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웹사이트 검색누락 접속속도 웹사이트를 운영하다 보면 갑자기 검색 결과에서 노출이 줄어들거나 특정 페이지가 사라지는 현상을 경험할 수 있습니다. 많은 운영자들은 콘텐츠 품질이나 키워드 문제를 먼저 의심하지만, 실제로는 기술적인 요소도 중요한…
How can B2B network marketing generate leads?
B2B network marketing generate leads Generating high-quality leads is a top priority for businesses, and B2B network marketing offers a strategic approach to achieve this goal. Unlike traditional marketing, which…
Google Testing AI Generated Search Snippet Summaries
Google is testing placing AI-generated search result snippet summaries. Under each Google search result, there is a thing bar, followed by the Gemini logo and then a short AI-generated summary…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 16, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Search Console Reporting Off Since 100 Results Per Page Change
On Friday we reported that Google Search was removing the ability to show 100 search results per page. And now, we are seeing a lot of people notice that their…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 15, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Search Testing Dropping 100 Search Results Parameter
Google Search seems to be testing dropping the ability to see 100 search results on a single page. When you add the results parameter to the end of your search…
Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines Updated 9/11
On Thursday, September 11, 2025, Google updated its search quality raters guidelines PDF document. The last time Google updated this document was on January 23, 2025, over seven months ago.…
Google Heated Spam Update, Web Declines, AI Mode Updates, AI Max Rolls Out & More
For the original iTunes version, click here.This week, I covered the ongoing Google August 2025 spam update and how it heated up this week. Google got into hot water…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 12, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 11, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google August 2025 Spam Update Heats Up Again
The Google August 2025 spam update seems to be heating up again. I am seeing both chatter within the SEO spike, while also seeing many of the third-party Google tracking…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 10, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 9, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 8, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Says Go With Traditional TLD Even If You Need A Hyphen In Domain Name
Google's John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that he would personally go with a traditional TLD (i.e., .com) even if it means having to put a hyphen in the…
Monopoly Google Won’t Be Broken Up, FastSearch For Grounding, Apple Search World Knowledge Answers and more
This week, we covered the big Google Monopoly remedy ruling that will not end up breaking up the company and was more like a slap on the wrist. Google also…
Google To Make AI Mode Default Search Soon
Logan Kilpatrick, lead product manager for Google DeepMind, Gemini, and all AI products at Google, said Google AI Mode will be the default for Google Search "soon." He said this…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 5, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
EU Fines Google $3.5 Billion & Must Divest Part Of Ad Business
The European Union has fined Google $3.5 billion, 2.95 billion euro, for breaking its competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services. Part of this ruling also says Google…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 4, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 3, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Won’t Be Broken Up In Monopoly Case
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled on the remedies for Google being declared a monopoly. In short, Google won't be broken up (will keep Chrome, Android and Ads), it will…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 2, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Testing AI Overview With Knowledge Panel
Google may be testing a new format for AI Overviews in the search results. This one does not have the AI Overview label on the AI Overview, plus it seems…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 1, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Spam Update, AI Mode Changes, ChatGPT Does Use Google, Search Ad News & More
This week we had our first Google spam update in 8 months, the August 2025 spam update. This update touched down very quickly, likely within 24 hours. I also posted…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 29, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 28, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 27, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 26, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Using SerpApi To Scrape Google Search Results
Earlier we reported that ChatGPT from OpenAI seems to be using parts of Google search results for its answers (kudos to the SEO community for spotting it first). Well, according…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 25, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Merchant Panel Deals & Loyalty Benefits Boxes & Shopping Ads Discount Codes
Google is now showing the deals and loyalty benefits details in the retailer/merchant knowledge panels. Plus, Google Shopping Ads show a "discount code" link that opens a dialog box with…
Google Volatility Check, AI Mode Expands Big Time, ChatGPT Sends Less Traffic & SPN Ad Reporting
This week, we did a check in on the ongoing Google Search ranking volatility. Google AI Mode expanded to 180 countries, added agentic experiences, got more personalized and gained sharable…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 22, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
OpenAI ChatGPT Sending 52% Less Referral Traffic
OpenAI made some updates to its ChatGPT systems, which are impacting the amount of traffic ChatGPT is sending out from its interface. Josh Blyskal from Profounds posted on LinkedIn that…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 21, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Ads Full Placement Reporting For Search Partner Network (SPN)
Google Ads seems to be rolling out full placement reporting for the Search Partner Network (SPN). This is a feature advertisers have been begging and praying for, for probably 20…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 20, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google AI Overviews Explain Overlay Testing Bottom Tray
Google AI Overviews has this feature where you can select the text in the AI Overview and an overlay with explain this, related images and copy text (sometimes other features)…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 19, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Search Ranking Volatility Cooled This Weekend
It has been week after week of intensely heated Google search ranking volatility, and it is time I start reporting when the volatility cools or calms down. Well, this weekend…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 18, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Traffic From Google To Publishers Stable Over Years Says New Third Party Study
The studies we have thus seen from third parties have all said traffic from Google Search to websites has declined a lot since AI Overviews came out. But we have…
Google Volatility Continues, Preferred Sources, Site Hack Demolishes Traffic & Google On AI
For the original iTunes version, click here.The Google search ranking volatility has not calmed down since the June core update and we are in mid-August and expecting another core…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 15, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Microsoft Says SEOs Need To Study Clicks To Conversions From AI Search
Fabrice Canel from the Microsoft Bing team said that search engines, like Bing, have "limited visibility" into the conversions after the click from AI search and it is up to…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 14, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Top Stories Preferred Sources Graduates Labs
Google has launched the Preferred Sources top stories feature fully in the US and India, after testing it in Search Labs for a bit over six weeks. As I said…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 13, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Ads Updated Several Policy Help Center Articles
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 12, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 11, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Analytics Real Time Reporting Broken Again
Google Analytics seems not to be functioning properly again. The real-time reporting feature is underreporting numbers for many sites. Google had a similar issue last month and a couple of…
Google Analytics Code On Wrong Site Won’t Hurt Your Google SEO
Did you ever see your Google Analytics code, for your website, on someone else's site? It happens for some reason here and there. But if it does, there is no…
People Also Search For Section In Google AI Mode
Google is testing adding the "people also search for" section within the Google AI Mode results. This shows below the link cards on the right, and shows other queries people…
Bing Webmaster Tools Gets 24 Months Of Data & More
Bing not only added new filters by device and country, but also Bing added several more months of historical data - from 16 months to 24 months of data to…
Google Ads Adds Performance Max Controls & Reporting
Google announced a number of new Google Ads Performance Max controls and reporting features. They include new controls such as campaign-level negative keyword lists, more search theme limits, more demographic…
Google Clicks To Sites Stable, Volatility Cooled & Heated, AI Mode Ads, GPT-5 & Sullivan Drops Liaison
For the original iTunes version, click here.This week, we covered the ongoing Google search volatility, which cooled for a bit and then got heated again. Google’s Liz Reid said…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 8, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 7, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Search Ranking Volatility Calmed For Just A Second
I am seeing a huge spike in chatter within the SEO industry over the past 24 hours. This comes a day or so after we saw some Google search ranking…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 6, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Posts Creation Tool Updated
Google has rolled out an update to the Google Business Profiles Google Posts creation tool. We covered Google testing these changes earlier but now it is officially live as of…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 5, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
August 2025 Google Webmaster Report
The past month was a bit intense with Google search ranking volatility. With the June 2025 core update kicking off the day before July 1st, we started to see ranking…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 4, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Again
Guess what - another story on Google Search volatility and how it is heated and the chatter within the SEO industry is pretty high right now. We reported about it…
Google Volatility, Search Live With Video, AI Mode Updates, Google Ads, local and more
Google’s search ranking volatility continues and continues, it is weird at this point. Google Search Live with video is finally rolling out. Google AI Mode added file uploads, canvas planner…
Danny Sullivan No Longer Google’s Search Liaison
Danny Sullivan is no longer the Google Search Liaison. He is switching roles within Google to work on new projects on the Google Search team. Danny Sullivan joined Google over…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 1, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Ads Al Max Ad Group Settings with Search Term Matching
Google has a new beta within Google Ads for Al Max ad group settings with search term matching. This shows when AI Max is turned on and Google wrote in…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 31, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Search Live With Video Available
Google announced that the full version of Search Live, with video and not just audio, is now rolling out this week on mobile in the U.S. for users enrolled in…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 30, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Ads To Turn Of Personalization, Remarketing & Conversion Tracking Over Consent Mode v2
Google is notifying some advertisers that they do not comply with Google's EU User Consent Policy, i.e. Consent Mode v2 and that as of July 21st and will turn off…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 29, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 28, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Search Ranking Volatility Was Heated This Weekend
I know I just reported on the super-heated Google Search ranking volatility week we had, and how the post-core update seems more unstable than during the June 2025 core update.…
Google Web Guide Search Labs Using Gemini To Organize Your Web Results
Google launched a new Search Labs experiment it is calling Web Guide. It basically organizes the web search results for you by category. Google wrote, "Web Guide is an AI-organized…
Google Ads RSAs With Click & Conversion Data
Google Ads is adding more detailed data to RSAs, responsive search ads, reporting. Specifically, it now shows click and conversion data per RSA headline. This is instead of it just…
Google Launches Virtual Try-On & Customized Price Alerts
Google finally launched its virtual clothes try-on feature after launching it several times and then demoing it again at Google I/O. Google also launched price alerts to let users specify…
Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated
As we reported earlier this week, Google Search ranking volatility was more heated (and for longer) after the Google June 2025 core update completed than during the core update. Well,…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 25, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Post Core Update Volatility, AI Overviews Kills Clicks, Google Ad Revenue Climbs & More SEO and PPC
This week we covered the strong search ranking volatility post Google June 2025 core update and it continued through the week, with a spike on Thursday. A Pew Research study…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 24, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Says Normal SEO Works To Get Into AI Overviews
Gary Illyes from Google said at the Google Search Live Deep Dive event yesterday that you don't need to do GEO, LLMO or anything else to show up in Google…
Alphabet Google Ad Revenue Up 10.4% & Overall Revenue Up 14%
Google reported Q2 2025 earnings today, which showed Google's ad revenue was up again year-over-year, with an increase of 10.4%, and overall revenue is also up 13.8%.Alphabet reports Q2 revenue…
Searchers Much Less Likely To Click On Links In Google Search Results With AI Overviews
Pew Research Center released a report that showed Google searchers who encounter an AI Overview are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 22, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Ads Brand Inclusions & Exclusions Now In AI Max
Google Ads seems to be moving brand inclusions and exclusions into AI Max for any new search campaign you create. Google has a note that says, "Turn on Al Max…
New Google Search Console Logo
Google has uploaded a new logo for Google Search Console. The logo looks like a variation of an analytics logo with a magnifying glass, with blue, green, yellow and a…
Google Maps Business Profile Ask Button
Google is testing moving the "Ask" button to one of the main buttons on some Google local listings. I cannot replicate this but the Ask button in this example below…
Google Search Ranking Volatility Still Heated Days After Core Update Completed
Google told us the June 2025 core update completed early on Thursday, July 17th, but now, four days later, we are still seeing incredibly heated volatility, even through today. The…
Google Says Login Service Pages Are Hard To Rank In Search
Google's John Mueller said it is hard for service oriented login web pages to rank in the search results. Like, if you have a landing page where people can login…
Google Business Profile Check Edit Status
Google launched a new feature for Google Business Profiles that lets you check the status of your edits. So if you made a change and you want to see what…
Google June Core Update Done, Local Ranking Update, AI Mode Updates & AI Calling Businesses
For the original iTunes version, click here.Google’s June 2025 core update finished on Thursday after running for 16 days. It was a volatile Google update for a while with…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 18, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google AI Overviews For Movie Related Queries
Google is supposedly showing AI Overviews for movie-related queries. Apparently, this is new, although I don't have firsthand knowledge since I don't typically search for movies. However, I've been told…
Google Updates Its Local Ranking Documentation
Google has updated its local ranking documentation and Tips to improve your local ranking on Google page. The new wording is shorter and has fewer details than the older version.…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 14, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Local & Business Profiles Drops Around June 25th
Starting around June 25, 2025, many are noticing huge declines in impressions and clicks from their local rankings in Google. This is from the Google Business Profiles performance reports and…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 11, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Helpful Content Recoveries With Core Update, AI Mode Expands, Hidden Ad Terms & Fewer Ad Clicks
For the original iTunes version, click here.This week we covered the ongoing Google June 2025 core update and how we are finally seeing some recoveries with the past helpful…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 10, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 9, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Says Order Of Disavow Link File Does Not Matter
Google's John Mueller said the order of the URLs or sites you list in your disavow link file does not matter. He added that the file is not processed in…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 8, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 7, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google AI Mode Rolling Out To Workspace Accounts
Google's Nick Fox said that AI Mode has begun rolling out to Workspace accounts in the US. Nick Fox said this started on July 2nd but he clarified later that…
Bing Search Testing Zoomable & Sticky Related Searches
Microsoft is testing zoomable and sticky related searches in the Bing Search results page. So one variation has the related searches stick to the right top of the screen as…
Google June 2025 Core Update, Search Volatility, Insights Report, Ads & More
This week, we finally had an official Google update, the June 2025 core update, which seemed to have kicked in on July 2nd. We also had an unconfirmed update on…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 4, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 3, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Ads Confirms Errors & High Latency Issues
Google has confirmed an issue with Google Ads, where there are unexpected errors, high latency and other unexpected issues with the Google Ads advertiser console. Google said access is fine…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 2, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 1, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Promotes AI Mode With Google Doodle
Google is promoting AI Mode with an animated Google Doodle on its home page, in some countries. The Google home page logo, animated and clickable, takes you into a search…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 30, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Search Ranking Volatility On June 28th
On Saturday, June 28th, it appears that another significant Google Search ranking update occurred, although Google has not confirmed it. There has been significant search ranking volatility and chatter within…
Google Ads API Outages and Slowness
Google Ads is experiencing some technical difficulties, although their ad status dashboard indicates that all is currently fine. The issue is somewhat significant in that even Microsoft Advertising is warning…
Liz Reid, Head Of Google Search, On Ads & SEO With AI Search
Liz Reid, the head of Google Search, spoke with Reed Albergotti of Semafor, on Google's push towards AI Search. The interview was conducted weeks ago at Google I/O but was…
Where the Google core updates, Web is Thriving and AI index freshness
Another week and more Google search ranking volatility hits, this time on June 25 and June 26. Google promised more core updates, more often, but that did not happen. Google’s…
Google AI Overviews Testing Showing Site Names
Google is testing adding the site name next to the link icons in the AI Overviews within Google Search. This makes it much more likely for searchers to click on…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 27, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Search Ranking Volatility June 25 & 26
Over the past two days it has felt like there was some sort of ranking adjustment made in the Google Search organic results. Yea, I know, organic search doesn't send…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 26, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Updates Service Area Business Guidelines Don’t Add Countries Or States
Google updated its service areas business guidelines help document to add "Do not add countries or states as a service area." Google also updated numerous parts of the document. But…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 25, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Says URL Extensions Still Don’t Matter (HTM vs HTML)
Google's John Mueller several years after posting a video named "Will removing “.html” from my URLs help my site?" still says URL extensions do not matter for SEO. He said…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 24, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Questions CTR Studies On AI Overview Clicks
Jason Howell on the AI Inside podcast had Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, on a few weeks ago. In that interview, he said that the methodologies used by…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 23, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Video Search Testing Speaker Icon With Language Indicator
Google is testing placing a speaker icon next to the video snippets. The speaker icon includes a language label indicating what language the video is in.This was spotted by Frank…
The Industry Mourns The Loss Of Jill Whalen
It is with a heavy heart that I am reporting that one of the founding pillars of the SEO industry, one of the first female SEOs in our industry, and…
Google Adds Troubleshooting Guidance To Block Content From AI Mode & AI Overviews
Google has quietly updated its AI features and your website help document, which it initially launched just under a month ago, with a new section on troubleshooting preview controls. In…
Google Says Larger & Longer Issues Can Take Longer To Reverse In Google Search
Google's John Mueller said that for larger and longer issues, it can take Google longer for Google Search to reprocess it all. Meaning, the bigger the issue and the longer…
Google Search Volatility, AI Mode in Search Console, Audio Overviews and ChatGPT Search Quality
For the original iTunes version, click here.This week we covered the ongoing Google search ranking volatility. Google is now officially counting AI Mode in Google Search Console’s performance reports,…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 20, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Rolls Out Talk & Listen Version Of Search Live
Google has begun rolling out the audio version, talk and listen version, of Search Live in the Google app to those who opt into the AI Mode experiment. This is…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 19, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Explains The Great Decoupling
The term, The Great Decoupling has really been catching on over the past couple of weeks. It is being used to describe what we are seeing with impressions and clicks…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 18, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Search Console Now Counting AI Mode
Google has now officially confirmed that Google Search Console is counting AI Mode data. Google said, "AI Mode is now counting towards totals in Search Console." We saw this when…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 17, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Search Audio Overview
Tired of all that reading in the Google Search results, is it too hard to read the AI Overviews? Well, Google has a solution for you, they are called "Audio…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 16, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Search “Back To All” In Autocomplete
Google recently was testing showing vertical search shortcuts in the autocomplete search suggestions. Now, Google is testing a "back to all" option in the autocomplete.It basically lists "Back to all"…
Google Ads Custom Segments With Estimated Audience Size
Google Ads is now showing the estimated audience size in the custom segments for some advertisers. This can help you see if the reach will be large enough for you…
Google Drops Support For More Structured Data
Google has yet again dropped support for more of its structured data elements/markup that it uses for rich results in the search results page. Google calls this "Simplifying the search…
Google Rolling Out AI Mode In The US
At Google I/O, Google said it will roll out AI Mode to all users based in the U.S. Well, that rollout seems to have started some time yesterday. If you…
Google AI Mode Search, Apple Intelligence Updates, Google Live Search, AI Content, SEO & Google Ads
For the original iTunes version, click here.This week in search, we of course covered some Google search ranking volatility. Google Search had serving issues across Google Search, Discover and…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 13, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 12, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Unrelated Content A Google SEO Ranking Issue?
Google's John Mueller responded to a complaint about indexing issues and ranking drops within Google Search, citing that the possible reason is unrelated content on the site. John said in…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 11, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Ads AI Max For Search Campaigns Coming To All In Q3 2025
Google's new AI Max in Google Ads for Search campaigns is coming to all advertisers in Q3 of 2025. As a reminder, Google says AI Max for Search campaigns is…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 10, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 9, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Ads Issue – Maybe Ads Not Displaying
Google has confirmed an issue with Google Ads this morning, saying, "We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Ads. We will provide more information shortly."I am not sure exactly…
Google AI Mode Adds Charting & Data Visualizations
When Google announced at Google I/O the launch of AI Mode, Google also announced a number of new features including the ability for Google to take your query and analyze…
Google Search Console Discover Report Flatlining
It seems the Google Search Console performance report for Google Discover has reported zero impressions and clicks starting Thursday, June 5th, or has underreported impressions and clicks significantly since that…
Google Testing New Learn More About Sponsored Results Label
Google is testing a new label on its search ads within the Google Search results that says "Learn more about Sponsored results." This label is on the bottom right of…
Google Local Service Ads Tests Replacing Screened With Verified
Google is testing replacing the "Google Screened" label with a "Google Verified" label for the Local Service Ads. I am also seeing these results come up with no labels at…
Google Ranking Movement, The Great Decoupling, Explicit Ranking Algorithm, Indexing Drop & AI, Lens, Ads & More
This week we covered the ongoing Google search ranking volatility that spiked on June 4th. Have you heard of the Great Decoupling? Did Google start indexing less in late May?…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 6, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Updates Ranking Algorithm For Explicit Content & Videos; Updates SafeSearch Documentation
Google has updated its search ranking algorithm to "more strongly affect the sites that host explicit videos but don't allow Googlebot to fetch those video files" which may lead to…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 5, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Search Ranking Volatility June 4th
Google Search ranking volatility is heating up today, June 4th. Many of the tools and some of the chatter within the SEO community are showing signs of a Google ranking…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 4, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
The Great Decoupling Of Clicks & Impressions From Google Search
Since Google began rolling out AI Overviews in Google Search, publishers, site owners, SEOs, etc have been posting screenshots of their Google Search Console performance reports that show how clicks…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 3, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
June 2025 Google Webmaster Report
It's time for the big Google Webmaster report where I recap all the big organic Google Search related news I covered here over the past month. We had Google I/O…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 2, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Programming Note: Offline For Shavuot 5785
This is a programming note that I will be completely offline for the holiday of Shavout/Shavous on Monday and Tuesday, June 2nd and 3rd. Any stories published here will be…
Google Search Ranking Volatility, Web Publishing Dead, AI Mode Search Console Data & AI Mode Scares SEOs
This week, we covered more Google Search ranking volatility around May 29th. Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, said web publishing is not dead and had a great interview with The Verge.…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 30, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Search Ranking Volatility May 29th
Google Search ranking and results have experienced increased volatility over the past 24 hours or so - the search results are heating up. I am noticing an uptick in SEO…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 29, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google’s Sundar Pichai Doesn’t Think Web Publishing Is Dead
Nilay Patel of The Verge had a great one-on-one conversation with Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO. Nilay did put on the pressure around how the changes with AI Overviews and AI…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 28, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Bing Testing Related Searches Sticky Footer
Microsoft is testing a sticky footer in the Bing Search results that show related searches. So the related searches section sticks to the footer, making these related searches way more…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 27, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Ads Help Document On Ads In AI Overviews & Experiences
Google has released a new help document named About Ads and AI Overviews, plus, they added a new landing page that contains a link to this single document named Ads…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 26, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google AdSense New Setting For Anchor Ad Positions
Google has added a setting for AdSense publishers to pick the positions of their anchor ads. They can pick from up to six different settings depending on top/bottom or side…
Google Business Profiles Name Change Spike
I am seeing some complaints within the local SEO community about a surge or spike in name changes happening to Google Business Profiles. It is unclear how widespread the issue…
Google Confirms AI Mode Noreferrer Is A Bug
Google released AI Mode in the U.S. a couple of days ago and Tom Critchlow and Patrick Stox noticed that Google prevented you from tracking referrer data from AI Mode.…
Google I/O, Marketing Live, AI Mode, AI Overviews, AI Ads, Search Volatility & More
This week was a huge week for search; between Google I/O and Google Marketing Live - it was just a lot. We had two unconfirmed Google ranking updates, one on…
Google Confirms AI Mode Reporting Coming To Search Console
Google has confirmed that AI Mode reporting will be coming to Google Search Console. It is currently not yet in Search Console, but it will be coming as part of…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 23, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google AI Mode & AI Overviews Desktop Gets Ads
Google is now pushing search ads on AI Mode and the desktop version of AI Overviews. Google's Vidhya Srinivasan said at Google Marketing Live, "we're expanding ads in AI Overviews…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 22, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 21, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Search Testing Link Icon Box With Anchor Feature
Google is testing a new link feature in the search results, it is in the form of a link box, in the search result snippet, that when you click on…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 20, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Google Rolling Out Discover On Desktop
Since the weekend, Google has started to roll out Google Discover on desktop in many countries and regions. I personally can trigger it in Google New Zealand and some other…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 19, 2025
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry…
Apple Maps Adds Insights, Ratings & Reviews From MICHELIN Guide & Others
Apple announced this week that it partnered with MICHELIN Guide; The Infatuation and Golf Digest to provide "insights, ratings, and reviews from expert sources" within Apple Maps. "Users can now…