SEO news from around the world
Google has updated its structured data documentation to clarify how merchants should implement markup for return policies and loyalty programs. The updates aim to reduce confusion and ensure compatibility with…
Google’s Search Off The Record podcast discussed when a business should hire an SEO consultant and what metrics of success should look like. They also talked about a red flag…
According to Garrett, AI Overviews for local search are “still garbage,” and not much has changed since 2024. The same core concepts reign supreme in Local SEO: proximity, relevance, and…
Filing link disavows is generally a futile way to deal with spammy links, but they are useful for dealing with unnatural links an SEO or a publisher is responsible for…
Return on ad spend (ROAS) is a common metric or key performance indicator for paid search campaigns. PPC managers and digital marketing executives have been using it for a long…
Google’s martin Splitt and John Mueller discussed how long it takes for SEO to have an effect. Google’s John Mueller explained that there are different levels of optimization and that…
YouTube has responded to concerns surrounding its upcoming monetization policy update, clarifying that the July 15 changes are aimed at improving the detection of inauthentic content. The update isn’t a…
The average SEO strategy begins and ends with keyword research, with keyword volume as the deciding factor in what topics will be written about. It’s an outdated approach that fails…
In this week’s Ask An SEO, a marketing manager asks which SEO skills are most valuable to look for in candidates today, especially with AI in the mix: “I’m a…
OpenAI has quietly added Shopify as a third-party search partner to help power their shopping search, which shows shopping-rich results. The addition of Shopify was not formally announced, but quietly…
If you’ve been affected by AI Overviews, traffic drops, or feel uncertain about SEO’s future, then this episode is for you. Search Engine Journal’s Editor-in-Chief Katie Morton sits down with…
The old rules no longer apply. It’s time for a smarter, AI-ready playbook. AI-driven search is changing the landscape fast. Organic traffic is dropping, visibility is shrinking, and traditional SEO…
TikTok has denied a Reuters report claiming it’s building a standalone U.S. app with a separate algorithm. TikTok strongly denies it is developing a separate U.S.-only version of the app.…
Credible rumors are circulating that OpenAI is developing a browser. However, the timing of the anonymous tip is curious, because Perplexity coincidentally announced they are releasing a browser named Comet.…
Internet Marketing Ninjas has been acquired by SEO consultancy Previsible, an industry leader co-founded by a former head of SEO at eBay. The acquisition brings link building and digital PR…
Yoast SEO announced a new feature that enables SEO and readability analysis within Google Docs, allowing publishers and teams to integrate search marketing best practices at the moment content is…
An investigation by SEO professional James Brockbank reveals that ChatGPT may be recommending businesses based on content from hacked websites and expired domains. The findings aren’t a comprehensive study but…
The last few years have fundamentally transformed how businesses and consumers discover, evaluate, and engage with brands. What began as a digital acceleration in 2020-2021 has evolved into an AI-driven…
Finix, a payment processing company, has launched a new WooCommerce plugin that enables WordPress merchants to integrate embedded payments directly into their stores. The new plugin enables WooCommerce merchants to…
When it comes to making strategic decisions about your content strategy, it pays to consider multiple factors and data points before making any drastic changes. And although I hate to…
Most brands don’t know they’re wasting money on branded ads. Are you one of them? What if your Google Ads strategy is quietly draining your budget? Many advertisers are paying…
For most of its history, SEO has been a reactive discipline, being asked to “make it rank” once a site is built, with little input into the process. Even crazier,…
For all the noise around keywords, content strategy, and AI-generated summaries, technical SEO still determines whether your content gets seen in the first place. You can have the most brilliant…
People are increasingly turning to AI for answers, and publishers are scrambling to find ways to consistently be surfaced in ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and other AI search interfaces. The…
A large-scale analysis by Ahrefs of 600,000 webpages finds that Google neither rewards nor penalizes AI-generated content. The report, authored by Si Quan Ong and Xibeijia Guan, provides a data-driven…
It’s been suggested that agentic AI will change SEO from managing tools to managing intelligent systems that manage SEO tools, essentially turning an SEO into a worker who rides a…
Google Search Console now includes a dedicated search appearance filter for discussion forum content, giving publishers new visibility into how user-generated discussions perform in search. The update applies to pages…
As some of you have already heard, I accepted the role of Microsoft Ads Liaison in June of 2025. That means I will start sharing Microsoft-first strategies. It doesn’t mean:…
I recently compared my March 2025 “What works well in LLMs” analysis with Ahrefs’ May 2025 study of 75,000 brands, and we independently arrived at the same surprising conclusion about…
Get the week’s best marketing content Does being mentioned on highly cited web pages lead to more mentions in AI assistants? I’m defining highly cited web pages as those with…