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Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Update Volatility
Google may have pushed out a Google search ranking update over the past couple of days.
Although the chatter was somewhat quiet, it picked up today and some of the tools are also picking up on an [...]
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NEW Google's Sundar Pichai Monitors X On Launch Days For Feedback
The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, said he spends time on X on launch days to monitor how real people are using, interacting, and experiencing new Google product releases. He said he is "pretty [...]
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Beyond SERP visibility: 7 success criteria for organic search in 2026
As search shifts into AI and multi-surface discovery, these seven signals show what real organic success looks like in 2026.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 26, 2025
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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NEW OpenAI Scales Up Crawling & Bots For The Holidays
OpenAI is reportedly scaling up its crawling infrastructure for the holiday shopping season.
The folks at Vercel noticed OpenAI adding a lot of new IP ranges for its bots and crawlers.
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ChatGPT, Perplexity push deeper into AI shopping
ChatGPT and Perplexity roll out AI shopping tools that promise smarter product discovery, personalized picks, and quicker paths to purchase.
Search Engine Land
The truth about byline dates in SEO (and how they really affect visibility)
Learn how Google interprets byline dates, published vs. updated dates, schema signals, and how freshness impacts rankings, trust, and click-through rates.
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NEW Google’s Mueller Says Sites In A ‘Bad State’ May Need To Start Over via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google's John Mueller says sites with low-quality AI content should rethink their purpose rather than manually rewrite pages. Starting fresh may be faster than recovering.
Search Engine Journal
Google Business Profiles adds scheduling and multi-location publishing to Google Posts
This should make managing your Google Posts on your local Google Business Profile easier.
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Canonicalization and SEO: A guide for 2026
Learn how to manage duplicate content, streamline indexing, improve crawl efficiency, and more with these canonicalization best practices.
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Google's John Mueller Jokes On Future GEO-Detox SEO Billable Work
Google's John Mueller made a joke about how next year, SEO companies will be offering GEO-Detox services as a billable line item after many of the SEO companies already billed their clients for GEO [...]
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Gemini 3 now used for some queries in AI Mode
This is only live for Google AI Pro & Ultra subscribers in the U.S.
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Fast, cheap, or good? The SEO tradeoff you can’t ignore
SEO involves tradeoffs. See how time, cost, and quality affect results – and why quality-first work delivers faster, more sustainable gains.
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Mueller: Background Video Loading Unlikely To Affect SEO via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google's John Mueller says he doesn’t expect a noticeable SEO impact from a 100MB video that loads in the background after page content and images.
Search Engine Journal
Indexability: Make sure search engines can actually find and rank you
Learn what indexability means, how it differs from crawlability, and how to fix common indexation issues. Ensure your most valuable pages appear and perform in Google’s index.
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