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NEW Google Search rank and position tracking is a mess right now
Google removed the ability to see 100 search results per page and both third-party tracking tools and maybe even Search Console seem off since.
Search Engine Land
NEW Daily Search Forum Recap: September 15, 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 Search Console reporting seems off since last [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
WordPress Versus Everyone: The Top CMS For Core Web Vitals via @sejournal, @martinibuster
WordPress Core Web Vitals performance is compared and ranked against five other content management systems.
Search Engine Journal
NEW PSA: Most Third Party Google Search Tracking Tools Are Broken
Most of the third-party Google Search tracking tools are broken and not tracking properly. This seemed to start when Google turned off the ability to show 100 search results per page.
So just keep [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
NEW Fame engineering: The key to generative engine optimization
Fame engineering builds AI availability – ensuring generative engines recognize, understand, and recommend your brand in buying moments.
Search Engine Land
Google Updated The Merchant Center Pricing Policies
Google has updated the Google Merchant Center pricing policies for September. The changes include updates in the merchant fees, government charges, import and export costs, regional and installment [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests Dropping 100 Search Results Parameter
Google Search seems to be testing dropping the ability to see 100 search results on a single page. When you add the results parameter to the end of your search results URL string, i.e. &num=100, [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
NEW Structured Data Does Not Help With Visibility In AI Search
There are a lot of folks in the community saying that implementing structured data / schema on your pages will help you with AI Search visibility.
But few have really tested it until now. And those [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
NEW FTC Investigating Google Over Ad Pricing & Terms On Websites
Bloomberg reports that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating Google (and Amazon) on whether the companies misled advertisers by not properly disclosing the terms and pricing for ads on their [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines Gains AI Overview & YMYL Definitions
On Thursday, September 11, 2025, Google updated its search quality raters guidelines PDF document. The last time Google updated this document was on January 23, 2025, over seven months ago. This [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
NEW Google Search Console Reporting Change Since 100 Results Broke
On Friday we reported that Google Search was removing the ability to show 100 search results per page. And now, we are seeing a lot of people notice that their Google Search Console performance [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Expands YMYL Guidelines To Cover Election & Civic Content via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google updated its quality rater guidelines to treat election and voting info as YMYL. See what changed and how to align civic content.
Search Engine Journal
NEW From reactive to proactive: How AI protects and amplifies executive brands
Protecting your brand means moving beyond old ORM tactics. See how AI helps enhance monitoring, SEO, and proactive content creation.
Search Engine Land
Search Central Live Tokyo: The 2025 Return
Get ready, Japan! We're thrilled to announce the return of Search Central Live Tokyo on Nov 7,
2025!
If you are fluent in Japanese
and are interested, read on! We're bringing
back [...]
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