AI Search Clouds the Click Forecast
AI Search Is Squeezing the Click Path The strongest weather system today is AI search reducing publisher traffic. Search Engine Journal covered new research this morning showing that Google AI Mode us...
Search Console Gets a Visual Search Lens
Visual Search Data Arrives The biggest practical change today is Google adding multimodal search reporting in Search Console. In plain English, site owners can now see when people found them through i...
Spam update winds are picking up
Spam Update Rolling Out Google's September 2026 spam update is the main weather system today. It started September 24 at 9:15 a.m. PDT, applies globally in all languages, and may take up to two weeks...
Spam Update Keeps Rankings Shaking
Spam Update Still Driving the Weather The storm that started Thursday, September 24 is still the main SEO story today. Google’s September 2026 spam update is rolling out globally, across all languages...
Spam Update Keeps Rankings Stormy
Spam Update Still Drives the Forecast Google’s September 2026 spam update is the main weather system over search. It began September 24 at 9:15 a.m. PDT, applies globally and to all languages, and may...
Core update cools, but Google is still twitchy
Rankings Are Cooling Off, Not Calm Google is not rolling out a new confirmed algorithm update today. The March 2026 core update finished on April 8, and that matters because a lot of sites...
Core Update Ends, But Search Is Still Shifty
Core update storm just passed The biggest SEO story on Thursday, April 9, 2026 is that Google’s March 2026 core update finished rolling out yesterday, April 8. That matters because ranking...
Core update keeps SEO skies rough
Core update still driving the weather Google's March 2026 core update is still rolling out on April 8, 2026, now on day 12 of a rollout Google said could take up to two weeks. That matters...
Core update storm, but not total chaos
Core update is still the main weather system Google's March 2026 core update is still rolling out on April 7, now on day 11 of what Google said could be a two-week rollout. That matter...
Core update storm keeps rankings on edge
Core update is the main weather system Google's March 2026 core update is still rolling out, now on day 7 of what Google says could be a two-week rollout. That lines up with the hotter...
Core update keeps rankings on edge
Core update is the main storm Google's March 2026 core update is still rolling out on April 2, now on day 6 of what Google says may be a two-week rollout. That matters because broad cor...