SEO Daily News Recap for Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Organic SEO & Search News
Snapchat Implements New Restrictions for Users Under 16: Younger teens won’t be able to share Spotlight videos or Stories outside of their mutual friend groups, although the change doesn’t impact Snaps.
LinkedIn Launches Creator Marketplace: The new section will offer brands an opportunity to partner with creators in the U.S. and Canada in order to reach their followers.
Instagram Extends Your Algorithm to the Main Feed: The feature allows users to customize their feeds and choose what topics they’re interested in, based on individual in-app activity.
Paid Search & Platform Innovations
6 Ways to Automate International Marketing with Agent A: Here’s how the Ahrefs international marketing team uses Agent A to automate their work.
Google Can Be Directly Liable for False AI Overview Claims: The injunction targets AI-generated accusations that tied two publishers to scams despite no support in the linked pages.
Google Zero Click Searches Fall To 27.6%: Rand Fishkin and friends released an ongoing Google zero-click study that showed zero-click searches from Google Search have been sending less and less traffic to the open web.
General Digital Marketing
Pinterest Adds Amazon Storefront Linking: Eligible creators can now include affiliate links in the Pins, allowing their followers to easily shop products directly from the app.
Publishers Push Common Crawl to Stop Collecting Content for AI Training: Could AI lose a key source of training data? Major publishers want Common Crawl to stop collecting and sharing their content.
When Google Stops Sending Clicks, What Still Works? – SparkToro: Less than a third of Google searches still send a click. Here’s what zero-click search actually means for your strategy — and the moves that still work.
Dive into our detailed sections for more insights and updates.
Organic SEO & Search News
SEO Daily News and Algorithm Updates
Instagram extends Your Algorithm to the main feed
The feature allows users to customize their feeds and choose what topics they’re interested in, based on individual in-app activity.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Snapchat announces activations for FIFA World Cup 2026
The app will offer new in-app fan gear, themed Lenses, and exclusive player insights and creator coverage of the games.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Google can be directly liable for false AI Overview claims: German court
The injunction targets AI-generated accusations that tied two publishers to scams despite no support in the linked pages.
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Search Engine Land
Publishers push Common Crawl to stop collecting content for AI training
Could AI lose a key source of training data? Major publishers want Common Crawl to stop collecting and sharing their content.
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Search Engine Land
Ginny Marvin clarifies AI Max, AI Search ads and what advertisers should prioritize after GML
Ginny Marvin shared details on AI Max, AI Search ads, measurement and first-party data in a wide-ranging Q&A.
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Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 10, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google Zero Click Searches Fall To 27.6%
Rand Fishkin and friends (Sparktoro and Similarweb) released an ongoing Google zero-click study that showed zero-click searches from Google Search have been sending less and less traffic to the open web and are declining at an even faster rate. In fact, the report says 68.01% of Google searches ended without a click and if you look at AI responses, it is more like only 27.6% of clicks go to the open web.
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Search Engine Roundtable
When Google Stops Sending Clicks, What Still Works? – SparkToro
Less than a third of Google searches still send a click. Here’s what zero-click search actually means for your strategy — and the moves that still work.
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SparkToro
Technical SEO
Schema.org Adds Usage Statistics
The folks over at Schema.org have added usage statistics to each schema type. So if you want to see which schema type is used more, you can just check Schema.org. For example, author schema is used on over 10 million domains but event schema is used on under 1 million domains.
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Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Tools and Data Analysis
How to make SEO reports more actionable
Turn keyword research, audits, and technical findings into clear recommendations stakeholders can prioritize and execute.
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Search Engine Land
How to make prompt tracking much more accurate
AI answers are variable, but measurable. Use repeated runs, confidence intervals, and journey tracking to separate signal from noise.
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Search Engine Land
Schema.org now shows you how many sites are using each schema type
Ever wonder how many sites are using a specific type of structured data element? Now you can know.
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Search Engine Land
International SEO
6 Ways to Automate International Marketing with Agent A
Here’s how the Ahrefs international marketing team uses Agent A to automate their work.
AI and Machine Learning in SEO
Apple Updates Applebot Docs To Include AI Models & More
Apple has made changes to its documentation for AppleBot to include crawling and usage for its AI efforts. There were other changes made to the document on June 08, 2026 as well.
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Search Engine Roundtable
E-commerce and Affiliate SEO
Pinterest adds Amazon Storefront linking
Eligible creators can now include affiliate links in the Pins, allowing their followers to easily shop products directly from the app.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
User Experience and SEO Optimization
Snapchat implements new restrictions for users under 16
Younger teens won’t be able to share Spotlight videos or Stories outside of their mutual friend groups, although the change doesn’t impact Snaps.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
LinkedIn launches its eighth puzzle game
Wend combines traditional word search puzzles with Wordle-style gameplay, and offers another way for users to engage in “friendly competition,” said a company exec.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
How real people actually prompt AI — and what it means for GEO
Survey data reveals how users combine short queries with personal context — and why that changes how brands earn visibility in AI search.
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Search Engine Land
Google is building an Audience Loyalty ecosystem
A common thread among many new Google features is how they enable publishers to build loyal audiences across all Google surfaces.
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SEO for Google News
Rejected Google Review Replies Analysis
A new study has been released that looks at the review replies that have been rejected by Google. Business owners take the time to reply to customer reviews and then Google deletes them, and often, the business owner has no idea the reply was deleted because Google does not notify anyone – Google just removes the review.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Paid Search & Platform Innovations
Paid Search and Advertising
LinkedIn launches its own Creator Marketplace
The new section will offer brands an opportunity to partner with creators in the U.S. and Canada in order to reach their followers.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Google Testing Blue Dotted Underlines Sitelinks On Sponsored Listings
Google is testing a new format for sitelinks within the search ads, sponsored listings. This format has the sitelinks underlined with blue dots. So these are blue dotted underlined sitelinks for Google Ads.
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Search Engine Roundtable
11 PPC errors uncovered in recent B2B audits
From broken conversion tracking to unmanaged automation, these common mistakes continue to waste budget, leads, and valuable learning signals.
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Search Engine Land






















