Google has launched a new “home” for Google Business Profiles named Google Business Home. It is a beta, but I just received an email with access to the new Google Business Home. Google wrote, “This beta experience brings together your …
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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 22, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……
Google Ads New Translation Tool
Google Ads is now rolling out the Translation tool within the advertiser console. This allows advertisers to “Translate your campaigns to reach global customers and boost your conversions,” Google wrote.…
Google Search Tests Layout Change For Local Knowledge Panel
Google is testing moving things around in the local knowledge panels in Search by swapping the position of the company name, ratings, description and action button with the business photos. It is a subtle change and it matches the current …
Google Pauses Ads For Russian Advertisers & Serving Ads To Russians
Back in 2022, Google paused showing ads to users in Russia. That still seems to be active, but Google just posted a new message in the Google Ads and Merchant Center help documentation that it has “also paused ads on …
3 New Studies Suggest AI Visibility & Search Not Worth Investing In
There are three new studies out over the past week that suggest that spending time, money and resources on AI visibility and AI search may not be worth it. In short, the studies all show that AI Search or AI …
Google Ads Sponsored Products Expand To Include Product Attributes
Google Ads is testing showing Sponsored Products results that dynamically expand to show product attributes at the bottom of the ad units in a gray background color.…
Google Ads Customer Lifecycle Goals: Value Mode, Retention Goals & Percentage Multipliers
Google Ads is rolling out three updates to customer lifecycle goals to help advertisers before the holidays. These three updates include (1) expanding high value mode to Shopping Campaigns, (2) expanding customer retention goals and (3) new percentage multipliers.…
Google On robots.txt Rules For AI Crawlers, Emojis, International URLs & More
Gary Illyes and Chery Prommawin released their second video in the Non-Canonical Cabinet series; this one is named What can you actually put in a robots.txt? Here they discuss what is, and is not, supported by robots.txt files. And while …
Google On Taking Sites Down When Fixing The Emergency PHP Exploit – PHP2Shell
The World Wide Web is rushing now to fix and patch its servers for the critical PHP exploit known as PHP2Shell. Most are able to patch these without downtime but many sites are going offline until the patch is implemented, …
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 21, 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.
Google Search ranking volatility and chatter seem to have spiked big time in …
Google Updates Control What You Share With Google Search With Existing Options
Google updated its Control what you share with Google Search help document to add “include existing options such as the robots meta tag, data-nosnippet, X-Robots-Tag, and the Search generative AI control,” Google said. In addition to Google updating its URL …
Google Updated Its URL Structure Best Practices For Hyphens In URLs
Google has made a minor change to its URL structure best practices for Google Search help document. Specifically, the “Use hyphens to separate words” section. The overall meaning of the section really did not change but Google did update it, …
Google Ads Updates Smart Bidding Learning Doc With 7-Day Limit & Best Practices
Google Ads has updated the old “Duration of the learning period for campaigns and what affects it” to be renamed to “About Smart Bidding learning.” This is a major help document rewrite, not just a headline change. It mentions a …
Google Merchant Center Specifies Fast Shipping Days By Country
Google has updated its about fast shipping in Merchant Center help document to detail the days Google expects for you to qualify for fast shipping in Merchant Center. This is specific for listings in the AU, CA, IN, JP, GB, …
Google Ads New: Save & Test Asset Group Changes
Google Ads is possibly rolling out a new asset group A/B test toggle named “Save and test asset group changes.” This lets you measure the impact of changing headlines, descriptions, images and videos.…
Google Search Ranking Volatility & Chatter Heats Up October 20 & 21
Google Search rankings seem to be getting super volatile again, this is alongside the search industry chatter that has been spiking to unusual levels over the past 24 hours. As a reminder, the third-party tracking tools may still be struggling …


