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SEO Video Recap: Big Google Movemeber update, Google pushing AI content at scale, Google Discover fixing fake AI news, Copilot Search launching and Google image text ads, plus more www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnis...
Movemeber Google Update, Opal AI Spam, Discover Spam Fix, Copilot Search, Google Image Ads & More
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November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
SEO Video Recap: Big Google Movemeber update, Google pushing AI content at scale, Google Discover fixing fake AI news, Copilot Search launching and Google image text ads, plus more www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnis...
Google Ads advertiser suspensions reduced incorrect suspensions by 80%, appeals are addressed 70% faster and 99% of appeals are resolved within 24 hours
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Google Ads Improves Advertiser Suspension
Google said it has made significant improvements to the Google Ads advertiser suspensions. Google said it reduced incorrect suspensions by 80%, appeals are addressed 70% faster and 99% of appeals are ...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Google Ads advertiser suspensions reduced incorrect suspensions by 80%, appeals are addressed 70% faster and 99% of appeals are resolved within 24 hours
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Google doesn't recommend you make a new Google Ads account to get your LSAs to perform better www.seroundtable.com/close-google...
Google Says Don't Close Your Google Ads Account To Make Local Service Ads Work
Supposedly, there is this "hack" to "crack the code" to make your Local Service Ads work in Google Ads that is fake and not recommended. Folks are saying if your LSAs are not working, you should close...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Google doesn't recommend you make a new Google Ads account to get your LSAs to perform better www.seroundtable.com/close-google...
Google AI Shopping features: AI Mode comparisons, call a store, track prices, agentic checkout and Gemini shopping www.seroundtable.com/google-shopp...
Google AI Mode Comparisons, Call Store, Track Price & Agentic Checkout
Google announced a bunch of AI-based search features for Google Shopping, AI Mode and Gemini for the holiday season. Google is rolling out the AI Mode comparison feature (we saw it earlier), calling ...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Google AI Shopping features: AI Mode comparisons, call a store, track prices, agentic checkout and Gemini shopping www.seroundtable.com/google-shopp...
Google Ads standard shopping campaigns gets brand inclusions support www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-s...
Google Ads Standard Shopping Campaigns Gets Brand Inclusions
Google Ads is bringing brand controls, like brand inclusion support, to Standard Shopping campaigns. This was supported for PMax and AI Max camapigns but now are showing up for Standard Shopping camp...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Google Ads standard shopping campaigns gets brand inclusions support www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-s...
Google AI Overviews impression / position tracking in Search Console is tricky www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-ov...
Google AI Overviews Dynamic Link Placement Makes Search Console Tracking Tricky
Google has clearly documented how it tracks link clicks, impressions and positions for AI Overviews in this help document. But if you ever saw an AI Overview and interacted with them, you'd know that ...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Google AI Overviews impression / position tracking in Search Console is tricky www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-ov...
Google in EU ad tech ruling offered two changes in its ad tech ruling but will still appeal www.seroundtable.com/google-propo...
Google Proposes Changes In EU Ad Tech Monopoly Case
Google proposed a number of changes in the €2.95B EU antitrust fine over its ad technology. The changes include changes to Google Ad Manager and increasing the interoperability between its tools. Go...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Google in EU ad tech ruling offered two changes in its ad tech ruling but will still appeal www.seroundtable.com/google-propo...
Android Jelly Bean being decapitated www.seroundtable.com/photos/andro...
Android Jelly Bean Decapitated
Here is a video from the GooglePlex, the Google offices in Mountain View, California of two people decapitating, removing the head, of the Android Jelly Bean statue. I assume they wanted some jelly be
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November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Android Jelly Bean being decapitated www.seroundtable.com/photos/andro...
Google Search ranking volatility heating up 🔥 www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...
Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated On November 12th
We are seeing some big movement and volatility in the Google Search results again, this one kicking up more yesterday, November 12th. This may be a continuation of the ongoing Movember update, which I...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Google Search ranking volatility heating up 🔥 www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...
Google launches Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor AI agents www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-a...
Google Rolling Out Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor
Google has been testing its AI advisor in Google Ads and Analytics since 2023, there were some bugs throughout that testing, promoted the test to the top menu and then Google renamed it Ads Advisor i...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Google launches Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor AI agents www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-a...
Google updated the review snippet documentation www.seroundtable.com/google-nesti...
Google Clarifies Nesting In Reviews & Aggregate Ratings
Google has updated the review snippet documentation to explain that site owners should avoid using multiple ways of indicating what's being reviewed, the search company announced. This is to make it c...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Google updated the review snippet documentation www.seroundtable.com/google-nesti...
Google-Pinpoint user agent www.seroundtable.com/google-pinpo...
Google Adds New User Agent For Google-Pinpoint
Google has documented a new user agent, a user-triggered fetcher, named Google-Pinpoint. "The Google-Pinpoint fetcher requests individual URLs that Pinpoint users specified as sources for their person...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Google-Pinpoint user agent www.seroundtable.com/google-pinpo...
Google Ads is experimenting with allowing you to import your X (and other social network) ad campaigns into Google Ads www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-i...
Google Ads Testing Importing X Ads & Other Social Campaigns
Google has confirmed it is testing a feature to import campaigns and assets from X and other social networks into your Google Ads campaign. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, confirmed this on Lin...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Google Ads is experimenting with allowing you to import your X (and other social network) ad campaigns into Google Ads www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-i...
Google Ads unacceptable phone number policy update worries some advertisers www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-u...
Advertisers Concerned With Updated Google Ads Unacceptable Phone Number Policy
Google will be updating its Unacceptable phone number policy on December 10, 2025 and that update is causing some anxiety for some advertisers. The policy update says that "phone numbers found to be ...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Google Ads unacceptable phone number policy update worries some advertisers www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-u...
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Google Creator Collective YouTube Guitar & Star
Google had an event celebrating the 20th year anniversary of YouTube and a bunch of YouTubers came out and posed with this Creator Collective YouTube guitar and star.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
YouTube star and guitar www.seroundtable.com/photos/googl...
Google Image Search ad carousel www.seroundtable.com/google-image...
Google Image Results New Text Ads Carousel
Google is testing showing normal search ads in an ad carousel at the top of the image search results on mobile. The ads take up a lot of the top real estate of the image results and can be scrolled fr...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Google Image Search ad carousel www.seroundtable.com/google-image...
Google Discover fake AI spam issue will be fixed, says Google www.seroundtable.com/google-disco...
Google Discover AI Spam Problem Fix Coming
Google is reportedly working on a "fix" for the AI spam that routinely shows up within users' Google Discover feed. Google issued a statement to the Press Gazette saying, "We’re actively working on a ...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Google Discover fake AI spam issue will be fixed, says Google www.seroundtable.com/google-disco...
Google Ads guide me AI chat www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-a...
Google Ads AI Guide Me Button In Policy Disapprovals
Google is now embedding its AI chat feature within the Google Ads advertiser console, specifically in some screens. The "Guide me" button that triggers an AI chat feature was spotted in the policy dis...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Google Ads guide me AI chat www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-a...
Google now lets you enter your shipping and returns information within Google Search Console, even without a Merchant Center account plus new structured data support www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...
Google Search Console Adds Shipping/Return Details Even Without Merchant Center Account
Google now lets you add your shipping and returns information within Google Search Console, even if you do not have a Google Merchant Center account. Previously, Google let you do this only if you had...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Google now lets you enter your shipping and returns information within Google Search Console, even without a Merchant Center account plus new structured data support www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...
Google Local Service Ads multiple message leads may result in higher discounts going forward www.seroundtable.com/google-local...
Google Local Service Ads Message Leads New Value-Based Pricing
Google emailed advertisers who are leveraging message leads within Google Local Service Ads telling them about the new value-based pricing. Basically, when a seacher uses the "Request multiple opinion...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Google Local Service Ads multiple message leads may result in higher discounts going forward www.seroundtable.com/google-local...
Bing site favicons at top of the search results that anchor you to that specific search result www.seroundtable.com/bing-site-fa...
Microsoft Bing Testing Site Favicons Anchors At Top Of Search Results
Microsoft is testing placing site favicons at the top of the Bing search results page that when clicked on, anchor you down to the specific search result on the page. This is a test, it does not alway...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Bing site favicons at top of the search results that anchor you to that specific search result www.seroundtable.com/bing-site-fa...
Google pool www.seroundtable.com/photos/large...
Large Google Pool
I believe we saw a photo of this pool before, but here is a wider angle showing the complete pool at the GooglePlex, the Google Mountain View, California office.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Google pool www.seroundtable.com/photos/large...
Microsoft Clarity required for third-party publishers or they won't get paid for clicks/impressions through Microsoft Advertising www.seroundtable.com/microsoft-cl...
Microsoft Clarity Required For Third Party Publishers
Microsoft is now requiring all third-party publishers to have Microsoft Clarity in order to be paid out for impressions and clicks from Microsoft Advertising.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Microsoft Clarity required for third-party publishers or they won't get paid for clicks/impressions through Microsoft Advertising www.seroundtable.com/microsoft-cl...
The Google negative review extortion scam form does seem to work www.seroundtable.com/google-negat...
Google Negative Review Extortion Scams Works
A month ago, we reported Google added a new form to report negative review extortion scams on your Google Business Profiles and local listings. Google also listed some tips on how to handle these exto...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The Google negative review extortion scam form does seem to work www.seroundtable.com/google-negat...
Google Search is not killing off schema www.seroundtable.com/google-is-no...
Google Is Not Killing Schema
Google's John Mueller confirmed that Google is not killing off all forms of schema and structured data support for Google Search. The question came up in a Reddit thread after Google's announcement a...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Google Search is not killing off schema www.seroundtable.com/google-is-no...