SEO Daily News Recap for Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Senators Urge Trump to Officially Extend TikTok Deadline as Negotiations Continue

With just days to go before TikTok’s US sell off deadline expires, here’s an overview of the latest.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

TikTok Retires its Separate Notes App

TikTok’s experiment with an alternative image sharing app hasn’t worked out.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

YouTube Adds Mobile Subscriber Listings, Breaks for Live Streamers

The latest updates from YouTube.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Pinterest Shares Coachella Fashion Trends Based on Pin Searches

The latest trend notes ahead of festival season.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Ex-Google exec: Giving traffic to publishers ‘a necessary evil’

In a newly published profile, Google’s Head of Search Elizabeth Reid also said the Google search bar will become less prominent over time.

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Search Engine Land

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 25, 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.

Google rolled out AI Mode to more users, it has a bit of a hiccup but all is good now. Google has a bug where it is not showing its pagination bar for some searchers…

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Search Engine Roundtable

I’ve Had It! We Need to Stop the Fearmongering and “SEO Is Dead” Narrative

Is SEO really dead or are fearmongers twisting data to fit their narrative? Chima Mmeje debunks myths and reveals what actually works to dominate search in 2025

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moz (en-US)

Google Merchant Center Click Reporting To Change April 21

Google will change how it counts clicks in Google Merchant Center starting April 21, 2025. This change will make clicks count the same way Google Ads counts clicks. This means your current and historical reporting for clicks may change on April 21st.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Python for SEO, Explained for Beginners

Python can automate tons of SEO busywork, and thanks to tools like ChatGPT and Google Colab, it’s never been easier to get started.

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General SEO – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

Google Is Looking Out for #1. It’s Time You Do, Too

From hoarding top search real estate, to swiping our IP to fuel its billion-dollar AI—Google is looking out for #1. It’s time we do the same.

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General SEO – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

Google Business Profile Setup Broken At Phone/Website Screen

There are tons of complaints in the Google Business Profile Help Forums about a bug during the setup process of a Google Business Profile. When you get to the screen about adding your phone number and website address, the next button won’t take you to the next screen – it just won’t let you go to the next step.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Business Profile bug prevents adding new businesses

There seems to be an issue with phone numbers preventing you from creating new business profiles and also phone numbers being removed from some existing business profiles.

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Search Engine Land

How geotagging photos affects Google Business Profile rank: Study

How does geotagging photos affect local SEO? A 10-week study reveals surprising effects on ‘near me’ vs city-based Google ranking.

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Search Engine Land

Google Local Service Ads Without Green Screened Checkmark

Google seems to be testing removing the green checkmark from the Local Service Ads. I was able to replicate this for the same query, and the same set of advertisers. In one case it has the Google Screened checkmark in green and in the other, it does not.

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Search Engine Roundtable

The Problem with Optimizing for GenAI

Clint Butler, a prominent search-engine optimizer, says the first hurdle is knowing which platform to optimize.

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SEO – Practical Ecommerce

Answer engine optimization: 6 AI models you should optimize for

Learn six AI search players to watch (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT search, and beyond), how they source content, and what it means for SEO.

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Search Engine Land

TikTok Outlines Updates to In-Stream Shopping Ads and Options

Some new updates for TikTok’s in-stream sales tools.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

How to ship like a startup

Seven lessons from the story of Figma Slides

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Lenny’s Newsletter

Instagram Launches Schools Partnership Program to Protect Teens

The program will enable teachers to issue prioritized reports about concerns.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

LinkedIn Rolls Out Improvements for Campaign Manager

The new updates will provide more guidance in your LinkedIn campaign planning.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Meta Adds Improved Tools to Facilitate Creator Collaborations for Promotions

Meta’s incorporating AI-based recommendations to help source potential ad partners.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Google Promoting AI Mode In Search Results

Google is promoting AI Mode in its search results with a large banner ad. The banner ad says, "New! Try Al Mode. Get Al-powered responses & ask follow-ups with a new experiment. Try now…"

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Search Engine Roundtable

Bing Ads Within Features Snippets – You Might Also Like

I don’t know if you might also like this, you probably won’t but Bing is dropped ads in their featured answers, featured snippets. They are calling these ads "You might also like."

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Search Engine Roundtable

TikTok Shares Data on EU Enforcement Actions in H2 2024

The report covers content removals, AI manipulation, coordinated activity, and more.

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Unknown Source

SEO Manager (AI, LLM) ~ DocuClipper ~ $80-120k ~ Remote (US)

About DocuClipper DocuClipper is a fast-growing, profitable SaaS company that is transforming financial document data extraction. We’re a small, agile team where SEO is a critical growth channel—this role is a huge opportunity to own, scale, and drive real revenue growth with full engineering support to build automation, dashboards, and SEO tools. About the Role […]

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In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com

SEO & Content Lead ~ Kinetic Investments ~ £35-45k ~ Remote (UK)

Description Kinetic Investments is a start-up accelerator company that provides entrepreneurs with the capital and support required to transform their vision into a success. We work closely with start-ups to accelerate their growth; design, development, marketing, administration and business strategy. We are looking for individuals who are switched on, proactive and motivated. If that sounds […]

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In-house SEO jobs – SEOjobs.com

SEO Analyst Internship (Contract) ~ ConnectPrep ~ Remote (US)

About ConnectPrep: Our goal is to redefine “tutoring” – to use data, insight, and our extensive teaching experience find solutions for our students. ConnectPrep is about connecting – connecting students, parents, educators, and the community. We have bold ideas and an eye towards the future. The Opportunity: We are seeking a talented, creative, resourceful, driven, […]

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SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com

Jr. SEO Specialist (Contract) ~ DaBrian Marketing Group ~ Remote (US)

Company Description DaBrian Marketing Group, LLC is a digital agency focused on providing marketing solutions to businesses that want to obtain digital awareness, cultivate meaningful customer relationships, and develop innovative strategies that lead to valuable customer insights, higher return-on-investment (ROI), and lower cost per sales. Job Description Our agency is looking for a junior SEO […]

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SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com