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Google Discover is now minimally aligned to search rankings, which is maybe why we have so much junk showing up www.seroundtable.com/google-disco...
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Google Discover is now minimally aligned to search rankings, which is maybe why we have so much junk showing up www.seroundtable.com/google-disco...
Google Ads Advisor now showing up on the Google Ads contact support page www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-a...
Google Ads Advisor Tested In Contact Us Page
Google is testing incorporating Ads Advisor into the contact us page for Google Ads support. Google was doing this for policy disapproval support requests as well.
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December 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Google Ads Advisor now showing up on the Google Ads contact support page www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-a...
Google Shopping crawlers move to fast for it to wait for JavaScript to render structured data www.seroundtable.com/google-shopp...
Google Shopping Crawlers Are Too Fast To See JavaScript/Dynamic Structured Data
14 months ago, Google updated its documentation around its shopping related structured data warning not to generate your structured data dynamically through JavaScript. Yesterday, at the Search Centr...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Google Shopping crawlers move to fast for it to wait for JavaScript to render structured data www.seroundtable.com/google-shopp...
Google updates it search documentation to reiterate it does smaller core updates and does not announce them www.seroundtable.com/google-small...
December 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Google updates it search documentation to reiterate it does smaller core updates and does not announce them www.seroundtable.com/google-small...
Bing tests moving ad labels to the right www.seroundtable.com/bing-search-...
December 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Bing tests moving ad labels to the right www.seroundtable.com/bing-search-...
YouTube Panda bear at Google's office in France www.seroundtable.com/photos/youtu...
December 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
YouTube Panda bear at Google's office in France www.seroundtable.com/photos/youtu...
Google is still working on the next core update www.seroundtable.com/google-core-...
Google Core Updates Not Done; A New Core Update Should Be Soon
Google's John Mueller said at the Google Search Central Live event in Zurich today that Google is still working on the next core update. This update should be out soon, but it is unclear if it will ha...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Google is still working on the next core update www.seroundtable.com/google-core-...
OpenAI ChatGPT crawler, OAI-SearchBot, was updated www.seroundtable.com/openai-chatg...
OpenAI Updates Its ChatGPT Crawler OAI-SearchBot
OpenAI has updated its spider/crawler it uses for ChatGPT, OAI-SearchBot. The AI company updated the description and details of the crawler information removing that it is used for links and to train ...
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December 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
OpenAI ChatGPT crawler, OAI-SearchBot, was updated www.seroundtable.com/openai-chatg...
Gemini app not getting ads anytime soon, Google exec says www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-g...
Google Says Ads Are Not Coming To Gemini App
Google's Vice President, Global Ads at Google, Dan Taylor, said that there are no plans to bring ads to the Gemini app. This comes after AdWeek reported based on sources that ads will be coming to Gem...
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December 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Gemini app not getting ads anytime soon, Google exec says www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-g...
Google Ads study showed that using AI Max broad-matchifies your exact match and phrase match keywords www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-a...
Google Ads AI Max "Broad-Matchifies" Exact Match and Phrase Match Keywords
With Google Ads releasing AI Max globally back in September, more and more advertisers are trying it out. While some of the early data can show it underperforms, some are seeing success by using it fo...
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December 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Google Ads study showed that using AI Max broad-matchifies your exact match and phrase match keywords www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-a...
Google Ads offline conversion upload bug www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-o...
Google Ads Offline Conversion Uploads Bug
Google has a bug with the Google Ads offline conversion uploads feature. Much, but not all, of the offline conversion data you upload is not being added to Google Ads. This obviously makes the reporti...
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December 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Google Ads offline conversion upload bug www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-o...
Google Ads Advisor can reference third-party external sources www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-a...
Google Ads Advisor Can Reference External Sources
Google rolled out Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor a few weeks ago and did you know that it can reference and cite third-party external sources, outside of just Google's own help documentation? Well,...
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December 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Google Ads Advisor can reference third-party external sources www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-a...
Winter clothing drive at Google NYC www.seroundtable.com/photos/googl...
Google NYC Winter Clothing Drive
Google held the annual winter clothing drive by Dudes For Dads at its New York City office the other week. They said, "This year, we were able to double the essential supplies going to Bowery Mission.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Winter clothing drive at Google NYC www.seroundtable.com/photos/googl...
Google Search Console is rolling out weekly and monthly views www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...
December 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Google Search Console is rolling out weekly and monthly views www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...
Google Search Console Insights report gains social channel www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...
Google Search Console Insights With Social Channels
Google announced it is adding social channels within the Google Search Console Insights report. This "lets you review Search performance of social channels associated with your website directly within...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Google Search Console Insights report gains social channel www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...
Google AI Mode tests Search Live built in www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-mo...
Google AI Mode Testing Search Live With Citation Cards
Google is testing integrating Search Live (Gemini Live - voice search as you talk) in AI Mode. Plus, this version shows citation cards as part of the answer, as you are having a conversational search ...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Google AI Mode tests Search Live built in www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-mo...
Google search ranking volatility getting heated again www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...
Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Over Weekend (Dec 7&8)
It was a heated weekend, the Google Search ranking volatility was pretty heated and there was a lot of chatter within the SEO industry. Not all the tools are showing big swings but many are. And ever...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Google search ranking volatility getting heated again www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...
Business Insider to use custom AI to write quick news stories www.seroundtable.com/business-ins...
Business Insider To Use Custom GPT AI To Publish Quick News Stories
Business Insider posted a disclaimer about a new AI pilot where it will use "a custom GPT to help publish quick news stories." This custom GPT was trained on the style of how Business Insider journal...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Business Insider to use custom AI to write quick news stories www.seroundtable.com/business-ins...
Google tests an animated sponsored ad - sliding in an image asset for Google Ads www.seroundtable.com/google-image...
Google Testing Image Animation For Search Ads
Google is testing an animation, where an image asset slides into the sponsored results listing. So it turns a pure search text ad into a text ad with an image that slides in from the right side of the...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Google tests an animated sponsored ad - sliding in an image asset for Google Ads www.seroundtable.com/google-image...
Bing tests favicon expands on hover www.seroundtable.com/bing-expanda...
Bing Testing Expandable Favicon On Mouse Over
Microsoft is testing expanding the favicons in the Bing Search results interface when you hover your mouse cursor over the search result listing and/or ad.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Bing tests favicon expands on hover www.seroundtable.com/bing-expanda...
Google soap making www.seroundtable.com/photos/googl...
Google Soap Making
Google had an event for some of its employees, a soap making event. The event was at one of the Google offices and it looks like they made holiday themed shaped soaps.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Google soap making www.seroundtable.com/photos/googl...
SEO Video Recap: AI Mode taking over Search, ranking volatility, Search Console AI configurator and 22 years of history www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zvt...
Google Search Volatility, AI Mode Takes Over Search, Search Console AI & 22 Year Anniversary
YouTube video by RustyBrick Barry Schwartz Search Engine Roundtable
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December 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
SEO Video Recap: AI Mode taking over Search, ranking volatility, Search Console AI configurator and 22 years of history www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zvt...
Google API leak hints that service areas are not a local ranking factor www.seroundtable.com/google-api-s...
Google API Doc Implies Service Areas Not A Local Ranking Factor
Over the years, we have written that service areas are not used as a local ranking factor by Google Search. Well, the API leak document also implies this to be true.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Google API leak hints that service areas are not a local ranking factor www.seroundtable.com/google-api-s...
Google Search Console experimental AI-powered configurator for performance reporting www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...
Google Search Console Performance Report Testing AI Powered Configuration
Google is testing a new AI-powered configuration tool, as it calls it, to help you build instant reports based on your natural language questions. So basically Ads and Analytics Advisor but for Search...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Google Search Console experimental AI-powered configurator for performance reporting www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...
Google Search Console performance report average position increased big time for many sites, here is why www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...
Google Search Console Average Impression Jump After Num 100 Change
If you look at some of the profiles/sites in your Google Search Console performance reports, you may notice a significant increase in the average position being reported. This happened when Google rem...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Google Search Console performance report average position increased big time for many sites, here is why www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...