I’ve been watching the chatter in the SEO industry, and honestly, it hasn’t calmed down much since my last report for the period of June 8-12. The Google search results seem more heated today, and there appears to be an unconfirmed Google search ranking update underway.
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Google Search Ranking Volatility Continues Into This Week
The Competition and Markets Authority in the UK has told Google it must be transparent on how it ranks search results in Google and it must enable users to port its data to other third-party search services. I can’t imagine Google will ever share its full secret sauce on how it ranks its search results, and it is not the first time some political body has asked Google to do so, and it won’t be the last.
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CMA: Google Must Share How Search Results Are Ranked & Data Portability
Most of the web’s reading is now done by bots.
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Written For Readers Who Don’t Read via @sejournal, @pedrodias
Google is rolling out a new look and feel for the Google Ads campaign status notifications and icons. The new statuses are no longer highlighted fully, instead they are just outlined in various colors. It makes it a bit less extreme to look at, and I am not sure if that is a good or bad change.
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Google Ads Updates Its Campaign Status Interface
Google added a new summary tab to the access and security section that shows the security tasks you completed and what tasks you have not completed.
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Google Ads New Security Tasks Summary Tab
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Search Console reported 51,000 URLs as “Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt,” and Google says that’s not necessarily a problem. The post Google Explains Why URLs Blocked By Robots.txt Can Still Be Indexed appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google Explains Why URLs Blocked By Robots.txt Can Still Be Indexed via @sejournal, @martinibuster
AI retrieval systems reward semantic precision over content volume, making excessive publishing counterproductive for modern SEO visibility. The post Why Publishing More Content Is Making Your SEO Worse appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Why Publishing More Content Is Making Your SEO Worse via @sejournal, @cshel
Google updated its guidance to strike a less discouraging tone about the use of LLMs.txt, special markup, and markdown for AI SEO. The post Google’s Updated Guidance Now Says It’s “Fine” To Use LLMs.txt For AI SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal
Uncover the connection between AI and SEO. Discover how structured use of AI can transform your content strategy. The post The 4-Layer AI Ops Playbook: From Better AI Outputs To Strong SEO Results appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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The 4-Layer AI Ops Playbook: From Better AI Outputs To Strong SEO Results via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell
Microsoft is beginning to roll out Citation Share, Intents, Topics, and Compare in the Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance dashboard preview. The post Bing Rolls Out AI Citation Share In Webmaster Tools appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Bing Rolls Out AI Citation Share In Webmaster Tools via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern