description. Google did add the disclaimer to the ad, “Google Al responses are generated independently and can make mistakes, so double-check responses.”…