Content Marketing and SEO

Advanced Web Ranking’s Q3 2025 CTR report shows branded desktop clicks spreading across more results, while commercial and local SERPs keep tightening. The post Google CTR Trends In Q3: Branded Clicks Fan Out, Longer Queries Hold appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google DeepMind's AGI roadmap reveals how AI tools will evolve by 2030. Here's what it might mean for SEO, content creation, and advertising. The post Google DeepMind’s AGI Plan: What Marketers Need to Know appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google responds to EU investigation into its site reputation abuse policy, defending enforcement against parasite SEO as essential for protecting search quality. The post Google Defends Parasite SEO Crackdown As EU Opens Investigation appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google is rolling out new enhancements to Demand Gen campaigns, including expanded channel controls, AI-powered creative updates, and improved retail features. The post Google Demand Gen Campaigns Just Got A Major Update appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google will deprecate practice problem structured data in January and clarifies Dataset markup is only for Dataset Search. Book actions remain supported. The post Google Deprecates Practice Problem Structured Data In Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google discontinues the Page Annotations feature, which diverted traffic from websites back to Google's search results. The post Google Discontinues Controversial “Page Annotations” On iOS appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

New third-party data shows local publishers lost national reach after Google's Discover core update. The post Google Discover Core Update Data: Local Publishers Lost Reach appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google Discover desktop data is already trackable in Search Console. Here's how to prepare ahead of the full rollout. The post Google Discover Desktop Data Already Trackable In Search Console appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Early third-party tracking data offers a first look at how Google's February Discover core update is changing what users see in their feeds. The post Google Discover Update: Early Data Shows Fewer Domains In US appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google says AI surfaces businesses the same way people do, by checking what others recommend online. The post Google Discusses Digital PR Impact On AI Recommendations appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google pushed back against news reports of shrinking Search demand, pointing to "overall" search query growth and feature adoption The post Google Disputes News That Search Engine Use Is Falling appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google disputes a report claiming ads will arrive in the Gemini app in 2026, saying there are no current plans to add them. The post Google Disputes Report Claiming Ads Are Coming To Gemini In 2026 appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google offers advice about chunking content for SEO but is that really the conversation we should be having right now? The post Google Downplays GEO – But Let’s Talk About Garbage AI SERPs appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google removes breadcrumbs from mobile search results, simplifying URLs to show only domains while keeping breadcrumbs on desktop. The post Google Drops Breadcrumbs From Mobile Search Results appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google deprecated FAQ rich results, completing a removal that started years ago. FAQ rich results were already restricted for most sites. The post Google Drops FAQ Rich Results From Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's Nikola Todorovic said AI can act "like a kind of a black box" while explaining why machine learning was hard to deploy in Search. The post Google Engineer Explains ‘Black Box’ AI Models In Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google AI Mode rolls out in US Search with Gemini 2.5 integration, AI overviews expand to more languages. + more announcements from I/O. The post Google Expands AI Features in Search: What You Need to Know appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google expands AI Overviews in Circle to Search, enabling instant insights from visual content on Android devices. The post Google Expands AI Overviews In Circle To Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google expands AI overviews to more health-related questions, adds new 'What People Suggest' search feature. The post Google Expands AI Overviews To Thousands More Health Queries appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google added more link surfaces to AI Search, but not new reporting for publishers. Studies continue to show lower clicks when AI responses appear. The post Google Expands AI Search Links Without New Click Data appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Search visibility is shifting as AI Overviews replace organic listings across a growing number of industries. The post Google Expands AIO Coverage In Select appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google expands Preferred Sources to English users worldwide and launches pilot AI partnerships with publishers. The post Google Expands Preferred Sources & Publisher AI Partnerships appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's Universal Commerce Protocol adds cart management and catalog access, highlights identity linking support, and begins simplifying Merchant Center onboarding. The post Google Expands UCP With Cart, Catalog, Onboarding appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's John Mueller answers a question about expired domains and ranking issues. The post Google Explains Expired Domains And Ranking Issues appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's Gary Illyes published a blog post explaining how Googlebot works as one client of a centralized crawling platform, with new byte-level details. The post Google Explains Googlebot Byte Limits And Crawling Architecture appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article