AI Search Opt-Out Hits the Forecast
AI Controls Take Effect Today's biggest weather maker is Google's AI Search control, not a classic ranking storm. Google announced on June 3 that Search Console is rolling out dedicated generative AI...
Site Moves Need a Cleaner Flight Plan
Site Moves Get a Warning Label The practical SEO story today is domain migrations. Google updated its site move guidance on June 17 to say domain moves work best when all variants are migrated properl...
AI search clouds, rankings mostly steady
AI Search Is the Main Weather System The strongest signal today is not a classic ranking storm. It is the continued squeeze from AI search. Search Engine Roundtable covered Google’s Search Central Liv...
Search Cools, AI Pressure Holds
AI Search Is the Main Weather System The strongest signal this weekend is not a fresh ranking storm. It is the continuing squeeze from AI search. On June 19, Search Engine Roundtable covered Google’s...
A calm day with suspicious gusts
Ranking Weather Google rankings look mostly steady today, but not perfectly quiet. The live partial volatility score is 4.6/10, which is normal, and the last week has been more of a flat, low-grade wo...
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 Search Cools, But Links Are Shifting
AI Results Are the Main Weather System The sky is calmer today, but the pressure is still coming from AI search. Search Engine Land’s latest featured SEO story says Google AI Overviews now appear in 3...
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...
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 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...
Europe SERPs get reshuffled
EEA Search Gets Rebuilt The strongest SEO weather system is still over Europe. On September 18, Google Search Central updated its documentation to say aggregator units and supplier units now support l...