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Google Business Profile Posts Can Now Be Removed for Unverified Contact Information

Google's Business Profile content policy now states posts with unverified phone numbers, emails or social handles may be removed as fraud prevention — use the Call Now button instead.

Sep 27, 2026 · 4 min read

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Google Adds a Creator Property to VideoObject Structured Data

Sep 27, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

Google Updates

September 2026 Spam Update Begins Rolling Out, With a Two-Week Window

Sep 24, 2026 · 6 min read · Paul Lovell

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Search Console Adds Multimodal Search Reporting for Lens, Circle to Search and Image Uploads

Sep 24, 2026 · 6 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Adds creator and Updated interactionStatistic Docs to Video Structured Data

Sep 24, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell

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CMA Strengthens Google Search Choice Screen Proposals to Include AI Assistants

Sep 23, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google AdSense Drops Identity Verification Threshold to $0

Sep 23, 2026 · 3 min read · Paul Lovell

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IndexNow for HubSpot Websites: Why It Needs an App Like IndexNow Sync

Sep 22, 2026 · 7 min read · Paul Lovell

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Cloudflare's 15 September Change to AI Crawler Access, Measured

Sep 21, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Business Profiles Adds a 'Collected Info' Tab for Reviewing Automated Data

Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Discover on Desktop Is Gone Again

Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read · Paul Lovell

Google Updates

Google Drops the Search Profile Threshold to 10,000 Followers — and Adds Multi-Brand Management

Sep 17, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

Google Updates

Google's Agentic Commerce Push: UCP Checkout, AI Share of Voice and a Business Agent Inside YouTube Ads

Sep 16, 2026 · 6 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Has Documented Its Replacement for the Custom Search API — and You Can't Have It

Sep 16, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell

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Search Live Now Runs on Gemini 3.8 Live — and It's Available to Everyone

Sep 16, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell

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Chrome Just Put Your Ad Load on the Public Record — and ads.txt Decides Whether You're In It

Sep 16, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Business Profile Post Views Are Back After Three and a Half Years — With Search and Maps Merged Into One Number

Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Two GEO Experiments Found PR Produced 0.2% of AI Citations. Third-Party Listicles Produced 85.8%.

Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Says It Can't Report AI Search Properly Yet — and Is Asking the Industry for Ideas

Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Ads Appear on 29% of Commercial AI Mode Queries — and the Advertiser Usually Isn't a Source

Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Has Started Paying Some Publishers When Their Content Feeds AI Answers

Sep 14, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell