AI now handles the entire research stage, so now the real fight in SEO is about earning a place inside those answers The post Pragmatic Approach To AI Search Visibility appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

As you know, Google finally launched custom annotations within the Google Search Console performance reports. Well, one issue we noticed is that it does not allow for adding annotations for data it does not have yet, like for today. Today, Google rolled out support for current/future dates.

Google Search Console’s page indexing report is delayed again, stuck at two weeks ago, November 17, 2025.

Google’s John Mueller says sites with low-quality AI content should rethink their purpose rather than manually rewrite pages. Starting fresh may be faster than recovering. The post Google’s Mueller Says Sites In A ‘Bad State’ May Need To Start Over appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

This week’s SEO Pulse examines new data what drives AI citations, plus ChatGPT launches shopping research.

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. We had a lot, I mean, a lot of Google search ranking volatility this week – a Thanksgiving Google update…

Harry Clarkson-Bennett dismantles AI hype, revealing how real marketing power still lies in creators, communities, and cross-platform customer journeys. The post The Impact AI Is Having On The Marketing Ecosystem appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

We are seeing volatility in the Google search results this week, Thanksgiving week.

Ad scheduling becomes a performance multiplier when campaigns align with regional time zones, local behavior, and data-driven delivery windows. The post Paid Ad Scheduling Across Time Zones That Actually Works appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

OpenAI is reportedly scaling up its crawling infrastructure for the holiday shopping season. The folks at Merj noticed OpenAI adding a lot of new IP ranges for its bots and crawlers.