Google Ads has posted a super comprehensive help document for Promotion mode. Promotion mode lets you advertise for short-term sales by temporarily lowering your Target ROAS and applying an optional extra daily budget during your promotional window. There is this new help document that digs into the Google Ads feature.

Google has updated the page indexing report help documentation, specifically the “Crawled – currently not indexed” section. It now says Google doesn’t index all pages, this is a common message, it doesn’t necessarily indicate an issue and more.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google announced it will “entirely” turn off Google Search, along with Gemini, Gemini Notebook, and Gemini in Classroom for K-12 schools. “Access to these products will be entirely off for K-12 student accounts until school administrators explicitly turn them on,” Google wrote.

Google Search Console’s performance report is showing a weird spike in clicks for some sites over the past couple of days. It is not impacting all sites, and it might be a bug, but some are seeing this huge increase in clicks reported by Search Console.

Google Ads updated its How Performance Max interacts with other campaigns in your account help document to add a new section on how “Performance Max campaigns may also filter out navigational or brand-specific search queries to prioritize serving them through dedicated Search campaigns.”

Google Ads improved the asset scheduling advanced options to let you group days, such as weekends versus weekdays and more. This can be found under the advanced options within asset scheduling in Google Ads.

Over the weekend, I tested out using Google AI Mode to get flight information and 100% of the time, the only links available within the AI Mode responses were to Google Flights. I am sure the Digital Markets Act (DMA) folks in Europe are going to like this.

Google is supposedly testing removing the AI Mode button from the Google Search bar. I cannot replicate this, but it doesn’t surprise me that Google would test removing the AI Mode bar for a tiny subset of searchers to compare how it performs versus when the AI Mode button is available.

Is your home page the only page indexed by Google Search? Were other pages of your site previously indexed and are no longer showing up in Google’s index? Well, that might be a Google Search quality issue with your website.

Google’s John Mueller explained how to prevent pop-up dialogs on your website from appearing in Google Search using the robots.txt file. He mentioned how to do this if you are using JavaScript for the pop-up.

Google has moved the AI Overviews for many brand-related keywords to the right-hand column of the search results page. Previously, they appeared at the top or middle of the main search results section.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google and Microsoft, as well as OpenAI and Anthropic…