SEO Daily News Recap for Monday, May 26, 2025
Organic SEO & Search News
LinkedIn Now Has a Searchable Database of All Promoted Jobs in the App – Expanded transparency into LinkedIn’s ad elements.
Generative Engines Are Breaking Web Analytics and Hurting Their Future – Search is moving from traditional search engines to generative engines, but traffic from many of these sites isn’t being tracked properly in analytics. It’s their fault, not yours.
Complaints About Google’s Live Broadcasting & Indexing API – SEO industry complaints around Google not indexing live broadcast content fast with the Google Indexing API.
Paid Search & Platform Innovations
Google Ads Help Document On Ads In AI Overviews & Experiences – Google releases new help document named About Ads and AI Overviews, plus a new landing page for Ads in AI-Powered experiences.
Google Shopping Testing New Menu Under Search Bar With Super G Logo – Google is testing a new menu under the search bar within Google Shopping with additional search options.
Google Ads Lowers Customer Lists Requirement For Target Network On Search Campaigns – Google Ads updated the data segment requirement for serving ads on the Google Search Network.
General Digital Marketing
Reddit Shares Insight into NBA Finals and Draft Discussion [Infographic] – Tap into the NBA conversation with insights from Reddit.
AI Content Marketing 101: Strategies from Someone Who Lives It – The importance of using AI in content marketing to stay ahead of the competition.
What 75,000 Brands Taught Us About Getting Mentioned in AI Overviews – Analysis of search factors influencing brand mentions in AI Overviews based on 75,000 brands.
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Organic SEO & Search News
SEO Daily News and Algorithm Updates
X Suffers Major Outages After Fire in US Data Center
X owner Elon Musk has vowed to give the platform more focus moving forward.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Bluesky Expands Profile Verification to All Notable Users
Bluesky’s also taking a different approach to scaling verification.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Complaints About Google’s Live Broadcasting & Indexing API
I am seeing a number of complaints from the SEO industry in India and those regions around Google not indexing live broadcast types of content fast with the Google Indexing API. There are quite a number of complaints on X this morning about the issue – to be clear, I cannot replicate it myself.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 26, 2025
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google Again Says Stop Using Indexing API For Unsupported Content
Google’s John Mueller once again told SEOs to stop using the Google Indexing API for unsupported content types. The Google Indexing API is supported for job postings and live stream content and nothing else, but yet many still try to use it for other types of content.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Technical SEO
Google Shopping Testing New Menu Under Search Bar With Super G Logo
Google is testing a new menu, tab bar, under the search bar within Google Shopping. This new bar most visibly has the super G logo and then contains additional options that take you to search, nearby, deals and for you searches.
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Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Tools and Data Analysis
Generative Engines Are Breaking Web Analytics and Hurting Their Future
Search is moving from traditional search engines to generative engines, but traffic from many of these sites isn’t being tracked properly in analytics. It’s their fault, not yours.
AI and Machine Learning in SEO
SEO for AI Mode, per Google
A new post on optimizing content for AI answers offers few new tactics but does hint at the future of organic search traffic.
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SEO – Practical Ecommerce
A 3-step AI coding workflow for solo founders | Ryan Carson (5x founder)
Watch now | A 5x founder’s playbook for working with Cursor: PRDs, task lists, and a structured system that makes vibe coding actually work
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Lenny’s Newsletter
What 75,000 Brands Taught Us About Getting Mentioned in AI Overviews
We analyzed 75,000 brands to see which search factors are most likely to influence brand mentions in AI Overviews. Here’s what we found.
Content Marketing and Strategy
Reddit Shares Insight into NBA Finals and Draft Discussion [Infographic]
Now’s the time to tap into NBA conversation.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
AI Content Marketing 101: Strategies from Someone Who Lives It
Maybe AI will replace everyone’s jobs someday. But right now, the real risk is not using it and falling behind everyone who is.
Paid Search & Platform Innovations
Paid Search and Advertising
LinkedIn Now Has a Searchable Database of All Promoted Jobs in the App
Expanded trasparency into LinkedIn’s ad elements.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Google Ads Help Document On Ads In AI Overviews & Experiences
Google has released a new help document named About Ads and AI Overviews, plus, they added a new landing page that contains a link to this single document named Ads in AI-Powered experiences. I assume Google will eventually add a new section named Ads and AI Mode in that document?
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Lowers Customer Lists Requirement For Target Network On Search Campaigns
Google Ads, sometime after June 2024 and November 2024, updated the size of your data segment requirement from 1,000 active visitors in a 30-day period to 100 active visitors in the same period. This is for the requirement to serve your ads varies based on the target network, specific to the Google Search Network.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Job Postings
Job Postings
5/26/2025
Sr. SEO Strategist ~ MindgruveMacarta ~ Remote (US)
We are a global digital agency comprised of strategists, creatives, media experts, data scientists, and engineers driven by one common purpose — accelerate business growth through marketing and digital transformation. Named a top 3% Google Premier Partner and recognized by Inc. 5000 and Adweek’s 75 Fastest Growing Companies, we’re constantly looking for “A” players to […]
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SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com
Job Postings
5/26/2025
Sr. SEO Specialist ~ WISE Digital Partners ~ $65-75k ~ Remote (US)
The Senior SEO Specialist will be responsible for implementing SEO strategies that increase the online presence and organic search success of our clients. Description Do you have experience with orchestrating SEO success? Ready to put your skills to work for growing businesses across different industries? If you’re looking to join a fast-growing digital marketing agency […]
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SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com
