SEO Daily News Recap for Monday, June 9, 2025
Organic SEO & Search News
Google Search Calm Storm – Weekend Ranking Volatility But Chatter Calm – Despite high volatility in ranking tools, SEO community chatter remains surprisingly calm, signaling unusual activity in the search landscape.
Google Business Profiles Disappearing – Reports indicate that some Google Business Profiles are mysteriously vanishing, prompting Google to investigate this concerning issue.
SEO for Google’s AI Fan-Out Results – Google’s latest AI Mode introduces “query fan out” results, revolutionizing search experiences with a new concept in search algorithms.
Paid Search & Platform Innovations
Meta Launches Opportunity Score to All Advertisers – Meta introduces Opportunity Score, an AI-powered tool offering advertisers valuable recommendations to enhance ad performance on the platform.
Google Ads Issue – Maybe Ads Not Displaying – Google acknowledges an issue impacting Google Ads display, promising to investigate and provide updates on the situation.
YouTube Eases Content Restrictions to Align with Trump Administration – YouTube adapts its content moderation policies to align more closely with principles of freedom of expression.
General Digital Marketing
Trump Indicates That He’ll Grant Another Extension on US TikTok Sell-Off – Plans for a second extension on the US TikTok sell-off deadline signal ongoing uncertainty in the social media landscape.
Meta Adds Assistance for Vision Impaired Users in Ray Ban AI Glasses – Meta expands accessibility features for vision-impaired users, enhancing the functionality of its AI-powered Ray Ban glasses.
Instagram Adds New Prompts to Showcase Your Performance Stats – Instagram introduces new ‘Milestone’ and ‘Recap’ prompts to help users celebrate and showcase their achievements on the platform.
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Organic SEO & Search News
SEO Daily News and Algorithm Updates
Trump Indicates That He’ll Grant Another Extension on US TikTok Sell-Off
TikTok’s second 75-day extension runs out next week.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Threads Continues to See Strong Download Momentum in May
Meta continues to dominate the social app top download charts.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
YouTube Eases Content Restrictions to Align with Trump Administration
YouTube is advising its moderators to align more with "freedom of expression."
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Google Search Calm Storm – Weekend Ranking Volatility But Chatter Calm
Normally, when I see a lot of chatter within the SEO community, I also see the third-party Google search ranking volatility tools heat up. Now I am seeing the tools heat up in a very big way over the weekend but the SEO chatter within the SEO community being super calm – which is super unusual.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 9, 2025
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Search Engine Roundtable
Bing PubHub Is Being Retired
Bing PubHub is being retired, exactly when, I am not sure, but it is going away. Microsoft posted the notice in Bing Webmaster Tools and it links to a document that says "PubHub will no longer be accepting new publisher applications effective immediately" but doesn’t say when it will completely go away.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search App Testing Live Search
Google recently rolled out the Live Search feature in the Gemini app. But now Google was caught testing that Live Search feature directly in the main Google Search app, the Google App.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profiles Disappearing
Over the past week I’ve been hearing that some Google Business Profiles are vanishing or disappearing. I am told that Google is aware of the complaints and are investigating, but that was last week.
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Search Engine Roundtable
SEO Tools and Data Analysis
Finding Long Conversational Style Query Data In Google Search Console
Ever want to find query data in Google Search Console where the query is a conversational query style? The long long queries that give you insight into how people may be finding your content via AI search engines, the ones where people talk their query and not type them?
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Search Engine Roundtable
AI and Machine Learning in SEO
Initial Thoughts on Google AI Mode
AI Mode could upset the web’s fragile traffic ecosystem, further reducing traffic to publishers with AI-generated summaries and limited source attribution.
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SEO for Google News
Google AI Mode Will Be Incorporated Into Web Search Overtime
Lex Fridman had a really great interview with Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai. In that interview, Sundar explained that the "current plan is AI mode" will remain in a separate tab but over time, Google will "keep migrating it to the main page." Meaning, Google will move AI Mode features into AI Overviews and the main search experience.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Gamma’s Head of Design on how his team uses AI to synthesize feedback, generate on-brand imagery, and maintain design quality while serving users in 60+ countries | Zach Leach
Watch now | Analyze feedback at scale with ChatGPT, spin up on-brand visuals in Midjourney, and hire smarter—with Gamma’s head of design, Zach Leach
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Lenny’s Newsletter
SEO for Google’s AI Fan-Out Results
Google’s new AI Mode delivers "query fan out" search results. The term is new, but the concept is not.
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SEO – Practical Ecommerce
Content Marketing and Strategy
Readability of Spanish Texts: Alternative Metrics to ‘Flesch Reading Ease’? – Screaming Frog
When we face the challenge of examining the readability of content in web projects, we find well-known publications and metrics such as Flesch Reading Ease. The importance of these metrics lies in something simple that we should keep in mind: if our texts or contents are not easily understood, we…
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Screaming Frog
User Experience and SEO Optimization
Instagram Adds New Prompts to Showcase Your Performance Stats
New ‘Milestone’ and ‘Recap’ elements will help you celebrate your wins.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Meta Adds Assistance for Vision Impaired Users in Ray Ban AI Glasses
Meta continues to expand the use-case options for its AI glasses.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
TikTok Reaches 30 Million UK Users
Britain is now TikTok’s largest EU user market.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Paid Search & Platform Innovations
Paid Search and Advertising
Meta Launches Opportunity Score to All Advertisers
Opportunity Score provides AI-powered recommendations on how to improve your Meta ads.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Google Ads Issue – Maybe Ads Not Displaying
Google has confirmed an issue with Google Ads this morning, saying, "We’re investigating reports of an issue with Google Ads. We will provide more information shortly."
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Search Engine Roundtable
Job Postings
Job Postings
6/9/2025
SEO Director ~ RevolutionParts ~ Remote (US)
RevolutionParts is not just a pioneering force in the automotive eCommerce realm; we’re actively seeking passionate and talented individuals to join our squad of Revolutionaries (yes, that’s what we call ourselves!). As leaders in providing streamlined, user-friendly solutions, we empower automotive brands to maximize online sales. Our commitment to technology, top-notch customer service, and a […]
Job Postings
6/9/2025
Sr. SEO Marketing Manager ~ Teamwork.com ~ Remote (UK)
Description Teamwork.com’s mission is to make teams who deliver client work become efficient, organised, profitable and happy! Our platform has revolutionised how companies keep their client projects on track, their resourcing in check and their profits on point. Combining powerful project management and easily streamlined operations—we’re the only platform built for managing client projects, profitably. […]
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In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com
Job Postings
6/9/2025
Sr. SEO Analyst ~ Porch Group ~ $86.3-120.8k ~ Remote (US)
Porch Group is a leading vertical software and insurance platform and is positioned to be the best partner to help homebuyers move, maintain, and fully protect their homes. We offer differentiated products and services, with homeowners insurance at the center of this relationship. We differentiate and look to win in the massive and growing homeowners […]
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SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com
