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On-page SEO in 2025: What you need to know

Learn the essentials of on-page optimization to strengthen your website's SEO foundation and boost your organic visibility. Search Engine Land

Is Google ‘stealing’ your international search traffic with translations? Here’s what we found.

Is Google translating your content without sending users to your site? Here's what’s really happening and how to protect your traffic. Search Engine Land

Adding markup support for loyalty programs

Member benefits, such as lower prices and earning loyalty points are a major factor considered by shoppers when buying products online. Today we're adding support for defining loyalty [...] Google Webmaster Central

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 11, 2025

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... Search Engine Roundtable

Google Offers Voluntary Buyouts To Core U.S. Teams Amid AI Push via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google voluntary buyouts target U.S. Search and Ads staff amid AI restructuring. What does this mean for future layoffs and team priorities? Search Engine Journal

Google Search Console API Data Stuck Since June 3rd

Google Search Console's API has not reported on data since June 3rd. The API is simply stuck since then, and I am not sure if it has anything to do with the Google Discover reporting issues or not - [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Simplifying the search results page

As part of our ongoing efforts to simplify the Google Search results page, we will be phasing out support for a few structured data features in Search. We regularly [...] Google Webmaster Central

NEW Get an audio overview of Search results in Labs, then click through to learn more.

Today, we’re launching a new Search experiment in Labs – Audio Overviews, which uses our latest Gemini models to generate quick, conversational audio overviews for certa… Inside Search

Google Softens Its Stance On Automated Translation Using AI

In the early days, Google was not a fan of using tools to automatically translate your pages and then have Google index and rank those pages, even with Google Translate. But now as AI is getting [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Looks To Reduce Search & Ad Units With Buyout Program

Just when you thought the layoffs were over (remember January 2023), Google is offering a buyout program across search and ad units, including knowledge and information and central engineering units [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google to drop support for several rich result types to simplify the search results page

Specifically these will no longer be supported; Book Actions, Course Info, Claim Review, Estimated Salary, Learning Video, Special Announcement and Vehicle Listing. Search Engine Land

Google Gains Markup Support For Loyalty & Membership Programs

Google added new markup support for loyalty and membership programs with special pricing. This was supported in Google Merchant Center but now is supported in under Organization structured data [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Removes Robots.txt Guidance For Blocking Auto-Translated Pages via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google removes robots.txt guidance for blocking auto-translated pages. This change aligns Google's technical documents with its spam policies. Search Engine Journal

ChatGPT Mostly Source Wikipedia; Google AI Overviews Mostly Source Reddit

A study from Profound of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity shows that while ChatGPT mostly sources its information from Wikipedia, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity mostly source [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Shows Why Rankings Collapsed After Domain Migration via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google's John Mueller showed how to diagnose a search visibility issue that was apparently triggered by a domain migration. Search Engine Journal