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Google Search Ranking Update Hits Friday June 19th Impacting Black Hats?
Google may have quietly rolled out an update on Friday, June 19th, that seems to may have impacted more of the black hat SEO side of things. It is not 100% clear because most of the tools seem pretty stable and yes there is chatter also in the more "white hat" forums, but I see a much larger spike in chatter in the more "black hat" forums.
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Google Search Ranking Update Hits Friday June 19th Impacting Black Hats?
Analyse von 3,7 Millionen Google-URLs liefert Einblicke in die Funktionsweise der Suchmaschine
Die Analyse von 3,7 Millionen internen Google URLs bestätigt Vermutungen zu Rankingfaktoren und zeigt, wie Google Inhalte abwertet oder sogar komplett sperrt.
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Analyse von 3,7 Millionen Google-URLs liefert Einblicke in die Funktionsweise der Suchmaschine
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Volatility, Bing AI Reporting Updates, UK Orders Google To Hand Over Its Search Ranking Algorithm & More
This week, we covered the typical and ongoing Google Search ranking volatility. UK's CMA ordered Google to share its search ranking algorithm and enable data portability to some third-parties. Google Search rolled out its information...
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Volatility, Bing AI Reporting Updates, UK Orders Google To Hand Over Its Search Ranking Algorithm & More
Bing Tests Updated News Design In Search
Microsoft Bing is testing a new updated design for the news section within Bing Search. The updated news box, honestly, is easier to understand and makes it clearer that these are news sources - so I kind of like it.
Google Speaks On Chunking, Site Signals, Content, Paywalls & AI Clicks
Google held a Search Central Live event in Milan this week and spoke about several topics including chunking, site-wide signals, AI settings in Search Console, commondity versus non-commodity content, paywalled content, subscriptions for news sites, what clicks look like from AI Overviews and much more.
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Google Speaks On Chunking, Site Signals, Content, Paywalls & AI Clicks
Bing Tests Color Options In Product Results
Microsoft Bing is testing a color selector / viewer in the shopping and product results within Bing Search. This will show you what colors the product is available in, without having to click over to the website to see it.
Google Ads Turning On Conversion-Based Customer Lists For Advertisers
Google will be turning on conversion-based customer lists for Google Ads advertiser accounts beginning on Jun 17, 2026, with data processing to begin on August 18, 2026. This will happen to all advertisers who have already adopted both Enhanced Conversions and Customer Match but haven't yet enabled the conversion-based customer lists functionality, Google said.
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Google Ads Turning On Conversion-Based Customer Lists For Advertisers
Google Maps: Hot Pink Live Time Alerts
Google is testing using a hot pink font for the live time for when a place is busy or not. This is part of the old popular times feature, but Google is testing or launching a hot pink font to make it really noticeable.
Google: Seitenbasierte Rankingfaktoren wirken schneller korrigiert als Website-weite Faktoren
Google hat Unterschiede zwischen seitenbasierten und Website-weiten Rankingfaktoren erklärt. Änderungen an Faktoren, welche einzelne Seiten betreffen, wirken schneller.
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Google: Seitenbasierte Rankingfaktoren wirken schneller korrigiert als Website-weite Faktoren
Total Addressable Market (TAM) Size is Now in SparkToro Reports
Casey’s back with a brand new invention. This time, it’s estimated TAM: Total Addressable Market Size, one of the most requested features from SparkToro customers that we’re thrilled to finally have in the app. In any SparkToro report, you’ll now see TAM at the top of your reports, alongside a methodology breakdown, e.g. Audience for the above report: Computational chemists…
Wie einfach es ist, mit User Generated Content KI-Ergebnisse zu manipulieren: neue Studie
KI-Systeme wie Gemini Deep Research greifen gerne auf nutzergerierte Inhalte (UGC) zurück. Manipulationen sind damit leicht möglich.
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Wie einfach es ist, mit User Generated Content KI-Ergebnisse zu manipulieren: neue Studie
Teaching a Model to Reason Before It Learns to Talk
A weekend project that turned into a bet against the whole transformer playbook. The short version Almost every AI you’ve heard of is a transformer trained on a firehose of text. It learns language first, and reasoning sort of comes along for the ride. I’m trying the opposite: a tiny model that learns logic and […]
USA Today nutzt KI, um News schneller zu veröffentlichen als die Google AI Overviews
USA Today nutzt nach einem Bericht KI, um News so schnell zu veröffentlichen, dass zum Thema noch keine AI Overviews angezeigt werden.
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USA Today nutzt KI, um News schneller zu veröffentlichen als die Google AI Overviews
Bing Webmaster Tools May Support More Country Reporting
Bing may soon support more countries for the countries filter within Bing Webmaster Tools. Fabrice Canel from Microsoft wrote on X, "Well, we are now actively considering expanding this to show more individual countries."
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Bing Webmaster Tools May Support More Country Reporting
Google Business Profiles Dashboard Activities Button
Google can show an "Activities" button in the Google Business Profiles dashboard within Google Search. I assume this button is reserved for venues that let you book activities including booking tickets or other activities.
How Search Grounding Biased an LLM Against YouTube
I asked Claude to recommend a webinar platform. The web’s affiliate-driven content quietly steered it away from the obvious free answer. Here is what happened, and what it says about how language models talk about products. The setup I gave Claude a simple, practical request: find me a platform where I can quickly hop on […]
Google Tests 3D Model From Attribution In Product Results
Google is testing attributing where the 3D models are from that Google shows within the product detail screen in Google Search. I can't replicate this but the test shows "3D mode from [retailer name]."
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Google Tests 3D Model From Attribution In Product Results
Google Discover Feed With More Google News Showcase Results
Google seems to be showing content from publishers in the Google News Showcase more within the Google Discover feed. I don't have direct data to prove this but two people who follow Google Discover closely said this is to be true.
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Google Discover Feed With More Google News Showcase Results
Google: For Site Moves, Add All Domain Variants To Change Of Address Tool
Google has updated its site move and domain migrations help document to note that for domain migrations, you should make sure to submit Change of Address requests for all domain variations. Google said the "domain migrations work best when all variants of a site are migrated properly."
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Google: For Site Moves, Add All Domain Variants To Change Of Address Tool
Audience Affinity vs. Traffic: Why High-Affinity Media Belongs in Your Earned Media Strategy
If you’ve been building media lists by zeroing in on the sites with the biggest domain authority and traffic, you’re not alone. For years, the default playbook was to pitch the publishing giants and let their syndication networks carry your story far and wide. But bigger doesn’t always mean better, and the highest‑traffic sites often reach everyone except the people…
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Audience Affinity vs. Traffic: Why High-Affinity Media Belongs in Your Earned Media Strategy
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