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VOL. XI, No. 4002 - 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

How to make SEO reports more actionable

Turn keyword research, audits, and technical findings into clear recommendations stakeholders can prioritize and execute. Search Engine Land

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 10, 2026

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

Google Search Sends 23% Of Queries To The Open Web via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

New data shows most U.S. Google searches end without a click, with a shrinking share of traffic reaching websites outside Google's ecosystem. Search Engine Journal

How to make prompt tracking much more accurate

AI answers are variable, but measurable. Use repeated runs, confidence intervals, and journey tracking to separate signal from noise. Search Engine Land

Google can be directly liable for false AI Overview claims: German court

The injunction targets AI-generated accusations that tied two publishers to scams despite no support in the linked pages. Search Engine Land

Publishers push Common Crawl to stop collecting content for AI training

Could AI lose a key source of training data? Major publishers want Common Crawl to stop collecting and sharing their content. Search Engine Land

Schema.org now shows you how many sites are using each schema type

Ever wonder how many sites are using a specific type of structured data element? Now you can know. Search Engine Land

Ginny Marvin clarifies AI Max, AI Search ads and what advertisers should prioritize after GML

Ginny Marvin shared details on AI Max, AI Search ads, measurement and first-party data in a wide-ranging Q&A. Search Engine Land

Google Is Adding Business Profile Tools To The Gemini App via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google is adding a direct Google Business Profile connection and Business notebooks to the Gemini app, rolling out this month. Search Engine Journal

Google Search Was Unaffected By Gemini Outage

Google Search and its search generative features like AI Mode and AI Overviews were unaffected by yesterday's Gemini outage. Gemini, which is Google's AI product, had several outages throughout [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Interviewing SEOs in an AI-first world

One group of SEO talent is becoming dramatically more valuable. The other is watching their skill set become a commodity. Search Engine Land

Google Merchant Center Temporary Delay On Product Submissions

Google Merchant Center has API issues, causing a temporary delay in product submissions. Google posted the notice in the Merchant Center portal and on its status page. Search Engine Roundtable

Google Tests Dotted Underlined & Shaded URLs In Search Snippet

Google is testing using a dotted underline and a shaded URL for the search result snippet's URL. Yesterday, we covered how Google was testing a blue dotted underline for sitelinks within the [...] Search Engine Roundtable

ChatGPT Ads Gains Upload Product Feeds For Ad Creation

OpenAI has upgraded its ChatGPT Ads Manager tool to allow advertisers to upload product feeds that automatically create ads for each uploaded product. This obviously makes it easier to have ads on [...] Search Engine Roundtable