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Google’s June 2025 core update finished on Thursday after running for 16 days. It was a volatile Google update for a while with some recoveries. Google AI Mode gets Gemini…

Google launched a new feature for Google Business Profiles that lets you check the status of your edits. So if you made a change and you want to see what…

Google’s John Mueller said it is hard for service oriented login web pages to rank in the search results. Like, if you have a landing page where people can login…

Google is supposedly showing AI Overviews for movie-related queries. Apparently, this is new, although I don’t have firsthand knowledge since I don’t typically search for movies. However, I’ve been told…

Microsoft is testing showing sitelinks with light gray underlines in the Bing search results. Normally, the Bing sitelinks don’t have any underline at all – but here Bing is testing…

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 announced the…

Google is charging searchers to access the latest and best of its AI Mode and Deep Search. Google released Gemini 2.5 Pro for AI Mode and Deep Search for Google…

Several weeks ago, we reported Google was testing AI-generated summaries for Google Discover. Well, according to TechCrunch, Google has confirmed as of this week, this is an official launch and…

Earlier this year, Google released a new search labs feature named Ask For Me. Google would call local businesses to get the information you need and then send it to…

Google is testing much larger favicons in the Google Search results on mobile. We’ve seen Google test variations to favicons and sitenames countless times and covered a lot of them…

Google’s June 2025 core update is now done rolling out, it took 16 days and 18 hours to complete. The core update started on June 30, 2025 at around 10:34…

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 said barely…

Google’s John Mueller replied to a question around indexing issues on a site and said that if the site is hosted on a strong platform and is technically sound, and…

Google has added two more comparison views to the Search Console performance reports. One lets you compare last 24 hours to previous period and the other lets you compare last…

Google Business Profiles appeal tool now shows the reason your appeal was rejected. It can show a list of reasons why the appeal was rejected, so that next time you…

Google seems to have updated its core web vitals metrics within Google Search Console a few days ago. The weird thing is that good URLs and URLs need improvements metrics…

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 has updated its local ranking documentation and Tips to improve your local ranking on Google page. The new wording is shorter and has fewer details than the older version.

Google seems to be automatically adding social media links to Google Business Profiles. A post from Darren Shaw of Whitespark shows that hundreds or thousands of locations had their social…

Google AdSense may have a bug with its PIN verification processs. There are tons of AdSense publishers complaining in the Google AdSense Help Forums about issues where they are unable…

We know you have been able to add your text or WhatsApp number to your Google Business Profile for some time now, but now Google is asking for it when…

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. The Google June…

Today marks the two-week mark of the start of the Google June 2025 core update. This update seems pretty significant thus far, with Google announcing the update on June 30th…

Google has updated a number of search-related help documents for its merchant return policies and loyalty programs. Google said these updates are to “remove unclarities in the documentation and examples.”

We knew this was coming but as of July 11th, your reviews on Google Local Service Ads are now managed by Google Business Profiles. I know a number of local…

Google is either testing showing link cards only within AI Mode or it might be a bug. Randomly over the past few weeks or so, I’ve seen reports of people…

Google is now showing not just short videos in AI Overviews but also longer-form videos in the AI Overviews. AI Overviews may show no videos or may show several videos…

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 local rankings…

This week we covered the ongoing Google June 2025 core update and how we are finally seeing some recoveries with the past helpful content updates, and some core updates. Google…

Starting around June 25, 2025, many are noticing huge declines in impressions and clicks from their local rankings in Google. This is from the Google Business Profiles performance reports and…

Microsoft is testing expanding its image search box within the Bing Search results to let you “explore” images in a deeper way. Part of this test brings you into Bing’s…

Microsoft is testing using a blue delivery truck icon in some of the ads in the Bing Search results. I guess it is to symbolize that they offer delivery?

Microsoft is testing showing the “See more” button at the top of the Bing local pack, instead of the bottom of the local pack. I suspect this is a test…

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It has now been ten days since the Google June 2025 core update began rolling out. It will probably take another ten or so days to finish rolling out, but…

Google Search Console may have a weird glitch in the performance report average position data. For some reason, many are seeing huge declines in average position in the chart but…

In February, we covered the new Google Ads “people also consider” ad format for sponsored search results. Then, on mobile, it was in a list format. Now, Google is testing…

Google has removed from the Google Business Profiles help documentation the ability to use a utility bill as evidence for submitting an appeal. I am not sure why it was…

Google announced yesterday that AI Mode now works with Circle to Search and Google Lens. Google’s Rajan Patel wrote on X, “Today, we’re taking your visual searches to the next…

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Google’s John Mueller said the order of the URLs or sites you list in your disavow link file does not matter. He added that the file is not processed in…

A recent study from Ahrefs said that AI-generated content does not hurt your Google rankings. And while the study really shows this to be true, there are plenty of sites…

Google Search Console now gives you the ability to track the performance of your Discussion forums rich results within the Google search results. Google added a new search appearance filter…

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It seems that the links/citations you see in Google AI Mode can be very different when you search on desktop versus mobile. In fact, it seems like the sources can…

Google AI Mode also has search suggestions in the follow-up section. After you ask Google AI Mode a question and scroll down to ask a follow-up, Google may show you…

A couple of weeks ago, Google rolled out AI Mode via Search Labs in India and now Google is fully rolling it out, without opting into it in Search Labs…

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Google’s Nick Fox said that AI Mode has begun rolling out to Workspace accounts in the US. Nick Fox said this started on July 2nd but he clarified later that…

A week or so ago, Cloudflare announced it would block AI bots by default and offer a new pay per crawl initiative to compensate you all for your content that…

Google has pushed out an update to its keyword planner tool that gives you new forecast views to get predictions on your keywords by regions and device/platform. The update also…

Google is testing labeling search result snippets with “low price,” “typical price” and I assume “high price” directly in the search results. We’ve seen these for product grid results before,…

A number of local SEOs are stating that Google is now requiring businesses that had their Google Business Profiles suspended to reverify at a higher rate than normal. Meaning, the…

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 AI Mode…

This week, we finally had an official Google update, the June 2025 core update, which seemed to have kicked in on July 2nd. We also had an unconfirmed update on…

Microsoft is testing zoomable and sticky related searches in the Bing Search results page. So one variation has the related searches stick to the right top of the screen as…

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…

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 Merchant Center is rolling out automatic shipping updates under the automatic improvements tab. “Automatic shipping updates improve the accuracy of shipping information of your products. The feature can help…

Google AdSense announced a new feature to “Fill empty in-page ads” by showing “contextually-relevant suggestions related to your page and site inside unfilled ad spaces.” In short, if an ad…

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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…

Last November, Google began to power some of the peopel also ask results with AI Overviews. Historically the people also ask were featured snippets, but now they can be featured…

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…

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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Google announced the release of the June 2025 core update on June 30th at around 10:37 am ET. It seems as of July 2nd, we are starting to see the…

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…

Google’s John Mueller said that he doesn’t think links play a role with how core updates work. He wrote on Bluesky, “I can’t think of how these links would play…

Microsoft has moved the Copilot search tab under the Bing Search box to the first position in that menu bar. With that change, it seems Microsoft renamed the “All” tab…

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…

Microsoft Advertising will soon retire Target CPA and Target ROAS as a standalone bidding strategies. Instead, those bidding strategies will be merged with Max Conversions and Max Conversion Value. This…

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Google officially announced the rollout of the June 2025 core update yesterday at around 10:37 am ET. This core update is expected to take about three weeks to roll out….

Google has relaunched its Search Console Insights as a standalone tab and report within the main Google Search Console tool. Previously, Search Console Insights was its own sub-reporting tool and…

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…

Google AdSense has added new universal opt-out mechanisms and privacy controls due to new laws they must adhere to. These go across several US states.

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…

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…

Microsoft released its Microsoft Advertising trust and safety report, which revealed it removed or restricted over one billion ads. The company also suspended over 475,000 advertiser accounts over the year.