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Lenny’s Newsletter

Google may be about to widen the SEO playing field

Court testimony and new Google research suggest Google could soon evaluate a much larger pool of pages for rankings.

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Search Engine Land

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 11, 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.

Google officially drops support for FAQ rich results, which impacts almost no one. Google Ads site visits assets are officially documented. Google vehicle ads now support standard shopping campaigns. Google Merchant Center adds more out-of-stock options. Google Tag Manager is coming to the Google Ads interface…

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Search Engine Roundtable

More Links Are Coming to AI Overviews

Search remains fluid and uncertain. Don’t rush into abandoning once-effective tactics; add new ones instead.

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SEO – Practical Ecommerce

Google Drops FAQ Rich Results From Search

Google announced on Friday that Google Search, as of May 7th, no longer shows FAQ rich results within the Google Search results. Google will also drop reporting on it within Google Search Console and the respective APIs in the future.

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Search Engine Roundtable

How to Use Google Trends for E-Commerce Growth

Google Trends is a useful tool for e-commerce businesses of all sizes, but some of its limitations can be frustrating. This guide explains what you need to know.

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Unknown Source

We Tracked 1,885 Pages Adding Schema. AI Citations Barely Moved.

We tracked 1,885 pages that added JSON-LD and measured the impact on Google AIO, AI Mode, and ChatGPT citations. Here’s what the data shows.

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Data & Studies – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

Adthena launches ChatGPT ads intelligence platform

Adthena’s new platform gives advertisers a clearer view of competitors and performance inside ChatGPT’s ads ecosystem.

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Search Engine Land

Google Tag Manager Coming To Google Ads Interface

Google may be integrating Google Tag Manager directly into the Google Ads interface. The integration of Tag Manager also comes with a new interface and user experience.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Winning the next era of local visibility: How AI is changing local search

Learn how to optimize for AI-driven discovery across Google Search, Maps, and Gemini in this exclusive webinar with SOCi and Google.

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Search Engine Land

The legal consequences of using AI — and the safest way to do it

AI creates growing risks around copyright, privacy, misinformation, and compliance. Here’s how organizations can reduce legal exposure.

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Search Engine Land

Spec-driven development: The AI engineering workflow at Notion | Ryan Nystrom

Watch now | 🎙 Ryan Nystrom (Notion) shows how to automate standups, ship PRs from a single comment, and use spec-first development so agents do the coding while you do the thinking

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Lenny’s Newsletter

YouTube publishes brand growth playbook

The guide offers suggestions for building businesses on the platform and tapping into the evolving creator marketplace.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Threads updates its branding

The platform rolled out a new logo and font as it continues to grow its user base and compete with larger apps such as X for market share.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Google rolls out Merchant Center for Agencies globally

Agencies can now manage and optimize product data across all clients in one place as Google expands Merchant Center globally.

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Search Engine Land

Google Merchant Center Adds More Out-of-Stock Options

Google has updated its Google Merchant Center landing page requirements help documentation to expand and offer more options for out-of-stock products. Google wants you to "ensure your landing page clearly displays product availability for online purchases."

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Search Engine Roundtable

Instagram tests captions on each post within carousels

The option would give users more opportunity to add context, and potentially generate more engagement with their carousel updates.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Snapchat hosts AR developer bootcamp

The event last month was intended to help boost creative collaboration between the most active Spectacles developers ahead of the Specs device release.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

YouTube is testing clear screen viewing for Shorts

The option would let users hide on-screen function buttons, and is already available on competitor platforms such as TikTok and Reels.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

TikTok launches ad-free offering in U.K.

The subscription model lets users pay a monthly fee to disable data tracking for targeted promotions, in line with current regulations.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Google Ads to auto-link YouTube channels starting June 10

Advertisers will soon gain automatic access to YouTube engagement data and audiences, without needing to manually connect accounts.

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Search Engine Land

Why PPC AI agents fail without business data

Without CRM, margin, and operational context, PPC agents risk improving platform metrics while hurting business performance.

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Search Engine Land

Why Google Ads, GA4 and CRM numbers never match

Attribution models, reporting windows, and customer journeys all create measurement gaps between ad platforms, analytics tools, and CRMs.

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Search Engine Land

Google Vehicle Ads Now Supported In Standard Shopping Campaigns

Google now allows you to run vehicle ads in your Standard Shopping campaigns. Previously, this was only available in Performance Max for Vehicle ads only, according to PPC News Feed.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ads Site Visits Assets Official Docs

Google Ads has posted new help documentation on site visits assets, which we covered as tests numerous times – the label that says how many people visited the site. Well, now there is official documentation for it and we know they are officially called site visits assets.

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Search Engine Roundtable