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Google begins enforcement of site reputation abuse policy with portions of sites being delisted

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Google said today. Google’s Search Liaison said on X today, “It’ll be starting later today. The algorithmic component will indeed come, as we’ve said, but that’s not live yet.” Why we care. We were expecting the enforcement to begin this week, we posted a reminder last week.

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Google starts testing AI overviews from SGE in main Google search interface

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Google said this is an experience on a “subset of queries, on a small percentage of search traffic in the U.S.,” Who and what will searchers see. For these tests, Google said it has a high confidence in the quality and value these queries bring to users. Like you were worried about that… Why we care.

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Meta: Detailed targeting exclusions alert sent to advertisers was an error

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The message said setting new detailed targeting exclusions would no longer be possible when creating campaigns after June 28. Why we care. One of the reasons audience exclusions were really impactful is they enabled us to be very specific about who we were going after. A source from Meta confirmed this alert was sent in error.

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Google Search Console security update improves management of ownership tokens

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Ownership tokens are used for when people verify your site in Search Console, Merchant Center and other Google products and sometimes people who had access in the past to your profiles no longer should. What Google said. ” So check your tokens and remove those who should not have access.

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Googlebot crawl rate tool in Search Console is going away

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Google said this feature is no longer useful because Google said it has improved its “crawling logic and other tools available to publishers.” Here is what it looks like: Why Google is removing it. ” He said the tool often would “have taken over a day for the new limits to be applied on crawling.”

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Googlebot crawl rate tool is now gone

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Google said this feature is no longer useful because Google said it has improved its “crawling logic and other tools available to publishers.” This is what the tool looked like: Why Google removed the tool. He said the tool often would “have taken over a day for the new limits to be applied on crawling.” Why we care.

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Google CEO on future of links, AI making Search quality worse

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Here’s what Pichai said, you can decide what it means: “Anytime there’s a transition, you get an explosion of new content, and AI is going to do that. So for us, we view this as the challenge, and I actually think there’ll be people who will struggle to do that, right? ” Why we care.

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