Monday, July 27, 2026

Google updated its review snippets structured data guidelines to explicitly prohibit fake reviews and undisclosed incentivized reviews in markup.

Google is testing a blue background color for the Google Business Profile dashboard interface in Google Search, replacing the previous white background.

Google's robots.txt recrawl feature in Search Console is throwing errors for multiple users, though the issue appears intermittent.

OpenAI expanded ChatGPT Ads Manager with conversion-optimized campaigns, automatic budget pacing, geo-exclusions, and new product ad formats.

Google released Ads Editor 2.13 with 17 new features including AI Max for Shopping, Maps channel support for Demand Gen, and customer retention goal capabilities.

Google has updated its crawling infrastructure documentation with fresh recommendations for optimizing crawl budgets.

Ahrefs analyzed 331,000 ranking pages and found that 5.3% of top-3 results are fully AI-generated, suggesting Google penalizes poor content quality regardless of origin, not AI use itself.

A landscaping-focused agency tested whether adding LocalBusiness schema markup boosts rankings in a controlled 10-week study across 29 clients and multiple search engines.