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Search Engine Journal
Aleyda Solis analyzed US and UK SISTRIX data from Google's May core update, finding visibility patterns tied to source type and market fit. The post Google’s May Core Update Favored Pages That Match Intent appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Google launches Search profiles, giving eligible creators a customizable page for articles, social posts, and followers. U.S.-only at launch. The post Google Launches Search Profiles For Creators With 100K Followers appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Semrush Blog
Google‘s AI search optimization guide validates SEO. What it leaves out, and four moves to make now.
Search Engine Journal
The UK's CMA has imposed a new conduct requirement on Google Search, letting publishers opt out of AI features and requiring clearer content attribution. The post Google Must Let Websites Opt Out Of AI Search Features In UK appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
You can't optimize content for a retrieval system you can't measure. Here's the measurement literacy gap practitioners need to close. The post You Can Finally Measure Content Alignment. That’s The Dangerous Part appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Despite industry fears, AI search adoption remains fragmented with most users still preferring traditional search methods. The post Why Users Are Fleeing To AI-Free Search & What It Means For SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
iPullRank
If the internet were a city, then Wikipedia would be the electricity. It’s the thing that is silently running in the background, effortlessly making things just appear to work. It keeps the lights on. Flip a switch, and there it is. So steadfast and convenient that it’s easy to forget it’s even ther
Search Engine Journal
As AI Mode becomes more seamless, Google appears increasingly comfortable with a world beyond Classic Search. The post Google CEO Sundar Pichai Is OK With AI Mode Replacing Classic Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Semrush Blog
Rank in organic search and AI Overviews by improving E-E-A-T and finding low-competition keywords. Here’s how + more strategies.
Semrush Blog
A keyword strategy defines the user queries you want to appear for and how you‘ll target them.
Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console now shows which of your pages appear in AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Discover. Here's how to use that data. The post GSC’s New AI Overview Reporting: How Can We Use This Information? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Abondance
What to remember: Since the night of May 14 to 15, 2026, Google has changed the management of the geographical targeting of its SERPs: the parameter &gl=fr no longer allows you to obtain the French SERP from a non-French IP. Positioning tracking tools that use foreign proxies (ma
Search Engine Journal
Most SEOs stop at schema markup. Here's the full technical picture of entity optimization, and why it matters more than ever for LLM visibility. The post How Can You Implement Entity Optimization Without Relying On Schema Markup? – Ask An SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Google has expanded the attribute rules feature in Google Merchant Center to work for automatically found products. Before, attribute rules only worked for products added through your merchant feeds, but not it works for products Google finds by itself and adds to Merchant Center.
Seroundtable
Here is the monthly Google webmaster report - the June 2026 edition - where I cover all the larger SEO and webmaster related Google Search news that you may want to catch up on over the past week. Yes, we had the big Google May 2026 core update, with a number of unconfirmed updates as well.
Abondance
The article "The SEO Garden Party is back on June 18, 2026!" was published on the Abondance website.
Seroundtable
Microsoft's Fabrice Canel confirmed on LinkedIn last night that more features are coming sooner rather than later around Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance reporting and AI reporting.
Seroundtable
Google Merchant Center may have a bug in its automated validation of products and landing pages. Last night, some Google Ads merchants received disapproval notices for "Product page unavailable" even though the product page was indeed available.
Seroundtable
Microsoft Bing is testing using a larger favicon format for sponsored ads in the top position. The favicon is about 33% bigger in the top sponsored ad position than in an organic or lower sponsored ad position.
Seroundtable
It is not that uncommon, unfortunately, to see Google Ads that are designed to steal your login credentials for various platforms, including your Google account. Now, when you search for "my business," which is how many businesses login to their Google Business Profile account, you are presented wi
Aleyda Solis
I’ve analyzed the biggest domain level visibility shifts in Sistrix for the US and UK during the May 2026 Core Update, with a measured window from May 26 to June 2, 2026. The rollout itself took place from May 21 to June 2. One of the clearest patterns I’ve found when going through the winners ...
Marie Haynes
Tracking your performance in Google’s AI Overviews & AI Mode Google is giving us brand new information within our Google Search Consoles to tell us how our content is being used in AI Overviews, AI Mode, and the AI features in Discover. If you have been wondering whether your SEO efforts are actuall
Semrush Blog
Google Lighthouse now audits how ready your site is for AI agents. Here‘s what it means for visibility.
Semrush Blog
Google is rolling out an AI performance report and a toggle to block content from AI responses in Search Console. Here‘s what it means for your visibility.
Semrush Blog
Social media SEO involves improving your social presence to appear across multiple search surfaces.
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Semrush Blog
AI search is the new SEO for most marketers. But their workflows haven‘t caught up yet. Survey of 481 marketers.
Search Engine Journal
Which marketing tasks should you automate, and which should you protect? The answer could define your team's capabilities for the next decade. The post What Not To Automate With AI: The SEO Deskilling Trap appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Abondance
Bottom Line: On May 7, 2026, the ChatGPT response rate containing a link to a brand's site increased from 0.4% to 6.2% in a single day, a 14-fold increase. Each link is accompanied by a utm_source= chatgpt.comparameter added by OpenAI, allowing an attribution
Seroundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...
Search Engine Journal
Publishers, developers, and businesses face three different economic realities under the agentic web. This article maps all three. The post What Is The Agentic Web? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Abondance
What to remember: Google Search Console includes a new performance report for AI features (AI Overviews and AI Mode), with data on impressions, pages, countries, devices and dates, but without click-through data. A toggle button will soon block the af
Seroundtable
Google has announced the new Search Console Search Generative AI performance reports and a toggle to block your site from showing in AI responses. This is available currently only for a small subset of UK site owners, but it will expand globally at some point. Oh, and no, the reporting does not show
Seroundtable
Google may be adding more link cards to the sidebar of the Google AI responses. Specifically, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews are testing showing more citation/link cards on the side of the AI response.
Seroundtable
Microsoft held its Microsoft Build event and announced Web IQ, a search engine platform for AI-agents and so many other AI enhancements. But what gave me a double-take was Microsoft Scout. I mean, didn't Yahoo just announce Yahoo Scout in January, in partnership with Microsoft? Why did Microsoft nam
Seroundtable
OpenAI sent out an email to advertisers announcing some new ad unit tests, specifically multi-advertiser placements in ChatGPT. OpenAI also announced new updates to the ChatGPT Ads Manager to help advertisers manage their ads and control targeting.
Seroundtable
Google Hotel Ads may have dropped several bid adjustments, or maybe it is a bug. Bid adjustments such as day of the week check-in, advanced purchase, check-in date, length of stay and maybe some others are no longer showing up in the Google Ads interface.
Abondance
Bottom Line: After Google I/O, DuckDuckGo installations jumped 18.1% on average in the US, peaking at 30.5% on May 25 and up to 70% on iOS. Traffic to noai.duckduckgo.com tripled on May 28, 2026, and remains on average […] Article "D
Search Engine Journal
Google is testing Search Console controls and reports for AI Search visibility, including AI-specific impressions data for some UK sites. The post Google Tests Dedicated AI Search Reports In Search Console appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google Search Central
Today, we're excited to announce the launch of new Search Generative AI performance reports in Search Console, including dedicated reports for Search and Discover, to help you understand your site's visibility within generative AI features on Search.
Moz Blog
Is AI search making your brand harder to find? Meet MozCon NYC 2026’s first speakers and learn how to win SERP visibility, answer engine citations, and AI growth.
Search Engine Journal
Microsoft announced Web IQ, a set of grounding APIs that connect AI agents to Bing's index. Pricing and general availability remain unclear. The post Microsoft Web IQ Gives AI Agents Bing Grounding APIs appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Ahrefs Blog
Domain Rating (DR) is Ahrefs’ measure of how strong a website’s backlink profile is, on a scale from 0 to 100. It’s relative by design: your score reflects how your backlink profile stacks up against every other website in our…Read more ›
Search Engine Journal
Google's May core update finished rolling out on after nearly 12 days. SEO professionals described the update as heavier than March. The post Google’s May Core Update Complete After Volatile Rollout appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Semrush Blog
Learn to check if Google has indexed your site and what to do if not, so you can show in search results.
Search Engine Journal
SISTRIX data from German-language ChatGPT responses shows citation patterns changed after GPT-5.5 appeared. The company compares it to a core update. The post ChatGPT Citations Changed After GPT-5.5, SISTRIX Data Shows appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Not sure if your site is agent-ready? Google's new Lighthouse report checks three things most SEOs haven't tackled yet. The post How To Use Lighthouse To Test Your Website For Agentic Readiness appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Abondance
What to remember: In less than a year, 35% of French people have changed their online search habits, a figure that rises to 58% among Gen Z and 41% among Millennials. Generative AI is no longer a young phenomenon: 53% of Millennials and 35% of […] The article "Study: 35% of F
Search Engine Journal
Mixing button clicks and purchases in one conversion column trains the algorithm to chase the wrong users. Here's the architectural fix. The post How To Fix Google Ads Smart Bidding With A Primary Vs. Secondary Conversion Framework appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Google's John Mueller casts doubt on LLMs.txt and says he likes WebMCP, a Google-backed alternative. The post Google Says LLMs.txt Is Purely Speculative… For Now appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...
Ahrefs Blog
Curious about the state of SEO in 2026? Then look no further. We’ve curated, vetted, and categorized a list of up-to-date stats below. Contents Top SEO statistics 68% of online experiences begin with a search engine. (BrightEdge) 63.41% of all…Read more ›
Seroundtable
Google's May 2026 broad core update has officially completed rolling out. Google announced this via X this morning and the Search Status Dashboard has been updated to document the rollout. It took less than 12 days to roll out, and this update felt larger than the last core update - the Google March
Search Engine Journal
"Influence is the new traffic." Rand Fishkin's argument and MIT's AI Labor Exposure Map landed in the same week and pointed at the same problem. The post Why Great Content No Longer Works: MIT Research Shows The Shift Reshaping SEO Strategy appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Just when I thought the Google search volatility would start to cool, I am seeing another spike in huge search ranking volatility today - June 2nd...
Seroundtable
Google has updated the Google Ads Terms of Service (TOS) in the area of policy, payment, and liability. The changes incorporate AI-related changes to Google Ads and more changes. I believe the last time Google updated these TOS was 8 years ago, April 16, 2018.
Seroundtable
Google Discover may be showing Threads (the Facebook Twitter alternative social network) more often in the feed. Threads is not shown as much as YouTube or X but it seems to have grown significantly and surpassed TikTok and Instagram.
Seroundtable
James Murray, Global Product Storytelling Lead, Generative AI at Microsoft, gave a webinar named How to successfully navigate the human, LLM, and agentic web last week. He had a slide come up at about the 9 minute and 30 second mark that reads...
Seroundtable
Google announced a new feature in Google AdSense to share the full IP address in bid requests. Google said that full IP addresses are indicated by many buyers to be an important signal, so there is a new setting to allow you to share the full IP address with those buyers.
Abondance
L’article "Goossips SEO : Search Quality Raters Guidelines" a été publié sur le site Abondance.
Moz Blog
What do Google's official GEO guidelines mean for the future of search? Learn why SEO still matters, structured data myths, and how to adapt your current strategy.
Ahrefs Blog
According to SpaceX’s May 2026 S-1 filing, 117 million people use Grok’s features every month, out of X’s 550 million monthly active users. That makes it one of the most-used AI assistants on the planet, and a growing influence on…Read more ›
Ahrefs Blog
Copilot is woven through Windows, Edge, Bing, and Microsoft 365, and that reach is enormous: Microsoft says the Copilot apps alone draw more than 100 million monthly active users, with over 800 million people touching Copilot-powered AI features across its…Read more ›
Ahrefs Blog
Unlike a general chatbot, Perplexity is an answer engine first: it was designed to respond to questions with linked references up front. That model has found a real audience, with the company reporting hundreds of millions of queries a month…Read more ›
Ahrefs Blog
Google has folded Gemini into Search, Android, Chrome, and Workspace, and the audience has grown fast: on Alphabet’s Q4 2025 earnings call, Sundar Pichai said the Gemini app had passed 750 million monthly active users, up from 650 million a…Read more ›
Ahrefs Blog
AI Overviews are the AI-generated summaries that now sit above traditional Google results — and their scale is staggering. Google says they reach over 2 billion monthly users across more than 200 countries, roughly a quarter of everyone on Earth.…Read more ›
Search Engine Journal
What if a single file could tell AI systems exactly what your organization knows and where the evidence lives? That's the EntityMap proposal. The post EntityMap: The Open Standard That Gives AI Systems A Structured View Of Your Business appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Google CEO Sundar Pichai downplays Google Zero concerns, saying low-quality clicks are being filtered out. The post Google CEO Sundar Pichai Downplays Google Zero Concerns appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
The Search Engine Roundtable Google volatility aggregator tool is finally live. This takes the volatility scores from the tools I use for my Google update stories and aggregates them into one score. You can then click in for more detail and the scores directly from the sources.
Search Engine Journal
A study found star ratings alone didn't predict small business performance. Active ORM did. Here's what that means as AI narrows local visibility. The post Treating Reviews As Business Infrastructure, Not Marketing, Drives Real Business Results appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. The Google May 2026 core update was super heated over the weekend...
Abondance
Bottom line: Gary Illyes explicitly compared buying mentions to buying links, a practice that Google detects, ignores, and penalizes. Google does not confirm that organic mentions bring a direct benefit in AI results, but strongly warns against their manner
Search Engine Journal
Google said ignore llms.txt for citations. It didn't say ignore machine-readable maps for agents completing tasks. There's a difference worth understanding. The post What Google’s New AI Guide Actually Debunks. And What It Doesn’t appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Semrush Blog
A new AI performance insights report will give ecommerce brands a look at how they appear across AI-powered shopping experiences.
Seroundtable
Google added a new help document to the Google Ads help documentation section named About the Invalid Activity Credit Report. I am not sure if the report is new, or if it is just that the help document is new - but either way, this is a report advertisers should be looking at frequently enough.
Seroundtable
Google has confirmed it is doing a small test of healthcare-related ads in AI Mode. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, said this on LinkedIn when asked if the rumors of Google testing ads in AI Mode for healthcare a few weeks ago were true.
Seroundtable
Google Ads is rolling out branded searches controls to some advertisers within AI Max. This allows advertisers to control how your ads appear in searches that include brand names.
Seroundtable
Google Ads has a new leads section under the Conversions section that shows Google-hosted form leads for the past 60 days. This will give you the lead's name, stage, date submitted, email, phone, the form contents and more.
Seroundtable
Google is testing a new way to show citation link cards within AI Overviews and AI Mode. In this test, if you click on a citation bubble, Google opens a carousel at the bottom of the screen that you can swipe left or right on to see the links to publisher sites.
Semrush Blog
Google is bringing Preferred Sources to AI Overviews and AI Mode. Here‘s what it means for your visibility.
Seroundtable
Google's Doodle today is an animated Disco ball, titled "The Art of Disco." Google wrote, "In celebration of Pride Month, today's Doodle celebrates the art of disco by shining a light on the LGBTQ+ artists who helped create space for everyone on the dance floor."
Ahrefs Blog
Topical authority is what separates those two outcomes. It’s about becoming the site search engines trust most on a given subject. The more that trust is established, the better your rankings, your visibility in AI search results, and your ability…Read more ›
Search Engine Journal
Understand the challenges of AI agents visit website authorization. This case raises critical questions about technology and legal rights. The post Amazon Vs. Perplexity: The CFAA Case That Decides Whether AI Agents Can Visit Your Website appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
What makes your content, strategy, or analysis different from what a system could generate? It isn't a skill set, but it's something harder to define. The post White-Collar Will Be Fully Automated In 18 Months – So What Makes You Different? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
The Google May 2026 core update seemed to have hit some sites in a very big way yesterday, Saturday, May 30, 2026. As a reminder, the May 2026 core update was announced on May 21, 2026, and then that following weekend, we saw some significant ranking volatility, and then again, this past weekend, w
Search Engine Journal
Many Google I/O demos ended in transactions, bookings, or task completion. The consumer path is clear, but business visibility isn't. The post Google’s I/O Demos Reveal The New Business Visibility Problem appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Explore the impact of AI content on modern SEO strategies and how it adapts to changing search behaviors and long-tail queries. The post AI Content Alone Won’t Fix Your SEO Rankings (Here’s What Will) appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Understand SERP visibility and why ranking #1 is no longer sufficient for brand impressions and clicks in today's digital landscape. The post Google SERP Layout Shift: Position 1 Now Appears Halfway Down The Page appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
AI Overview tracking can tell very different stories depending on the prompts, query types, and markets included in the sample. The post Google AI Overview Data Looks Different For Commercial Queries appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Marie Haynes
Google just shared more information to help us get our websites ready for agents. There is a new report from Lighthouse which anybody can run. You do not need external software to run it. You can do it right from within your Chrome browser. The report tells you whether your website is discoverable f
Semrush Blog
How we nearly tripled our share of voice and boosted our AI visibility with Enterprise AIO and AI Visibility Toolkit. A systematic approach with real data.
Search Engine Journal
Google brings Preferred Sources into AI Overviews and AI Mode, iPullRank measures Gmail's pull on AI Mode brand visibility, and new ad formats arrive. The post Preferred Sources Expand, Gmail Brand Lift, Pichai On AI Overviews appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Semrush Blog
Learn how to do an SEO competitor analysis. Get insights to outrank your competitors in Google and AI platforms.
iPullRank
Day 2 of SEO Week 2026 managed to make an entire room of marketers collectively confront our feelings. Which, to be fair, was overdue. After spending hours on Day 1 breaking down embeddings, retrieval systems, rerankers, entropy, and invisible AI infrastructure, we shifted gears on Day 2 to somethi
Seroundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Abondance
Bottom Line: Preferred Sources, already available in Top Stories, now arrive in AI Overviews and AI Mode: Links from user-selected sources will be clearly identified in AI responses. Google Deploys Two New Carro
Seroundtable
This week in search, we gave a status update on the Google May 2026 core update. Google strongly warned against buying mentions for AI or manipulating mentions for AI. Google removed the indexing lag between....
Seroundtable
Google Ads has expanded New Customer Acquisition with a new feature called Prospect Mode. Prospect mode also targets brand-unaware users, Google said. Those prospects who have not searched for, engaged with, or visited your site. Some call them cold prospects.
Seroundtable
John Mueller from Google said that the Google Search Quality Raters guidelines are not a guide for search rankings. Meaning, the content in those guidelines is not a blueprint on how to rank your website in Google Search.
Seroundtable
Over a year ago, we saw Google testing a "First order" label on shopping ads within search. Now, we are seeing Google test a variation of that named "1st order price" on those same ads. It basically tells the customer that if this is their first order with this retailer, it is a special discounted p
Seroundtable
Google is testing short URLs with @handles for the Google Discover publisher profile pages. Instead of those long URLs that go on forever, Google is testing a format that uses the publisher's handle.
Seroundtable
Microsoft Bing is testing a new style of sitelinks for the search ads. These sitelinks differ in that they are narrower, use a smaller font, have a border and when you hover over them, they change from a blue font to a bold black font.
Abondance
Sedestral sponsored content Why netlinking still resists automation Let's face it honestly. Setting up a backlink implies thematic relevance between two areas, a coherent editorial context, a relationship of trust that Google is able to assess with
Ahrefs Blog
They’re the keywords with the highest average search volume increase from our database of 28.7 billion keywords. These topics are trending or trended in the United States: # Topic Search Volume Growth (3m) 1 what time is artemis 2 launching…Read more ›
Ahrefs Blog
These are the 100 most asked questions on Google, along with their monthly search volumes. # Question Search Volume 1 what is today 3,700,000 2 where’s my refund 1,270,000 3 what is my ip 1,100,000 4 how many days until…Read more ›
Ahrefs Blog
These are the 100 most searched people, along with their monthly search volumes. # Person Search Volume 1 sydney sweeney 4,400,000 2 donald trump 3,680,000 3 taylor swift 3,470,000 4 rob reiner 2,900,000 5 sabrina carpenter 2,520,000 6 ozzy osbourne…Read more ›
Ahrefs Blog
These are the 100 most expensive keywords on Google Ads, along with their monthly search volume and cost per click (CPC). The main reason is due to Google’s ads mechanism: Companies have to outbid each other in order to secure…Read more ›
Ahrefs Blog
Below are lists of the top 100 most popular searches and questions in the US and worldwide, pulled from our database of 28.7 billion keywords: # Keyword Search Volume 1 chatgpt 94,610,000 2 youtube 87,790,000 3 amazon 84,320,000 4 gmail…Read more ›
Moz Blog
Learn how to film a fantastic Whiteboard Friday video. Moz's Jo Cameron shares her top tips for choosing a topic, structuring your board, wardrobe dos and don'ts, and on-camera delivery.
Search Engine Journal
Learn the manual process to track who is advertising in ChatGPT answers. Understand your competitors' strategies in real-time. The post How To See If Competitors Are Advertising In Your Customers’ ChatGPT Answers appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
The six-mode taxonomy maps almost exactly onto the split between execution-layer and judgment-layer work. Most practitioners are living in the execution layer. The post You’re Using AI At The Execution Layer. The Value Is In The Judgment Layer appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Machines writing for machines is a race to the bottom. Here's how to reintroduce human thinking before your brand disappears into the wallpaper. The post The AI Sameness Trap Is Quietly Eroding Your SEO Competitive Advantage appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
iPullRank
In the early days of SEO, efficient SEO and great writing were diametrically opposed. SEO specialists told content writers that no matter how it read, if they wanted their content to be seen — and not become the tree that silently falls in the woods — they had to force prescribed keywords into thei
Seroundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google AI Mode and AI Overviews gain preferred sources...
Search Engine Journal
WordPress is losing market share for six months in a row as competing platforms hold steady or grow more popular. The post WordPress Market Share Declines For Six Months In A Row appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
See when Performance Max drives better efficiency and when separate campaigns offer necessary control. The post Is Performance Max Actually Better Than Running Separate Campaigns? – Ask A PPC appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Google is officially rolling out preferred source labels within AI Mode and AI Overviews and adding a new carousel to AI Mode and AI Overviews, as well. Plus, Google said the highly cited label is expanding to more search results (which is not specific to AI Mode and AI Overviews).
Seroundtable
Gary Illyes from Google reportedly said at the Search Central Live Shanghai 2026 event on May 15th that he and Google strongly warns against buying or manipulating mentions brand mentions to try to show up in the AI responses, AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Seroundtable
Google is testing shifting the sitename and favicon in the search results around, where it is on one line with the favicon, then a bold sitename and then the URL, followed by the rest of the snippet; the title and description and sitelinks. Typically, the favicon spans two lines covering the sitena
Seroundtable
OpenAI sent out an email to some early advertisers offering them early access to conversion-optimized campaigns. Conversion-optimized campaigns are going to be available to some advertisers starting on June 5, 2026.
Seroundtable
As you know, Google updated its Google Ads data retention policy recently, which changed how long it will store some of its shorter-term performance data. Specifically, the data hourly, daily, and weekly reporting data...
Seroundtable
Google is rolling out a new AI performance report within Google Merchant Center named AI performance insights. Google said the "AI performance insights can help provide you with a view into your brand's performance on AI surfaces and how you can optimize your product data to improve your performance
Abondance
Article in collaboration with Getfluence SEO content strategy vs branding content: what sets them apart SEO content: capturing an existing demand SEO content starts with a query. Someone types a question into Google. The goal is to be there, in a visible position, at the precise moment when this
Moz Blog
Wondering which AI search skills hiring managers want most? See data from 1,543 SEO jobs and learn how to frame AI, GEO, AEO and measurement on your resume for 2026
Search Engine Journal
Google says users have selected 345,000 Preferred Sources, which now appear in AI Overviews and AI Mode alongside new link carousels. The post Google Preferred Sources Hit 345K, Expand Into AI Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
YouTube is moving AI disclosure labels to more visible spots and adding automatic detection for undisclosed photorealistic AI content on videos. The post YouTube Now Auto-Detects AI Content, Labels It For Viewers appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Aleyda Solis
I’ve created an AI Search Content Optimization Checklist, going through the most important aspects to take into account to optimize your content for AI search answers along with their importance and how to take action. Check it out. La entrada The AI Search Optimization Checklist [Updated May 2026]
Search Engine Journal
Reframing "problems" as "opportunities" isn't corporate spin. It's the psychological condition that makes enterprise change actually happen. The post Why Enterprise SEO Recommendations Fail – It’s Psychological, Not Technical appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Search Engine Journal
Sam Sifton's commitment to human-driven journalism reflects Google's unchanged stance: quality content requires accountability, not just automation. The post Google’s Standards Haven’t Changed But AI Is Making That Harder To Ignore appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
WordPress and Astro emerge from the latest performance comparison as a contrast between platform complexity and lightweight publishing. The post Core Web Vitals: WordPress And Astro Versus Everyone Else appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
There are two interviews that is probably worth a listen of Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai and Google's SVP of Knowledge & Information, out of Google I/O and Google Marketing Live. If you listen, you can see the direction Google Search is headed - and duh, it is AI.
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Search Engine Journal
Understand the role Reddit plays in AI answers and how brands can capitalize on community signals to enhance visibility. The post Why LLMs Cite Reddit Instead Of Your Brand: A Practical AI Visibility Audit [Webinar] appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Google is testing letting searchers check for real-time stock, inventory, of products through the local pack in the search results. There is this new button being tested next to view "more places" in the local pack that says, "Check real-time stock."
Seroundtable
Google has confirmed another bug with the Search Console Discover performance report on May 21st. Google said there was another data logging issue that may cause a decrease in clicks and impressions for May 21, 2026.
Seroundtable
Google is rolling out what it calls Real-Time Policy Reviews within Google Ads for Responsive Search Ads and rolling out to other campaign types later in the year. Google wrote, "this feature provides instant feedback during the ad creation process, significantly reducing the time it takes for your
Seroundtable
New data out of Similarweb says that since OpenAI began surfacing more prominent links to brands in the ChatGPT answers, referral traffic is up 150%. Also pageviews per visit is up 24% and time on site is up 11%.
Aleyda Solis
There’s a tempting way to talk about AI search right now: AI traffic is growing, organic search is declining, and everything is shifting. It’s simple and dramatic but it’s not the most useful way to understand what’s actually happening. To get a clearer view, I analyzed April 2026 USA Semrush data f
Abondance
Bottom Line: The EU is preparing a fine that could expect hundreds of millions of euros against Google, which would make it the largest under the DMA. The central grievance: Google would favor its own services at the expense of competitors in its search results.
Search Engine Journal
iPullRank tested Gmail and Photos signals in opted-in AI Mode Personal Intelligence accounts. Gmail showed the strongest brand visibility lift. The post Gmail Content Linked To AI Mode Brand Visibility Lift appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Pichai reviewed a live AI Overview and called it "more opinionated than it should be." He also addressed bounce clicks and publisher traffic. The post Google CEO On AI Overviews: ‘More Opinionated Than It Should Be’ appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Google is moving Display campaigns into Demand Gen, changing how advertisers manage GDN inventory, exclusions, reporting, and campaign controls inside Google Ads. The post Google Is Retiring Standalone Display Campaigns In Favor Of Demand Gen appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Search Engine Journal
Ensure your business stands out in AI Search results. Get proven strategies to improve your online presence effectively. The post How To: Optimize Your Small Business For AI-Powered Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
iPullRank
The open web is dying. Not slowing. Not changing. Dying. For 25 years, every business model on the internet, from publishing to retail to SaaS to advertising, was built on a single assumption: that humans would visit your website. Owned media was the asset and the website was the storefront. Search,
GSQI
On April 13, 2026 Google announced a new spam policy for “back button hijacking”. That’s when a site owner inhibits users from returning to the last page they visited from in an attempt to trick them into remaining on their site. Those sites typically show a page with even more content and ads, and
Search Engine Journal
Designing for the most constrained consumer, a machine, produces a better foundation for every visitor. Here's the full build sequence. The post Machine-First Architecture: How To Build Websites Machines Can Identify, Read, Cite & Use appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Search Engine Journal
Users with AI Overviews scroll back up the page nearly twice as often. What that back-scrolling behavior means for how you write your search listings. The post 846,000 Google Searches Reveal How AI Overviews Are Changing User Behavior appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Abondance
L’article "Goossips SEO : Alertes GSC & Sitemap XML" a été publié sur le site Abondance.
Seroundtable
The European Union may fine Google its largest fine for a breach of the 'new Digital Markets Act (DMA). It would be in the triple millions of Euros and would be done because Google allegedly favors its own services in its own search results.
Search Engine Journal
Unlock the secrets of local SEO and enhance your business visibility in AI recommendations through effective keyword research. The post Modern Local SEO & AI Visibility: How To Get Clients Into AI Results appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Seroundtable
We know Google said it was expanding shopping ads into AI Mode and saw some examples of that. We also know about the new conversational discovery ads and highlighted answer ads. So I am not sure if this is another new format or part of those, but this one seems different.
Seroundtable
Google is testing Shopping ads that enlarge, grow and expand when you hover your mouse cursor over the ad unit. We saw something like this for another Google ad format in March and now we are seeing a variation of this for Google Shopping ads.
Seroundtable
Part of Google Marketing Live was a small note about conversational attributes, a way to add more attributes to your product feeds within Google Merchant Center that can be used "to update their product descriptions to reflect the more conversational way people search."
Seroundtable
Google is now showing the number of times a photo or video was viewed and seen by users in the Google Business Profiles photos/videos section. So now, business owners can see if the images and videos that they are uploading are being seen by searchers and which are the most popular ones.
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