Content Marketing and SEO

Google's John Mueller implies that Googlebot crawling 404 pages is a positive sign about that site's content. The post Google: 404 Crawling Means Google Is Open To More Of Your Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google responds to “personalized upselling” criticism tied to its AI Mode checkout, saying upselling means premium options, not higher prices. The post Google: AI Mode Checkout Can’t Raise Prices appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's Robby Stein explains why AI Overviews appear for some searches but not others, describing an engagement-based system. The post Google: AI Overviews Show Less When Users Don’t Engage appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's John Mueller explained how to remove a site from the search results without Search Console ownership verification The post Google: How To Remove Site From Search Without Verifying Ownership appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt discuss page weight growth, the 15MB crawl limit, and whether structured data is adding bloat to web pages. The post Google: Pages Are Getting Larger & It Still Matters appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's John Mueller shared the Disavow File Domain Directive which disavows entire Top Level Domains (TLDs) but cautioned about using it. The post Google: You Can Disavow Entire TLDs Like .XYZ With Domain Directive appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's VP of Ads & Commerce published her annual letter previewing agentic commerce updates, AI Mode ad expansion, and creator-brand matching tools for 2026. The post Google’s Ads Chief Details UCP Expansion, New AI Mode Ads appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's John Mueller said case sensitivity matters and SEOs shouldn't just hope it works. The post Google’s Advice On Canonicals: They’re Case Sensitive appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's John Mueller offers advice on dealing with indexed URLs that shouldn't be indexed The post Google’s Advice on Fixing Unwanted Indexed URLs appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google SVP Nick Fox says AI Mode’s personal context features, including opt-in Gmail connections teased at I/O, are still in internal testing. The post Google’s AI Mode Personal Context Features “Still To Come” appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

The second part of Kevin Indig’s AI Mode study breaks down what’s measurable, what’s myth, and where visibility is really earned. The post Google’s AI Mode SEO Impact | AI Mode User Behavior Study [Part 2] appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google AI Mode introduces a shift in what content gets surfaced. Here's what you need to know to succeed. The post Google’s AI Mode: What We Know & What Experts Think appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google AI Overviews reaches 1.5 billion monthly users with Alphabet's Q1 earnings showing 10% search revenue growth. The post Google’s AI Overviews Reach 1.5 Billion Monthly Users appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google has launched AI shopping tools that help customers find real clothing items based on generated images. The post Google’s AI Shopping Tools Transform Ideas Into Real Products appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

This week's PPC Pulse recaps Google’s evolving Search asset guidance, revised budget pacing behavior, and Microsoft’s rollout of self-serve negative lists for PMax. The post Google’s Asset Guidance & Ad Scheduling Updates, Microsoft Negatives – PPC Pulse appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's CEO says that informational queries will become agentic search and that search itself will be an agent manager. The post Google’s CEO Predicts Search Will Become An AI Agent Manager appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google CEO Sundar Pichai fails to read the room, insisting that “no one sends traffic to the web the way we do" The post Google’s CEO Says AI Overviews Website Referrals Are Increasing appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's crawl team filed a bug against WooCommerce for add-to-cart parameters wasting crawl budget. WooCommerce fixed it. Other plugins haven't. The post Google’s Crawl Team Filed Bugs Against WordPress Plugins appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's February Discover core update is complete after a roughly 22-day rollout. Early data suggests fewer domains in top slots. The post Google’s Discover Core Update Finishes Rolling Out appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

On Reddit, Google’s John Mueller reviewed a two-day “vibe-coded” Bento Grid Generator and listed fixes for crawlability, meta tags, hreflang, and structured data. The post Google’s John Mueller Flags SEO Issues In Vibe Coded Website appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

XML sitemap date manipulation won't improve SEO, says Google's John Mueller. Learn why this common tactic wastes resources and what to do instead. The post Google’s John Mueller: Updating XML Sitemap Dates Doesn’t Help SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's head of Search described how multimodal LLMs help Google understand audio and video, and discussed a direction for subscription-aware search. The post Google’s Liz Reid Says LLMs Unlock Audio And Video Indexing appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's March Core Update continues to rollout. Patterns are beginning to emerge as reports come in with data from the past week. The post Google’s March Core Update: Early Observations From Initial Rollout appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Why Google's recently finished Spam Update could be the beginning of something bigger that is yet to come. The post Google’s March Spam Update Felt Muted But May Signal Bigger Changes appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Noindex tags hiding in your site can prevent search engines from indexing your pages. Google's Martin Splitt advises where to look for them. The post Google’s Martin Splitt Explains How To Find & Remove Noindex Tags appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article