SEO Daily News Recap for Thursday, April 3, 2025
Organic SEO & Search News
Build a smarter SEO content strategy – Align your content with what people are actually searching for. X Shares Notes on Emerging Fashion Trends in the App – Some interesting, and somewhat confusing data from the X team. EU Seeking to Fine X $1 Billion for DSA Violations – This could get very messy for international relations. TikTok Adds Alt Text for Still Image Posts – A new addition to help maximize accessibility in the app. TikTok Now Enables You to Highlight Comments from Selected Profiles During Live Streams – Another option to stay on top of important interactions during live broadcasts. WhatsApp Adds New Ways for Businesses to Send Promotional DMs – New ways for businesses to reconnect with potential customers via DM.
Google launches automatic marketing content extraction – Google will pull information about promotions and products from merchants’ existing marketing materials to display across Search and beyond. How generative information retrieval is reshaping search – Generative AI is changing search. Goodbye blue links, hello AI answers. Learn what this shift means for the future of SEO and traffic. Daily Search Forum Recap: April 3, 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.
Do exact match domains have value in 2025? – Search engines favor authority and branding over keywords alone. Find out how to make your domain work for you. Google AI Review Summaries In Local Knowledge Panels – Last November, Google began using AI to generate review summaries in Google Maps. Well, now they seem to be showing up in the local knowledge panels on the right side of the Google Search results page.
Paid Search & Platform Innovations
TikTok Activates Latest EU Data Center, as EU Authorities Issue New Data Sharing Fine – TikTok’s set to be hit with a $552 million penalty just as it takes its next steps in separating EU user data. Meta Shares Insights into its Coming AR Glasses – Meta’s AR glasses are slated for release in 2027. YouTube Adds New Editing and Creative Options for Shorts – Some new editing and creative features for your YouTube Shorts.
Microsoft Bing Copilot Answers Serving Product & Shopping Results – Microsoft seems to be serving produt and shopping results within the Bing Copilot Answer boxes. When I first saw this I thought this was a bug, but it keeps happening and I can replicate this. Google Ads With Show More Overlay – We’ve seen a similar format in the Google Shopping results with a show more button to show more shopping ads but now we are seeing something similar within the main Google Search results. Google is testing overlaying a show more button on the second row of Google Shopping ads in the main search
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Organic SEO & Search News
SEO Daily News and Algorithm Updates
EU Seeking to Fine X $1 Billion for DSA Violations
This could get very messy for international relations.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
TikTok Activates Latest EU Data Center, as EU Authorities Issue New Data Sharing Fine
TikTok’s set to be hit with a $552 million penalty just as it takes its next steps in separating EU user data.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 3, 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.
We are seeing more Google Search ranking volatility kick off yesterday…
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Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Bing Copilot Answers Serving Product & Shopping Results
Microsoft seems to be serving produt and shopping results within the Bing Copilot Answer boxes. When I first saw this I thought this was a bug, but it keeps happening and I can replicate this.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google April Post Core Update Ranking Volatility
We are less than a week after the Google March 2025 core update finished rolling out and we are seeing some heated volatility again, maybe more heated than what we saw during the last core update.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Technical SEO
Do exact match domains have value in 2025?
Search engines favor authority and branding over keywords alone. Find out how to make your domain work for you.
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Search Engine Land
Why your site got deindexed from Google and what to do about it
Deindexing isn’t always a penalty. Learn how technical SEO mistakes, crawl issues, and content quality affect Google indexing.
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Search Engine Land
Local SEO
Google AI Review Summaries In Local Knowledge Panels
Last November, Google began using AI to generate review summaries in Google Maps. Well, now they seem to be showing up in the local knowledge panels on the right side of the Google Search results page.
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Search Engine Roundtable
AI and Machine Learning in SEO
How generative information retrieval is reshaping search
Generative AI is changing search. Goodbye blue links, hello AI answers. Learn what this shift means for the future of SEO and traffic.
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Search Engine Land
Content Marketing and Strategy
Build a smarter SEO content strategy
Align your content with what people are actually searching for.
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Search Engine Land
X Shares Notes on Emerging Fashion Trends in the App
Some interesting, and somewhat confusing data from the X team.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
YouTube Adds New Editing and Creative Options for Shorts
Some new editing and creative features for your YouTube Shorts.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Google launches automatic marketing content extraction
Google will pull information about promotions and products from merchants’ existing marketing materials to display across Search and beyond.
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Search Engine Land
E-commerce and Affiliate SEO
New Research: Google Free Listing Types (Popular Products, In Stores Nearby, Deals On & More)
Table of Contents sort-tool Analysis based on 3,049 eCommerce product queries ‘Deals On’ Free Listings Grid – 13.99% ‘In Stores Nearby’ Free Listings Grid – 14.73% ‘Fast Pickup or Delivery’ Free Listings Grid – 26.17% ‘More Products’ Free Listings Grid – 64.74% ‘Popular Products’ Free Listings Grid – 81.37% Findings SummaryEcommerce SEO has fundamentally changed […]
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SEO Blog by Brodie Clark
User Experience and SEO Optimization
TikTok Adds Alt Text for Still Image Posts
A new addition to help maximize accessibility in the app.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
TikTok Now Enables You to Highlight Comments from Selected Profiles During Live Streams
Another option to stay on top of important interactions during live broadcasts.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Google Maps Desktop Interface Promoting Mobile App
Google is testing promoting the Google Maps app in the desktop interface of Google Maps. Google is placing a little icon at the bottom left corner of the desktop interface that says "Mobile app." When you click on it, it takes you to an overlay that has links to the iOS or Android Google Maps app and a large QR to scan as well.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Paid Search & Platform Innovations
Paid Search and Advertising
WhatsApp Adds New Ways for Businesses to Send Promotional DMs
New ways for businesses to reconnect with potential customers via DM.
Source:
Social Media Today – Latest News
Google Ads With Show More Overlay
We’ve seen a similar format in the Google Shopping results with a show more button to show more shopping ads but now we are seeing something similar within the main Google Search results. Google is testing overlaying a show more button on the second row of Google Shopping ads in the main search results.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Uncategorized
Meta Shares Insights into its Coming AR Glasses
Meta’s AR glasses are slated for release in 2027.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Job Postings
Job Postings
4/3/2025
Global SEO Manager ~ Arcadis ~ $94.9-145.5k ~ Hybrid (Seattle, US)
Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most […]
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In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com
Job Postings
4/3/2025
SEO & Growth Associate ~ AvantStay ~ $65-70k ~ Remote (US)
Who We Are AvantStay delivers world-class, authentic, tech-enabled short-term rental (STR) group experiences targeted at the millennial generation. We are venture-funded and growing rapidly in the explosive $100+ billion STR industry. Our customized end-to-end experience is designed for groups and powered by technology at every layer. What We Are Looking For A dynamic Growth Associate […]
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In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com
Job Postings
4/3/2025
Sr. SEO Analyst ~ Acadia.io ~ Remote (WW)
About Acadia.io 2025 AdAge Best Places to Work 2024 AdAge A-List – Performance Marketing Agency of the Year 2023 & 2022 Best Places to Work, The Atlanta Business Chronicle Small Ad Agency of the Year AdAge (https://acadia.io/adage-names-acadia-a-small-agency-of-the-year) Acadia is a team of creative minds and driven marketing professionals. We’re a small but growing team! Our […]
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SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com
