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10 salary negotiation tips for search marketers
Marketing roles lack clear salary standards. These tips help you assess your value, benchmark pay, and negotiate with confidence.
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NEW How Recommender Systems Like Google Discover May Work via @sejournal, @martinibuster
An explainer of how recommender systems like Google Discover may work according to a classic research paper.
Search Engine Journal
Head Of WordPress AI Team Explains SEO For AI Agents via @sejournal, @martinibuster
James LePage, co-lead of the WordPress AI team, explains how SEO applies to AI agent content consumption.
Search Engine Journal
Inside SearchGuard: How Google detects bots and what the SerpAPI lawsuit reveals
We fully decrypted SearchGuard, the anti-bot system protecting Google Search. Here's exactly how Google tells humans and bots apart.
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Google’s Mueller: Free Subdomain Hosting Makes SEO Harder via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google's John Mueller explains why free subdomain hosting services attract spam and make it harder for legitimate sites to gain search visibility.
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NEW A Little Clarity On SEO, GEO, And AEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster
The debate over SEO versus AEO/GEO appears to be reaching a consensus.
Search Engine Journal
NEW Google Ads Still Not Coming To Gemini (Post ChatGPT Ads Announcement)
Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind CEO, said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that Google does not have "any plans" to bring ads to Gemini. This comes even after OpenAI [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
NEW Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Again January 21
Last week,I reported on January 15th of a Google Search ranking update with a lot of heated volatility. Truth is, it went through the weekend, but now it is spiking back up again as of yesterday and [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Why LLM-only pages aren’t the answer to AI search
Creating pages only machines will see won’t improve AI search visibility. Data shows standard SEO fundamentals still drive AI citations.
Search Engine Land
NEW Google Shopping API cutoff looms, putting ad delivery at risk
Advertisers must migrate to Google’s new Merchant API or risk Shopping and Performance Max campaigns stopping altogether.
Search Engine Land
Some Google AI Overviews now use Gemini 3 Pro
Google now uses Gemini 3 Pro to generate some AI Overviews in Google Search. Google said for more complex queries Gemini 3 Pro is used for AI Overview. This was previously announced for AI Mode [...]
Search Engine Land
Perplexity AI Interview Explains How AI Search Works via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Interview with Perplexity AI offers insights into what makes AI answer engines different from regular search
Search Engine Journal
NEW Google rules out ads in Gemini — for now
Google’s repeated stance against ads in Gemini suggests conversational AI monetization will remain limited — and cautious — for now.
Search Engine Land
OpenAI Will Soon Test Ads On ChatGPT
OpenAI announced on Friday it will begin testing ads in the ChatGPT responses in the coming weeks. The ads will show on the free product and low-cost subscription tier, ChatGPT Go.
The ads will show [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 19, 2026
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.
OpenAI will be testing ads in ChatGPT very soon. [...]
Search Engine Roundtable