Archive of November, 2025
November, 14 2025
- The latest jobs in search marketing Land your next job in SEO or PPC. These brands and agencies are hiring to fill open search [...] - 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
November, 12 2025
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 & 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
