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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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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.
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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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Google: Comments Link Spam Has No Effect On SEO/Search
Google's John Mueller said that link spam left in the comments section have no effect on Google Search or SEO, (and maybe even your website's performance in Google Search?). He wrote on Bluesky, [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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NEW 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
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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. [...]
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NEW Google AI Mode Fan-Out Prompts To Narrow Your Query
Back in May, Google announced updates to shopping in AI Mode. One of those announcements is to help you narrow down your AI Mode results for shopping queries using query fan-out.
Well, here is an [...]
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Google On Phantom Noindex Errors In Search Console via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google's John Mueller acknowledges phantom noindex errors in Search Console reflect hidden indexing signals surfaced during Googlebot access.
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NEW Why Agentic AI May Flatten Brand Differentiators via @sejournal, @martinibuster
The co-lead of the WordPress AI Team says some sites face a "more complex" future as brand differentiation gets flattened.
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Google Ads tests A/B experiments for Shopping ad product data
Google Ads is testing A/B experiments for Shopping Ads, letting advertisers compare product titles/images to see what performs better.
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Google AI Overviews cite YouTube most often for health topics: Study
Google’s AI health summaries rely on sources that lack rigorous medical review or evidence, a new analysis finds.
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