GoDaddy accidentally transferred someone’s domain name to someone else then refused to fix the problem.

A randomized field experiment found Google AI Overviews reduced organic clicks on triggered queries by 38%, while user experience ratings stayed unchanged. The post AI Overviews Cut Organic Clicks 38%, Field Study Finds appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Higher CPCs frequently align with improved lead quality and conversion rates, challenging the assumption that cheaper traffic performs better.

AI visibility now depends on crawl access, server-rendered content, semantic HTML, and machine-readable structure beyond Googlebot. The post The Technical SEO Audit Needs A New Layer appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google may be doing something right with improving the click-through rates from the organic search results page that contain AI Overviews. An update report shows the CTR is improving, after numerous times showing the CTR has been declining.

Google’s Ginny Marvin, the Ads Liaison, has confirmed there are delays for some Demand Gen Image ads to be approved. Some of these delays are several days pending, not hours, but several days.

Microsoft Bing is testing making the links within the AI results, the Copilot Search results, less clickable. Typically, the whole line of text is clickable to the citation but here, Bing is testing only linking the citation mark at the end.

Google is testing adding an AI label to some of the search ads, the sponsored results, within the search results. Clicking on the AI label does nothing, according to Brodie Clark who spotted this.

Google now lets you edit videos within your Google Business Profiles, directly in the Google app. There are basic editing tools, probably more than most businesses require, to update and edit the videos that they want to show in Google Maps and Google Search.