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SEOSearch Console's generative AI performance report is now live on every property
Barry Schwartz checked roughly 25 Search Console profiles and found Google's generative AI performance report on every one. Google announced nothing, and…
SEOGoogle publishes a Search Console guide for TikTok, Instagram, X and YouTube data
Google added a guide to analysing social and video platform content in Search Console on 29 July 2026, the same day platform…
SEOGoogle: hreflang URLs are not indexed in the proper sense
Gary Illyes said hreflang alternate URLs are not indexed in the proper sense, and are kept as alternate names of a canonical…
SEOGoogle now disallows repeated bilingual names and script transliterations on Business Profiles
Google's guidelines for representing your business on Google now list repeated bilingual names and script transliterations as not allowed, even when the…
SEOPatronView blocked Amazon's AI crawler after 117,000 page reads a day
Nick Gray blocked Amazon's Amzn-SearchBot on 5 August 2026 after roughly 117,000 requests a day. The server side figures are rare, and…
SEOGoogle's crawlers do send HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, PATCH and DELETE, and it is your JavaScript doing it
Gary Illyes of Google said on LinkedIn that Google's crawlers send HTTP methods beyond GET and POST, but they account for less…
SEOGoogle Business Profile in Gemini now works for multi-location accounts
PPC Land reported on 7 August 2026 that the Business Profile integration in Gemini now supports multi-location accounts worldwide on desktop and…
SEOGoogle says on the record that Reddit gets no special preference in its ranking systems
Google communications representative Jennifer Kutz told The Verge that Reddit gets no special preference in Google's ranking system, and that AI search…
SEOReport: Cloudflare's AI crawler blocking is returning 403s to Googlebot, weeks before the September deadline
A user report says Cloudflare's AI bot blocking made Googlebot and Bingbot receive HTTP 403 on a sitemap request. Search Engine Journal…