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Meta Launches Ray Ban AI Glasses in More Regions

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

05/21/25

The expansion will give Meta a stronger foundation for its expanded wearables push.

Google AI Mode Is Here, But You Can’t Track It Properly

Source: General SEO - SEO Blog by Ahrefs

By: Patrick Stox

05/21/25

Google just rolled out AI Mode to US users. I was testing if the clicks would show in Google Search Console, without any success. A post by Tom Critchlow

Snapchat May Soon Unpin Its ‘My AI’ Chatbot From the Top of Your Chat Feed

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

05/21/25

Despite a lot of people engaging with its AI tool, Snap knows that it’s not for everyone.

Technical SEO Manager ~ Twinkl ~ £38-45k ~ Remote (UK)

Source: In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com

By: SEOJobs

05/21/25

Location: UK (Fully remote – Must be UK-based) Annual Salary: £38k – £45k (DOE) Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week, Mon-Fri Contract: Permanent Line Manager: Paul Beer Recruiter: Charlotte Harris The…

TikTok Adds a Dedicated AI Assistant for In-App Sellers

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

05/21/25

TikTok’s new “Seller Assistant” will provide guidance to help optimize your TikTok Shop listings.

Meta Shares Insights on the Business Benefits of Open Source AI

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

05/21/25

A look at how businesses view adoption of Meta’s open source Llama AI models.

TikTok Expands Music Options With SoundCloud Integration

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

05/21/25

A new way to expand music discovery via TikTok clips.

SEO & Growth Marketer ~ Shortcut ~ $75-100k ~ Remote (US)

Source: SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com

By: SEOJobs

05/21/25

Growth Marketer At Shortcut, we’re on a mission to help modern product and engineering teams focus on building great software, not managing the work around it. Our fast, collaborative platform supports the…

Google Announces a Range of AI Powered Ad Updates at Marketing Live

Source: Social Media Today - Latest News

By: Andrew Hutchinson

05/21/25

Google’s rolling out a range of AI-powered tools for advertisers.

SEO Manager ~ MongoDB ~ $76-149k ~ Remote (US)

Source: In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com

By: SEOJobs

05/21/25

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run…

Google Brings Ads to AI Mode

Source: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Trends, Techniques & Marketing

By: Kendra Barnett

05/21/25

The search giant is inserting ads into its AI answers, as users ask more commercial questions

Intercom’s decisive bet on AI

Source: Kyle Poyar’s Growth Unhinged

By: Kyle Poyar

05/21/25

Co-founder Des Traynor takes us behind the scenes

Top ways to ensure your content performs well in Google’s AI experiences on Search  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

Source: Google Search Central Blog

05/21/25

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 21, 2025

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

05/21/25

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google I/O was yesterday and…

The AI Bots That ~140 Million Websites Block the Most

Source: Data & Studies - SEO Blog by Ahrefs

By: Patrick Stox

05/21/25

We looked at ~140 million websites and our data shows that block rates for AI bots have increased significantly over the past year.

Google AI Mode Live In US; Tests Deep Search, Live Search, Personalization, Custom Charts, Shopping & Agentic Features

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

05/21/25

Google had a lot of news out of Google I/O, as you would expect. The big item, which we predicted, was that AI Mode is now available to all US searchers without…

Google AI Overviews Expand To More Showing 10% Query Growth

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

05/21/25

Surprise, surprise, as I called it, Google is expanding AI Overviews into more regions. I mean, we saw this being leaked a couple of weeks ago, so it is not shocking news….

Google I/O 2025 Search Ranking Volatility

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

05/21/25

Google Search seems to be super volatile today and yesterday, so I will call this the Google I/O 2025 Google unconfirmed update. I am seeing a spike in chatter within the SEO…

Google AI Overviews With Hidden Links

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

05/21/25

Google seems to be testing hiding the citations, link icons, for the AI Overviews default view. So when the AI Overview first loads in the Google Search results, the link icon is…

SEO Daily News Recaps for Tuesday, May 20, 2025

05/21/25

SEO Daily News Recap for Tuesday, May 20, 2025 Organic SEO & Search News Google Search Testing Link Icon Box With Anchor Feature – Google is testing a new link feature in…

Google Business Profiles Right Knowledge Panel Missing Bug

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

05/21/25

For the past few weeks or so, Google has a bug where the right side knowledge panel goes missing for business owners when you try to bring up your business listing in…

Google AI Overviews With Author Names & Links

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

05/21/25

Google seems to be testing showing author names and website citations in the AI Overviews. I am honestly not sure if this is new but Christian Kunz said it was and posted…

Structured Data in the AI Search Era

Source: BrightEdge blogs

By: Lem Park

05/21/25

Structured data is a way to label and organize the information on your webpages so machines (and AI) can understand it. Google defines it as “a standardized format for providing information about…

You’ve Done the Audience Research… Now What? – SparkToro

Source: SparkToro

By: Amanda Natividad

05/21/25

This is a guest post by Tommy Walker, founder of The Content Studio. Tommy was the Editor-in-Chief at ConversionXL, the first marketing hire at Shopify

Last Click Attribution is Dead: Here’s How to Fix it [MozCon 2025 Speaker Series]

Source: moz (en-US)

05/21/25

Tired of last-click attribution stealing all the credit? Learn how to build a smarter, full-funnel model that finally proves SEO’s true impact

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