Daily Search Forum Recap: May 19, 2025
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Group keywords by search behavior using Google’s own SERPs. A hands-on Python approach for scalable, intent-based clustering.
Since the weekend, Google has started to roll out Google Discover on desktop in many countries and regions.
Google has updated its title structured data help document for Google Merchant Center to now recommend you add the product’s brand name to the title of the product when it’s a differentiating factor.
Google has a weird and somewhat limited and rare issue with sitemap files within Google Search Console. These sitemap files cannot be fetched and retrieved by Google Search. The issue seems to be related to 5-character subdomains that are on a Polish ccTLD, .pl.
A month ago, Google said it would soon redirect its ccTLD, country specific domains, for Google Search to its Google.com domain.
Google has a bug with Google Ads where for campaigns running on New Customer Acquisition they are not able to spend the set budget. This bug was confirmed with Google and has been an issue for advertisers since May 15th.
Google AI Mode seems like it got a lot faster over the past day or so. Instead of going through the steps of saying thinking about this, searching for results, organizing results, it just now saying kicking off searches and then looking at sites and then quickly shows the AI Mode response.
With zero-click results and AI Overviews dominating the SERP, SEO pros must adapt. This article breaks down key shifts in behavior, metrics, and strategy. The post From Search To Discovery: Why SEO Must Evolve Beyond The SERP appeared first on Search Engine Journal
Google’s AIO rewrites articles without adding unique analysis or insights, essentially meeting the definition of low-value content. The post Does Google’s AI Overviews Violate Its Own Spam Policies? appeared first on Search Engine Journal .