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SEONew York passes a Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act as unidentified bots ignore robots.txt
New York's Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act passed in June 2026 and awaits the governor's signature, requiring bots to disclose identity and purpose.…
SEOGoogle Trends now compares 400 search terms, but classic explore still caps at 125
Search Engine Roundtable reported on 3 August 2026 that Google Trends now compares up to 400 search terms across 8 groups. Google…
SEOGoogle ranking volatility hit 1 to 3 August, and Google has confirmed nothing
Search Engine Roundtable reported a spike in third-party rank trackers from 1 to 3 August 2026, backed by forum chatter. Google has…
SEOBing Webmaster Tools retires its SOAP and POX APIs on 31 August 2026
Microsoft will stop serving requests to the Bing Webmaster Tools SOAP and POX/HTTP endpoints on 31 August 2026. The JSON/HTTP REST API…
SEOGoogle no longer lists blocking internal search result pages in Search Essentials
John Mueller said on the latest Search Off the Record podcast that the old rule about blocking internal site-search pages has dropped…
SEOSearch Console page indexing report has stalled since 11 June
Since 11 June 2026 the Search Console page indexing report has been adding data in weekly clumps instead of daily points. Barry…
SEOGoogle has no published order for conflicting metadata
John Mueller said on 29 July 2026 that Google has never published the order in which Search resolves conflicting metadata, and probably…
SEOSEO Impact of CMS-Injected URLs: What to Know
Confused by strange CMS-generated URLs in your SEO audits? Learn why they appear, how Google handles them, and how to clean up…
SEOIndexed Claude Chats Show Why a robots.txt Disallow Is Not a Noindex
Shared Claude chats appeared in Google results despite a robots.txt block. Search Engine Journal found the share path disallowed while the pages…