Best SEO blogs: 6 I recommend after 20 years in publishing
My picks for keeping up with search, sharpening your SEO skills and making better decisions for your website.
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Best broken link checkers: I ran 12 tests – here’s what I found
A broken link checker should help you finish the repair: find the failed destination, locate the link in your content and check the replacement. For a free option inside WordPress, I’d start with WPMU DEV’s Broken Link Checker. For an audit without another plugin, I’d start with Screaming Frog, provided its 500-URL crawl limit covers […]
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SEO pricing: how much does SEO cost? (September 2026 Analysis)
How much does SEO cost? Compare SEO pricing, see what $500–$10,000 a month should buy, uncover hidden costs and calculate your break-even point.
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Famous UK retailer builds YouTube studio to get AI to recommend its products
British department store chain John Lewis is turning to YouTube to help its products appear in AI shopping recommendations. The retailer has opened a permanent studio inside its flagship London store after reporting a sharp increase in searches from AI agents. Those searches now account for 2.5%, up from 0.3% a year earlier, according to […]
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GPT-6 Astra not showing up? Here’s where ChatGPT Plus users can find it
OpenAI says access has reached Plus and Business subscribers, but the new model is not available in every ChatGPT mode.
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The Telegraph is building a YouTube newsroom as search traffic fades
Its podcast audience has grown 161% as the publisher builds around YouTube, video, events and paid memberships.
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Google Ads Tests Serving Search Ads With Restrictive Match Types In AI Mode
Google has confirmed it has recently begun running a “small experiment” where it is serving regular pure Search campaigns with restrictive match types in AI Mode. Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, told me, “This is a small experiment that recently k…
Google says fixing SEO problems may not bring rankings back
Major algorithmic losses can take months to reassess, while rankings previously supported by spammy links may not return at all.
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Google will give rivals search data publishers still can’t see
Google’s European licensing program will give eligible search engines access to clicks, rankings and user-behavior signals that website owners do not receive through Search Console.
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Google keeps its ad empire intact while publishers fight for survival
A federal judge rejected the attempt to dismantle key parts of Google’s advertising operation, leaving struggling websites dependent on the company for both discovery and monetization.
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ChatGPT is quietly building its own search engine, relying less on Google and Bing
OpenAI is testing its own search index against third-party results, potentially reducing ChatGPT’s dependence on Google and Bing.
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USA Today cuts staff as ‘more content’ is no longer enough
The publisher is rebuilding its audience team as search platforms send fewer users back to news sites.
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Google Job Search Not Showing New Jobs?
Google may have a bug with its job search feature because it is barely showing any new jobs within its search results. This has been happening for the past week and it is unclear why.
Impressions/Clicks dipped the day – AI Overviews rollout in France
Exactly the day Google started rolling out AI Overviews in France search results on 21 July 2026. There was significant dip in impressions/clicks of this domain. Lily Ray shared this screenshot showing search console performance report. If in case you’re also aiming to rank in France search results and noticed this kind of dip then […]
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ad Tech Monopoly Wonât Be Broken Up, AI Mode Takes Over, Gemini Not Citing, AdSense Impression Changes & Bugs
This week, we covered how Google for the second time dodged being broken up, this time over its ad tech monopoly. Google AI Overviews are expanding by default…
New Google Business Profiles Submit A Business Photo For Verification
Google Business Profiles seems to be adding a fifth way to verify your business, this new method is by submitting a photo of your business location. The other methods are phone or text, email, live video call or a postcard in the mail.
Google Expands Waze Ads Beyond The United States
Google has expanded access to Waze Ads beyond the United States and to a total of 42 countries. Google updated the PMax help documents in the Google Ads help center with this new information. It now says, “Waze Ads are currently available across selec…
Google Ads Collapsing Sitelinks That You Can Expand
Google Ads is testing another variation of expandable sitelinks, where sitelinks are collapsed by default and a number indicator shows how many more are available. You can then click to expand the sitelinks to show more.
Bing Tests Bolded HTTPS URLs In Snippets
Microsoft is testing bolding the https portion of the URLs in the Bing Search results. We’ve seen Microsoft test HTTPS labels in various forms over the years, including using lock icons. But here, Microsoft Bing is being more subtle about it by just b…
Google Ads Pushing Dismissed Recommendations
Google Ads is now pushing notifications to advertisers for recommendations they have previously dismissed. Google shows a message in the ads console that reads, “You still have dismissed recommendations for this campaign,” which you can dismiss once ag…