SEO Daily News Recap for Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Meta May Be Looking to Expand Age Checks Using Video ID

Meta recently added more info about video ID verification to its official documents.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

TikTok Shares New Report on its Impact on the US Economy

New info from TikTok as it fights for its life in the US.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

As AI scraping surges, AI search traffic fails to follow: Report

AI bot scraping doubled from Q3 to Q4 of 2024. But the click-through rates from AI search remain abysmal – at less than 1%

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Search Engine Land

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 11, 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.

A new study shows AI search engines way too often gets the answer wrong…

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search is 373x bigger than ChatGPT search

Think Google has lost market share to ChatGPT and other AI engines? Wrong. Google search grew, and ChatGPT’s market share is less than 1%.

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Search Engine Land

Google Search Had 22% Growth In Searches Year Over Year

A new data report from Rand Fishkin at Sparktoro says that Google Search has seen 21.64% growth in searches year over year. This comes after his study that showed 1/3rd of Google searchers don’t search all that much.

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Search Engine Roundtable

New Research: Google Search Grew 20%+ in 2024; receives ~373X more searches than ChatGPT – SparkToro

For years, two questions have dominated both marketers’ interest and the media’s coverage of Google Search: Are AI Tools taking market share away from

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SparkToro

Enterprise News – March 11 w/ Ron Miller (Editorial Director, Boldstart)

For anyone who’s interested in a recurring podcast that covers the Enterprise news from the past few weeks, this is the episode for you.

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Software Snack Bites

How to fix the ‘Server error (5xx)’ error in Google Search Console

Learn how to fix the ‘Server error (5xx)’ error in GSC by improving content quality, site architecture, and more.

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Search Engine Land

Advertisers Skeptical About Google Tag Manager Loading Changes

Google sent out an email to advertisers yesterday about changes coming to Google Tag Manager. Specifically, Google Tag Manager will send events before loading a Google tag and Google calls this a "small change" that "will not harm measurement performance."

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Search Engine Roundtable

How to use ChatGPT Tasks for SEO

Stop doing busy work and start optimizing smarter. This new ChatGPT feature automates SEO tasks and boosts efficiency.

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Search Engine Land

How Google’s AI Mode Could Be Tracked In Google Search Console (GSC) – Desktop and Mobile Examples

Glenn Gabe of G-Squared Interactive covers how Google’s new AI Mode could be tracked in Google Search Console (GSC) once data starts to populate in the reporting (once it comes out of beta).

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The Internet Marketing Driver

Meta’s Testing its Own AI Chips to Expand its Processing Capacity

The project could give Meta a significant advantage in AI development.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Report Finds AI Tools Are Not Good at Citing Accurate Sources

AI tools can help in your research and development efforts but they are not an answer in themselves.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

AI search engines often make up citations and answers: Study

I read the news today, oh boy. AI search engines give wrong answers 60% of the time and often cite fabricated or broken URLs.

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Search Engine Land

AI Search Engines Are Confidently Wrong Too Often

A new study from Columbia Journalism Review showed that AI search engines and chatbots, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Deepseek Search, Microsoft Copilot, Grok and Google’s Gemini, are just wrong, way too often. I have said this time and time again, when I see an AI Answer, at this point, I just skip over it because I know I cannot trust it and this proves that.

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Search Engine Roundtable

SEO isn’t just 10 blue links anymore

SEO has outgrown the traditional blue links — and so should your strategy.

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Search Engine Land

Why you’re so angry at work (and what to do about it)

A practical framework for transforming big feelings into wisdom

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Lenny’s Newsletter

TikTok Adds More Flexible Options for Sellers

Some new options for managing your sales through the app.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Google Testing Expandable Shopping Ad Carousel

Google is testing a new shopping ad format. This format expands product listings available within a store, shows the products with larger images and product details and then lets you swipe through a carousel of those items.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Shopping Results With Price At Checkout Label

Google can now show the "price at checkout" within the Google Shopping listings, both paid and organic. I am not sure if this is new, being that Google has had policies about suspending merchants who change their pricing at checkout and even allows Googlebot to add items to the cart for this reason.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Are AI-Powered Functions Beneficial for Social Media Users?

Social platforms are super keen to push AI options onto us – but do we really want them?

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Social Media Today – Latest News

TikTok Rolls Out More Teen Safety Elements

Some additional parental control options on TikTok.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Do’ Queries Are an SEO Priority

Google’s quality raters’ guidelines suggest a new approach to searchers’ intent: "know simple," "know," and "do."

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SEO – Practical Ecommerce

LinkedIn Expands AI-Powered Ad Targeting Tools

LinkedIn’s ‘Predictive Audiences’ use a combination of AI and manual input to optimize ad performance.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Google expands Message asset to Performance Max

Google’s expansion of Message assets to PMax campaigns helps advertisers drive direct customer engagement through chat-based interactions.

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Search Engine Land

Google Ads expands PMax negative keyword limits

Google Ads will be increasing the negative keyword limit for Performance Max campaigns from 100 to 10,000.

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Search Engine Land

How to prevent Meta Ads restrictions on health and wellness campaigns

Meta doesn’t want your health data (or the legal trouble). If you’re in health marketing, read this before your ad tracking disappears.

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Search Engine Land

SEO Specialist ~ Amerit Fleet Solutions ~ $75-80k ~ Remote (US)

Position Summary Amerit Fleet Solutions is looking for an SEO Specialist to join our marketing team! This role is ideal for someone who loves content optimization, SEO, and staying on top of the latest search trends and algorithm changes. This position will report to the Director of Digital Marketing. Compensation: Competitive Salary Pay – Paid […]

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In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com

Int. SEO & Content Specialist ~ Investoo ~ £30-40k ~ Remote (UK)

Description Investoo Group is looking for a dynamic International SEO & Content Specialist to join our expanding digital team. We are a prominent international financial services brand specialising in investing, cryptocurrencies, stocks, and trading. This role offers an exciting opportunity to collaborate with highly skilled professionals and passionate industry experts while contributing to our ongoing […]

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SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com

SEO Director ~ Marketbridge ~ $100-120k (CAD) ~ Remote (CAN)

Who We Are : Marketbridge is a growth consulting and marketing firm dedicated to helping modern leaders accelerate performance with no signal loss from strategy through execution. We combine management consultancy with marketing agency expertise, all backed by marketing science, creative problem-solving, and technological know-how. Our integrated approach brings together teams, technology, data, strategies, processes, and […]

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SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com

SEO Analyst ~ Terakeet ~ $59-89k ~ Remote (US)

What We Do Terakeet is the leading strategic partner for predictive and scalable online brand management programs for global brands. Using our proprietary technology and deep expertise, we convert insights into actions that solve the complex business challenges of the Fortune 500. Our award-winning approach connects brands with their audiences in moments that matter within […]

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SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com