Googlebot dominates web crawling in 2025 as AI bots surge: Report
Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers exploding, publishers blocking bots, and many platforms sending little traffic back.
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Proxies for prompts: Emulate how your audience may be looking for you
As search shifts from keywords to prompts, learn how SEOs can use data proxies to understand AI search behavior and track visibility across platforms.
LinkedIn opens up top-of-feed Reserved Ads to all managed advertisers
LinkedIn Reserved Ads let marketers secure top-of-feed placement, boosting visibility, engagement, and predictable reach for B2B campaigns.
Google scraps unified pricing rules in Ad Manager after antitrust pressure
Google’s removal of unified pricing rules lets publishers set bidder-specific floors again, which could cause a pricing shift in programmatic auctions.
Google Gemini 3 Flash Becomes Default In Gemini App & AI Mode via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google launches Gemini 3 Flash and makes it the default in the Gemini app. It’s rolling out as AI Mode’s default model.
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Google Search adds read more links to search result snippets
Not all, but many of the search result snippets contain read more links that take you to sections of a web page.
Google adds animation and image editing tools to Merchant Center’s Product Studio
Google’s latest update gives merchants new ways to quickly animate, clean up, and enhance product images directly inside Merchant Center.
Google rolls out Gemini 3 Flash to AI Mode in Search globally
Google said AI Mode will deliver faster, smarter answers and tackle complex questions, comparisons, and planning with stronger reasoning.
Google’s Danny Sullivan: SEO for AI is still SEO
AI search is not changing SEO fundamentals. Google’s Danny Sullivan says to keep doing things that will make you successful in the long term.
Google clarifies canonicalization with JavaScript
Google added a section on canonicalization best practices for JavaScript to the JavaScript SEO best practices document.