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. A Google data leak revealed 14,000+ ranking features…

A recent analysis explores the impact of AI Overviews on organic traffic, highlighting potential shifts in ranking strategies. The post The Traffic Impact Of AI Overviews appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

While I highly doubt Google pushed an algorithmic change over Memorial Day, there was a significant spike in chatter in the SEO community and the third-party Google Search tracking tools are showing volatility. Yes, traffic can be weird and lower on Memorial Day – I get that – but there seems to be more movement than normal.

John Mueller, a Google Search Analyst at Google, wrote a response to a site owner who saw their site tank in September 2023 and hired SEO, and there has been no improvement. John’s response was that it was likely not one thing but many things and that even possibly the site had a good run and it is time to move on to something new.

Google has sent some Google Ads advertisers email notices that any of their Google Ads experiments without an end date will now be assigned a default end date of August 23, 2024.

Last November or so, Google started to roll out the “shop deals” search bar on both desktop and mobile, this was from the shop deals banner in the middle of the search results page. Now, Google is testing a thinner version of the shop deals search bar.

Blogs have seemingly lost much of their luster in the content strategy world. But according to the latest CMI benchmark report , they still represent the second-most common platform for distributing content, used by 78% of respondents.

Rand Fishkin along with Mike King may have published one of the biggest data leaks outside of the Department of Justice data reveal around Google Search and its internal ranking features and signals. The document was from an anonymous source (no longer anonymous, see below) but verified by Rand Fishkin and contains a ton of details on how Google Search reportedly works.

Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast SEO, created a new WordPress plugin that solves a common site architecture problem and improves SEO The post New WordPress Plugin Solves Site Navigation Problem appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

The agency side of the client/agency relationship is one that can be made easier and smoother with 8 specific tips for success. The post How Agencies Can Have Successful Client Partnerships [Part 2] appeared first on Search Engine Journal