Daily Search Forum Recap: July 18, 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.

Google says ranking login pages are a challenge. Google Business Profiles has a new way to check the status of your edits. Google AI Overviews can show up for movie queries. Google Ads is rolling out smart bidding exploration for tROAS. Bing is testing sitelinks with light gray underlines. Google Analytics had a real time reporting bug. And I posted my weekly SEO video recap…

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Search Engine Roundtable

Video: Google June Core Update Done, Local Ranking Update, AI Mode Updates & AI Calling Businesses

Google’s June 2025 core update finished on Thursday after running for 16 days. It was a volatile Google update for a while with some recoveries. Google AI Mode gets Gemini 2.5 Pro and Deep Search but you need to pay…

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Search Engine Roundtable

Analyzing pages that improved following the June 2025 core update – Marie Haynes

Let’s take a look at some sites and pages that saw nice improvements following Google’s June 2025 Core Update. We’ll look at specific queries that improved and see if we can determine why Google’s new systems found them helpful. I recently speculated that Google’s new breakthrough in vector search called MUVERA will help Google do […]

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SEO Blog by Marie Haynes Consulting

Bing Testing Sitelinks With Light Gray Underlines

Microsoft is testing showing sitelinks with light gray underlines in the Bing search results. Normally, the Bing sitelinks don’t have any underline at all – but here Bing is testing this.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google AI Overviews For Movie Related Queries

Google is supposedly showing AI Overviews for movie-related queries. Apparently, this is new, although I don’t have firsthand knowledge since I don’t typically search for movies. However, I’ve been told it’s new by a number of sources.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Says Login Service Pages Are Hard To Rank In Search

Google’s John Mueller said it is hard for service oriented login web pages to rank in the search results. Like, if you have a landing page where people can login to their account and check on analytics, billing, etc, those types of login pages can be hard to rank well in Google and Bing Search.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Top 11 Software Development Trends (2025 & 2026)

We have gathered the top 11 software development trends that are bound to thrive in the coming years.

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6 Best Trend Spotting Websites (2025)

Trend spotting lets you discover new trends super early on — before competitors. We review five of the top trend spotting websites (for all industries).

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The Future of Social Media (2025-2027)

Discover how new platforms, e-commerce opportunities, and search optimization will shape social media in the coming years.

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Share of Search in 2025: How to Measure Visibility in SERPs and LLMs

Share of search is an important data point for assessing your brand health in 2025—our guide explains how to calculate this metric (and its equivalent for LLM search engines).

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Google Business Profile Check Edit Status

Google launched a new feature for Google Business Profiles that lets you check the status of your edits. So if you made a change and you want to see what the status of that change is for your Google local listing, now you can.

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Search Engine Roundtable

8.64% of AI Overviews Appear Outside Position #1 (And as Low as Position #6)

How often do AI Overviews show in different SERP positions? We analyzed 10M SERPs with AI Overviews to find out.

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Data & Studies – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

The Great Decoupling of Clicks and Impressions — Whiteboard Friday

Is your Google Search Console showing a trend of plummeting clicks and soaring impressions? Welcome to the Great Decoupling. In this episode of Whiteboard Friday, Tom explains how AI is fundamentally changing user behavior and what it means for your website’s strategy.

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Google Ads Rolling Out Smart Bidding Exploration To Some

Google Ads is rolling out its new Smart Bidding Exploration bidding update to some advertisers. At Google Marketing Live, Google called this its "biggest update to bidding in over a decade."

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Search Engine Roundtable

SEO & Growth Marketing Specialist ~ Rezolve Ai ~ Remote (US/CAN)

Who we are  Rezolve Ai (NASDAQ: RZLV), is redefining retail with cutting-edge AI solutions that transform the shopping experience. As a leader in Product Discovery, we empower retailers and brands with AI-driven search, conversational commerce, geofencing, and one-touch instant payments. With recent acquisitions of GroupBy and Bluedot, Rezolve is accelerating innovation at the intersection of AI, […]

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Growth Marketer (SEO, PPC, CRO) ~ WhatConverts ~ Remote (US)

Build Campaigns. Drive Trials. Own the Funnel. Growth Marketer Location: Fully Remote (USA) About WhatConverts WhatConverts is a B2B SaaS company specializing in marketing attribution and lead-tracking solutions. We empower businesses to make data-driven decisions by providing deep insights into their marketing campaigns and helping them understand what drives conversions. As a remote-first company, we […]

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