Marie Haynes
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- Google may penalize sites where users can publish pages
Updated spam guidance warns platform owners to watch what their users get indexed.
- AI tools still send almost no visitors next to Google
Three studies landed this week saying AI search visibility may not be worth paying for yet.
- Google adds more links to its AI answers, again
Nick Fox of Google laid out five changes to how AI answers link out, including a new section at the top for the one or two pages that finish the job.
- Google is putting more links inside its AI answers
Google says AI Overviews and AI Mode will link out more often, and place some of those links higher in the answer.
- Google may refuse to index pages after a site move
One well known SEO thinks moving domains triggers a stricter quality check on your pages.
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- Moving your site to a new domain keeps going wrong
Barry Schwartz asked why Google still showed an old domain four months after a move, and two SEOs said they see the same thing all the time.
- Google penalties are now hitting ordinary businesses
Several SEOs say the wave of hand-issued Google penalties is landing on normal companies, not just obvious spam sites.
- More sites are getting hand-issued Google penalties
One well known SEO says the penalties are landing on ordinary businesses, not just obvious spam sites.
- Google now emails you when readers favorite your site
Several SEOs got the new emails this week, and nobody can see the number inside Search Console yet.
- Google calls hand-checking AI writing "critical"
Three well known SEOs have now pointed at the same line in Google's refreshed AI content guidance.
- Top SEOs expect a big Google update very soon
Three well known search experts read the same signals in Google's documentation edits and came to the same conclusion.
- Google is testing payments for content used in AI answers
The pilot runs through Search Console, and Barry Schwartz says it was first spotted back in April.
- Google's business info box is turning into an AI answer
Three well known SEOs say the box that shows your hours and reviews is starting to include an AI summary.
- Google search profiles now open at 10,000 followers
Google cut the bar for getting a Search profile by 90 percent, and added a few other changes for publishers and creators.
- Sites that vanished from Google came back nine days later
Glenn Gabe says sites that lost nearly all search visibility around September 4 have fully recovered, and nobody outside Google knows why.
- Some sites lost nearly all Google traffic in early September
Two well known SEOs report near total traffic losses, and bulk-made pages may be the link.
- Traffic estimates from popular SEO tools may be wrong now
Several well known SEOs say the numbers in Ahrefs and Semrush do not match Google's own click data right now.
- Missing June data in Search Console is a Google bug
Two well known SEOs saw the same gap in the same report on the same morning, so it is not your site.
- Buying cheap backlinks can quietly sink your site
A new marketplace sells links for pennies, and several well known SEOs say the sites buying them will pay for it later.
- Google's AI search briefly stopped linking to websites
A new Gemini model went live in AI Mode with almost no citations, and Google called it a bug.
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