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Google launched custom annotations in Search Console performance reports, giving you a way to add contextual notes directly to traffic data charts. The feature lets you mark specific dates with notes ...

A new report compares Google rankings with citations from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, showing different overlap patterns. Perplexity’s live retrieval makes its citations look more like Google’s ...

Google is expanding AI Mode with Canvas travel planning, global Flight Deals rollout, and agentic booking for restaurants, events, and local appointments. Canvas in AI Mode helps users build ...

Join our 2026 contributor roster! We’re seeking expert voices in SEO, PPC, AI, and analytics to share insights with millions of marketers. Search Engine Land is expanding its contributor roster in ...

Our latest SEO Trends ebook captures the insights and decisive strategy shifts marketers need to win across fragmented discovery channels. For years, Google’s predictable, and at times too easily ...

Google responds to EU investigation into its site reputation abuse policy, defending enforcement against parasite SEO as essential for protecting search quality. Google published a defense of its site ...

Google is rolling out AI shopping updates across Search and Gemini, including conversational queries, agentic checkout, and AI-powered local business calling. AI Mode in Search now supports ...

Google’s Gemini 3 Pro powers AI Mode with deeper reasoning, upgraded query fan-out, and new generative layouts. Gemini 3 Pro is available now in Google Search AI Mode for subscribers in the U.S.

Google updated its review snippet documentation to clarify that each review or rating in structured data should point to one clear target, reducing ambiguity. Google updated its review snippet docs to ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about whether a generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) with a keyword in it offered any SEO advantage. His answer was in the context of a specific keyword TLD, but ...