Daily Search Forum Recap: January 27, 2026
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 27, 2026
"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 search ranking volatility is still heated. Google posted new tips on how to write better review responses in local. Google Ads data exclusions for PMax is rolling out. Google Ads experiment center help documentation is new. Microsoft Advertising has a new ad preview hub."
"I expect the exact UI look & feel will (probably has?) change over time (like all features), but like I mentioned, the tracking for Search Console is generally stable & equivalent across mobile/desktop. That said, I'll check and update here if I hear othe, John Mueller on Bluesky maybe a new domain will fix me, Travis Street on Bluesky OpenAI sends me an email to use ChatGPT - really?, Barry Schwartz on X"
Google search ranking volatility remains high. Google published new guidance on writing better local review responses. Google Ads is rolling out data exclusions for Performance Max campaigns and added help documentation for the Ads experiment center. Microsoft Advertising launched a new ad preview hub. Community threads report AI-generated spam portals surfacing in Google Discover and share troubleshooting steps and domain-change attempts. John Mueller commented on Search Console tracking stability across mobile and desktop and clarified that .ai is treated as a generic country-code top-level domain. Industry blogs covered Common Crawl usage, semantic search, and AI visibility tracking.
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