Archive of November, 2025

November, 28 2025

Google’s Mueller Says Sites In A ‘Bad State’ May Need To Start Over via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller says sites with low-quality AI content should rethink their purpose rather [...] - Search Engine Journal
OpenAI Scales Up Crawling & Bots For The Holidays OpenAI is reportedly scaling up its crawling infrastructure for the holiday shopping season. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Advisor May Take Context From Other MCC Client Chats Google rolled out Ads Advisor, its AI-based chatbot for Google Ads, a couple of weeks ago. But some [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Rewriting AI Content With Human Content Won't Lead To Recovery Google's John Mueller said that rewriting AI content by a human won't change the site's ranking in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Gemini 3 Now Powering Google AI Mode For Some Queries, Automatically I know Google said on November 18th that Gemini 3 was "shipping in Search on day one." [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Overviews Showcases Events With New Results Google has updated how it shows events within AI Overviews. It can now show the direct display of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ads Account Hijacks, Thanksgiving Google Volatility & Web Guide For All We are seeing volatility in the Google search results this week, Thanksgiving week. Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Sundar Pichai Monitors X On Launch Days For Feedback The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, said he spends time on X on launch days to monitor how real [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 28, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 26 2025

Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Update Volatility Google may have pushed out a Google search ranking update over the past couple of days. Although [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Pack Links To Places Tab With Pagination Bug The Google local pack within the Google Search results changes, I think. When you click on the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Beyond SERP visibility: 7 success criteria for organic search in 2026 As search shifts into AI and multi-surface discovery, these seven signals show what real organic [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Overview Tab Gets Supports Custom Views Google Ads now lets you create up to five custom views on the Overview tab. The Overview now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 26, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads overview tab now supports custom views Google Ads now lets advertisers create up to five custom Overview tab views, making it easier to [...] - Search Engine Land
The truth about byline dates in SEO (and how they really affect visibility) Learn how Google interprets byline dates, published vs. updated dates, schema signals, and how [...] - Search Engine Land
Google's John Mueller Jokes On Future GEO-Detox SEO Billable Work Google's John Mueller made a joke about how next year, SEO companies will be offering GEO-Detox [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Gemini 3 now used for some queries in AI Mode This is only live for Google AI Pro & Ultra subscribers in the U.S. - Search Engine Land
Google Ads search terms report: 5 tips for better results Mastering the search term report can dramatically improve targeting, cut wasted spend, and reveal [...] - Search Engine Land
Google expands custom segments for restricted Display Campaigns Google’s vague update on expanding Custom Segments under its Personalized Ads policy is [...] - Search Engine Land
Indexability: Make sure search engines can actually find and rank you Learn what indexability means, how it differs from crawlability, and how to fix common indexation [...] - Search Engine Land
Mueller: Background Video Loading Unlikely To Affect SEO via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller says he doesn’t expect a noticeable SEO impact from a 100MB video that [...] - Search Engine Journal
Clicking Google's Thanksgiving Doodle Goes To AI Mode Google uploaded its Thanksgiving Doodle to the Google Search home page, google.com. It is a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Want to write for Search Engine Land? Join our 2026 contributor roster! We’re seeking expert voices in SEO, PPC, AI, and analytics [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Overview Tab Gains Trends & Performance By Stage Google Ads is testing two new sections in the Overview tab. There is a new trends section and a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Gains Facebook Messenger & Zalo Messenger Google Ads has supported adding WhatsApp Messenger for a while to your ad extensions. Now, it seems [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads’ Nano Banana Pro AI get rigorously tested Testing shows Nano Banana Pro excels at quickly creating seasonal, mood, and lighting variations [...] - Search Engine Land
Use content chunking to structure information for better UX, rankings, and AI visibility Learn how to debug SEO issues fast—crawl errors, rendering problems, indexing blockers, [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 25 2025

Google Ads MCC takeover attacks are rising – here’s how the phishing scams work The phishing attacks have left agencies and advertisers scrambling as entire client accounts and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Business Profiles adds scheduling and multi-location publishing to Google Posts This should make managing your Google Posts on your local Google Business Profile easier. - Search Engine Land
ChatGPT, Perplexity push deeper into AI shopping ChatGPT and Perplexity roll out AI shopping tools that promise smarter product discovery, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Local Service Ads Tests Removing More Results Button Google is testing removing the "more" results button for Local Service Ads within the web [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Canonicalization and SEO: A guide for 2026 Learn how to manage duplicate content, streamline indexing, improve crawl efficiency, and more with [...] - Search Engine Land
Fast, cheap, or good? The SEO tradeoff you can’t ignore SEO involves tradeoffs. See how time, cost, and quality affect results – and why [...] - Search Engine Land
Google and AI slop are ruining Thanksgiving for food bloggers Food creators report steep traffic drops as Google’s AI rewrites recipes, buries trusted [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Expands What To Know In Web Search Products Summary Bar Google is now showing the "What to know" section within web search, not just AI Mode, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Ask Google to check on local shop inventory for you. We recently released a new agentic calling feature in the U.S. where you can ask Google to call [...] - Inside Adwords
Measuring zero-click search: Visibility-first SEO for AI results Zero-click searches are rising. Learn how to measure visibility beyond traffic—tracking brand [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Account Hijacks On The Rise? Can you imagine you manage hundreds of clients in your Google Ads Manager Accounts (MCC) gets [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The Google guide for holiday help Learn more about using Google products like Gemini, Search, Shopping, Pixel and more over the [...] - Inside Search

November, 24 2025

Google's Gary Illyes On AI Search: The Change Is Hard To Accept Gary Illyes from Google said that even for him "the change is hard to accept" when it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Post Launched Scheduling & Multi-Location Publishing Google has officially launched scheduling and multi-location publishing for Google Posts in Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Mobile App To Be Retired Microsoft sent emails to some advertising announcing the retirement of the Microsoft Advertising [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
3 GEO experiments you should try this year Most AI-generated brand descriptions are still wrong. See how small, reversible tests can reveal [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to auto-link YouTube channels and Google Ads accounts Google’s new auto-linking between YouTube and Google Ads gives advertisers instant access to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google and Microsoft: How their Performance Max approaches align and diverge Compare how the two ad platforms approach Performance Max. See what’s shared, what’s [...] - Search Engine Land
EU Plan To Simplify GDPR Targets AI Training And Cookie Consent via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern The EU's Digital Omnibus proposal would relax parts of GDPR and the AI Act. Here's what to watch. - Search Engine Journal
Study – Retailers are bleeding ad spend on Google Shopping this Black Friday During Black Friday, retailers waste millions on Google Shopping ads for sold out products, [...] - Search Engine Land
Study: Why seasonality adjustments keep failing advertisers on Black Friday According to a new study seasonality adjustments often backfire during Black Friday, driving up [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 24, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
The proximity paradox: Beating local SEO’s distance bias Struggling to rank beyond your map radius? Learn advanced local SEO tactics—entity building, [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 23 2025

New web standards could redefine how AI models use your content A new protocol could give you power over how AI models collect and use your content. See what rules [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 21 2025

Google AI Overviews Notice: Double-Check Important Information In April, we saw a small disclaimer on the Google AI Overviews within Google Search to "Check [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google AI Mode With Gemini 3, GEO Rush, Search Console Annotations & Brand Filters, Google Ads & Reviews Google AI Mode is now powered by the new Gemini 3 models. There may have been a Google search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search to route complex queries directly to AI Mode, bypassing Google Search Plus, he mentioned that Google Search Console will break out AI Mode and AI Overview details in the [...] - Search Engine Land
How amplifying creator content strengthens trust and lowers media costs Paid amplification makes creator content work harder by boosting trust, cutting media costs, and [...] - Search Engine Land
How to better measure LLM visibility and its impact Learn why LLM visibility is harder to measure than SEO, how to turn AI mentions into real insights, [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 21, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Nano Banana Pro On Google Search & Google Ads Google released an update to Nano Banana yesterday named Nano Banana Pro and it is super impressive [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft to retire its Advertising mobile app in early 2026 Microsoft is retiring its Advertising mobile leaving the web interface as the sole way for [...] - Search Engine Land
Google CTR Trends In Q3: Branded Clicks Fan Out, Longer Queries Hold via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Advanced Web Ranking’s Q3 2025 CTR report shows branded desktop clicks spreading across more [...] - Search Engine Journal
Stop optimizing. Start orchestrating. That’s SEO now. From search engines to generative engines, the role of SEO has always been empathy. Today it [...] - Search Engine Land
Google LSAs Get Competitive Quotes & Request Multiple Opinions As you know, Google has been testing a way to click a button to message multiple businesses through [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO, GEO, or ASO? What to call the new era of brand visibility in AI [Research] Survey, search, and hiring data reveal which AI-era search terms are gaining traction and how they [...] - Search Engine Land
16 Google AI tips for stress-free holiday hosting in 2025 Use Gemini, Search, Pixel and more to make holiday planning feel effortless in 2025. - Inside Adwords
Google Ads In AI Mode Results In The Wild More and more people are starting to see Google Ads within the Google AI Mode results. Google told [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
48 tips and prompts for holiday planning, travel and more Learn more about ways to use Google tools like Gemini, Google Photos, Search and more to get things [...] - Inside Search

November, 20 2025

Introducing Nano Banana Pro Nano Banana Pro is our new image generation and editing model from Google DeepMind. - Inside Search
SEO Community Reacts To Adobe’s Semrush Acquisition via @sejournal, @martinibuster Adobe's purchase of Semrush signals the growing importance of SEO platforms as digital marketing [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console adds branded queries filter You can filter your performance reports and there are new insights reports - this is a gradual [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Tests Gray Shaded Search Ads & Local Pack Google is testing shading the background color behind the search ads, sponsored results, and the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console To Add Brand Query Filters Google's Daniel Waisberg announced today at the Google Search Central event in Tel Aviv that Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 20, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 19 2025

Adobe to acquire Semrush Adobe will acquire Semrush for $1.9 billion, the companies announced today, with closing expected [...] - Search Engine Land
Quotes From Google, Microsoft & Perplexity On GEO Rush Business Insider interviewed both SEOs and representatives from Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Semrush To Be Acquired By Adobe Semrush will be acquired by Adobe, the two companies announced today. "Adobe and Semrush [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Email: Incentivized Reviews Require Proper Identification Last month, we covered how we saw an "Incentivized" label on some product reviews within [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 19, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Tests Share Icon On Ads Google Ads is testing a share icon and button for hotel ads in the Google search results. When you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
AI search & the shift towards inauthenticity & commercial interests Google’s AI shift risks favoring big brands and reducing content diversity. Learn how AI [...] - Search Engine Land
Meta tags in SEO: What they are & how to use yhem Meta tags guide search engines and users. Learn what they are, how they impact SEO, and best [...] - Search Engine Land
Unmasking affiliate fraud: Protecting growth in 2026 Learn the most common types of affiliate marketing fraud and how modern tools help brands protect [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Mode Now Powered By The New Gemini 3 Google released Gemini 3, its latest AI model, and it is already powering AI Mode in Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Adds Asset-Level Editorial Review & Conversion Delay Microsoft announced a number of new Microsoft Advertising features including Asset-level editorial [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 18 2025

Google Search with Gemini 3: Our most intelligent search yet Learn more about Gemini 3 and how it’s upgrading Google Search and AI Mode. - Inside Search
Cloudflare Outage Impact On Google, Bing & Other Search Bots - Your Site Will Be Fine Cloudflare, which is used by around 20% of all websites (including this one), is having major [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO’s future isn’t content. It’s governance GEO is not about hacks. It’s about whether SEO leaders can drive ontology and consistency [...] - Search Engine Land
The three AI research modes redefining search – and why brand wins With AI-driven discovery, brand strength is key. Learn what it takes to be chosen across explicit, [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 18, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode Adds Travel AI Features: Agentic Booking & Research Google added new features to AI Mode including agentic booking for travel and Canvas for helping [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Campaign Total Budget For PMax Is Live Google Ads has rolled out the "Campaign total budget" feature for Performance Max (PMax) [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Microsoft Advertising Ads Label - Ads Related To: Query Microsoft is testing a new ad label for the Bing Search ads labeled "Ads related to" [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Cloudflare Outage Triggers 5xx Spikes: What It Means For SEO via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern A Cloudflare outage is causing 5xx errors for many sites. Here’s how Google handles short [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google On Generic Top Level Domains For SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers question about the SEO value of a keyword-based generic Top Level [...] - Search Engine Journal
Good GEO is good SEO Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) builds on SEO fundamentals. Learn why good SEO [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Weather Results Update - WeatherNext 2 Google confirmed a new search algorithm update - well, this is just a weather feature - but it is a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Overviews: How to remove or suppress negative content AI Overviews can surface harmful content. Mitigate it by boosting brand signals, improving E-E-A-T, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google releases Gemini 3 – it already powers AI Mode Google said Gemini 3 is the "most intelligent model, that combines all of Gemini’s [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads quietly rolls out a new conversion metric Google’s new “Original Conversion Value” metric gives advertisers long-needed [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 17 2025

New ways to plan travel with AI in Search Plan your trip from start to finish with new AI features in Search. Use AI to get help with [...] - Inside Search
Adding context to your Search Console data with custom annotations We're always looking for new ways to help you understand your data and make smarter decisions when [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Server Security Scanner Vulnerability Affects Up To 56M Sites via @sejournal, @martinibuster Up to 56 million websites could be affected by unpatched versions of Imunify360 AV that allow full [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Testing Old Search Design - Or Is It A Bug? There have been several complaints over the past week about Google showing searchers its old Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Balance AI efficiency with human quality for SEO wins AI tools promise faster workflows and smarter insights, but they also create blind spots. Learn how [...] - Search Engine Land
Most ChatGPT links get 0% CTR – even highly visible ones Newly revealed data exposes how little traffic ChatGPT drives to publishers. Spoiler alert: The gap [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Adds Top Combinations To Combinations Report For PMax Google Ads top combinations report now has a Top Combinations option for PMax campaigns. This [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google can book your flights, hotels and dinner reservations using AI Plus, Google added new travel AI tools with Canvas and ways to find deals. - Search Engine Land
How to build an organic Reddit strategy that drives SEO impact See how to identify target communities, publish value-first content, and track engagement to boost [...] - Search Engine Land
Discover new features for the holiday season with November’s Demand Gen Drop. Learn more about enhancements Demand Gen is launching, just in time for the holidays - Inside Adwords
Google offers a “less disruptive” fix to EU ad-tech showdown Google’s proposed ad-tech fixes aim to satisfy EU regulators without a breakup, a move that [...] - Search Engine Land
6 overlooked ways to repurpose content and unlock new organic growth Most marketers repurpose content, but few tap into the lesser-known tactics that unlock bigger [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console rolls out custom annotations for performance reports After many months of testing, the feature is finally live. - Search Engine Land
Google App Image Search: Get Started With A Few Topics Google added a carousel to the top of the image tab within some Google Search apps, I think it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 14 2025

5 SEO truths that cut through the AI noise Discover the data-backed insights that show where SEO efforts actually pay off as Google weaves [...] - Search Engine Land
Google rolls out total campaign budgets for PMax beyond the U.S. Google is rolling out total campaign budgets to PMax globally, giving advertisers tighter, [...] - Search Engine Land
The end of the web? Goodbye HTML, hello AIDI! Why the web as we know it may fade and what AI, personal agents, and data interfaces mean for [...] - Search Engine Land
Why ‘it’s just SEO’ misses the mark in the era of AI SEO Use AI-SEO tactics that help you surface in AI answers – structure facts, earn citations, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Shopping With AI Mode Comparisons, Call Store, Track Price & Agentic Checkout Google announced a bunch of AI-based search features for Google Shopping, AI Mode and Gemini for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Advertiser Suspension Improvements: Faster & More Accurate Google said it has made significant improvements to the Google Ads advertiser suspensions. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 13 2025

Let AI do the hard parts of your holiday shopping Learn more about new AI Google Shopping tools, including agentic checkout. - Inside Adwords
Overcoming Skepticism In Brand Mention And Link Building Campaigns via @sejournal, @martinibuster Two ways to significantly boost the success of brand mention and link building campaigns - Search Engine Journal
How to boost your AI search visibility: 5 key factors by Ignite Visibility Learn how to make your content visible, credible, and competitive in AI-driven search results. [...] - Search Engine Land
Generative AI and defamation: What the new reputation threats look like AI chatbots are changing how defamation spreads. Safeguarding credibility now means watching what [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Adds AI Shopping Tools Across Search, Gemini via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is rolling out AI shopping updates across Search and Gemini, including conversational [...] - Search Engine Journal
The Quid Pro No Method Of Link Building via @sejournal, @martinibuster When a publisher demands money for a link, Quid Pro No helps you turn the solicitation into a [...] - Search Engine Journal
We’ve significantly improved the accuracy of advertiser account suspensions. Every day, Google Ads harnesses the power of Gemini to block bad actors and protect people online. [...] - Inside Adwords
Lazy Link Building Building Strategies That Work via @sejournal, @martinibuster How to build high quality links with very little effort. You might as well try them. - Search Engine Journal
AI sends 1% of website traffic – and most of it is from ChatGPT ChatGPT tops AI referrals; AI highlights brands Google doesn't; and organic search still drives the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Defends Parasite SEO Crackdown As EU Opens Investigation via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google responds to EU investigation into its site reputation abuse policy, defending enforcement [...] - Search Engine Journal
Data Shows How AI Overviews Is Ranking Shopping Keywords via @sejournal, @martinibuster BrightEdge predicts that AI Overviews will play an important role for shopping in November through [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Clarifies Reviews Schema On Nesting In Reviews & Aggregate Ratings Google has updated the review snippet documentation to explain that site owners should avoid using [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads boosts accuracy in advertiser account suspensions Google Ads, powered by Gemini AI, has cut incorrect advertiser suspensions by over 80% and now [...] - Search Engine Land
Google FastSearch: Everything you need to know FastSearch powers AI Overviews – a faster, lighter version of Search built for speed over [...] - Search Engine Land
Google releases AI shopping updates for the holidays Google's holiday AI updates include new AI Mode responses, Gemini shopping, agentic calling, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Tests Importing X Ads & Other Social Campaigns Google has confirmed it is testing a feature to import campaigns and assets from X and other social [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Unacceptable Phone Number Policy Update Worries Advertisers Google will be updating its Unacceptable phone number policy on December 10, 2025 and that update [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Reminds Websites To Use One Review Target via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google updated its review snippet documentation to clarify that each review or rating in structured [...] - Search Engine Journal
3 Common mistakes to avoid when investing in AI search Avoid common AI search SEO mistakes. Align goals, metrics & strategy to optimize effectively [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 12 2025

Google's AI advisors: agentic tools to drive impact and insights An overview of Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor, two tools coming to English-language accounts [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Launches Structured Data For Merchant Shipping Policies via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google Search supports sitewide shipping policy markup, letting you surface delivery costs and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 12, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Discover fixing fake AI spam problem After many complaints with the quality of the Google Discover feed, Google is promising a fix is in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Working On Fixing Google Discover AI Spam Problem Google is reportedly working on a "fix" for the AI spam that routinely shows up within [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Value-Based Pricing For Google Local Service Ads Message Leads Google emailed advertisers who are leveraging message leads within Google Local Service Ads telling [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Tests Site Favicons Anchors At Top Of Search Results Microsoft is testing placing site favicons at the top of the Bing search results page that when [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Is AI Search SEO Leaving Bigger Opportunities Behind? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Ahrefs podcast explores how efforts to get ahead in AI SEO may come at the expense of higher-value [...] - Search Engine Journal
More ways to share your shipping and returns policies with Google We're excited to announce that we're now expanding the options for merchants to provide shipping [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Search Console Lets You Add Shipping/Return Details Without Merchant Center Account Google now lets you add your shipping and returns information within Google Search Console, even if [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The best way to use custom segments in Google Ads Learn how Google Ads custom segments target people by recent searches and site visits so you reach [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 11 2025

With negative review extortion scams on the rise, use Google’s report form Last month, Google launched a form to report negative review extortion scams and it seems to work. - Search Engine Land
Google Is Not Diminishing The Use Of Structured Data In 2026 via @sejournal, @martinibuster A Google blog post triggered a misunderstanding that structured data use will be diminished in 2026. - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads Editor 2.11 gets campaign-level negatives and smarter automation The latest Editor update introduces campaign-level negatives, search term reporting for Performance [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Overviews Showing More Free Product Listings? There are reports that Google is showing more free product listings from Google Merchant Center in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Central Live is back in Zurich! We're thrilled to announce our upcoming Search Central Live Zurich on December 9th! This is [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google expands image search ads with mobile carousel format Google is expanding ad placements into mobile image search, giving brands a new, visually engaging [...] - Search Engine Land
7 local SEO wins you get from keyword-rich Google reviews Discover how keyword-rich Google reviews can boost your local visibility, engagement, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Summaries In Budget Optimization Settings Google Ads is now showing summaries of your budget settings in the budget and bidding optimization [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Negative Review Extortion Scams Seems To Work A month ago, we reported Google added a new form to report negative review extortion scams on your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Clarity Required For Third Party Publishers Or Else... Microsoft is now requiring all third-party publishers to have Microsoft Clarity in order to be paid [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Is Not Killing Schema - Markups May Come & Go Google's John Mueller confirmed that Google is not killing off all forms of schema and structured [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO vs. AI search: 101 questions that keep me up at night Here's why treating ChatGPT like Google will guarantee your failure in the age of RAG, reranking, [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 11, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Tim Berners-Lee warns AI may collapse the ad-funded web Sir Tim Berners-Lee helped build the modern web. Now he’s worried AI could help destroy its [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 10 2025

The reign of forums: How AI made conversation king AI may run the web, but conversation drives it. Build forums that boost authority and create [...] - Search Engine Land
How To Cultivate Brand Mentions For Higher AI Search Rankings via @sejournal, @martinibuster AI search results tend to recommend sites that are recommended by other sites, which makes [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to document your SEO strategy Learn what makes a successful SEO strategy and why documenting it can help you gain buy-in, set [...] - Search Engine Land
Week Long Google Ads Invitation Access Bug Fixed Google seems to have fixed a bug with inviting others to access your Google Ads account. This bug [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 10, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads AI Max Underperforming Other Match Types There have been a number of threads on LinkedIn over the past week about how poorly Google Ads AI [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Copilot Gets AI Search With Better Links & Citations Microsoft announced on Friday afternoon that Copilot now has its own dedicated search experience. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: SEO Advice On Using Two Different TLDs For Your Company Google's John Mueller responded with SEO advice on how a company can use two different TLDs for its [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google adds asset-level reporting to display campaigns Advertisers will soon get deeper visibility into how each Display creative performs, enabling [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 9 2025

Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up - Movember Update Starting maybe late Thursday, into Friday, November 7th, I started to feel a Google Search ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 7 2025

What is the inevitable evolution of LLMs and search? Unpack how stock-driven decisions, market dysfunction & inevitable corrections reshape the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Preferred Sources Tool Is Jammed With Spam via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Preferred Sources tool is surfacing parked domains, spammy domain squatters, and random [...] - Search Engine Journal
Stop reporting traffic and activity. Start reporting progress. Replace vanity metrics with revenue-aligned KPIs like reach, coverage & velocity so you tie SEO [...] - Search Engine Land
FLUQs: Answer the hidden questions or vanish in AI search by Garrett French Your brand isn’t competing for rankings anymore. The name of the game is reuse. - Search Engine Land
Google clarifies policy on false information in advertiser verification Google reinforces policy that submitting false information during advertiser verification is a [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google Merchant Center Preferred Audience Targeting For Promotions Google added a new promotion targeting option to Google Merchant Center for audience targeting. The [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Discover Numerous Experiments Documented As VP of Engineering for Search at Google, Rajan Patel said months ago - "We're experimenting [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft brings AI Search to Copilot with emphasis on citations Microsoft said the Copilot responses now include "prominent, clickable citations and the [...] - Search Engine Land
Why B2B brands are shifting from keywords to Performance Max Accounts embracing AI-powered tools are outperforming keyword-only strategies. Here's what you need [...] - Search Engine Land
How to build and lead a successful remote SEO team Whether you’re managing an agency or an in-house team, make remote SEO work with the right [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Finance Gets Live Audio, Instant Transcripts & AI Insights Google has been adding AI features to Google Finance - like what can go wrong? Recently Google's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 7, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Drops Search Features, Tests AI Mode Responses, Ad Click Trickery & More Google dropped a number of search features and structured data types. Google is testing a new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s new AI tools automate ad reviews, reporting, and support for publishers Google is adding AI automation, live CTV monetization, and streamlined direct deals to its ad [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 6 2025

New monetization and AI tools for publishers The latest updates for our sellside products to help publishers more easily and efficiently [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Ads Fake Info For Advertiser Verification Programs Disallowed Google updated its Circumventing systems policy to add a new section for Advertiser verification. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
ChatGPT boosts brand mentions as Google AI Mode narrows focus: Report AI search is changing fast – and new Semrush data shows ChatGPT and Google’s AI Mode [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Tests Tinted Colored Background Google is testing a tinted brownish/yellowish background color for the search results page. It [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google expands PMax reach with Waze ads Advertisers can now reach drivers through Waze and gain deeper visibility into campaign performance [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 6, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Finance adds AI features for research, earnings and more Learn more about the new Google Finance, including new features like Deep Search and prediction [...] - Inside Search
4 times PPC automation still needs a human touch Even the smartest PPC automation can go off track. Here are four situations where human oversight [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s double-serving dilemma: Who really wins when one advertiser gets two spots? Google Ads now lets one advertiser appear twice on a SERP – a change that tests fairness, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Editor Version 2.11 Is Now Available Google has released version 2.11 of the Google Ads Editor, which includes over 15 new features and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to build authority when no one knows you yet You don’t need fame to earn trust. Build authority from zero with clarity, proof, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Warns Against Relying On SEO Audit Tool Scores via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google published guidance emphasizing context-driven technical SEO audits over tool-generated [...] - Search Engine Journal

November, 5 2025

Google to remove more search features including practice problems, nutrition facts, nearby offers and more Google said these features "aren't being used very often and aren’t adding significant [...] - Search Engine Land
AI SEO: How To Understand AI Mode Rankings via @sejournal, @martinibuster A way to understand why Google AI Mode ranks web pages, and how to adapt to those changes. - Search Engine Journal
Google Deprecates Practice Problem Structured Data In Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google will deprecate practice problem structured data in January and clarifies Dataset markup is [...] - Search Engine Journal
Here's an update on our efforts to simplify the search results page We're constantly working to simplify the search results page , so that it's quick and easy [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Reviews Updates Services Summary Box Google is testing an update to the reviews services summary box. We know Google does ask for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode Gains 3 New Agentic Capabilities Google's Robby Stein announced three new agentic capabilities within AI Mode - (1) booking event [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Report: Google AI Overviews Continue To Drive CTR Downwards Earlier this year, we covered that Google's AI Overviews are killing click-through rates from the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How APIs extend data access and automation in Google Ads and Meta Ads Go beyond dashboards. Use platform APIs to access deeper data, connect insights, and automate [...] - Search Engine Land
5 marketing maturity levels: From siloed to autonomous by Semrush Enterprise Assess where your teams sit on five levels of marketing maturity: from siloed operations to [...] - Search Engine Land

November, 4 2025

5 Google Ads tactics to drop in 2026 Some PPC practices no longer fit today’s automated Google Ads environment. Here’s what [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Overviews drive 61% drop in organic CTR, 68% in paid Even when AI Overviews don’t appear, users are simply clicking less everywhere, with Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Ahrefs Data Shows Brand Mentions Boost AI Search Rankings via @sejournal, @martinibuster Ahrefs' Brand Radar data shows that brand mentions are an important factor in AI search visibility. - Search Engine Journal
Social and UGC: The trust engines powering search everywhere Search is happening everywhere – from Reddit to AI. Learn why trust, not tactics, now drives [...] - Search Engine Land
Aja Frost on AI search, content strategy, and AEO success metrics HubSpot's Aja Frost talks AI search, content evolution, and why visibility (not traffic) is the new [...] - Search Engine Land
GEO startup Lorelight shuts down: ‘The problem didn’t need solving’ Lorelight’s closure has SEOs saying GEO is just SEO. Maybe. But that might just be the hype [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s “Smart Cropping” may be trimming your Shopping Ad images Google’s default “Smart Cropping” may be auto-cropping product images in Shopping [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Merchant Center Smart Cropping - You Can Opt Out Did you know that Google Merchant Center will automatically crop your product images in Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Discover Tests Infinite Endless Scroll Google is supposedly testing an endless, infinite scroll for Google Discover. When I scroll [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

November, 3 2025

Holiday 100: The gifts everyone’s searching for Shop this year’s top trends and gifts for everyone on your list. - Inside Adwords
7 focus areas as AI transforms search and the customer journey in 2026 AI is reshaping how people search, decide, and buy. Discover the key shifts defining 2026 and how [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Overviews guide research, but Search still wins the sale Google’s AI Overviews are taking over the research phase of shopping, but traditional search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Local Services Ads vs. Search Ads: Which drives better local leads? Find out how ad setup, targeting, and lead quality vary between LSAs and Search campaigns – [...] - Search Engine Land
The New Google Search Ad Layout Is Causing Accidentally Clicks A few weeks ago, Google launched a new ad layout with the large "Sponsored results" label [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Publishers Say Google Used Their Data to Cheat Them, Raptive Lawsuit Raptive, an advertising-sales company representing thousands of websites (content publishers), [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Discusses Digital PR Impact On AI Recommendations via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google says AI surfaces businesses the same way people do, by checking what others recommend online. - Search Engine Journal
Google PSA: Verify Your Hosted Cloud Provider Host In Search Console Google's John Mueller posted a PSA yesterday, reminding SEOs and developers to verify the host name [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google & Bing Are Indexing Grokipedia - AI Generated Wikipedia / Encyclopedia Grokipedia, an AI-generated online encyclopedia launched a week ago with over 800,000 AI-generated [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Reddit: Search Traffic Flat, AI Not Traffic Driver & 50% Of Traffic Is From Google Reddit announced earnings late last week and it boggles me how people love this stock. I am not a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google adds Chrome Web Store user agent Google added a new user agent to the Google user-triggered fetchers named Google-CWS. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 3, 2025 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable