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Some sites are seeing an unusually large jump in clicks in Google Search Console's performance report over the past couple of days, and it may be a reporting bug.

An SE Ranking study found that unrelated results, also called poisoned SERPs, hit 57.3% of keywords overnight.

People Inc. says its Google search referral traffic is down 70% over the past two years and is shifting toward revenue beyond site visits.

Adobe data shows AI-referred traffic to U.S. retail sites converted 90% better than non-AI traffic in September 2026, while the average retail homepage scored 63% on its Citation Readability Score.

Google moved AI Overviews for brand searches to the right column on November 2, while buyers told Digiday that 10% to 30% of search budgets now face new scrutiny.

Multiple sites reportedly saw sudden vertical spikes in Google Search Console clicks while impressions stayed flat, a pattern first flagged by Joy Hawkins and raised by Barry Schwartz.

Google is reportedly testing removal of the AI Mode button from the Search bar for a small group of searchers, though SERoundtable could not replicate it.

Semrush analyzes which affiliate content AI answers cite, using its own affiliate program data, and offers a five-step plan for turning affiliate partners into AI visibility.

SERoundtable reports that a site where only the home page is indexed by Google may be dealing with a Google Search quality issue rather than a purely technical problem.

Google's John Mueller said it is acceptable, in a specific use case, to use robots.txt to hide certain resources from Googlebot.

Google says schools can switch Gemini, Gemini Notebook and Search on one at a time, while Search keeps AI Mode and AI Overviews, with changes arriving in early 2027.

Shopify merchants sold $119.1bn through the platform in Q3, up 29%, and guidance puts Q4 operating costs at up to 30% of revenue.

OpenAI says ChatGPT's search-like queries, counting each question that sends it to the web, equal about a fifth of Google's search volume, though traffic data differs.

Rank tracker data reportedly shows Google results matching only one word of a query, mostly below the top spots, and the article offers guidance on checking a ranking drop.

Google's John Mueller explained how to stop website pop-up dialogs from showing in Google Search by using the robots.txt file, including for JavaScript-based pop-ups.

An EU court adviser's opinion holds that Google's Gemini can infringe press publishers' rights in two ways, through chatbot answers that let readers skip articles and through scraping content behind paywalls.

Google will entirely turn off Google Search, Gemini, Gemini Notebook, and Gemini in Classroom for K-12 student accounts until school administrators explicitly turn them on.

Google has updated the Page indexing report help documentation for the 'Crawled - currently not indexed' status, now stating that Google doesn't index all pages, that this is a common message, and that it doesn't necessarily indicate an issue.

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