The Google Ads Ad Preview and Diagnosis tool, where you can preview your ads in the Google Search results, within the Google Ads interface is broken. It loads a CAPTCHA box and doesn’t let you remove the CAPTCHA from being …
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Google Ads Tests Anchor Text Hyperlinks In Ad Descriptions
Google is testing adding keyword-rich anchor text hyperlinks to the ad descriptions in the sponsored results within Google Search. Clicking on the link takes you to the same ad landing page URL as it would if you clicked on the …
August 2026 Google Webmaster Report
Here is the big Google Webmaster Report for August 2026, including of course the ongoing Google search ranking volatility; we saw volatility on……
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 3, 2026
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.
We are seeing Google Search ranking volatility starting on August 1st and kicking …
How topical authority spreads (and where it doesn’t) in ChatGPT [Study]
Can authority in one ChatGPT topic help you win another? Our study shows where topical authority carries over — and where it stops.…
Google Trends Lets You Compare 220% More Search Terms
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 …
Google Search Tests Sign In To Verify Searches Are Human (Not Captcha)
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 …
Bing Webmaster Tools Page & Query Level Filtering Coming To Reports
Microsoft has confirmed it is working on bringing filtering capabilities to the Bing Webmaster Tools performance reports. Right now, there is no way to add a filter for any of the metrics in the report. Of course, you can download …
Google Business Profiles Protect From Fraudulent Calls and Texts Updated
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 …
Google Search Ranking Volatility Hits August 1st & Heats Up Into August 3rd
I am seeing signs of another Google Search ranking update with a lot of volatility hitting this past weekend again. This one started on Saturday, August 1st, and has continued thus far through today, August 3rd. Both the third-party tracking …
Google Search Filter By Recent Broken
If you try to filter you Google Search or Google News tab results by the recent search tools option, it simply won’t work. If you try to select the “Tools” and then “Recent” options, including the past hour option, it …


