Sachin Patel
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Sachin Patel

An SEO professional and SERP analyst with over five years of experience tracking search engine developments across Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Focused on uncovering new search features, AI search updates, ranking changes, and SERP experiments, with a passion for helping the SEO community stay informed about the latest developments in search.

2026

PPC

Bing tests bold https in sponsored result URLs

Bing is testing bold URLs for sponsored results, though the entire URL isn’t bold  just the “https” portion appears in…

25 Aug 2026

SEO

Google Says AI Search Responses Don’t Require Special Optimization

A user asked John Mueller a question about GEO on Bluesky: are there any industries where GEO isn’t required? The…

25 Aug 2026

PPC

Google expands AI Max for search campaigns

Google is expanding AI Max for Search campaigns, giving advertisers new tools to test changes to budgets, ROI targets, and…

25 Aug 2026

SEO

Google Search Console owners receive emails about new account owners

Google Search Console owners have been receiving emails from Google notifying them of a new owner on their Search Console…

24 Aug 2026

PPC

Google Merchant Center warns advertisers about image size requirements

Google has been sending emails to Merchant Center advertisers about a change coming to product image requirements. Starting January 31,…

24 Aug 2026

SEO News

Is Google changing its homepage buttons again?

Google appears to be making more changes to its homepage design. A couple of weeks ago, we covered Google adding…

24 Aug 2026

PPC

Google rolls out updates to google tag and tag manager

Google has rolled out several updates to its tagging tools, aimed at making it easier for advertisers to measure website…

24 Aug 2026

SEO

Google explains why spam updates need to happen

Google John Mueller has explained why Google announces spam updates, even though many of Google spam systems already update continuously…

24 Aug 2026

SEO

Google search console crawl stats report shows data gap

Google Search Console’s Crawl Stats report is currently showing missing data for a couple of days in August. Barry Schwartz…

24 Aug 2026

SEO News

Reddit citations in ChatGPT Search drop over 86%

AI search and analytics company PromptWatch is reporting a sharp drop in how often Reddit gets cited in ChatGPT Search…

22 Aug 2026

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