Today marks the two-week mark of the start of the Google June 2025 core update. This update seems pretty significant thus far, with Google announcing the update on June 30th at about 10:30 am, then the volatility kicking off on July 2nd and seeing some partial recoveries from the helpful content update.
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Google June 2025 Core Update Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend
Google has updated a number of search-related help documents for its merchant return policies and loyalty programs. Google said these updates are to “remove unclarities in the documentation and examples.”
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Google Updates Merchant Return Policies & Loyalty Programs
We knew this was coming but as of July 11th, your reviews on Google Local Service Ads are now managed by Google Business Profiles. I know a number of local folks noticed who have LSAs noticed their Business Profiles reviews jumped on Friday, and this is why.
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Google Local Service Ads Reviews Now Managed By Business Profiles
Google is either testing showing link cards only within AI Mode or it might be a bug. Randomly over the past few weeks or so, I’ve seen reports of people noticing AI Mode responses without any content, but instead just the link cards.
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Google AI Mode With Link Cards Only – A Bug?
Google is now showing not just short videos in AI Overviews but also longer-form videos in the AI Overviews.
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Google AI Overviews Now With Many Videos
Google Ads with Gmail has this feature that you can now click one button to apply a recommendation for your Google Ads. The scary part, you don’t even need to open the email to apply this recommendation, so you are kind of applying them blindly.
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Google Ads Apply Recommendations Within Gmail Can Be Dangerous
A remote code execution vulnerability through a supply chain attack was discovered in Gravity Forms that enables remote code execution The post Malware Discovered In Gravity Forms WordPress Plugin appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Malware Discovered In Gravity Forms WordPress Plugin via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google encourages publishers to be realistic about the kinds of searches their content should appear for. The post Google Explains How To Approach Content For SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google Explains How To Approach Content For SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google explains when it’s time to hire an SEO and cautions about a major red flag to watch for. The post Google’s Advice On Hiring An SEO And Red Flags To Watch For appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google’s Advice On Hiring An SEO And Red Flags To Watch For via @sejournal, @martinibuster
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Google updates its structured data documentation to clarify how merchants should implement return policies and loyalty programs. The post Google Clarifies Structured Data Rules For Returns & Loyalty Programs appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google Clarifies Structured Data Rules For Returns & Loyalty Programs via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern