Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 29, 2025
From hosting to plugins, your WordPress stack shapes performance and growth. Here’s what CMOs need to audit for a marketing-driven setup.
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From Plugins To Performance: What CMOs Need To Ask About Their WordPress Stack via @sejournal, @alexmoss
This week we had our first Google spam update in 8 months, the August 2025 spam update. This update touched down very quickly, likely within 24 hours.
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Spam Update, AI Mode Changes, ChatGPT Does Use Google, Search Ad News & More
Often, but not always, when Google releases an algorithm update, we don’t see the impact for the first few days. However, with the August 2025 spam update, we are likely seeing the effect within 24 hours after it was announced.
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Google August 2025 Spam Update Impact Felt Quickly
Some SEOs are noticing that when you look at your sitemaps report in Bing Webmaster Tools, for some sitemaps, some are missing the Index Coverage button. I personally can see the same thing for some of the properties I have access to within Bing Webmaster Tools.
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Bing Webmaster Tools Sitemaps Index Coverage Button Missing For Some
Google is testing a rounded corner search result snippet card design again. We’ve seen this numerous times over the past decade or so and it seems to be back. The snippet sections are bordered in with rectangular outlines, and the corners of those rectangles are curved and circular.
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Google Tests Rounded Search Results Snippet Design Again
Google may show a new “Profiles” button in the Google Business Profiles NMX dashboard.
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Google NMX Business Profiles May Show New Profiles Button
Google has added new guidance to the “Fix Search-related JavaScript problems” help document, specifically addressing JavaScript-based paywalls.
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Google Search On JavaScript-Based Paywalls
Learn a powerful, low-risk strategy to boost your SEO by leveraging existing communities, saving you the immense effort of building one from scratch. Watch as Erin Simmons shares a practical framework for building brand authority, earning trust, and creating more relevant content that connects with your audience
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Ways Community Can Help Your SEO — Whiteboard Friday
Discover how WooCommerce affects your site’s performance and rankings. Learn to optimize for better load times, SERP visibility, and trust.
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Why WooCommerce Slows Down (& How to Fix It With the Right Server Stack)