It’s the new year and why should that mean that Google Search calm down at all, in fact, it has been heated all holiday season, through New Years. I posted the 2024 Google algorithm update infographic.
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google New Years Ranking Volatility, 2024 Algorithm Updates, Gemini In 2025 & More
We’ve seen various flavors of the what people are saying sections in the search results before. We’ve even see Google use AI to return results within them. But it seems this expandable carousel format is live in the mobile Google search results now.
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Google What People Are Saying Expandable Carousels
The Google Ads API currently does not accept or support placement exclusions for Performance Max campaigns. This is also the case even if specified at the account level, Michael Cloonan, a Google Ads API specialist, wrote.
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Google Ads API Does Not Currently Support Placement Exclusions For PMax
Google’s John Mueller said that simply adding country codes to your URLs won’t result in “any change at all” for regional ranking reasons. He added, changing your URLs will result in “temporary fluctuations” because of the URL change but it won’t help you in the long run with ranking well in those regions.
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Google: Adding Country Codes To URLs Won’t Help For SEO
Explore the art of short-form storytelling and its impact on social media.
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Threads And The Art Of Short-Form Storytelling: How Brevity Is Winning Hearts via @sejournal, @donutcaramel13
A Redditor posted a question asking if startups in 2025 need a blog. This was posted in the SEO section of Reddit, so John Mueller replied by just saying “no.” I guess a startup does not “need” a blog for SEO purposes, it is not a requirement.
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Google: Startups In 2025 Don’t Necessarily Need A Blog
Bing is now testing placing these arrow buttons, in a circle button format, next to the sitelinks.
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Bing Tests Arrow Buttons For Sitelinks Like Google
Googlers discuss the expertise of SEO gurus who ask questions that “don’t make sense” The post Google Podcast Discusses SEO Expertise appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google Podcast Discusses SEO Expertise via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google warns against excessive JavaScript use. Here’s why this warning is critical for AI search optimization.
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Google’s JavaScript Warning & How It Relates To AI Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
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. I posted the big Google webmaster report for January 2025, the past month was so insane…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 2, 2025