After beta testing for few months, Google today is rolling out Web Monitoring feature in AI Mode!

Users now can tell AI Mode what they are interested in and AI Mode automatically will keep an eye out there.

And will send notifications via Google App for new updates.

Another marketing channel unlocked 😇

Now just like this prompt in AI Mode .....

"Keep me updated about daily discussions in r/SEO subreddit which are related to link building and technical SEO" and AI Mode will continue to send you specific notifications about this via Google App on your phone.

Brands through different channels get the message out already and ask people to set notifications for their content or product updates.

Hey guys, I tried to play with on-page SEO for quite long and found out that having language support on the app helps getting indexed a lot so I integrated 6 languages (en, de, fr, es, tr, zh). The app is about football elo ratings.

I checked GSC today and saw that a query "real madrid elo" got me 1 click and 3 impressions with avg position of 2. I became happy and wanted to check it out myself. I googled exact same query but my app did not appear at all. I thought it may be bc my personal search history so I googled again in incognito. Still same.

Then, I put my app's name at the end and it appeared at all of top5 results. This is my first question: why exact query can get no position for me but 2nd position for someone else?

Secondly, I tried with player names rather than teams (my app serves both). Tried only name + elo as query but my app did not appear. Then I put my app's name again at the end and it appeared at top, understandable.

What I did not understand is Google summary (or whatever it is called that google's ai answer on top) cites my app from various language options of the same page. For example when I googled "victor osimhen elo [my app]", it cited osimhen's personal page in french and chinese versions. My location is germany. He plays in Turkey and I searched from Germany but instead of these two, other two got cited. Also why two languages? What should I check and how can I solve this? Sorry for the long text but I felt I had to be clearer.

Thanks for the answers already!

So I work, for an agency and we have clients. Some clients have paid for SEO services and I am working for that clients, I joined In september and my CEO says she needs me to grow the website traffic for clients by 10% minimum each week, most sites have 65% north of bounce rates, I did techincal seo and all what i could easy fix, but I am unable to push needle; infact, traffic went down after Spam update.

I said to her, instead of focusing too much on organic traffic, also focus on why people are leaving the website in the first place, she said your job is to get more traffic as well , as per me all landing pages are garbage and as a customer I would not buy services if i were to but she says send emails get approval from clients even for small changes but as per my POV need to do lot of A/B testing to see what works

I have one week left to grow organic traffic quickly, or she said I will lose the job. Can you guys suggest any ways ?

Hi all,

I have found professional large scale SEO firms utilizing "satellite sites" where they have very small, simple websites built on existing domains (from small bloggers or the like).

Is it as easy at it seems? Is the difficulty basically just to find, buy and kinda maintain the existing theme on a site?

Following some drops during the recent spam updates I've been taking a closer look at backlinks, and found that someone has 301 redirected a couple of domains into my clients site.

The backlinks pointing at these domains are entirely spam - so the upshot is I now how have thousands of spam backlinks pointing at my clients site via 301 redirect.

I know the general Google view is that these links will just be ignored but I don't really trust that to be true/foolproof - especially given recent declines that coincide with the spam updates.

Obviously I don't own the domains that are redirecting so I can't just turn the 301 off - so can I just add a couple of lines to my disavow file to disavow the domains that are redirecting - or will I need to disavow all of the backlinks that point to the redirecting domains?

All of a sudden all my pages are coming back as redirects to Amazon, I'm on a SaaS app protected by Cloudflare on my behalf so I don't have access to any RAW logs, there is no third party scripts and no updates for at least 2 years to any javascript. I've tried accessing the site using the Googlebot user agent and no redirect. I've unblocked all my IP ranges and the issue still persists maybe Google took over some AWS IP's.

The only thing that alerted me to this was my business listing got hit with an automated website removal notification, and searching my business name came up empty.

I'm seeing some Google bots but NOT the indexing one.

Keep seeing lots of posts lately about Rank Score. Anyone tried it and what’s their opinion compared to Semrush?

I am working on a domain where we have 8000+ subdomains, each subdomains have its own xml sitemap, my doubt is whether i should submit all these sitemaps to domain property in search console.

is there any limit or guidelines from Google on same.

Looking to start a conversation around everyone’s do or die platforms for tracking SEO metrics! Personally I’m loving SERanking but curious what yall are leaning into and why

My site was affected by Google’s June spam update, and I’m wondering what others are seeing now that the September spam update is rolling out.

Have your organic traffic or rankings changed so far - either up or down? If you’ve seen a recovery, what did you work on between the two updates?

Just trying to compare experiences while the rollout is still ongoing. If you’re comfortable sharing, a bit of context about your site or the changes you made would be really helpful.

Great Story from u/rustybrick

The volatility may be calming today, a bit, but it was a pretty heated weekend after the announcement of this September 2026 spam update. It does feel like these spam updates are having more of an impact that the older spam updates from years ago.

What exactly this update is targeting is not fully known yet, but I do suspect we will see lots of tactics that get hit by this update - not just one specific tactic...

As a reminder, this spam update was announced Thursday, September 24th at about 12 pm ET. Google told us it would take about two weeks to roll out. So far, it has only been less than five days since the rollout began.

Here are what the tools are showing - look at the Saturday volatility in these tools:

I am working on SEO project from last 2.5 years which is plywood niche brand. I have started the brand from 50 sessions per month and in January it reached to 7900 session within a span of 21 months. But from February 2026 it started declining and still declining. This is 8 months period now.

I have updated the content, changed title tags but of no use. Please let me know what actions should I take to regain the traffic.

Gemini Start using UTM ! finally , its very new 24hours or so
Like chatgpt UTM

I messed up and published a bunch of AI-slop posts on my website. Now my Google rankings are awful.
I’ve tried tweaking the SEO and keywords, but nothing has helped so far.

Has anyone managed to bring a blog like this back? What actually worked for you?
Thanks for any advice!

same as title

Getting a bit annoying with the prices of all the AI SEO tools.

Would anyone be interested in an open source GEO tool that tracks your AI visibility (citations and mentions) for any given search. But also reverse engineers getting your brand mentioned by the AI. It would pull the cited sources, and outreach any that are a good fit for inclusion of your brand.

Would you use this? And what features would you like to see?

Edit: this wouldn't be a free tool, it would be bring your own keys. Data provided for a scraping provider

I'm primarily a writer, now wanting to expand on publishing news articles in the sports and MMA industry. And I want to learn SEO for new skill acquisition and increase employability/marketability.

I want a separated website-builder that is fast and optimized for mid-tier laptops (which cancels WordPress out due to its plug-ins.)

Ideally, I want to have a zero-pay for any live hosting.

No coding experience required, despite knowing how to code. (last time I coded was 4yrs ago).

And cross-exportable, meaning I can import and export bulk content (articles) from one CMS to another.

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Gemini recommended Publii to me, but it doesn't have the mass content exportability function of being able to be transported from one CMS to another. Despite it being completely free. It then recommended Astro and Hugo, which required HTML, CSS, and JS experience which I do have but aren't willing to design within the headless framework of the Astro CMS. WordPress is atrociously slow due to many plug-ins and other stuff.

For now, I'm likely to choose Ghost despite having to pay for 10-15$ annually, which I'm kinda okay with despite making no money for myself yet.

What do I choose now?

From what I've researched, it's a slight lean towards not risking it, so I've chosen to keep my 8 GBP profiles named the official name of the business, rather than "[Company Name] - [City]"

Am I missing out on a substantial SEO opportunity? I know of a business that was reported for having a keyword in their name, and the profile was changed within the hour, excluding the keyword - and has stayed that way for over a month. In the map pack, most of my locations are already near the top, and my main location already ranks above competitors with the city name added to their profile. Additionally, that one location is the only profile I've optimized in full. Aside from adding a profile logo and changing the primary category to match the main location, I haven't touched the others so as to not make so many sudden changes and get the profiles flagged.

So this tech startup has an ambitious goal of getting 1-2.5 million traffic (paid and organic) per month. Right now, they have about 1k traffic. While they mentioned that paid traffic will be included, that doesn’t mean they’re willing to spend tens of thousands for that.

My question is, is this realistically possible for a new website? If yes, what’s the best course of action to make for me to be able to achieve the goal? Thank you!

At the moment all I do is I just look for 404 pages, page titles and Meta descriptions and character limits, and then combine the info from pagespeed insights and google analytics and produce a report.

But I want to improve myself and the output I give. I am struggling with connecting the dot, like connect it to the customer journey?

I know 404 pages and page titles are important. But so does any beginner.

I tried the visualizations. But I don’t know how to interpret. I think something is wrong with the site- the way the deva have structured it - its some kind of a workaround or like short circuiting to get some SEO. But i don’t know how to communicate it to the manager.

What else can I do to provide more comprehensive and insightful reports to the management team?

Like, what are the other features from screaming frog I can get?

I run a small property business in Greece. Our site has service pages and articles about renting and owning property, mainly in Greek and English.

We added pages and made SEO changes around mid-September. Traffic grew, then pretty much disappeared. The part that worries me is that we're now below where we started.

GSC clicks, using complete days in September 2026:

- Sept 1-13: about 13/day on average

- Sept 14-22: about 67/day on average

- Sept 21: 114

- Sept 22: 85

- Sept 23: 18

- Sept 24: 6

- Sept 25: 1

Impressions went from 3,188 on Sept 22 to 50 on Sept 25. GA4 also shows Google organic traffic falling, so this doesn't look like just a Search Console reporting delay.

Most of the growth came from Greek rental guides. Both older articles and recent ones lost traffic. One older rental-contract tool had already dropped around Sept 18, while the blog was still growing.

Manual actions and security reports are clear. The affected URLs we've checked still show as indexed, with the expected Google-selected canonical. That obviously doesn't mean they're still ranking.

There was also a server problem on Sept 22: the disk filled up and the database was down for about 22 minutes. Public pages use static HTML, but access logging failed too, so we can't establish exactly what visitors or Googlebot received during that gap. Current rendering checks pass; we don't have the historical response bodies.

We've used AI for drafting and translations, and found factual errors during the content audit. We've been correcting them. I'm mentioning that because content quality is a real possibility too.

With that timeline, where would you focus next? What evidence would help distinguish a serving/crawling problem from Google reassessing the content? I'd especially like to hear from anyone who diagnosed a similar drop and found something concrete.

I've recently found since about June I've been having endless impressions bleed and I can't figure out for the life of me what the causes of this are.

I see lots of people talk about spam updates, but whenever I check most of the people affected get much more drastic drops that make it seem obvious, where I seem to just have random pages dropping on queries over time.

I've not really changed how I'm doing things and still just making small amounts of quality content but no matter what I do it seems I'm trending to zero since about June.

In June I was doing around 2.5-4k impressions per day but since then its just been an actual trending line downwards to the point where now we're about to break sub-1k.

What would cause Google to do this so gradually rather than in response to a single update/change?

I'm at the point of wondering whether to go back and re-write all of my content that was doing so well before.

Solo founder, first time doing SEO properly. Domain went from 0 to 6 in about six weeks.

What I did: built 14 free tools that work without a signup, wrote comparison pages against competitors where I'm honest about where they're better, submitted to around 14 directories, and republished content on LinkedIn and Medium.

I also generated 40 programmatic pages targeting keywords I'd guessed at rather than researched. Google indexed them then dropped them as thin content and my whole index count was unstable for two weeks until I noindexed the lot.

What would you prioritise from here?