Category: SE Roundtable

Last month, Google Ads added a new customer retention option named Loyalty program members. Now Google Ads can segment reporting by Loyalty program members.…

Google may have a bug with some of its search results formatting, where the sponsored results heading is sometimes not left-aligned. This does not seem intentional and it seems more like a formatting bug, but who knows.…

Google Ads is running a “very early experiment” to show a new attribute in sponsored results in Google Search. This attribute shows how many days remain in a sale or deal on Shopping Ads.…

This week we covered how Google said it launched its biggest reduction in search quality in Europe over the DMA laws. Google also posted a document on the regional differences with the Google Search experiences. Google confirmed there was a …

Did you know that Apple Siri handles 2.5 billion requests every single day? Lilian Rincon, Apple’s Vice President of Product Management / Product Marketing for Artificial Intelligence, said that yesterday at the Apple Event on September 9, 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.

John Mueller from Google said it is hard to map positions one through …

If you conduct a blank search on Google Search, you will get an AI Overview that says “…nuts? 𥔠It seems like one of those easter eggs dropped by Google within its search results.…

Google Ads has been offering new and existing customers credits to encourage them to spend on the advertising platform. But sometimes, Google Ads will revoke a credit, a credit that was already spent within the Google Ads platform, leaving the …

Google Ads has a new beta variable to test within its experiments area named “Budget or bidding targets for Search campaigns.” This test different budget, target CPA or target ROAS amounts to find the optimal level of spending for your …

Google’s John Mueller responded to questions about how impressions are counted for Generative AI in Google Search Console. Google has a document that explains that, and John just reiterated that. But what he added was that “the old “position 1 …

There is a new Google ranking factor survey out for 2026. It has been a while since we had one, and it is here. This one was done by Cyrus Shepard and Dawn Shepard and posted at Zyppy. It says …

Scammers are using the Google Maps contributor program to upload AI-generated photos with phone numbers, tricking users into calling the number in the photo instead of the number on the Google Business Profile listing. These scammers are doing this across …

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.

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The Google Merchant Center AI Performance Insights which launched in July and has begun expanding to more regions earlier this month has also gained new metrics. AI Search intent, AI Search terms and AI attributes have been added to the …

Google Ads is releasing two new features for multi-location retailers including Local Customer Optimization and Store Sales in Data Manager. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, wrote on X, “Ahead of the holiday rush, we’re introducing two features for multi-location …

John Mueller has one of his Google lines again, he said in response to someone trying to pick the right answer for an SEO question – he said, “Sometimes there is no absolute right answer — but you can choose …

Yesterday, for a short period of time, Google Search Console was reporting pages as not being indexed and in the status of “Crawled – currently not indexed.” The issue seemed to have been resolved within an hour or so and …