AI Mode pulls clicks into the fog
AI Mode Is the Front Moving In The strongest weather system today is AI Mode leakage from regular Search. Search Engine Roundtable reports that Google is testing links inside AI Overviews that look li...
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 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...
Spam Update Keeps SERPs Shaking
Spam Update Still Driving the Weather Google's September 2026 spam update is the main system in the sky today. It started on September 24 at 9:15 a.m. PDT, is still active, applies globally, and may t...
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...
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...
AI Mode pulls clicks into the fog
AI Mode Is the Front Moving In The strongest weather system today is AI Mode leakage from regular Search. Search Engine Roundtable reports that Google is testing links inside AI Overviews that look li...
Search Cools, Discover Gets Foggy
Today's Reporting Glitch The live item today is a Search Console weather-station glitch: the Crawl Stats report is missing data for September 15, 2026. Search Engine Roundtable says this appears acros...
Google SERPs Calm, But Tools Look Foggy
Tracker Fog Over the SERPs The SEO sky is calmer than it looked yesterday. Rankings ran into moderate turbulence on September 16 and 17, peaking at 6.1/10, but today’s partial read for September 18, 2...
AI Local Panels and Publisher Badges Blow In
Local Search Gets More AI The sharpest weather today is in local visibility. Search Engine Roundtable spotted Google turning some local knowledge panels, the business info boxes people see for brands...