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VOL. XI, No. 3995 - Archive
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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

The overlooked business value of SEO and affiliate alignment

SEO and affiliate teams affect the same revenue, rankings, and LLM visibility. Alignment can reduce costs and strengthen brand performance. Search Engine Land

How Google Display exclusions guide AI-driven optimization

Accidental clicks, bot traffic, and low-quality placements contaminate campaign data. Strategic exclusions help keep optimization on track. Search Engine Land

YouTube earns industry's first MRC accreditation for short-form video.

YouTube achieves its sixth consecutive MRC brand safety accreditation, and becomes the first platform certified for short-form video. Inside Adwords

5 ways Google Search can level up your thrift and vintage shopping

Uncover second-hand scores with AI tools in Google Search and Shopping. Inside Adwords

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 3, 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... Search Engine Roundtable

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Is OK With AI Mode Replacing Classic Search via @sejournal, @martinibuster

As AI Mode becomes more seamless, Google appears increasingly comfortable with a world beyond Classic Search. Search Engine Journal

Warning: Google Ads Phishing Attack For Google Accounts

It is not that uncommon, unfortunately, to see Google Ads that are designed to steal your login credentials for various platforms, including your Google account. Now, when you search for "my [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google’s expanded candidate set and the selection crisis

As AI systems evaluate broader content pools, selection depends on verification, semantic relationships, and information gain. Search Engine Land

Merchant Center Expands Attribute Rules To Automatically Found Products

Google has expanded the attribute rules feature in Google Merchant Center to work for automatically found products. Before, attribute rules only worked for products added through your merchant [...] Search Engine Roundtable

June 2026 Google Webmaster Report

Here is the monthly Google webmaster report - the June 2026 edition - where I cover all the larger SEO and webmaster related Google Search news that you may want to catch up on over the past week. [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Microsoft: Bing Webmaster Tools AI Reporting To Gain New Features Soon

Microsoft's Fabrice Canel confirmed on LinkedIn last night that more features are coming sooner rather than later around Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance reporting and AI reporting. Search Engine Roundtable

Google Merchant Center Mass Product Page Unavailable Notices Last Night?

Google Merchant Center may have a bug in its automated validation of products and landing pages. Last night, some Google Ads merchants received disapproval notices for "Product page [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Bing Tests Larger Favicons For Top Sponsored Ads

Microsoft Bing is testing using a larger favicon format for sponsored ads in the top position. The favicon is about 33% bigger in the top sponsored ad position than in an organic or lower sponsored [...] Search Engine Roundtable

AI in the wild: Confident, wrong, and weirdly expensive

AI doesn’t need to be fully correct to sound convincing. Three Gemini conversations reveal why expertise and skepticism still matter. Search Engine Land