Archive of June, 2025
June, 13 2025
- 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 [...] - Inside Search
- Google Is Now Rolling Out AI Mode In The US At Google I/O, Google said it will roll out AI Mode to all users based in the U.S. Well, that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
June, 12 2025
- Google Retires 7 Structured Data Features To Streamline Search Results via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google retires seven structured data features including Book Actions, Course Info, and Claim Review [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Simplifying the search results page As part of our ongoing efforts to simplify the Google Search results page, we will be [...] - Google Webmaster Central
- Google Search Team Explains The “It Depends” Response via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Why Google's SEO advice often sounds vague: Search Relations team explains the reasons behind [...] - Search Engine Journal
- 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 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Daily Search Forum Recap: June 12, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - 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 [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai Discusses Fate Of The Human-Created Web via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's CEO addressed concerns about AI search replacing traditional web links in its ongoing [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google Business Profiles Changes Add Updates To Posts Google seems to be flip-flopping between calling it Google Posts and Google Updates within Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Outage Disrupts Lens, Discover, & Voice Search Results via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google confirms Lens, Discover, and Voice Search are experiencing disruptions, potentially [...] - Search Engine Journal
June, 11 2025
- 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 [...] - Search Engine Land
- 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 [...] - Search Engine Journal
- 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 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Gains Markup Support For Loyalty & Membership Programs Google added new markup support for loyalty and membership programs with special pricing. This was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- 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 [...] - 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 [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google Search Removal-Based Demotion Systems Changes Threshold Google has made a small but I assume meaningful change to the search ranking systems document, the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Chunks, passages and micro-answer engine optimization wins in Google AI Mode Google's AI Mode synthesizes answers from multiple background queries. Here's how to optimize [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google On Unrelated Content As A Search Ranking Issue Google's John Mueller responded to a complaint about indexing issues and ranking drops within [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
June, 10 2025
- 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 [...] - 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 [...] - Google Webmaster Central
- 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 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Ads Tests URL Inclusions & Exclusions For Search Campaigns Google Ads seems to be testing URL inclusions and exclusions for Search campaigns. This will allow [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- ChatGPT leads on generative AI traffic share, but Google is rising Watch the throne. Google and DeepSeek have gained ground and ChatGPT’s share of generative AI [...] - Search Engine Land
- 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 [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google looking to downsize search and ad units Reports say Google sent out an internal email offering a "voluntary exit program" to U.S. [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Ads AI Max Coming To All In Q3 2025 Google's new AI Max in Google Ads for Search campaigns is coming to all advertisers in Q3 of 2025. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- 90% of AI search traffic comes from desktop: Report AI search is booming, but mainly on desktop. Mobile users remain an untapped opportunity, [...] - Search Engine Land
- How Google Ads’ AI tools fix creative bottlenecks, streamline asset creation Google's new AI tools promise to revolutionize ad creative, making video and image production [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Launches Loyalty Program Structured Data Support via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google rolls out support for loyalty program structured data, which allows businesses to display [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google Local Photos Testing Product Tags Google is testing adding product tags to photos within Google Local carousel's photos. These tags [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Apple Visual Intelligence iOS26: Screen Search With Google, ChatGPT & Apps Apple had its WWDC 2025 event yesterday and actually led off right away with Apple Intelligence and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Daily Search Forum Recap: June 10, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
June, 9 2025
- Finding Conversational Style Query Data In Google Search Console Ever want to find query data in Google Search Console where the query is a conversational query [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Ads may pause your account for manager violations Google Ads can pause individual accounts linked to Manager accounts that violate third-party [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Responds To Site That Lost Ranks After Googlebot DDoS Crawl via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google responds to a publisher's concern about crawl budget and rankings due to Googlebot's [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google Calm Storm - Heated Weekend Search Volatility But Chatter Calm Normally, when I see a lot of chatter within the SEO community, I also see the third-party Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Pichai: Google AI Mode Will Be Incorporated Into The Main Search Lex Fridman had a really great interview with Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai. In that interview, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Ads Confirms Issue - Maybe Ads Not Displaying Google has confirmed an issue with Google Ads this morning, saying, "We're investigating [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Reports Of Some Google Business Profiles Disappearing Over the past week I've been hearing that some Google Business Profiles are vanishing or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Why user-generated content works well for SEO Google wants helpful, trustworthy content – and UGC delivers. Find out how to harness [...] - Search Engine Land
- Daily Search Forum Recap: June 9, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
- Live Search Being Tested In The Google Search App Google recently rolled out the Live Search feature in the Gemini app. But now Google was caught [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
June, 8 2025
- Google Search Console Discover Report Flatlining - Might Be A Reporting Bug It seems the Google Search Console performance report for Google Discover has reported zero [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Bug with Google Search Console Discover performance report If you noticed your Discover report showing a huge drop in impressions and clicks, you are not [...] - Search Engine Land
June, 6 2025
- Newly Released Data Shows Desktop AI Search Referrals Dominate via @sejournal, @martinibuster New data shows that AI search traffic overwhelmingly comes from desktop devices rather than mobile. - Search Engine Journal
- Google’s Update To Recipe Structured Data Confirms A Ranking Criteria via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google confirms that Recipe Rich Results and text search results select images using different [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Respected SEO Rockstar Deconstructs SEO For Google’s AI Search via @sejournal, @martinibuster A respected SEO expert calls out marketers who overstate the complexity of Google's AI search - Search Engine Journal
- Google LSAs Tests Replacing Google Screened With Google Verified Google is testing replacing the "Google Screened" label with a "Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- From Video Action to Demand Gen: What’s new in YouTube Ads and how to win The newest innovation to YouTube advertising is fixing problems that have plagued video campaigns [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Tests New Learn More About Sponsored Results Label Google is testing a new label on its search ads within the Google Search results that says [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Why campaign-specific goals matter in Google Ads Stop settling for generic goals in Google Ads. Here's how customizing them leads to smarter [...] - Search Engine Land
- Perplexity grows to 780 million monthly queries CEO Aravind Srinivas took shots at Google’s AI modes and why its ad model holds it back, as [...] - Search Engine Land
- Sundar Pichai: AI Mode is Google’s ‘bleeding edge’ experience Google’s AI Mode is where new search features are tested, but only the best will graduate to [...] - Search Engine Land
June, 5 2025
- Do you have what it takes to bring home the highest honor in search? Boost company morale, attract new business, and earn the right to call yourself [...] - Search Engine Land
- The complete guide to optimizing content for SEO (with checklist) Learn how to craft content that stands out, drives search traffic, is visible in AI-powered search, [...] - Search Engine Land
- The latest AI news we announced in May Here are Google’s latest AI updates from May 2025 - Inside Search
- Google Publishes Guidance For Sites Incorrectly Caught By SafeSearch Filter via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google has published official guidance on how to recover a website that is incorrectly filtered by [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Try new data visualizations and graphs for finance queries in AI Mode. Today, we’re starting to roll out interactive chart visualizations in AI Mode in Labs to help [...] - Inside Search
- Bloomberg Interviewed Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai: Search Will Grow, AI Content & Publishers Decline Bloomberg's Emily Chang interviewed Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, last night at the Bloomberg Tech [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Drop In Google Indexing Less Since Late May 2025? Several individuals have inquired whether Google has been indexing fewer pages on websites since [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- FTX Sued Neil Patel for $55 Million Cyrus Shepard posted about how FTX, you know, the company Sam Bankman-Fried ran, is now suing Neil [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- A closer look inside AI Mode AI Mode is our most powerful AI search, which we’re rolling out to everyone in the U.S. [...] - Inside Search
- A/B test your way to search marketing success by Digital Marketing Depot From CTAs to checkout tweaks, this guide shares practical A/B test ideas to help you get more [...] - Search Engine Land
- Will Scott on AI content reuse, schema and semantics, and generative engine optimization SMX Advanced speaker Will Scott shares insights on AI SEO, semantic strategy, content reuse [...] - Search Engine Land
- Daily Search Forum Recap: June 5, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Zero-click searches rise, organic clicks dip: Report AI tools like ChatGPT are growing, but Google still dominates. YouTube is the a destination and [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Updates Ranking Algorithm For Explicit Content & Videos While Updating SafeSearch Docs Google has updated its search ranking algorithm to "more strongly affect the sites that host [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
June, 4 2025
- How to use competitive audits for AI SERP optimization Analyze competitor content, keywords, and SERP features to boost your visibility in generative AI [...] - Search Engine Land
- Bing Tests New People Also Ask List View Microsoft is testing a new layout in Bing for the people also ask section. Instead of the carousel [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Navah Hopkins Is Microsoft Advertising Ads Liaison Navah Hopkins, someone I have quoted here countless times, and a super respected member of the PPC [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Why your best content is invisible to AI search engines (and how to fix it in 30 minutes) If AI can’t read your website, it won’t recommend it. Learn how to structure and mark [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Discover Testing Generative AI Summaries Google is now testing summarizing the stories listed on Google Discover with generative AI. Some [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Today - June 4th Google Search ranking volatility is heating up today, June 4th. Many of the tools and some of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- How to rank higher on Google (even if you’re just getting started) Want to boost your Google rankings? Learn key SEO tactics to improve visibility, drive traffic, and [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Tests AI Overviews At Bottom Of Search Results Page We generally see the AI Overviews show at the top of the Google search results page, I mean, it is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Daily Search Forum Recap: June 4, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
- To show in Google AI Mode & AI Overviews, your page must be indexed But being indexed, does not guarantee your pages will show within these AI results. - Search Engine Land
- Google Search Results Snippets Tests Clickable Page Includes You may remember the page includes search result snippet in Google Search. Well, now Google is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
June, 3 2025
- Google Patent On Using Contextual Signals Beyond Query Semantics via @sejournal, @martinibuster Recent Google patent shows how five kinds of real-world context can influence AI-generated answers - Search Engine Journal
- The Great Decoupling Of Google Search - Clicks vs Impressions Since Google began rolling out AI Overviews in Google Search, publishers, site owners, SEOs, etc [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Ads Testing New Conversion Goals Interface Google is testing a new conversion goals interface within the Google Ads advertiser console. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Testing AI Max in Google Ads: When to try it and when to wait AI Max expands reach, but regular Search gives control. Learn the trade-offs and when it makes [...] - Search Engine Land
- 12 new KPIs for the generative AI search era We’ve spent years tracking clicks and rankings. But in the age of LLMs and AI search, are we [...] - Search Engine Land
- YouTube receives continued MRC brand safety accreditation. This month, YouTube received the Media Rating Council (MRC)’s brand safety accreditation for [...] - Inside Adwords
- Google Expands Video Ads Across Search, Shopping, and Image Tabs Google is bringing video ads to Search, Image, and Shopping results in the U.S. and Canada, aiming [...] - Search Engine Land
- Will Google’s AI Overviews kill the click? Your content may appear in AI Overviews – without traffic to show for it. Learn how to adapt [...] - Search Engine Land
- Microsoft Bing Vehicle Ads With Car Condition Labels Microsoft is now labeling some of the Bing vehicle ads with the condition of those automobiles. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Publishes About Video Ads Help Doc Google has published a new help document named About Video ads across Google surfaces. As you know, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
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June, 2 2025
- Create videos with your words for free – Introducing Bing Video Creator Introducing Bing Video Creator, allowing you to turn your ideas into videos, for [...] - Bing Search
- Google Search Console Fails To Report Half Of All Search Queries via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google Search Console fails to report 50% of search queries, leaving SEO professionals with [...] - Search Engine Journal
- What is AI SEO? How artificial intelligence is changing search optimization Discover how AI is revolutionizing SEO—from smarter keyword research to automated content [...] - Search Engine Land
- AI and local search: The new rules of visibility and ROI in 2025 As AI reshapes search and customer journeys, learn how to optimize your local presence for [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Lens Comes To YouTube Shorts - Without Ads For Now... Google Lens will soon work on YouTube shorts, all you need to do is pause the YouTube Short, then [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google's Gemini Live Available On Gemini App At Google I/O, Google demoed a feature named Gemini Live, where you point your smartphone camera at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- The ultimate Looker Studio SEO campaign dashboard for 2025 Build better SEO reports with Looker Studio. Learn how to create a live, flexible dashboard that [...] - Search Engine Land
- How AI Mode and AI Overviews work based on patents and why we need new strategic focus on SEO Read this deep dive into six patents that reveal how Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode work – [...] - Search Engine Land
- What is keyword cannibalization? (And how do I fix it?) Struggling with keyword cannibalization? Learn how to spot overlapping content, fix ranking issues, [...] - Search Engine Land
- Bing Search Tests Chat with Copilot Section Microsoft is testing a new "Chat with Copilot" section within the Bing Search results. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Daily Search Forum Recap: June 2, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
June, 1 2025
- Programming Note: Offline For Shavuot On Monday & Tuesday This is a programming note that I will be completely offline for the holiday of Shavout/Shavous on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable