Google Won’t Provide Standard License Deals For AI & SEO Is The Same
Nick Fox is the SVP of Knowledge and Information at Google was interviewed again on the AI Inside channel by Jason Howel and Jeff Jarvin. He said a lot of interesting things but said no, Google won’t be offering standarized licensing deals for all publ…
Google Warns: Don’t Use NoIndex Tags In Pages That Use JavaScript
Google updated its JavaScript SEO documentation to warn against using a noindex tag in the original page code on JavaScript pages. Google wrote, “if you do want the page indexed, don’t use a noindex tag in the original page code.”
Google Ads Exact Match Can Not Show Ads In AI Overviews
Google can not show ads in AI Overviews with the exact match type. This is a change from back in May, where Google said otherwise. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, wrote on X, “We have since updated this.”
Google Search Console Average Impression Dropping Back Down
Earlier this month, we documented that the average position sharply increased for many sites when Google made that num 100 change blocking a lot of automated queries. Well, for some sites, that number is dropping again, which may mean that there is a …
Google Search Console Performance Reports Finally Caught Up
Google Search Console’s performance report seems to finally be all caught up and up-to-date as of last night and this morning. I am seeing the normal two-hour or so delay, which has always fluctuated from an hour to five hours on a normal day.
Google Rolling Out Read More Links Search Result Snippets
After several months of testing, Google seems to be rolling out the “Read more” links at the end of some of the search results listings. We saw Google test variations of this back in July and it now seems to be live.
A new SEO Task list to guide you inside Yoast SEO
Doing SEO well often means knowing what to focus on and when to do so. That is not always easy, especially when you are juggling content, updates, and day-to-day site management. That is why we are introducing a new SEO task list in the Yoast plugin. The Task List helps you improve your SEO step by step, directly inside your dashboard. It […]
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A new SEO Task list to guide you inside Yoast SEO
Doing SEO well often means knowing what to focus on and when to do so. That is not always easy, especially when you are juggling content, updates, and day-to-day site management. That is why we are introducing a new SEO task list in the Yoast plugin. The Task List helps you improve your SEO step by step, directly inside your dashboard. It […]
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 15, 2025
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.
We are starting to see big movement from the Google December 2025 core update…
Google Search Live Gets Conversational Language Upgrade With Gemini
On Friday, Google announced a number of updates around translation, language, audio, voice interactions and thus Search Live. Google said it released a more “fluid and expressive conversations when you go Live with Search.”
Google: Pre-Announcing Google Core Updates Isn’t Possible
Google’s John Mueller said that it is impossible for Google to pre-announce quality improvements to Google Search, including core updates. He said, “having quality changes ready for a specific date/time is never a given, and pre-announcing for a fixed …
Bing Tests See More Search Results Button
Microsoft is testing a “see more” button in the Bing Search results, which, when you click on it, loads more search results in the middle section.
Google Tests Property Listings In Search Results
Google is testing showing full detailed property sale listings within the Google Search results. This is getting a lot of interest from those in the real estate business.
Google Removing Q&A Feature In Google Maps For AI-Powered Ask Button
Google confirmed it is essentially removing the Q&A feature within Google Maps, and instead, searchers can use the new AI-powered Ask button on a Google Business Profile to get the answers they are looking for.
Grounding Snippet Extraction Tool
You can rank #1 and still be invisible to AI search. That’s the uncomfortable truth of the AI Mode era. Google’s AI doesn’t just look at your page, it extracts specific sentences, evaluates them against the query, and decides whether your content deserves to ground its answer. The rest of your carefully crafted copy? Find […]
Grounding Snippet Extraction Tool
You can rank #1 and still be invisible to AI search. That’s the uncomfortable truth of the AI Mode era. Google’s AI doesn’t just look at your page, it extracts specific sentences, evaluates them against the query, and decides whether your content deserves to ground its answer. The rest of your carefully crafted copy? Find […]
Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact Early
Google announced the Google December 2025 core update on Thursday afternoon, December 11th, and it already has a significant impact on Google Search results. The most noticeable day of the impact was Saturday, December 13th, but there are plenty of si…
How Long Are Web Pages?
A Token Count Analysis of 45,000 Real-World URLs We recently analyzed 44,684 web pages and measured their content length using Gemini’s token counter. The results reveal fascinating insights about the true scale of web content—and why it matters for AI applications. Metric Value Total Pages Analyzed 44,684 Page Content Tokens 464,854,727 Total Tokens (all) 541,062,817 The median […]
Google AI Search Update: Completely New Grounding Format
Gemini’s grounding context has a completely new format which I don’t fully understand yet. It seems custom to different prompt types and breaks outside the old index 1, index 2…etc model. Sharing the discovery for now hoping to hear more from the community and add to it later. Prompt: Dan Petrovic latest articles BEFORE NOW […]
How user prompts shape your content visibility in AI search.
A single article. Seven different queries. Radically different passages surfaced. This isn’t a bug. It’s the ranker doing exactly what it’s supposed to do—and it reveals something important about how content actually gets discovered in AI search. The Data We ran seven query variations against one health article about teas for ulcerative colitis. The article […]