Since August 30, 2026, Google's site reputation abuse policy no longer works the same way everywhere. For searches made by users located inside the European Economic Area, manual actions issued under this policy stop affecting what those users see in…
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It has been a rough first week of September 2026 for Google's advertising infrastructure. First a Google Analytics 4 reporting bug wiped out visible traffic data on September 1. Now a second, unrelated bug is unlinking Local Service Ads accounts…
Wherever your AdSense account is registered, the same change lands on the same day: February 17, 2027. Google is switching the entire platform from "count-on-download" to "begin-to-render" measurement, and every publisher running display, mobile web, or CTV banner inventory will…
Google has spent the past few weeks quietly rewriting how it measures advertising performance across its own ecosystem. AdSense announced a switch to begin-to-render impression counting starting February 2027. Now, as of August 24, 2026, Merchant Center has overhauled its…
Google Ads has started testing a new report called Product Titles, and it answers a question sellers running Shopping campaigns have not been able to answer directly until now: when did Google's AI decide to serve its own version of…
