New: Yoast releases performance optimizations for larger websites
With our latest 27.8 release, we introduced performance optimizations that should reduce loading times throughout the plugin’s functionalities, especially noticeable in large sites with lots of posts and users. Note: This post contains technical content and implementation details. Offering well-tuned software with minimal overhead in servers and fast loading times is always at the forefront of everything Yoast developers do. However, Yoast […]
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 11, 2026
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 Search was unaffected by yesterday’s Gemini outage…
Gemini Can Help With Your Google Business Profiles
Google will soon allow you to connect Google Business Profiles with Gemini. This will allow you to ask questions about your reviews, your local listing and performance within Google Maps and Google Search.
WhatsApp Numbers Added To Google Business Profiles In Bulk
Google seems to have added WhatsApp phone numbers to tons of Google Business Profiles automatically over the past week. Google has sent email notifications to some of those businesses, and in some cases, the numbers are wrong or they are not reachable.
Google Merchant Center Temporary Delay On Product Submissions
Google Merchant Center has API issues, causing a temporary delay in product submissions. Google posted the notice in the Merchant Center portal and on its status page.
Google Tests Dotted Underlined & Shaded URLs In Search Snippet
Google is testing using a dotted underline and a shaded URL for the search result snippet’s URL. Yesterday, we covered how Google was testing a blue dotted underline for sitelinks within the sponsored results. But now we are seeing dotted underlines an…
ChatGPT Ads Gains Upload Product Feeds For Ad Creation
OpenAI has upgraded its ChatGPT Ads Manager tool to allow advertisers to upload product feeds that automatically create ads for each uploaded product. This obviously makes it easier to have ads on ChatGPT for retailers.
Google Ads Sitelinks With Images
Google Ads is testing showing images within the sitelinks portion of the ad unit. I’ve seen plenty of images in the main portion of the sponsored search results but I don’t believe I’ve seen images in the sitelinks area of the sponsored results.
Google Search Was Unaffected By Gemini Outage
Google Search and its search generative features like AI Mode and AI Overviews were unaffected by yesterday’s Gemini outage. Gemini, which is Google’s AI product, had several outages throughout yesterday and we know that Gemini powers some of Google S…
Report: Rejected Google Review Replies – The Hidden Rejections
A new study has been released that looks at the review replies that have been rejected by Google. Business owners take the time to reply to customer reviews and then Google deletes them, and often, the business owner has no idea the reply was deleted b…
Google Ads Tests Blue Dotted Underlines Sitelinks On Sponsored Listings
Google is testing a new format for sitelinks within the search ads, sponsored listings. This format has the sitelinks underlined with blue dots. So these are blue dotted underlined sitelinks for Google Ads.
Report: Google Zero Click Searches To Open Web Fall To 27.6%
Rand Fishkin and friends (Sparktoro and Similarweb) released an ongoing Google zero-click study that showed zero-click searches from Google Search have been sending less and less traffic to the open web and are declining at an even faster rate. In fact…
Schema.org Adds Usage Statistics For Schema Types
The folks over at Schema.org have added usage statistics to each schema type. So if you want to see which schema type is used more, you can just check Schema.org. For example, author schema is used on over 10 million domains but event schema is used o…
Apple Updates Applebot Docs To Include Siri AI & AI Features
Apple has made changes to its documentation for AppleBot to include crawling and usage for its AI efforts. There were other changes made to the document on June 08, 2026 as well.
DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating – Understand, Improve, and Leverage This Metric
Ahrefs Domain Rating (DR) is a useful metric for anyone navigating SEO (search engine optimisation). If you are a business owner, marketing professional, or SEO specialist, understanding DR is paramount for assessing website authority and competitive l…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 9, 2026
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.
Apple announced the new Apple Intelligence and Siri AI…
Apple Siri AI & New Apple Intelligence
Apple had its big annual developer conference, WWDC, and as expected, they spent a lot of time showing off the new Apple Intelligence and what they are calling Siri AI. Apple says Siri AI is “an entirely new version of Siri, powered by Apple Intelligen…
Google Ads Testing Top Pages Links
Google seems to be testing new “top pages” links within the Google Ads sponsored listings. These look like sitelinks or those old tags but they are titled “Top pages.”
Google Shopping Results Tests Linking Directly To Merchant Site
Google is testing directly linking to merchant/retailer web sites, instead of to product listing overlays within the Google Shopping results. Generally, when you click on a product within Google Search, Google will open a new side panel overlay window…
Google Shopping Results Tests Linking Directly To Merchant Site
Google is testing directly linking to merchant/retailer web sites, instead of to product listing overlays within the Google Shopping results. Generally, when you click on a product within Google Search, Google will open a new side panel overlay window…