Md Adnan

28/10/2026

Claude Mobile funny situation hahaha

28/10/2026

🧹 Google Says Noindex User-Created Pages by Default

Your users' shared pages may be flooding Google's index.

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Google updated its help doc on preventing user-generated spam. It now covers tools that let users publish shared pages, generated content, or web apps.

Spammers can abuse those tools to create tons of pages that add no value.

✅ If pages are made for sharing or collaboration, not search, noindex them by default

✅ Use a robots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header, or block crawling in robots.txt

✅ Verify your site in Search Console to get manual action and security alerts

✅ Check the Page Indexing and Performance reports for odd spikes in pages, impressions, or queries

✅ Set alerts when a few users create most of your indexable URLs

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Unclear: Google hasn't said if it will act on this kind of spam soon.

My take: if your platform lets people publish pages, index only what you want found. A clean index makes it easier to rank the pages that bring leads.

Do you know how many public pages your platform has indexed right now?

15/10/2026

Years of luxury tech perks end when AI cooks devs.

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23/09/2026

🔀 Google's AI Overview Links Now Lead Into AI Mode, Not Your Website

Those links at the bottom of AI Overviews aren't taking users where you think.

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Google is testing links inside AI Overviews that look normal but don't lead to a webpage. They sit at the bottom, framed as follow-up questions, and clicking them opens AI Mode instead. Gagan Ghotra spotted it live on X and called it another tactic pushing users from Search into AI Mode.

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✅ Links appear at the bottom of the AI Overview

✅ Clicking opens AI Mode, not a publisher page

✅ Users likely can't tell until after they click

✅ Spotted in the wild, not officially announced

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A link that isn't really a link.

My take: small tests like this have a way of becoming the default a few months later. Worth watching closely.

Are you seeing this in your Search results yet?

20/09/2026

📉 Google Just Erased Free Product Listings Across the EEA. Here's What to Do About It.

If you sell in Europe, your free shopping visibility just disappeared almost overnight.

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Google Search has pulled free product listings and popular product carousels from the European Economic Area, forced by the European Commission under the Digital Markets Act. Google itself called this the biggest reduction in search quality it's ever made.

Hugo Huijer from Productrise tracked the actual drop, and it's steep. Popular product carousels have almost entirely vanished from search over the past two days, with 90 to 100 percent drops confirmed in Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Adriaan Dekker posted screenshots showing that space now going to price comparison services instead. Ginny Marvin, Google's Ads Liaison, confirmed directly that this removal is tied to the DMA ruling.

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Here's what's actually happening on the ground:

✅ Free product listings and carousels are gone from EEA search results

✅ That visibility space is now filled by price comparison and vertical shopping services

✅ Independent data from Productrise and Semrush both confirm the near total drop off

✅ This applies specifically to EEA countries, not global search results

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Here's the move if you sell in the EEA right now.

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Get listed on the price comparison services filling that space immediately, since that's where the free visibility went, not gone entirely. Review your Google Ads Shopping strategy this week, because paid listings may now carry more of the load organic used to cover. And don't wait for Google to reverse this, the DMA ruling isn't going anywhere, so building distribution outside Google Shopping in the EEA needs to start now, not after Q4 numbers come in.

Brands that move onto CSS platforms early get first-mover placement while everyone else is still reading the news.

If you sell in the EEA, have you already lost visibility, and what's your plan to recover it?

20/09/2026

🏅 Google Quietly Added a Search Profile Badge. Here's How to Claim Yours.

Buried in today's Search profiles announcement was a feature Google didn't even mention.

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Google rolled out new Search profile features today, and tucked inside the help docs is a badge you can add directly to your own website. Once you've claimed your Search profile, you can add this badge so visitors can follow you straight from your site, no separate app or search needed.

Barry Schwartz spotted it and shared what his own button looks like in the announcement.

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Google actually published real brand guidelines for this one, and they're specific:

✅ Keep the clickable area at least 48x48dp on Android, 44x44px on iOS and web

✅ Don't stretch, distort, rotate, or recolor the Super G icon or the Search profile button

✅ Stay consistent, don't mix monochrome and colorful badges on the same page

✅ If you're also using the Preferred Sources badge, use the higher emphasis Search profile button with its label, not just the Super G icon, to keep the two distinct

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That last rule is easy to miss.

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Most sites will just grab the first badge asset they find and slap it in a footer. The ones who actually follow the sizing and pairing rules are the ones that avoid looking broken next to Google's other badges down the line. This is a small feature, but it's a real, free distribution channel sitting inside Search profiles that most sites haven't claimed yet.

Have you claimed your Search profile yet, or is this the first you're hearing about it?

18/09/2026

🔓 Publishers Can Now Block AI Training Without Losing Search Visibility

For years, blocking AI meant blocking Search too. That's finally changing.

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Robots.txt was never built for this fight. It's a plain text file anyone can publish, and there was never a real way to say "crawl me for Search, but don't train your model on my content." Bots doing both jobs made that split impossible to enforce.

A new setting changes that. Sites can now keep full Search visibility while actively blocking bots from training on their data, backed by real enforcement instead of an honor system.

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Here's how it actually works:

✅ A new domain-level setting lets you allow Search crawling while disallowing AI training separately

✅ Three clear modes now exist: allow everything, allow Search only, or block all crawlers

✅ "Accountable bot operators" commit to honoring opt-outs, giving URL-level visibility, and not touching your search ranking either way

✅ Apple, Google, and Microsoft have all agreed to honor publisher choices and provide transparency

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That last point is the one that matters most.

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Getting three of the biggest crawlers in the world to commit to the same rules is what makes this different from every robots.txt workaround that came before it. Search and AI training used to be one bundled decision. Now they're two separate switches, and publishers finally get to choose.

The next fight is already forming. AI summaries can answer a question without sending a single click to the source, and that's a much harder problem to solve with a toggle. Real control there means granular settings, not just an on-off switch.

If you had this level of control over your site today, would you disallow AI training and keep Search on, or block everything?