It’s New 9/15: Google Search Rank Tracking Broken, Merchant Center Pricing Update, FTC & AI Schema

Today we covered the mess going on now with Google Search organic rank tracking now. Google dropped 100 results per page, the third party tracking tools are broken, Google Search Console performance reports may be impacted too and no, AI Overviews reporting is not coming. Google Merchant Center pricing policies were updated. The FTC is investigating Google over pricing and terms for ads on websites. What’s up with structured data and AI search visibility.

0:00 - Introduction
0:49 - Google dropped 100 search results per page
1:35 - Google rank tracking tools borked
2:53 - Google Search Console performance report changes too
4:11 - No, AI Overviews filters not coming
6:35 - Google Merchant Center pricing policies update
8:25 - FTC investigates Google over pricing and terms for websites.
10:09 - Structured data and AI visibility
11:51 - Conclusion

A daily recap video summarizing a few of the top search marketing headlines covered at the Search Engine Roundtable.

This recap is called It's New - A quick, daily dose of the latest in SEO with Anu Adegbola of Search Engine Land and Greg Finn of Cypress North (and Marketing O’Clock) and Barry Schwartz.