SEO recap: week of 7 Sep 2026

A summary of what actually happened in search during this period, ranked by likely impact on a single site rather than by publication time. Built from our own archive of 1,106 stories.

16 Stories archived
0 High impact
0 Update-flagged
5 Technical areas

Biggest stories

Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.

Medium Marie Haynes

How I Built an MCP Server for agents to use my Algo Update list

I turned my 15-year archive of Google algorithm updates into an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at algo.mariehaynes.com. Here is how it was built, the architecture behind it, and how you…

Ranking & Algorithms

Medium Lumar

The GEO Analytics Stack: What We Should Be Measuring (But Aren’t)

Traditional ranking metrics can only tell us so much about GEO performance. In this article, we explore what a GEO analytics stack could look like, with layers covering candidate page selection to…

Ranking & Algorithms Measurement AI Search & Visibility

Yandex Webmaster (RU)

Больше баллов — выше мотивация: мы обновили инструмент «Баллы за отзывы»

Теперь интернет-магазины и сайты услуг могут сами решать, сколько баллов Плюса получат пользователи за опубликованный отзыв: 40,100,150 или 200. Раньше ставка была фиксированная — 40 баллов.Новая…

Backlinko

How to Audit Any Page in Under 3 Minutes with SEOquake

You’re looking at a page that should be performing better, and you want answers fast. Maybe it’s a product page that slipped in rankings, a competitor’s post outranking yours, or a client page that…

Ranking & Algorithms

What the period was about

Busiest technical areas

  • Ranking & Algorithms 3
  • E-commerce 1
  • Measurement 1
  • AI Search & Visibility 1
  • Crawling & Indexing 1

Most active sources

  • Google DeepMind 3
  • Google Blog — Search 2
  • Smashing Magazine 2
  • Backlinko 1
  • Google Search Central 1
  • Lumar 1
  • Marie Haynes 1
  • Near Media 1

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Assembled from our own archive of 1,106 stories, which currently runs from 4 October 2023. Ranking is by the impact score described on the front page — an estimate of how much a story is likely to affect one website, not a measure of how much attention it got.

The archive only holds what it has seen. Periods before it started are empty rather than quiet, and it gets more complete every week it runs.