Google Ranking Volatility Spikes, Search Console Bug, Search App Stalled, Google Ads News & Business Profile Suspensions

Search Engine Roundtable Podcast

Another week and more Google Search ranking volatility, in fact, it has not calmed but we saw even more spikes in the middle of this week. Google Search Console may have a bug with product snippets reporting. Google Search App stopped working Saturday night for a few hours. Google said again, Core Web Vitals are not as important as many think. Google Indexing API may be causing some spammers some trouble, or maybe it is just normal indexing selection. Google updated its crawler documentation with the effects and snippets. Google suspended many Google Business Profiles this week. Google updated its documentation around review restrictions. A new study on Google AI Overviews shows links go to information intent pages. Google Search will label images as AI-generated, edited with software or taken with a camera. Google Ads added negative keywords for PMax, new insights and reports, and so much more. Google is testing sticky headers for the new layout. Google is testing expanded discussions and forums layouts. Bing is testing snippets that scroll. Google asked on social if you use Gemini to do SEO and then removed it. Google posted a bunch of the DOJ trail exhibits, files, documents and responses. That was the search news this week at the Search Engine Roundtable.

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0:00 - Introduction

1:13 - Google Search Ranking Volatility Continue With Big Movement Again 9/18

2:14 - Google Search Console Product Snippets Report Surge Again, Likely A Bug

2:59 - Google Search App Stopped Working Saturday Night

3:30 - Google: Core Web Vitals Aren't As Important As Some People Might Think

4:15 - The Google Indexing API Not Working For Some Or Indexing Issues...

5:08 - Google Updates Google Crawlers & Fetchers Docs With Affects & Snippets

5:57 - Google Suspending Many Google Business Profiles

6:27 - Google Reviews Restrictions For Business Profile Policy Violations

7:20 - Study: 96% Of Google AI Overviews Links Go To Informational Intent Pages

7:45 - Google Search To Label Images As AI Generated, Edited Or Taken With Camera

8:32 - Google Ads Gains Negative Keywords, Insights, Reporting To PMax & Much More

9:10 - Google Tests Sticky Headers For Ads & Results

9:24 - Google Tests Expanded & More Discussions and Forums Results

9:42 - Bing Search Result Snippets That Are Scrollable

10:00 - Google Asks On Social If You Will Use Gemini AI For SEO

10:36 - Google US DOJ Trial Exhibit Files, Documents & Responses

11:08 - Conclusion