SEO Daily News Recap for Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Organic SEO & Search News
Google zero-click searches hit 68% in early 2026: Study – Google’s AI answers keep more users on-platform, with AI Overviews reducing CTRs and AI Mode could soon accelerate the trend.
What server logs reveal that SEO tools miss – Search engines leave behind a detailed record of every visit. Here’s how that data helps uncover hidden SEO issues at scale.
How AI forms opinions about your brand – Build a digital footprint that helps AI understand your expertise, recognize your credibility, and recommend your brand.
Paid Search & Platform Innovations
Google Ads New Campaign Guidance With Experiment Power Score – Google Ads has a new feature named Campaign Guidance that will give you an “Experiment Power” score that will show advertisers “the likelihood of achieving statistically significant results, along with actionable recommendations to improve your experiments and make informed decisions,” Google wrote.
Google Shopping Results Testing Linking Directly To Merchant Site – Google is testing directly linking to merchant/retailer websites, instead of to product listing overlays within the Google Shopping results.
Google Ads Top Pages Links – Google seems to be testing new “top pages” links within the Google Ads sponsored listings. These look like sitelinks or those old tags but they are titled “Top pages.”
General Digital Marketing
Meta will use off-site activity to customize feed and AI responses – The company’s artificial intelligence chatbot will know what websites users have visited and use that information to tailor its algorithmic experiences.
Apple announced the new Apple Intelligence and Siri AI – Apple had its big annual developer conference, WWDC, and as expected, they spent a lot of time showing off the new Apple Intelligence and what they are calling Siri AI. Apple says Siri AI is “an entirely new version of Siri, powered by Apple Intelligence.”
Essential books for product builders—part 2 – 36 more timeless books that’ll make you a better builder, leader, and person.
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Organic SEO & Search News
SEO Daily News and Algorithm Updates
Meta’s lax community standards have led to increased harassment
A new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that hateful comments on Facebook have quadrupled since 2025.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 9, 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.
Apple announced the new Apple Intelligence and Siri AI…
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google zero-click searches hit 68% in early 2026: Study
Google’s AI answers keep more users on-platform, with AI Overviews reducing CTRs and AI Mode could soon accelerate the trend.
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Search Engine Land
Google AI Mode Testing Citation Counts & Favicons Under Results
Google is testing moving the results count with favicons from above the citations and links cards in the AI Mode results, to under/below the citations and links cards. I am not sure if this will make a difference either way to publishers, but Google is always testing changes.
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Search Engine Roundtable
In 2026, Less than One Third of Google Searches Still Send a Click – SparkToro
In the first four months of 2026, a whopping 68.01% of Google searches ended without a click. Thanks to AI features, instant answers, UI elements that
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SparkToro
Technical SEO
What server logs reveal that SEO tools miss
Search engines leave behind a detailed record of every visit. Here’s how that data helps uncover hidden SEO issues at scale.
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Search Engine Land
SEO Tools and Data Analysis
Claude Fable 5 review: what the new Mythos model gets right (and very wrong)
Watch now | 🎙️Early access to Claude Fable 5: what Anthropic claims, what I tested, and my honest take
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Lenny’s Newsletter
AI and Machine Learning in SEO
Meta will use off-site activity to customize feed and AI responses
The company’s artificial intelligence chatbot will know what websites users have visited and use that information to tailor its algorithmic experiences.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Why your brand campaign may not be ready for AI Max
AI Mode eligibility isn’t enough reason to expand automation. Learn where to focus before testing AI Max on brand traffic.
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Search Engine Land
How AI forms opinions about your brand
Build a digital footprint that helps AI understand your expertise, recognize your credibility, and recommend your brand.
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Search Engine Land
Apple Announces Siri AI
Apple had its big annual developer conference, WWDC, and as expected, they spent a lot of time showing off the new Apple Intelligence and what they are calling Siri AI. Apple says Siri AI is "an entirely new version of Siri, powered by Apple Intelligence."
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Search Engine Roundtable
Career Development and Industry Trends
Meta launches America’s Workforce Academy
The regional jobs and training program will partner with local construction companies in areas where the company is building data centers.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Essential books for product builders—part 2
36 more timeless books that’ll make you a better builder, leader, and person
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Lenny’s Newsletter
E-commerce and Affiliate SEO
Meta launches pop-ups in Best Buy stores
The Meta Lab retail locations will offer 900-square-foot in-store experiential spaces to test artificial intelligence-powered devices in the U.S. and Canada.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Google Shopping Results Testing Linking Directly To Merchant Site
Google is testing directly linking to merchant/retailer web sites, instead of to product listing overlays within the Google Shopping results. Generally, when you click on a product within Google Search, Google will open a new side panel overlay window that has more details about that product.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Paid Search & Platform Innovations
Paid Search and Advertising
Snapchat releases data on video ad performance
The app used eye-tracking and a brand equity framework to determine how its user base responded to branded Commercials on Snapchat.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
TikTok shares performance data on FMCG campaigns
A study on the effectiveness of on-platform fast-moving consumer goods ads explored the impact of promotions on offline sales.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Google Ads Top Pages Links
Google seems to be testing new "top pages" links within the Google Ads sponsored listings. These look like sitelinks or those old tags but they are titled "Top pages."
Source:
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads New Campaign Guidance With Experiment Power Score
Google Ads has a new feature named Campaign Guidance that will give you an "Experiment Power" score that will show advertisers "the likelihood of achieving statistically significant results, along with actionable recommendations to improve your experiments and make informed decisions," Google wrote.
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Search Engine Roundtable
