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NEW 7 local SEO wins you get from keyword-rich Google reviews

Discover how keyword-rich Google reviews can boost your local visibility, engagement, and conversions – plus templates to help you. Search Engine Land

NEW Google AI Overviews Showing More Free Product Listings?

There are reports that Google is showing more free product listings from Google Merchant Center in the Google AI Overview responses. I am told there are two variations of this AI Overview response: [...] Search Engine Roundtable

NEW Search Central Live is back in Zurich!

We're thrilled to announce our upcoming Search Central Live Zurich on December 9th! This is a fantastic opportunity for SEO and digital marketing professionals to connect, learn and engage [...] Google Webmaster Central

NEW Google Negative Review Extortion Scams Seems To Work

A month ago, we reported Google added a new form to report negative review extortion scams on your Google Business Profiles and local listings. Google also listed some tips on how to handle these [...] Search Engine Roundtable

NEW With negative review extortion scams on the rise, use Google’s report form

Last month, Google launched a form to report negative review extortion scams and it seems to work. Search Engine Land

NEW Microsoft Clarity Required For Third Party Publishers Or Else...

Microsoft is now requiring all third-party publishers to have Microsoft Clarity in order to be paid out for impressions and clicks from Microsoft Advertising. Search Engine Roundtable

Week Long Google Ads Invitation Access Bug Fixed

Google seems to have fixed a bug with inviting others to access your Google Ads account. This bug appeared about a week ago and it Google seemed to start to roll out a fix for this bug on Friday. Search Engine Roundtable

NEW Google Ads Editor 2.11 gets campaign-level negatives and smarter automation

The latest Editor update introduces campaign-level negatives, search term reporting for Performance Max, and smarter automation tools for large-scale ad management. Search Engine Land

NEW SEO vs. AI search: 101 questions that keep me up at night

Here's why treating ChatGPT like Google will guarantee your failure in the age of RAG, reranking, and probabilistic systems. Search Engine Land

NEW Google Is Not Killing Schema - Markups May Come & Go

Google's John Mueller confirmed that Google is not killing off all forms of schema and structured data support for Google Search. The question came up in a Reddit thread after Google's announcement [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up - Movember Update

Starting maybe late Thursday, into Friday, November 7th, I started to feel a Google Search ranking update and volatility brewing. Like I've been saying since the num=100 parameter change, it has [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Microsoft Copilot Gets AI Search With Better Links & Citations

Microsoft announced on Friday afternoon that Copilot now has its own dedicated search experience. Plus, because Microsoft knows how important publishers are to the ecosystem, it is making citations [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google: SEO Advice On Using Two Different TLDs For Your Company

Google's John Mueller responded with SEO advice on how a company can use two different TLDs for its company. The company wants to use the .co.uk for normal search and web traffic but .digital as a [...] Search Engine Roundtable

NEW Tim Berners-Lee warns AI may collapse the ad-funded web

Sir Tim Berners-Lee helped build the modern web. Now he’s worried AI could help destroy its business model. Search Engine Land

NEW Daily Search Forum Recap: November 11, 2025

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 is not killing off schema... Search Engine Roundtable