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Lex Fridman had a really great interview with Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai. In that interview, Sundar explained that the “current plan is AI mode” will remain in a separate tab…
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Google voluntary buyouts target U.S. Search and Ads staff amid AI restructuring. What does this mean for future layoffs and team priorities? The post Google Offers Voluntary Buyouts To Core…
Google is testing new report reviews options in the Google Business Profiles reviews section. You can access it, if you are in the test, by looking at your local reviews…
Google seems to be testing (or maybe it is a bug) the local panel sub-menu under the main search bar, under the search box. Normally, these sub-menu items would be…
Google’s Martin Splitt and Gary Illyes discuss how much technical knowledge SEO professionals need, and why coding isn’t always essential. The post How Much Code Should SEO Pros Know? Google…
The past thirty days in the Google search and SEO universe was pretty hectic. We closed it out with the June 2025 core update after numerous unconfirmed Google ranking updates…
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A study from Profound of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity shows that while ChatGPT mostly sources its information from Wikipedia, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity mostly source their…
Google updated its service areas business guidelines help document to add “Do not add countries or states as a service area.” Google also updated numerous parts of the document.
Google says core updates rely on long-term patterns, not recent link spam. Should you disavow? Here’s what John Mueller told SEO professionals. The post Google’s John Mueller: Core Updates Build…
Google retires seven structured data features including Book Actions, Course Info, and Claim Review to streamline search results. Rankings unaffected. The post Google Retires 7 Structured Data Features To Streamline…
Similarweb released a report shows that since the launch of Google AI Overviews in May 2024, zero-click search (as coined by Rand Fishkin) grew 13 percentage points, from 56% to…
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Cindy Krum tells Shelley Walsh why SEO professionals are missing the bigger picture in Google’s AI evolution: personalization, ads, and multi-platform search. The post Google’s AI Search Journeys Are Reshaping…
Cloudflare, a company that powers about 20% of all web pages on the web, has announced it is now blocking AI crawlers by default. Plus, it is offering a new…
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Google is testing swapping the site name with the URL in the search result snippets. So instead of the site name being shown at the top of the search result…
Google is testing showing the ability to search in AI Mode within the Chrome search bar on desktop and Android devices. This is obviously being tested both in the US…
Google has quietly updated its AI features and your website help document, which it initially launched just under a month ago, with a new section on troubleshooting preview controls. In…
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Google’s John Mueller showed how to diagnose a search visibility issue that was apparently triggered by a domain migration. The post Google Shows Why Rankings Collapsed After Domain Migration appeared…
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Bing PubHub is being retired, exactly when, I am not sure, but it is going away. Microsoft posted the notice in Bing Webmaster Tools and it links to a document…
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AI agents now handle more than ideation; they’re transforming audits, too. Here’s how they tackle site analysis, technical issues, and internal links. The post Agentic AI In SEO: AI Agents…
Google has these e-commerce or product cards that show up at the top of the search results. Now, Google is testing labeling them with not just the product category name…
Google recently rolled out the Live Search feature in the Gemini app. But now Google was caught testing that Live Search feature directly in the main Google Search app, the…
Microsoft will be laying off about 4% of its workforce, which is about 9,000 employees. It is unclear if any of those jobs are across the Bing, Copilot or Microsoft…
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Why Google’s SEO advice often sounds vague: Search Relations team explains the reasons behind “it depends” answers. The post Google Search Team Explains The “It Depends” Response appeared first on…
Most top-ranking websites fail HTML validation. Google explains why perfect code isn’t required, and what matters instead. The post Google: Many Top Sites Have Invalid HTML And Still Rank appeared…
At Google I/O, Google said it will roll out AI Mode to all users based in the U.S. Well, that rollout seems to have started some time yesterday. If you…
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Google has made its first expansion of AI Mode outside of the US by announcing AI Mode is now available in Search Labs for those based in India. As you…
It is with a heavy heart that I am reporting that one of the founding pillars of the SEO industry, one of the first female SEOs in our industry, and…
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Google seems to be testing displaying local ads at the bottom of the Google local map pack in the Google Search results. Normally the sponsored ads are at the top…
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Google’s CEO addressed concerns about AI search replacing traditional web links in its ongoing evolution of Search The post Google CEO Sundar Pichai Discusses Fate Of The Human-Created Web appeared…
Google is testing a new feature to replace all those copy-and-paste emoji websites. You know, when you want to know what an emoji is for a specific emotion and you…
Google is promoting AI Mode with an animated Google Doodle on its home page, in some countries. The Google home page logo, animated and clickable, takes you into a search…
Microsoft is testing new hover effects and styles in the Bing Search results. Specifically, when you hover over the URL of a snippet, it will bold and underline the result….
Google Search is testing yet another way to indicate to Google that you prefer specific sources, news sources, and publications, so that Google can show you fresh content from those…
Microsoft is testing showing the local/places listings in green within the Bing search results. Normally you’d see them in the normal white background color but here it is in green.
Google’s new AI Max in Google Ads for Search campaigns is coming to all advertisers in Q3 of 2025. As a reminder, Google says AI Max for Search campaigns is…
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 is…
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Kevin Indig explores how query fan-out drives AI Mode and why classic “one query, one answer” SEO no longer cuts it. The post Query Fan-Out appeared first on Search Engine…
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Google’s John Mueller several years after posting a video named “Will removing ‘.html’ from my URLs help my site?” still says URL extensions do not matter for SEO. He said…
Over the past two days it has felt like there was some sort of ranking adjustment made in the Google Search organic results. Yea, I know, organic search doesn’t send…
Google has made a small but I assume meaningful change to the search ranking systems document, the section for “Removal-based demotion systems.” Google changed the wording from a “high” volume…
Google AI Overviews is surfacing AI-generated search results for queries with recipe intent. The post Recipe Intent Keywords Are Triggering Google AI Overviews appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google has rolled out a new feature to automate the process of updating your inventory with Google Merchant Center. It is called Website-reported Autofeeds and it uses Google Tag Manager…
Did you know that Google AI Mode can respond to your questions in other languages than English? When Google launched AI Mode, it launched in the US and English and…
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Jill Whalen, who recently passed away, championed an ethical approach to SEO that continues to influence the industry. The post Jill Whalen’s SEO Legacy Still Shapes The Industry appeared first…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been hearing buzz that some think that Google Search Console will show the “query fan-out” queries in Google Search Console. It does not,…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Google added new markup support for loyalty and membership programs with special pricing. This was supported in Google Merchant Center but now is supported in under Organization structured data combined…
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OpenAI quietly updated ChatGPT search to improve its ability to understand user queries and to answer increasingly complex questions. The post OpenAI Rolls Out Update To ChatGPT Search appeared first…
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Google has added a new section to its policy on pausing Google Ads accounts. It says Google “may pause your individual account if it is linked to a Manager account…
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