SEO Daily News Recap for Monday, July 7, 2025
Organic SEO & Search News
Bluesky Gives Users More Control Over their Notifications – More ways to customize your Bluesky experience.
YouTube Enables Creators to Share More Data with Brands to Secure Partnership Opportunities – YouTube’s looking to maintain its lead as the best platform for creators to earn money.
YouTube Tests ‘Ask Studio’ Analytics Review Bot – The AI bot will provide data on channel performance, and where you can improve.
Meta Supports EU Push for New App Access Restrictions for Teens – Several EU member states are calling for an increase in age for social media access.
Paid Search & Platform Innovations
Meta’s Gifting Meta Verified to Selected Creators – Meta’s looking to boost interest in its paid verification offering.
Meta Launches Enhanced Marketing Messages in DMs – The updates feature will provide more ways to customize your DM outreach.
Google AI Mode Rolling Out To Workspace Accounts in the US – Google’s Nick Fox said that AI Mode has begun rolling out to Workspace accounts in the US.
Google Keyword Planner Update Lets You Segment By City, Region & Device/Platform – Google has pushed out an update to its keyword planner tool that gives you new forecast views to get predictions on your keywords.
General Digital Marketing
The Role of Digital PR in Being Recommended by AI-Powered Search – If you want your business to be recommended by LLMs and appear in AI Overviews, then you need to double down on digital PR.
Starting a Local SEO Agency? Read this First (7 Tips) – If you’re building a local SEO agency, here are some important tips to consider.
Mastering ChatGPT: Advanced techniques for workplace communication and productivity – A veteran product leader’s playbook for maximizing ChatGPT in your workplace.
Google Business Profiles Reverification After Suspensions Increases – Google is now requiring businesses that had their Google Business Profiles suspended to reverify at a higher rate than normal.
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Organic SEO & Search News
SEO Daily News and Algorithm Updates
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 7, 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.
Cloudflare’s CEO is confident Google will give them a way to block AI Overviews without it impacting normal search. Google AI Mode is supposedly rolling out to Workspace accounts in the US. Google Keyword Planner tool now gives you more ways to segment the data. Google is testing low…
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google Testing Low Price, Typical Price, High Price Labels In Search Result Snippets
Google is testing labeling search result snippets with "low price," "typical price" and I assume "high price" directly in the search results. We’ve seen these for product grid results before, but I am not sure if we’ve seen them for normal search result snippets.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode Rolling Out To Workspace Accounts
Google’s Nick Fox said that AI Mode has begun rolling out to Workspace accounts in the US. Nick Fox said this started on July 2nd but he clarified later that it did not fully roll out to all accounts yet, but rather it is rolling out.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google Seems More Biased Towards Big Brands Than ChatGPT and Perplexity
I looked at the top 50 websites mentioned in Ahrefs Brand Radar for Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. This is across ~76.7M AI Overviews, 957k
Technical SEO
Cloudflare CEO: We Will Get Google To Provide A Way To Block AI Overviews
A week or so ago, Cloudflare announced it would block AI bots by default and offer a new pay per crawl initiative to compensate you all for your content that AI just consumes for free. But as most SEOs know, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews can’t be blocked without really blocking your site from Google Search.
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Search Engine Roundtable
AI-Generated Content Does Not Hurt Your Google Rankings (600,000 Pages Analyzed)
Does Google punish AI-generated content? We analyzed 600,000 pages to find out.
SEO Tools and Data Analysis
Edits Gets More Features to Help Manage Your Video Projects
Some more new features for Meta’s video editing app.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Google Keyword Planner Update Lets You Segment By City, Region & Device/Platform
Google has pushed out an update to its keyword planner tool that gives you new forecast views to get predictions on your keywords by regions and device/platform. The update also mentions that grouped ideas are now in your keyword ideas section.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Local SEO
Starting a Local SEO Agency? Read this First (7 Tips)
If you’re building a local SEO agency, you’ve probably heard every “growth hack” under the sun. Contracts. Cold calls. Overpromising. Churn and burn.
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Sterling Sky Inc
Google Business Profiles Reverification After Suspensions Increases
A number of local SEOs are stating that Google is now requiring businesses that had their Google Business Profiles suspended to reverify at a higher rate than normal. Meaning, the business needs to go through the verification process again to be activated within Google Business Profiles.
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Search Engine Roundtable
AI and Machine Learning in SEO
YouTube Tests ‘Ask Studio’ Analytics Review Bot
The AI bot will provide data on channel performance, and where you can improve.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
The Role of Digital PR in Being Recommended by AI-Powered Search
If you want your business to be recommended by LLMs, and appear in AI Overviews, then you need to double down on digital PR. Or start investing in it if you’re not already. And no, I’m not just saying this because I’m the founder of a digital PR agency. Keep reading and you’ll see all the examples you need to understand why digital PR, or the brand signals that it drives, is a fundamental part of being visible in this new era of search. .takeaways-card { background-color: #f8fafc; border-radius: 8px; box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08); max-width: 100%;
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Digitaloft
Mastering ChatGPT: Advanced techniques for workplace communication and productivity | Hiten Shah
A veteran product leader’s playbook for maximizing ChatGPT: load projects with context, create frameworks, and build AI versions of yourself and your colleagues
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Lenny’s Newsletter
Content Marketing and Strategy
Meta Launches Enhanced Marketing Messages in DMs
The updates feature will provide more ways to customize your DM outreach.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
User Experience and SEO Optimization
Bluesky Gives Users More Control Over their Notifications
More ways to customize your Bluesky experience.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Meta Supports EU Push for New App Access Restrictions for Teens
Several EU member states are calling for an increase in age for social media access.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Paid Search & Platform Innovations
Paid Search and Advertising
YouTube Enables Creators to Share More Data with Brands to Secure Partnership Opportunities
YouTube’s looking to maintain its lead as the best platform for creators to earn money.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Meta’s Gifting Meta Verified to Selected Creators
Meta’s looking to boost interest in its paid verification offering.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Google Hotel Ads With Nearby Placement Units
Google seems to be testing a new ad unit for hotel or nearby listings that have big blue buttons to book at the site being listed. I am honestly not sure if this is new but I am told it is.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Job Postings
Job Postings
7/7/2025
Organic Growth Strategist ~ Omniscient Digital ~ $80-90k ~ Remote (US)
Omniscient Digital is an organic growth agency that partners with ambitious B2B SaaS companies like SAP, Adobe, Loom, and Hotjar to turn SEO and content into growth engines. Omniscient Digital is an organic growth agency that partners with ambitious B2B SaaS companies like SAP, Adobe, Loom, and Hotjar to turn SEO and content into growth […]
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SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com
Job Postings
7/7/2025
SEO Director (AEO, GEO, LLM) ~ Argano ~ $136-160k ~ Remote (US)
About the Role We are seeking a strategic, data-driven Director of Marketing Analytics, Performance, and SEO to lead the development of SEO, AEO, GEO and LLM-driven search optimization strategy, marketing dashboards, performance models, and measurement frameworks that connect all marketing activity to business outcomes. This highly visible individual contributor role will serve as the architect […]
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SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com
Job Postings
7/7/2025
SEO Content Specialist ~ Paytronix ~ $65-70k ~ Remote (US)
Thank you for your interest in Paytronix! Please note that all correspondence with Paytronix employees will come from either an @paytronix.com or @theaccessgroup.com domain. Paytronix is a cloud-based digital guest engagement platform for the hospitality industry. Our innovative, unified platform provides loyalty programs, online ordering, gift cards, branded mobile applications, and strategic insights to more than 1,800 leading restaurant […]
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In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com
Job Postings
7/7/2025
Sr. SEO & Ecommerce Manager ~ First American ~ $109.6-146.1k ~ Remote (US)
Who We Are Join a team that puts its People First! As a member of First American’s family of companies, First American Home Warranty offers a wide range of home warranty products and services to home sellers, buyers and agents. Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They […]
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In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com