SEO

September 2026 gave site owners a spam update, two new ways to slice Search Console data, a paid program for AI citations, and a pair of reporting scares that turned out to be temporary. If you only had time to skim the headlines, this recap pulls the month together and explains what each change means…

Another week, another wave of ranking volatility. SEOs across multiple industry Discord servers, WebmasterWorld threads, and X are reporting the same thing this morning: rankings are moving, and moving hard. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable was first to flag it, noting a “huge spike in chatter” starting September 15th, with third-party volatility trackers beginning…