WhatsApp Underlines Commitment to Privacy in New Ad Campaign

WhatsApp’s looking to reassure users that their DMs remain private.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Meta Shares Usage Insights in FTC Trial

Some key insights into evolving social media trends.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Google Rolling Out Discover On Desktop

Since the weekend, Google has started to roll out Google Discover on desktop in many countries and regions. I personally can trigger it in Google New Zealand and some other locations but I am not yet able to trigger it on Google.com in the United States.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 19, 2025

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.

We saw some intense search ranking volatility over the past few days. Google seems to be rolling out Google Discover on desktop. Google Merchant Center says add the products brand name to the title. There is a weird Google Search Console sitemap error for some five-character subdomains. Google Search seems to be starting to migrating off its ccTLDs. Google Ads has this spending bug with new customer acquisition. Google AI Mode seems to be much faster now…

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search Console Sitemap Error For Some 5 Character Subdomains

Google has a weird and somewhat limited and rare issue with sitemap files within Google Search Console. These sitemap files cannot be fetched and retrieved by Google Search. The issue seems to be related to 5-character subdomains that are on a Polish ccTLD, .pl.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Bluesky Adds Support for Third Party Live Stream Indicators

Bluesky’s taking a more cost-effective approach to live-streaming.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Insights From 55.8M AI Overviews Across 590M Searches—A Study by Ahrefs

In traditional Ahrefs fashion, I wanted to do the largest data study ever done on AIOs to see what we could learn and share with the marketing community.

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Data & Studies – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

Snapchat Opens New Office in Paris as Part of Expanded EU Business Push

Snapchat’s opened a big new office space in Paris.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Google Search Starts Migrating Off Country Specific ccTLDs

A month ago, Google said it would soon redirect its ccTLD, country specific domains, for Google Search to its Google.com domain. So Google.de, as an example, would be redirected to Google.com. Well, that process seems to have kicked off on Friday, May 16th for some users.

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Search Engine Roundtable

74% of New Webpages Include AI Content (Study of 900k Pages)

We’re about to release our new AI content detector, so we decided to put it through its paces.

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Data & Studies – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

Google AI Mode Gets Faster

Google AI Mode seems like it got a lot faster over the past day or so. Instead of going through the steps of saying thinking about this, searching for results, organizing results, it just now saying kicking off searches and then looking at sites and then quickly shows the AI Mode response.

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Search Engine Roundtable

How custom GPTs can make you a better manager | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product at Whoop)

Watch now | Learn how Hilary Gridley uses custom GPTs to scale herself and free up time for higher-leverage work

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Lenny’s Newsletter

Google Merchant Center Says Add Product’s Brand Name To Title

Google has updated its title structured data help document for Google Merchant Center to now recommend you add the product’s brand name to the title of the product when it’s a differentiating factor.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Threads Tests Option to Create a Profile Separate from Instagram

Another step towards separating Threads from IG.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Meta Will Soon Enable Advertisers to Test Experimental AI Features

Meta’s launching a new program that will enable advertisers to try out its evolving AI ad tools.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Meta Adds Threads Feed Ads to its Marketing API

More ways to launch and manage Threads ad campaigns.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Google Ads Spending Bug With New Customer Acquisition

Google has a bug with Google Ads where for campaigns running on New Customer Acquisition they are not able to spend the set budget. This bug was confirmed with Google and has been an issue for advertisers since May 15th.

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Search Engine Roundtable

SEO, Social Media & Content Specialist ~ Alight ~ $41.9-66.6k ~ Remote (US)

Come make a difference and consider this unique opportunity to step into a rewarding career. Amazing Opportunity and Great Place to Work! Our Story At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues […]

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In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com

Sr. SEO Manager ~ Capitol One ~ $155.3-177.2k ~ Remote (US)

This is your opportunity to join the Digital Marketing Growth team on Capital One’s fast-growing consumer app, Capital One Shopping. We’re focused on scaling our products to millions of customers and refining the experience to create a product that customers can’t live without. We are looking for a Senior Manager, SEO to join our Capital […]

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In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com

Technical SEO Manager ~ Newfold Digital ~ Remote (US)

Who we are. Newfold Digital is a leading web technology company serving millions of customers globally. Our customers know us through our robust portfolio of brands. We have some of the industry’s most prominent and storied go-to-market brands, including Bluehost, HostGator, Domain.com, Network Solutions, Register.com and Web.com. We help customers of all sizes build a […]

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In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com