YouTube says its July 15 monetization update won’t specifically target reaction or clips channels, but warns enforcement will increase for repetitive or spam-like content.
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YouTube Clarifies Monetization Update: Targeting Spam, Not Reaction Channels via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 9, 2025
SEO expert Bill Hunt outlines how better integration, early involvement, and semantic focus support performance in AI search. The post Stop Retrofitting. Start Commissioning: The New Role Of SEO In The Age Of AI appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Stop Retrofitting. Start Commissioning: The New Role Of SEO In The Age Of AI via @sejournal, @billhunt
Google’s John Mueller said the order of the URLs or sites you list in your disavow link file does not matter. He added that the file is not processed in real time, it is crawled and then taken into account as Google crawls the web.
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Google: Order Of Disavow Link File Does Not Matter
A recent study from Ahrefs said that AI-generated content does not hurt your Google rankings. And while the study really shows this to be true, there are plenty of sites that overdid it with AI-generated content and saw their Google rankings massively decline in the long run.
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Be Careful With Google When Publishing AI Content
Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, defended why so many search terms are hidden within the Google Ads advertiser console and reports. She said, “the threshold increase was solely privacy-driven.” She added this was a question she asked when she was joining Google, suggesting it was important for her to learn before joining the company.
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Google Ads Defends Hidden Search Terms As Solely Privacy Driven
Google Search Console now gives you the ability to track the performance of your Discussion forums rich results within the Google search results. Google added a new search appearance filter for Discussion forums that you can select and filter on.
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New Google Search Console Discussion Forum Search Appearance Filter
The folks at PPC Hero noted that Google Ads CPCs increasing and there is a decline in ad click volumes within Google Search. The question is why? More competition?
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Google Ads Generating Fewer Clicks? Why?
Crawl optimization isn’t optional in 2025.
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Beyond Keywords: Leveraging Technical SEO To Boost Crawl Efficiency And Visibility via @sejournal, @cshel
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Google’s John Mueller clarified that submitting a link disavow file does not trigger immediate action and explained the reason why. The post Google Explains Why Link Disavow Files Aren’t Processed Right Away appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google Explains Why Link Disavow Files Aren’t Processed Right Away via @sejournal, @martinibuster