Google removed the Indexing API approval form and steps from its docs. Default quotas are listed, but the pages don't say how to request more. via @mattgsouthern.bsky.social

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Google is changing how links appear in AI Mode and AI Overviews, moving inline links higher and expanding the carousels that highlight Preferred Sources. via @mattgsouthern.bsky.social

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Coywolf Pack makes EmDash more powerful, aids WordPress migration, and adds SEO tools supporting search engine discovery and indexing. via @martinibuster.bsky.social

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Google's new Search Central video series tackles unusual technical SEO questions, starting with emoji, non-English characters, and keywords in your URLs. via @mattgsouthern.bsky.social

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Google explains how it ranks PDFs for SEO and GEO and how to check if a PDF is actually right for SEO purposes. via @martinibuster.bsky.social

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Google may be poisoning search results to deter AI scraping, while rank trackers and the websites they monitor get misleading data. via @martinibuster.bsky.social

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Experimental Core Web Vitals that count in-app page changes are now in the Chrome UX Report, with Search Console set to follow. via @mattgsouthern.bsky.social

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Google can keep a site migration in limbo for months. Mueller identifies an overlooked setting that may help end the uncertainty. via @martinibuster.bsky.social

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Google is planning to make Discover an AI concierge. The goal is greater usefulness; the risk is less traffic for publishers. via @martinibuster.bsky.social

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Google explains why HTML sitemaps still have a purpose, even though the XML standard has largely replaced it. via @martinibuster.bsky.social

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Google's latest spam update has finished rolling out after nearly two weeks, taking longer than any of the three spam updates it ran this year. via @mattgsouthern.bsky.social

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Google opened its SynthID Detector to everyone, globally in English. It checks images, video, and audio for SynthID watermarks from Google and partner AI tools. via @mattgsouthern.bsky.social

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Google is opening Search profiles to creators and publishers in India and Canada, with Brazil to follow soon. Until now, profiles were open only in the U.S. via @mattgsouthern.bsky.social

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Google is updating Search Console's Performance report filters so you can view combined Google Search traffic for several countries in a single filtered view. via @mattgsouthern.bsky.social

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Google admits the "couldn't fetch" sitemap message can be misleading and doesn't communicate what the real issues are. via @martinibuster.bsky.social

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Google is slamming the door on SERP tracking, but AI agents may be giving it more reason to shut down automated queries. via @martinibuster.bsky.social

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Google may be preparing a major ranking update change and some common SEO tactics could become liabilities. via @martinibuster.bsky.social

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Google's Gary Illyes showed timing ranges for crawling, indexing, site moves, and core update recovery at Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe in Barcelona. via @mattgsouthern.bsky.social

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Google's people-first content guidance now warns site owners against fabricated author profiles, a form of deception its rater guidelines already described. via @mattgsouthern.bsky.social

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