Concerns with third party partner could derail LinkedIn’s verification push

The company has continued to add more identification checks and balances, but questions remain regarding its verification partner Persona.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 2, 2026

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.

There is a Google patent document that implies Google Search might send searchers to AI-generated page of your site, and not your web page. Google search ranking volatility is heated into March. Publishers may be able to control their Google Discover profiles. Google Ads has this sponsored options in this area style. And I posted the monthly Google webmaster report.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Zero is a Lie

There is a narrative in publishing that Google traffic will mostly disappear. The real-world data strongly contradicts this. Accepting the narrative is extremely dangerous.

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SEO for Google News

March 2026 Google Webmaster Report: Google Discover Update, Listicles, Serving Bug & More

Are you ready for the monthly Google Webmaster report? Well, here is the March 2026 edition, where I sum up all the larger Google organic changes in one story, as a recap for you and me. First off was the first ever Google Discover core update that took over three weeks to roll out, finishing last Friday. We also had a lot of ongoing and very heated Google search volatility that we covered over the past month but no, Google has nothing to share on that topic.

Google did have a brief serving bug that it confirmed…

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google To Allow Publishers To Claim Google Discover Profiles?

Google might be allowing publishers to claim their profiles and publications on Google Discover. I mean, there were forms of this for Google News, Google Business Profiles, even Google Search over the years, but there are hints this is coming to Google Discover.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search Ranking Volatility Still Heated Into March

Google Search rankings remain heated into March – I mean, I can post about this every day but now I am at the point of just doing it weekly. We thought things might be cooling a bit, but the volatility really has not cooled much at all.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Update: 38% of AI Overview Citations Pull From Top 10 Pages

New data from 863K SERPs: just 38% of AI Overview citations come from top 10 pages, down from 76% a year ago. Here’s what changed.

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Data & Studies – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

Google uses both schema.org markup and og:image meta tag for thumbnails in Google Search and Discover

Google clarified this within its Google image best practices and Google Discover documentation.

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Search Engine Land

How to increase Google Discover traffic with technical fixes

Discover traffic is shifting toward social posts and AI summaries. Learn which publisher, image, and author signals still drive visibility.

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Search Engine Land

AI Bots Don’t Need Markdown Pages

Serving separate versions of a page to people and bots is not new. It’s called "cloaking."

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SEO – Practical Ecommerce

What is Query Fan-Out? Understanding the Hidden Queries Driving AI Search

Query fan-out is a technique used by AI search platforms that expands user queries into sub-queries to generate more comprehensive answers. Here’s everything you need to know about how it impacts your SEO.

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General SEO – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear AI copyright case

The decision upheld a lower court ruling that artificial intelligence-generated content does not have the same legal protections as human-created work.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

🎙️ This week on How I AI: 5 OpenClaw agents run my home, finances, and code & How Coinbase scaled AI to 1,000+ engineers

Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network

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Lenny’s Newsletter

How Coinbase scaled AI to 1,000+ engineers | Chintan Turakhia

Watch now | 🎙️ How to drive AI adoption in a 1,000+ engineer organization: from PR speed runs to feedback-to-feature automation and identifying power users through data-driven analysis

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Lenny’s Newsletter

Google Patent On Sending Searchers To AI-Generated Pages Over Your Site

There is a Google patent named AI-generated content page tailored to a specific user. It describes the use of AI to create custom landing pages and when a user performs a search, Google Search sends the user to the AI-generated page instead of the page on the company’s website.

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Search Engine Roundtable

How to revise your old content for AI search optimization

AI rewards clear answers and structured, retrievable content. Learn how to reformat, prioritize, and refine metadata for visibility.

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Search Engine Land

See how leaders bridge the engagement divide by attending ‘Engage with SAP Online’

On March 11, Mark Ritson and leaders from BMW, Essity, and Sinch break down what’s driving change in customer engagement, and how brands can keep up.

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Search Engine Land

Google expands recurring billing policy

Certified online pharmacies can now offer prescription drug subscriptions and bundled services under Google’s updated recurring billing policy.

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Search Engine Land

How Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol changes ecommerce SEO

Product feeds, structured data, and Merchant Center now determine visibility in Google’s AI shopping experience. Here’s the new SEO playbook.

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Search Engine Land

Google publishes Universal Commerce Protocol help page

Google released new guidance explaining how its Universal Commerce Protocol powers AI-driven checkout across its platforms.

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Search Engine Land

Almost half of the U.S. consumers use TikTok as a search engine

The app’s use as a discovery tool is rising as users turn to its short-form videos and personalized content to find information, according to research from Adobe.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

More teen social media bans are coming, but will they work?

While the world attempts to limit underage access to apps, teenagers continue to find new ways to bypass rules and undermine systems.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

X launches paid partnership labels for sponsored content

The new option is designed to provide additional transparency for brand partnerships and align the app with other social media platforms.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Own your branded search: Building a competitive PPC defense

Competitors and review sites are bidding on your brand. Here’s how to structure PPC campaigns that protect revenue and high-intent traffic.

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Search Engine Land

Google Ads Sponsored Options In The Area

Google Ads has often used dynamic labels for some of the ad groupings. I mean, we’ve seen tons of variations of these and I am not sure if they mean anything specific. But here is one that caught my eye, this is titled "Sponsored options in the area."

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Search Engine Roundtable

Web Writer/SEO Content Specialist

Job Description As the Web Writer/Content Specialist at Interactive Strategies, you’ll help shape digital experiences for organizations doing meaningful, high-impact work. We partner with leading nonprofits, associations, and B2B organizations to solve complex problems through smart strategy and clear storytelling. We’re a people-first, award-winning digital agency where good ideas matter, great execution is expected, and […]

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SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com

Marketing and Digital Communications Specialist (SEO, Content)

position summary Merjent, Inc. seeks a creative and experienced Marketing and Digital Communications Specialist to join our Growth team. The successful candidate will support the Marketing Manager with company-wide marketing initiatives. This position will focus on enhancing Merjent’s brand presence through digital channels, including the website, social media, and online campaigns, and through the design […]

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SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com

Performance Marketing Manager (SEO/SEM)

Job Description Cortica is looking for an innovative, results-driven Performance Marketing Manager to join our growing team! This role is responsible for leading the strategy, execution, and optimization of all paid and performance-driven digital marketing channels to achieve customer acquisition, engagement, and revenue growth goals. This role combines analytical rigor, strategic thinking, and cross-functional leadership […]

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In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com

SEO Strategist

*This role is remote and open to Latin America, Canada and Europe, working in EST* Description Hi! We’re LinkGraph, an SEO software company (and full-service digital agency) focused on engineering products and services that help websites improve their performance on Google. We are a rapidly growing organization with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to […]

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SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com