Google updates Misrepresentation policy for Shopping Ads and free listings

Google clarifies its Misrepresentation policy, adding examples and guidance on compliance, delivery, and returns.

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CMA designates Google Search with ‘strategic market status’

Thid designation of Google Search could reshape how advertisers buy, measure, and compete for visibility across search and search ads.

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Search Engine Land

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 10, 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 Business Profiles has a new way to report review extortion scams. Google Analytics is showing a surge in organic search traffic for some sites, but Search Console is not showing it. Google Voice Search is now powered by Speech-to-Retrieval SR2. Google Ads has a new missed growth opportunities report. Microsoft posted a how to optimize for AI Search on its ad blog…

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Google Analytics Showing Surge In Organic Search Traffic But Search Console Flat

There are a nice number of reports of GA4, Google Analytics, showing a huge surge in organic search traffic over the past couple of days, but Google Search Console is not showing any increase, it remains flat. Some are suspecting this is the result of fake bot traffic not being filtered by GA4, but others are not sure.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Business Profile New Report Negative Review Extortion Scams

Google has published a new help document on the topic of Google Business Profile negative review extortion scams. The document explains what they are, how to report the scam, what to expect and more importantly, what not to do.

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Video: Google Search Ranking Volatility, AI Mode Expands Again, Business Profiles Insights, Bing Places Updates & Google and Microsoft Ad News

For the original iTunes version…

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Google Voice Search Now Using Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R)

Google has updated its Voice Search models to be powered by Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R). Google said this allows it to "gets answers straight from your spoken query without having to convert it to text first, resulting in a faster, more reliable search for everyone."

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Search Engine Roundtable

Your crawl budget is costing you revenue in the AI search era

Are you wasting crawl budget on the wrong pages? Learn how to protect revenue with smarter crawl strategies.

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Search Engine Land

The Latest Cyber Monday Statistics (2025)

How much revenue do retailers pull in on Cyber Monday? Here’s a breakdown of the most recent Cyber Monday, including the latest discount and shopping trends.

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Context Engineering Rises as Million-Token Context Windows Show Diminishing Returns

Context engineering is growing in popularity as an AI design and prompting approach. This trend will likely shape the future of AI development.

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Inside Google’s AI turnaround: The rise of AI Mode, strategy behind AI Overviews, and their vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein (VP of Product, Google Search)

Robby Stein on Google’s AI comeback: Gemini hits #1 beating ChatGPT, why AI is expanding the pie for search, and his frameworks behind two billion-user products

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How different AI engines generate and cite answers

See how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek differ in data sources, live web use, citation rules, and more.

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Search Engine Land

Ayisha Yousef talks turning Black Friday fails into lessons

Ayisha Yousef shares how a Black Friday blunder became a masterclass in leadership, accountability, and smarter campaign management.

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Search Engine Land

Instant Checkout in ChatGPT brings agentic commerce to life

Instant Checkout in ChatGPT connects users and merchants for secure in-chat purchases and AI-driven shopping experiences.

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Search Engine Land

Google Ads now flags low-quality images

Google Ads adds image quality recommendations to help advertisers improve creative performance and engagement across its ad surfaces.

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Search Engine Land

Microsoft Ad Blog Posts On How To Optimize For AI Search Answers

The Microsoft Advertising blog posted about how to optimize for AI Search Answers. I thought it was weird to see this on the Microsoft Advertising blog and not on the Bing Search blog, because (a) it is an ad blog and (b) it was written by Krishna Madhavan, who is part of the Bing team, not ad team.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ads Missed Growth Opportunities Report

Google is testing a new section within the Google Ads advertising console named "Missed Growth Opportunities." This section shows you the "performance you could’ve achieved in the last year if you’d adjusted your bids and budgets for campaigns with growth opportunities," according to Google.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Technical SEO Manager ~ Seer Interactive ~ $75,000-$95,000 per year ~ Remote (USA)

Seer Interactive is a digital marketing consultancy that harnesses compassion, data, and technology to make a mark on our communities – our coworkers, our clients, our industry, and our neighbors. We believe in relentlessly pursuing (and sharing) the truth – bringing together millions of data points from quantitative and qualitative sources to base our decisions […]

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GEO Expert ~ Peec AI ~ €85K – €110K + equity ~ In-Office ~ Berlin (DE)

What you’ll do Own SEO and GEO for the Peec AI brand and website Do research on GEO and share your learnings (on social media, blogs, etc.) Use our product every day and share feedback with the Product team Collaborate with our Data Scientists and AI Researchers to discover new optimization techniques Collaborate with our […]

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SEO Manager ~ Minted ~ $93,274-$156,951 ~ Remote (USA)

The Role: Minted is seeking an experienced and forward-thinking SEO Manager to manage, execute and evolve its organic search strategy. This role will be critical in helping Minted adapt to the changing landscape of Google search, AI-powered platforms and the growing role of structured content in driving discoverability. The SEO Manager will analyze, strategize, execute […]

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