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Delays and gaps in Google Search Console and Google Business Profile data updates. Every SEO Weekly story on search Console reporting, newest first. 16 stories since September 2026.
- Lists that rank your own product first may vanish from AI answers
Florian S. Kluge says his self-ranked lists lost AI Overview citations in October while their normal rankings stayed put.
- Your About page may be your best page for AI answers
One SEO found a plain, human-written company history beating every other page in Google's AI results.
- More site owners can now see their AI Overview numbers
The report counts appearances inside Google's AI answers, but it does not count clicks.
- Your ranking numbers are unreliable this week
Google's own traffic report and the outside tools that track your positions are both wobbling at once.
- 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.
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- Search Console now shows visits from photo searches
A new filter separates people who searched with a camera or a screenshot from people who typed words.
- A new Search Console report shows if AI answers use your pages
The rollout is widening, but the numbers are impressions only, not clicks.
- 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.
- Your rank tracking tool may be showing old numbers
Two well known SEOs say Google is blocking the bots that rank tracking tools rely on, and the three big tools now disagree.
- 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.
- 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.
- Your Google position number may not mean what it used to
Google's John Mueller says the old idea of ranking one to ten is hard to map onto search results now.
- That scary homepage warning in Google was just a bug
Search Console briefly told site owners their homepage was not in Google. It was wrong.
- Two Google reports are stuck, and it is not your site
Barry Schwartz flagged both gaps, and Glenn Gabe says the lag is nothing new.
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