Organic SEO & Search News

YouTube Provides More Tools to Help Grow Your Channel Audience – More tools to help you grow your audience on YouTube.

Google June 2025 Core Update Rolling Out – Google officially announced the rollout of the June 2025 core update yesterday at around 10:37 am ET. This core update is expected to take about three weeks to roll out. Google said this “is a regular update designed to better surface relevant, satisfying content for searchers from all types of sites.”

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 1, 2025 – Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

The AI Trust Gap: 83% Are Skeptical, Yet Only 8% Always Check Sources – Original Exploding Topics survey data explores public sentiment on AI Overviews and AI-generated content, highlighting trust, skepticism, and shifting content consumption habits.

Paid Search & Platform Innovations

Meta Announces New Messaging Ad Options – Meta’s looking to help marketers tap into the rise of messaging.

Meta’s Rolling Out Threads DMs to All Users – All Threads users will now get access to a dedicated DM inbox.

Threads Adds Trending Topic Highlights In-Stream – Another step towards driving more active, real-time discussion in the app.

Google AdSense Adds New Privacy Law & Opt-Out Mechanism – Google AdSense has added new universal opt-out mechanisms and privacy controls due to new laws they must adhere to. These go across several US states.

General Digital Marketing

Reddit Launches New Ad Optimization Tips In-Stream – Data-backed pointers to help you improve your Reddit ad campaigns.

How to Build a Website (Start to Finish, With Walkthroughs) – You don’t need to be tech-savvy to build a website. With AI, you can bypass coding, hiring a developer, or staring at a blank page. This guide explains how.

Cloudflare To Block AI Crawlers By Default – Cloudflare, a company that powers about 20% of all web pages on the web, has announced it is now blocking AI crawlers by default. Plus, it is offering a new model to allow AI services to pay content creators to crawl their content, named Pay Per Crawl.