SEO Daily News Recap for Thursday, January 9, 2025

Amazon is allowing major retailers to use Amazon Advertising to run sponsored ads on their own websites.

Brands ranking on page 1 of Google appear to get more mentions in LLMs. Links don’t seem to matter, new study finds.

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.

Reddit seems like it is not ranking as well as it used to…

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Did you ever want to listen to a summary of your Google Discover feed? Well, now you can. Google has a new Search Labs experiment called "Daily Listen" that puts together a five-minute or less audio overview of the top stories you’d be interested in for the day.

Google now lets you add to your restaurant’s menu within Google Business Profiles. Previously, I believe you were only able to replace your previous menus, but now you can add to them by uploading the new menus.

Google Search is testing a darker dark mode. Instead of the grayish dark mode, Google is testing a dark black version of the dark mode. The darker version is #111217 whereas the gray version is #1f1f1f.

Google’s John Mueller said that using generative AI to create blog posts and content for the purpose of getting backlinks is "almost certainly against Google’s spam policies." He said this in response to a complaint that this was being done on their site, outsourced by their SEO firm to a third-party.

We have been hearing Google Ads will provide a feature to manage negative keywords for Performance Max campaigns for a while and now, maybe, the day has come. Joe Shmo on X posted a screenshot of him seeing the feature in his Google Ads account.

It seems like Reddit, the site that ranks well for every single query in Google Search, is starting to see a small but visible ranking drop in Google Search. It seems Reddit is losing Google Search visibility when you look at its ranking reports in Semrush and Sistrix.

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If you go to the Google home page today, you will see a gray Google logo. Google does this on somber days and since today is the national day of mourning for President Jimmy Carter, Google has grayed out the logo.