Archive for May, 2025

Google Lighthouse To Undergo Major Audit Overhaul: What To Know via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

2025/05/01

Google Lighthouse audits are changing. Learn which tests are merging, disappearing, and how to prepare your SEO workflows before these changes take effect. The post Google Lighthouse To Undergo Major Audit Overhaul: What To Know appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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Google Is Launching Search Central Deep Dive Events via @sejournal, @martinibuster

2025/05/01

Google announced a new series of multi-day events called Deep Dive for in-depth coverage of the technical and marketing sides of SEO The post Google Is Launching Search Central Deep Dive Events appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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Google AI Mode Exits Waitlist, Now Available To All US Users via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

2025/05/01

Google AI Mode is now available to all US users without a waitlist, offers new visual cards, shopping integration, and more. The post Google AI Mode Exits Waitlist, Now Available To All US Users appeared first on Search Engine Journal

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 1, 2025

2025/05/01

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 AdSense ads are coming to third-party AI Chatbots. Apple Intelligence will soon make a deal to show Gemini results…

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Ask An SEO: Should We Optimize For Keywords With High Search Volume Or Competition? via @sejournal, @rollerblader

2025/05/01

Stop obsessing over 500 searches. This week’s Ask An SEO shows how to decode keyword intent and turn Google Keyword Planner into an SEO asset

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May 2025 Google Webmaster Report

2025/05/01

Here is our monthly Google Webmaster Report – the May 2025 edition – where I summarize the past 30 days or so of the big organic Google related news in one place. Google did not have any official Google ranking updates but we sure did see several days of intense ranking volatility.

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Google AdSense To Show Ads In AI Chatbots

2025/05/01

Google AdSense has been testing serving and displaying ads within AI Chatbots. Bloomberg reported Google has already begun testing this within AI search apps iAsk and Liner and plans to allow other AI Chatbot providers to include AdSense ads in their chat responses.

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Apple Intelligence To Add Google Gemini & Other AI

2025/05/01

Google has confirmed that Apple will be adding its Gemini AI service to Apple Intelligence by the end of 2025, reports are saying. We knew this would happen but we should also expect Apple to add not just Gemini but other AI services to Apple Intelligence.

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Official Google Ads Channel‬‭ Reporting For Performance Max & More

2025/05/01

In early March, it was leaked that Google Ads will be rolling out channel reporting for Performance Max campaigns. Well, now it is official, Google said they are introducing “‘­new’¬’­ channel-level’¬’­ reporting’¬’­ in’¬’­ Performance’¬’­ Max” plus, “full’¬’­ search’¬’­ terms’¬’­ reporting’¬ and’¬’­ more’¬’­ detailed’¬’­ asset’¬’­ reporting’¬’­ that’¬’­ show’¬’­ you’¬’­ all’¬’­ the’¬’­ metrics’¬’­ for’¬’­ individual’¬’­ assets.’¬”

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Google Testing Shopping Ads With Favicons

2025/05/01

Google is testing showing favicons logos in its shopping ads, in the carousel of sponsored product results. Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, confirmed this with me on X last night.

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