SEO Daily News Recap for Friday, April 4, 2025
Organic SEO & Search News
5 key reasons SEO efforts fall short of business expectations – From outdated strategies to siloed reporting, explore why SEO underperforms and how to ensure your efforts translate into business growth.
SEO VS GEO: Optimizing for Traditional vs AI Search – International SEO Consultant, Aleyda Solis, compares AI Search vs traditional search results optimization, delving into search behavior, areas of optimization, KPIs, and goals to achieve.
Google Analytics rolls out Generated Insights feature – Google’s new feature helps decode data fluctuations, enabling faster ad campaign adjustments and smarter budget decisions.
Paid Search & Platform Innovations
Microsoft officially launches Copilot Search in Bing – The new way to see curated answers in Bing Search is now live after testing for a couple of months.
Google Demand Gen ads now feature landing page screenshots – Landing page previews added to Demand Gen campaigns boost engagement by providing a visual preview before clicking.
Google To Subscribe To Your Emails For Google Merchant Center – Google will use content from your email campaigns to enhance Google Search, Shopping, and Maps results.
General Digital Marketing
Trump Extends US TikTok Sell-Off Deadline Once Again – TikTok now has until June to work out a sell-off deal, allowing U.S. brands and businesses to continue marketing on the platform.
Apple’s Preference Ranking Guidelines Leaked – Leaked document reveals Apple’s scoring system for AI-generated responses, assessing harmfulness, truthfulness, satisfaction, and more.
Google Responds To Comprehensive Performance Max Report – Mike Ryan’s detailed report on Google Ads Performance Max campaigns prompts a response from Google’s Ginny Marvin, addressing concerns raised in the report.
Dive into our detailed sections for more insights and updates.
Organic SEO & Search News
SEO Daily News and Algorithm Updates
Trump Extends US TikTok Sell-Off Deadline Once Again
TikTok will now have till June to work out a sell-off deal.
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Social Media Today – Latest News
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 4, 2025
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Search Engine Roundtable
5 key reasons SEO efforts fall short of business expectations
From outdated strategies to siloed reporting, explore why SEO underperforms and how to ensure your efforts translate into business growth.
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Search Engine Land
Microsoft officially launches Copilot Search in Bing
After testing this for a couple of months, the new way to see curated answers in Bing Search is live.
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Search Engine Land
Trump extends TikTok sale/shutdown deadline by another 75 days
ByteDance has more time to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations, allowing U.S. brands and businesses to continue marketing on the platform.
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Search Engine Land
Microsoft Bing Related Image Search Box
Microsoft seems to be testing a new related image search box in the main web search results in Bing Search. I personally cannot replicate this, which I take as a sign that this is a test.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Testing Pill Favicon Design & Sitename Changes
Bing is testing a pill-shaped favicon design, like Google did a lot last year, and showing both the site name and the favicon in the pill design.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google Responds To Comprehensive Performance Max Report
Mike Ryan put together the single most comprehensive third-party report on Google Ads Performance Max campaigns. It is free, super detailed, easy to read and chock-full of useful information. And guess what, Google’s Ginny Marvin responded to some of the concerns in the report.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Video: Google Post Core Volatility, Brand Ranking, Reddit AI Translations & Google Ads Double Serving
This week, we covered some more Google Search ranking volatility, post-core update. I also posted some polls on the Google March 2025 core update. Google said they do not have a brand ranking system. Google is ranking AI-translated Reddit results, like crazy. Google can now also use your email content, not just website content…
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Search Engine Roundtable
Technical SEO
Google To Subscribe To Your Emails To Grab Content For Google Merchant Center
Google sent out a notification that it will automatically opt you into using content from your email campaigns to help Google know what to show in Google Search, Shopping, and Maps. It will look for content around new arrivals, sales or ongoing promotions, social media profiles, and others.
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Search Engine Roundtable
How to optimize your company’s Google knowledge panel
Knowledge panel cards are now live for corporate entities. Learn what’s new, how to trigger them, and why they’re key to brand visibility.
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Search Engine Land
SEO Tools and Data Analysis
Google Analytics rolls out Generated Insights feature to decode data fluctuations
Google’s new feature helps you decode data anomalies, enabling faster ad campaign adjustments and smarter budget decisions.
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Search Engine Land
How to Track and Analyze Your AI Traffic
AI is already a pretty formidable new growth channel. Here’s how to track your AI traffic in GA4 and Ahrefs Web Analytics.
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General SEO – SEO Blog by Ahrefs
AI and Machine Learning in SEO
Apple’s Preference Ranking Guidelines: Leaked doc reveals scoring system for AI-generated responses
An Apple document reveals how AI digital assistant responses are rated for harmfulness, truthfulness, satisfaction, and more.
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Search Engine Land
SEO VS GEO: Optimizing for Traditional vs AI Search – International SEO Consultant, Author & Speaker | Aleyda Solis
What’s the overlap between AI Search vs traditional search results optimization? I’ve created a comparison going through search behavior, areas of optimization and KPIs To track and Goals to achieve. I’ll be also sharing the chart in table format below along with more insights and resources. Stay tuned!
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SEO Blog by Aleyda
Paid Search & Platform Innovations
Paid Search and Advertising
Google Ads for ecommerce is a game of PMax, PMax, Pmax!: Report
The PMax evolution has dominated ecommerce ad spend (peaking at 82% last May) but faces some decline in its piece of the ecommerce pie.
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Search Engine Land
Google Demand Gen ads now feature landing page screenshots
The addition of landing page previews to Demand Gen campaigns could boost engagement by giving users a visual preview before clicking.
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Search Engine Land
Bing Testing Ad Labels Not In Blue
Earlier this month we reported that Bing was testing ad labels in blue colors. Well, now I am seeing examples of those ads labels without the blue, but rather normal black text and icons on white backgrounds.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Job Postings
Job Postings
4/4/2025
SEO Executive ~ Yellowball ~ £25-30k ~ Hybrid (London, UK)
Who are we? Yellowball is a leading London-based digital marketing agency specialising in SEO, PPC & website design, partnering with brands and businesses of all shapes and sizes. With passion, creativity, and a sharp commercial focus embedded in everything we do, we’re trusted by organisations everywhere to deliver real impact and results. We love what […]
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SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com
Job Postings
4/4/2025
SEO Growth Manager/Specialist ~ Linktree ~ $135-145k ~ Hybrid (Los Angeles, US)
The Role We’re looking for an SEO Growth Manager/Specialist to scale Linktree’s organic presence, optimize for emerging search paradigms (including AI-generated search results, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and TikTok SEO), and reduce paid media dependency. You’ll own technical SEO, AI-powered workflows, backlinking strategies, and conversion optimization, ensuring organic search drives meaningful user acquisition. This role […]
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In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com
Job Postings
4/4/2025
SEO Specialist ~ MaintainX ~ Remote (US/CAN)
MaintainX is the world’s leading Asset and Work Intelligence platform for industrial and frontline environments. We are a modern IoT-enabled cloud-based tool for reliability, safety, and operations on physical equipment and facilities. MaintainX powers operational excellence for 10,000+ businesses including Duracell, Univar Solutions Inc., Titan America, McDonald’s, Brenntag, Cintas, Xylem, and Shell. We’ve raised $104 […]
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In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com
Job Postings
4/4/2025
Sr. SEO Specialist ~ Kalkomey Enterprises ~ Remote (US)
About Kalkomey Kalkomey Enterprises is the trusted guide to outdoor success. Our platform connects millions of people to the outdoors every year, and we are the leading provider of safety-related education for outdoor recreational activities such as hunting, fishing, boating, snowmobiling, and more in North America. Since our founding in 1995, our industry and product […]
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In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com