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Customer-Centric SEO: How To Enhance Customer Experiences via @sejournal, @jasonhennessey
Another week and more Google search ranking volatility hit mid-week, did you notice? Google’s crawler might be causing issues on your site this week. Google still is making its crawling more efficient and better.
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Volatility, Google Sued Over AI Overviews, Google Ads Auction Changes & Bing and Apple Intelligence
Microsoft Bing Search’s Copilot Answers now can show maps and local results, including local ads. The AI answer has a map on the left side and then on the right side it has local organic and paid listings with the company name, address, phone, website and directions – plus a photo.
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Bing Copilot Answers With Map & Local Results (with Ads)
A couple of days ago, Google sent out an email to owners of Google Business Profile listings. The email was a reminder about the Google Business Profile policies, and it highlighted policies around reviews.
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Google Emails Reminder About Business Profile Policies
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A year or more ago, Google added a toggle switch to use Gemini directly in the iOS Google Search app. Well, that was removed this week and you now need to go to the native Gemini app to use Gemini, you cannot use the Google app.
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Google iOS App Drops Gemini Toggle
Microsoft is testing outlining the individual search result snippets within Bing Search. So when you look at a snippet, it has this outline around it, and then when you hover your cursor over it, it highlights more.
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Bing Tests Outlining Search Result Snippets
If you go to Google Shopping and enter a query that is not shopping related, Google will add a button above the shopping results asking you to search Google for that query.
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Google Shopping Adds Search Google Button For Some Queries
OpenAI published a new write-up explaining how an internal experiment caused significant errors.
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OpenAI: Internal Experiment Caused Elevated Errors via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Deep dive into index bloat – a critical SEO challenge affecting medium to large websites. Learn how to identify URLs consuming your index quota without delivering traffic, understand the difference between crawl budget and index bloat, and discover practical solutions for cleanup. This Whiteboard Friday video helps you assess your site’s index health and implement effective remediation steps, from content consolidation to proper URL handling
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What is Index Bloat? — Whiteboard Friday
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