London Calling: 15 Activities to Bookend Your Trip to MozCon
MozCon 2025 in London is coming up fast! Are you ready to join us? Meghan has put together a list of fun activities to do with your team or on your own before and after the conference.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 16, 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.
Google Search is testing AI audio overviews…
Google Search Tests Audio Overview
Tired of all that reading in the Google Search results, is it too hard to read the AI Overviews? Well, Google has a solution for you, they are called “Audio Overviews.” Google will generate an audio version of an AI Overview type of response, that soun…
Google Merchant Center Updates Some User Interface Elements
Google has made some more minor changes to the Google Merchant Center user interface. Specifically, Google moved where the merchants access settings section is and also updated the sidebar with collapsible menu items.
Bing Tests Dropping Microsoft Name From Bing Search Box
Microsoft is testing removing its own name from the Bing search results box at the top left of the page. So it just says Bing, with the Microsoft logo next to it, when it normally says Microsoft Bing with the Microsoft logo next to it.
Google Ads Tests New Charts Interface For Campaigns
Google Ads seems to be testing a new charts and graphing user interface with larger boxes and visuals in the campaign tab. It also seems to give you new ways to layout the data and visualize the data in these charts.
ChatGPT Updates To Improve Tracking In Analytics With More UTM Parameters
OpenAI has updated the ChatGPT interface to add additional UTM parameters to help with tracking more clicks from ChatGPT to your website. Now, under the “more” section, those links contain these UTM parameters, before they did not.
OpenAI Improves ChatGPT Search Quality
OpenAI announced it has released several improvements to the ChatGPT search response quality. These improvements include “more comprehensive, up-to-date responses,” according to the AI company.
5 AI-Powered Workflows Every SEO Should Be Using Today
It’s the dawn of a new era in the marketing industry. With LLMs becoming savvier and faster, more marketing teams are looking for ways to implement AI solutions to unlock creativity and untapped potential. Here are five AI-powered workflows that combin…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 13, 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.
Google had some serious issues with Google Search, Discover…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google AI Mode Search, Apple Intelligence Updates, Google Live Search, AI Content, SEO & Google Ads
This week in search, we of course covered some Google search ranking volatility. Google Search had serving issues across Google Search, Discover and Google Lens yesterday. Google’s Sundar Pichai said AI Mode…
Google Is Now Rolling Out AI Mode In The US
At Google I/O, Google said it will roll out AI Mode to all users based in the U.S. Well, that rollout seems to have started some time yesterday. If you try to go to AI Mode in the U.S. when signed out of Google or in incognito mode, it should work for…
Google Drops Support For Seven Existing Structured Data Markups
Google has yet again dropped support for more of its structured data elements/markup that it uses for rich results in the search results page. Google calls this “Simplifying the search results page.”
Google Ads Shows Audience Size For Custom Segments
Google Ads is now showing the estimated audience size in the custom segments for some advertisers. This can help you see if the reach will be large enough for you to properly test the campaign.
Google Search Autocomplete With Back To All
Google recently was testing showing vertical search shortcuts in the autocomplete search suggestions. Now Google is testing a “back to all” option in the autocomplete.
Google AdSense Removing More Opt Out Options
Google announced that it will be dropping more of the opt-out options available to Google AdSense publishers. Specifically, Google said that by July 7th it will remove the additional ad technology vendors opt-out control from AdSense Blocking controls.
Google Search Broken – Not Serving New Content
Google Search, the main search engine, is not serving new content. It might be an indexing issue or a serving issue, but if you try to find new content across news sites, like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and others, you wo…
Google Softens Its Stance On Automated Translation Using AI
In the early days, Google was not a fan of using tools to automatically translate your pages and then have Google index and rank those pages, even with Google Translate. But now as AI is getting better at it, Google is now okay with it, assuming the tr…
Google Ads Policy Update: Individual Accounts Can Be Paused Over Manager Account Violations
Google has added a new section to its policy on pausing Google Ads accounts. It says Google “may pause your individual account if it is linked to a Manager account that is currently in violation of the third-party policy.”
Google Business Profiles Changes Add Updates To Posts
Google seems to be flip-flopping between calling it Google Posts and Google Updates within Google Business Profiles. When a business owner wants to post an announcement of sorts on their Google local listing, they can click “Add update” or now “Posts” …