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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

Google Won’t Act On Spam Reports If They Contain Personal Information via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google updated their spam reporting tool to warn they won't process reports that contain personal information. Search Engine Journal

Google Testing Audio Overviews In The Wild (Not Just In Labs)

About a year ago, Google announced you can opt in, within Search Labs, to see Audio Overviews within the Google Search results. But now, I saw two different people say they saw it without opting into [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Business Profiles Sorts Photos By Most Recent

Google Business Profiles lets you upload photos of your business to your Business Profile. Those photos can be viewed on Google Search and Google Maps. And now, these photos are reportedly sorted by [...] Search Engine Roundtable

The bureaucracy tax: How disruptors are winning AI search visibility

Slow approval cycles and rigid workflows are costing enterprises AI visibility. Faster execution and structured data shift the balance. Search Engine Land

Google spam reports with personally identifying information won’t be used and processed

This is a change from what Google announced only a week ago. Search Engine Land

Why GEO is a reputation problem

Most GEO tactics don’t move the needle. Learn how brand positioning, category alignment, and third-party signals shape AI visibility. Search Engine Land

Google’s Robots.txt Docs Expand, Deep Links Get Rules, EU Steps In – SEO Pulse via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google documents deep link best practices and signals robots.txt doc expansion. The EU proposes Google share search data with rivals and AI chatbots. Search Engine Journal

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Heated Google Ranking Volatility, Commodity Content, Getting SEO Right, Search Ads

This week, we covered new heated Google search ranking volatility. Google's Danny Sullivan spoke about commodity versus non-commodity content. Google now wont use spam reports with personality [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Liz Reid Of Google Interviewed By Bloomberg On Google Search & AI

Here is another interview from Google's head of search, Liz Reid. This one was done on the Odd Lots Bloomberg podcast and is titled "Google's Liz Reid on Who Will Own Search in a World of [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google To Fix AI Mode Bug Where It Changes Title Links

Google is working to fix a bug in AI Mode where it is changing the title links and citations. This bug was spotted by Lily Ray who wrote on X, "Google is changing title links / citations in AI [...] Search Engine Roundtable

New: Google Won't Use Spam Reports With Personally Identifying Information

A couple of weeks ago, Google stunned many by saying that they updated their spam report to pass along all information to the site that you enter in the spam report. There was a lot of backlash to [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Automate the busywork: 8 SEO tasks you shouldn’t do manually

Identify repeatable SEO tasks and build simple automation workflows so you can focus on strategy, QA, and decision-making. Search Engine Land

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 24, 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. Google now won't use spam reports with personal [...] Search Engine Roundtable

How to structure AI-driven SEO: 3 frameworks that drive execution

AI can accelerate results or amplify chaos. Learn how to coordinate teams, clarify ownership, and prioritize initiatives that compound. Search Engine Land