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VOL. XI, No. 3791 - Archive
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NEW The latest jobs in search marketing

Land your next job in SEO or PPC. These brands and agencies are hiring to fill open search marketing positions right now. Search Engine Land

Let AI do the hard parts of your holiday shopping

Learn more about new AI Google Shopping tools, including agentic checkout. Inside Adwords

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 Google rolls out total campaign budgets for PMax beyond the U.S.

Google is rolling out total campaign budgets to PMax globally, giving advertisers tighter, flight-friendly control without the hassle of daily budget math. Search Engine Land

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

Google's AI advisors: agentic tools to drive impact and insights

An overview of Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor, two tools coming to English-language accounts this December. Inside Adwords

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 12, 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 will fix its Google Discover fake AI news [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Lazy Link Building Building Strategies That Work via @sejournal, @martinibuster

How to build high quality links with very little effort. You might as well try them. Search Engine Journal

Google Adds AI Shopping Tools Across Search, Gemini via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google is rolling out AI shopping updates across Search and Gemini, including conversational queries, agentic checkout, and AI-powered local business calling. Search Engine Journal

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

Google Defends Parasite SEO Crackdown As EU Opens Investigation via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google responds to EU investigation into its site reputation abuse policy, defending enforcement against parasite SEO as essential for protecting search quality. Search Engine Journal

Data Shows How AI Overviews Is Ranking Shopping Keywords via @sejournal, @martinibuster

BrightEdge predicts that AI Overviews will play an important role for shopping in November through December. Search Engine Journal

We’ve significantly improved the accuracy of advertiser account suspensions.

Every day, Google Ads harnesses the power of Gemini to block bad actors and protect people online. But sometimes, legitimate advertisers also get suspended, either becau… Inside Adwords

Value-Based Pricing For Google Local Service Ads Message Leads

Google emailed advertisers who are leveraging message leads within Google Local Service Ads telling them about the new value-based pricing. Basically, when a seacher uses the "Request multiple [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ads boosts accuracy in advertiser account suspensions

Google Ads, powered by Gemini AI, has cut incorrect advertiser suspensions by over 80% and now resolves 99% of appeals within 24 hours. Search Engine Land