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Google Search adds read more links to search result snippets

Google Search adds read more links to search result snippets

Google recently rolled out “read more” links in Google search results, which appear at the end of the snippet’s description. When you click on the read more link, you are anchored down to a specific portion of the web page that you clicked on. Not all search result snippets include these read more links, but […]

Google fixed month-long delay with page indexing report

Google fixed month-long delay with page indexing report

Google Search Console appears to have fixed the month-long delay with the page indexing report just about an hour ago. The report is now showing data as early as a few days ago, which is the normal timeframe for when this report is updated. Plus, emails about indexing issues have started going out from Search Console […]

Google scraps unified pricing rules in Ad Manager after antitrust pressure

Google scraps unified pricing rules in Ad Manager after antitrust pressure

Google has removed its long-standing unified pricing rules in Google Ad Manager, once again allowing publishers to set different price floors for Google demand versus other programmatic buyers. What changed. Publishers can now set bidder-specific floor prices in Ad Manager. For example, one buyer can be required to bid at least $5 while others compete […]

Google’s AI Mode Personal Context Features “Still To Come”

Google’s AI Mode Personal Context Features “Still To Come”

Seven months after Google teased “personal context” for AI Mode at Google I/O, Nick Fox, Google’s SVP of Knowledge and Information, says the feature still is not ready for a public rollout. In an interview with the AI Inside podcast, Fox framed the delay as a product and permissions issue rather than a model-capability issue. […]

LinkedIn opens up top-of-feed Reserved Ads to all managed advertisers

LinkedIn opens up top-of-feed Reserved Ads to all managed advertisers

LinkedIn is making Reserved Ads generally available to all managed accounts, giving marketers the ability to lock in the first ad slot in the feed for premium visibility. What’s new. Reserved Ads let advertisers secure top-of-feed placement at a fixed rate, providing predictable delivery, consistent reach, and greater share of voice. Early results show the […]

Googlebot dominates web crawling in 2025 as AI bots surge: Report

Googlebot dominates web crawling in 2025 as AI bots surge: Report

Googlebot once again generated more traffic than any other crawler in 2025, according to a new Cloudflare report. It outpaced every search and AI bot as Google continued crawling the web for search indexing and AI training. By the numbers. Googlebot accounted for more than 25% of all Verified Bot traffic observed by Cloudflare. Googlebot […]

Questions The CEO Should Be Asking About Their Website (But Rarely Does)

Questions The CEO Should Be Asking About Their Website (But Rarely Does)

Few CEOs ever ask hard questions about their company website. They’ll sign off on multimillion-dollar redesigns, approve ad budgets, and endorse “digital transformation” plans, but rarely ask how much enterprise value their digital infrastructure is actually creating. That’s a problem, because the website is no longer a marketing artifact. It’s the factory floor of digital […]

Emulate how your audience may be looking for you

Emulate how your audience may be looking for you

In this new era of generative AI technology, searchers have begun to swap keywords with prompts. Shorter and long-tail queries are being replaced by more conversational prompts, which tend to be longer and more in-depth. These days, searchers are expecting more complete answers than a paginated list of results. Until we get an AI-specific equivalent […]

Google Gemini 3 Flash Becomes Default In Gemini App & AI Mode

Google Gemini 3 Flash Becomes Default In Gemini App & AI Mode

Google released Gemini 3 Flash, expanding its Gemini 3 model family with a faster model that’s now the default in the Gemini app. Gemini 3 Flash is also rolling out globally as the default model for AI Mode in Search. The release builds on Google’s recent Gemini 3 rollout, which introduced Gemini 3 Pro in […]

The Facts About Trust Change Everything About Link Building

The Facts About Trust Change Everything About Link Building

Trust is commonly understood to be a standalone quality that is passed between sites regardless of link neighborhood or topical vertical. What I’m going to demonstrate is that “trust” is not a thing that trickles down from a trusted site to another site. The implication for link building is that many may have been focusing […]