Daily Search Forum Recap: July 7, 2026

Google’s John Mueller said he was generally in favor to the idea of giving prior notice to receiving a manual action, but he said “it’s challenging.” John then explains that Google’s search algorithm try to reward sites, while also negating any benefit any spam may have – but not demote. But that may have dodged the specific question provided.

Google Ads is rolling out new brand guidelines for performance max campaigns, which was originally announced back at Google Marketing Live. Google said then, “advertisers can share their font and color guidelines in Performance Max, as well as provide helpful image reference points to generate new asset variations.”