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SEJ ⋅ Generative AI Google AI Mode in Chrome Gets Side-by-Side Browsing (In Case You Missed It) April 16, 2026 Highlights Google is rolling out updates to AI Mode in Chrome. Clicking a link in AI Mode on Chrome desktop now opens the webpage in a side panel. The updates are live in the U.S. and will expand to more countries soon. Google is updating AI Mode in Chrome with side-by-side page viewing and a plus menu for adding tabs, images, and files as context. By Matt G. Southern Google is updating AI Mode in Chrome with two changes. Clicking a link now opens a webpage beside the AI Mode panel on desktop, and you can add open tabs, images, and PDFs as context for a search. In the announcement, Robby Stein (VP of Product, Google Search) and Mike Torres (VP of Product, Chrome) said the updates are available now in the U.S., with other countries to follow. What’s New On Chrome desktop, clicking a link in AI Mode now opens that webpage beside the AI Mode panel rather than taking users away from it. The second change adds a plus menu to the Chrome search box on the New Tab page, and to the existing plus menu inside AI Mode. From that menu, users can select recent tabs and add them to a search. Images and PDFs can be attached in the same way. Users can combine tabs and files in one search. Canvas and image creation, which were previously accessible from within AI Mode, are now available on any Chrome surface that shows the plus menu. Context This expands on Google’s rollout of AI Mode to the Chrome address bar, which introduced page-aware prompts and let users send queries to AI Mode directly from the omnibox. The current update continues Google’s push to make AI Mode feel more native inside Chrome, rather than a separate search destination. Full article and coverage via Search Engine Journal @sejournal searchenginejournal.com/goog… searchenginejournal.com/ News Search Engine Journal wins Media Man 'Search Publication Of The Month' award Social Media Media Man Peg-On SEJ's Matt on the front foot. Alphabet's Google continues its evolution and worldwide dominance. When Alpha, Google and even Search Engine Journal tip you off, make recommendations and such, akin to the mob, it makes good sense to take heed. Search, discover, dominate and conquer the hood, local, state, national and international with Alpha, Google and associates. Innovation, smarts, streetwise and A.I with a human touch. Need to know Intel boss. From Silicon Valley to Wall Street, Palm Beach in Sydney, to the Sydney Waterford and beyond, Google Chrome rules supreme. Social peg-on earned the old fashioned way. Alpha, Google, SEJ, LinkedIn, X, social channels abound and the customer wins again. Stay ahead of the (rat) pack knockoffs with Alphabet. Wise media peg-on for the day. Job completed boss. #SEJ #SearchEngineJournal #Google #GoogleChrome #GoogleNews #Chrome #Search #SearchNews #SEO #AISearch #SearchAI #AI #AINews #Browser #Interface #Alphabet #Authority #Results #Performance #Trust #Algorithm #Digital #Tech #BigTech #PegOn #SocialMedia #Trend #Buzz #Media #MediaMan (Image: Google) with Media Man A.I

SEJ ⋅ Technical SEO Google: Pages Are Getting Larger & It Still Matters Highlights Google's Search Relations team discussed page weight and crawling in a new podcast episode. Web pages have grown nearly 3x over the past decade. Illyes questioned whether the structured data Google asks websites to add is contributing to page bloat. Google's Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt discuss page weight growth, the 15MB crawl limit, and whether structured data is adding bloat to web pages. By Matt G. Southern Google’s Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt used a recent episode of the Search Off the Record podcast to discuss whether webpages are getting too large and what that means for both users and crawlers. Search Off the Record podcast youtube.com/watch?v=kype1JQb… The conversation started with a simple question: are websites getting fat? Splitt immediately pushed back on the framing, arguing that website-level size is meaningless. Individual page size is where the discussion belongs. What The Data Shows Splitt cited the 2025 Web Almanac from HTTP Archive, which found that the median mobile homepage weighed 845 KB in 2015. By July, that same median page had grown to 2,362 KB. That’s roughly a 3x increase over a decade. Both agreed the growth was expected, given the complexity of modern web applications. But the numbers still surprised them. Splitt noted the challenge of even defining “page weight” consistently, since different people interpret the term differently depending on whether they’re thinking about raw HTML, transferred bytes, or everything a browser needs to render a page. (SEJ) Full article and coverage via Search Engine Journal @sejournal searchenginejournal.com/goog… searchenginejournal.com Search Off the Record podcast youtube.com/watch?v=kype1JQb… youtube.com/@GoogleSearchCen… Social Media Media Man Peg-On Search Engine Journal's Matt covers another interesting episode of Google's 'Search Off The Record' news. The SEJ article has saved us having to allocate extra time to listen to the whole podcast. On some of our own websites we've found that sometimes our smaller articles and pages get indexed quicker, and referenced by Google (and others) more frequently that some of our larger articles and pages. If the information is relevant, concise and what Google and the bots are looking for, sometimes size matters in this case, smaller articles and pages often being prefered. That's what we have found over the years, but even more frequently over the past 5 months or so. Perhaps this extra intel may assist others, as well as further back up intel released and published by Alphabet's Google, broadcast via Search Off The Record, in addition to what's published today by SEJ. As is frequently the case, Google's 'Search Off The Record' and SEJ help as navigate the web/digital/online publishing landscape much better than if we just went at it alone. An element of crawl, walk, run, page by page. Thumbs up crew. Good hunting and indexing. News Search Engine Journal wins Media Man 'Search Publication Of The Month' award Google 'Search Off The Record Podcast' wins Media Man 'Podcast Of The Month' award #SEJ #SearchEngineJournal #Google #GoogleSOTR #GoogleSearch #SOTR #SearchOfTheRecord #Podcast #PodcastOfTheMonth #Alphabet #Webpages #Websites #Data #Publishing #Index #Indexed #SEO #Crawl #Crawling #GoogleConsole #Authority #Expert #Performance #Results #SEO #SEM #AI #AISearch #WebTips #PegOn #Trend #Buzz #Media

SEJ ⋅ SEO Google Explains Why HTTPS Migration May Negatively Impact SEO Google's John Mueller explains why migrating a site to HTTPS may cause it to drop out of the search results. (In Case You Missed It) March 18, 2026 By Roger Montti Google’s John Mueller answered a question about moving to HTTPS, explaining why the process of making a site secure is actually a major undertaking that can have a negative impact on rankings. Loss Of Top 3 Google Rankings A person asked on Reddit why they lost their top 3 rankings in Google after making their site secure with HTTPS. They also replaced their old WordPress theme and updated their content. They explained their situation and asked for advice: “We have a 15 year old financial website hosted with godaddy deluxe plan, suddenly disappeared in google after moving https. We replaced our wordpress old theme and updated new content. Our old http site scored top 3 in google. We implemented 301 using real simple ssl few days ago so far rankings not recovered. Some of the http links still not crawled and updated by google. Do you think going back to http would recover our rankings? We feel all is lost. Any chance of recovery.” HTTPS Migration There are multiple things that stand out as possible reasons for losing their rankings. But John Mueller focused exclusively on the HTTPS migration as the likely reason for losing their rankings. Mueller responded: “Moving to HTTPS is a bit like a site migration, all the URLs have to be recognized, recrawled, and reprocessed individually. So especially if this move was made a few days ago, you need to give it time to recover (in particular, don’t use the URL removal tool to try to get rid of the HTTP URLs, since it will also remove/hide the HTTPS URLs). (I won’t touch upon finally moving to HTTPS after so many years, but I guess I just did :))” (SEJ) Full article and coverage via Search Engine Journal @sejournal searchenginejournal.com/goog… searchenginejournal.com Social Media Media Man Peg=On Search Engine Journal: SEJ on the front foot. In Case You Missed It! Search Engine Journals' Roger M and Google's John M nails it! This news item hits hard. Search pop culture meets search and tech biz hybrid. Listen to your Google - Alphabet cornermen and trainers. Don't KO yourself, or get KO'ed by others! Search for the opening, duck and weave, rope a dope, jab, fake, straight right, uppercut and huge right hand for the victory. Send the opposition to the mat, and go onto victory and from top 10 status to champion of the world. Media Man peg-on. "My toughest opponent has always been me" (Muhammad Ali). The Man In The Arena! Team Media Man Group, with guidance from Search Engine Journal and the likes of Google Search Off The Record Podcast and blog. Now emerge from the ring victorious and back to the webcode and training in preparation for the next challenger! Media Man News Search Engine Journal wins Media Man 'Search Publication Of The Month' award Google wins Media Man 'Search Engine Of The Month' award #Search #SEJ #SearchEngineJournal #SearchNews #Results #SEOTips #Websites #Webcode #Code #Google #GoogleNews #GoogleSearch #Console #Authority #Performance #Meta #Alphabet #Alpha #KO #HTTPS #Win #LinkedIn #X #Social #Trend #Buzz #PegOn #GregTingle #Media #MediaMan

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SEJ ⋅ SEO Google AI Overviews Surges Across 9 Industries Google AI Overviews accelerates its presence across nine industries as it dominates in nearly half of all search queries. (In Case You Missed It) March 1, 2026 By Roger Montti New research from BrightEdge shows that while AI Overviews (AIO) has expanded its coverage since launch, it surprisingly doesn’t represent a complete shift away from traditional organic search results, as just over half of queries continue to trigger classic search results. AIO Grows 52% In One Year A twelve-month comparison from February 2025 to February 2026 shows that AI Overviews (AIO) coverage grew by a whopping 58%. The education sector experienced the strongest expansion in the number of queries triggering AI search results, from 18% of queries in May 2025 to 83% of queries triggering AI search results by December 2025. Similarly, B2B technology queries experienced a massive expansion of queries that triggered AI search results, growing from 36% to 82%. One of the strongest growing sectors for AI search results is restaurants, growing from 10% of queries to 78% of queries triggering AI search results. Meanwhile, healthcare queries were already triggering AIO results by a large margin since 2024, at a rate of 72% of the time. By December 2025, however, the rate at which healthcare queries triggered AIO edged up to 88%, which is an extraordinary amount of AI search results. Given that AIO is said to be driven by user satisfaction metrics, this may mean that users are appreciating having an AI explain healthcare-related topics in a conversational format. These results track with a report published by OpenAI in January 2026 that showed over 5% of all chats are healthcare-related and that 25% of weekly active users globally search ChatGPT with health-related questions. It’s not just patients who are using AI for health related questions. According to a recent Brookings Institution survey, 53% of healthcare professionals use AI. The nine industries experiencing the most expansion are: Healthcare B2B Tech Education Insurance Entertainment Travel eCommerce Finance Restaurants Organic Search Holds A Slim Majority Yet despite those high growth numbers, classic search results are still appearing at a rate of 52% of all queries, meaning that AI and classic search are almost at an even number. Yet clearly, many of the high-value queries in sectors such as B2B are moving away from classic search and showing up more frequently in AI search. (SEJ) Full article and coverage via Search Engine Journal @sejournal searchenginejournal.com/goog… searchenginejournal.com Social Media Media Man Peg-On SEJ's Roger on the front foot. Google and Google Gemini, Deepmind, and whatever else "The Big G" is cooking up. Appears like a swallow up any comp direction and execution, which is smart. We have a soft spot for X and Grok, but that may be akin to the biblical battle of David and Goliath, but perhaps Elon Musk may use another analogy. Back on point. if you eliminate or just massively stifle the competition, well, what's left?" Breadcrumbs or low hanging fruit. A few years ago under the prior U.S Administration Alphabet's Google divested a few business arms and products including Google Domains, but at present it's full speed ahead. A Google Doodle Pac-Man image would have also fit the coal miners glove. Google Gold Digging Department. All That Glitters! Real life Google/Alphabet movie is real time playing Digital Hunger Games. Employ Darwinism 101 or perish. It still pays to be Google Friendly, and A.I twist 'n shout. Pop Culture reference for the day complete. Thanks SEJ, LinkedIn, X and HAL 9000. Back to the webcode. #SEJ #SearchEngineJournal #Search #SearchEngine #SearchNews #GoogleAI #Google #Gemini #Deepmind #AIO #SEO #SEO #SEO #Synthetic #AIOverviews #Results #Authority #Performance #Strategy #Marketing #SearchTips #Digital #Publishing #Code #Webmasters #Tech #PegOn #Trend #Buzz #Media #MediaMan #XSEO #XSearch

SEJ ⋅ News Google Explains Why Its Crawler Ignores Your Resource Hints (In Case You Missed It) Highlights Resource hints like prefetch, preload, and preconnect are irrelevant to Google's crawling infrastructure. Meta tags and link elements that carry search engine directives belong in the head. HTML validity isn't a ranking signal. Google's Gary Illyes clarifies why resource hints do not influence Googlebot's crawling behavior, and notes that HTML validity is not a ranking factor. By Matt G. Southern February 26, 2026 Google’s Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt used an episode of the Search Off the Record podcast to walk through how Google’s crawler handles HTML. The conversation revealed differences between how browsers and Googlebot process the same page. How Browsers Really Parse HTML (and What That Means for SEO) (Google Search Central YouTube) youtube.com/watch?v=SriA8lB3… The discussion covered resource hints, metadata placement, and HTML validation. Several of Illyes’ explanations challenge assumptions about which technical changes help with search. Why Resource Hints Don’t Help Googlebot Browser performance features like dns-prefetch, preload, prefetch, and preconnect solve latency problems that Google’s infrastructure doesn’t have. Illyes said Google’s DNS resolution doesn’t need the help most sites are trying to provide. He stated: “It’s very helpful if you have like a crappy internet to do DNS Prefetching for example. In our case, we don’t need to because we can talk very fast to all the cascading DNS servers.” (SEJ) Full article and coverage via Search Engine Journal @sejournal Social Media Media Man Peg-On SEJ on the front foot, as is Google. Google's Search Off The Record podcast is back. A multi-time 'Podcast Of The Month' winner and semi-finalist. Valuable search and internet business wisdom straight from the horse's (affectionately) mouth, It's off to the races again and the mission to unlock the secrets of search and the Internet to find that Holy Grail. That's the G Chat-Up news for now my friends. Media Man News Search Engine Journal wins Media Man 'Search Publication Of the Month' award #SEJ #SearchEngineJournal #Google #GoogleSearch #SOTR #SearchOffTheRecord #GoogleChatGPT #ChatGPT #AI #AINews #Podcast #PodcastOfTheMonth #Digital #Broadcast #Stream #Streaming #SEOTips #AITips #Trend #Buzz #Media

SEJ ⋅ News Google Explains Why Its Crawler Ignores Your Resource Hints (In Case You Missed It) Highlights Resource hints like prefetch, preload, and preconnect are irrelevant to Google's crawling infrastructure. Meta tags and link elements that carry search engine directives belong in the head. HTML validity isn't a ranking signal. Google's Gary Illyes clarifies why resource hints do not influence Googlebot's crawling behavior, and notes that HTML validity is not a ranking factor. By Matt G. Southern February 26, 2026 Google’s Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt used an episode of the Search Off the Record podcast to walk through how Google’s crawler handles HTML. The conversation revealed differences between how browsers and Googlebot process the same page. How Browsers Really Parse HTML (and What That Means for SEO) (Google Search Central YouTube) youtube.com/watch?v=SriA8lB3… The discussion covered resource hints, metadata placement, and HTML validation. Several of Illyes’ explanations challenge assumptions about which technical changes help with search. Why Resource Hints Don’t Help Googlebot Browser performance features like dns-prefetch, preload, prefetch, and preconnect solve latency problems that Google’s infrastructure doesn’t have. Illyes said Google’s DNS resolution doesn’t need the help most sites are trying to provide. He stated: “It’s very helpful if you have like a crappy internet to do DNS Prefetching for example. In our case, we don’t need to because we can talk very fast to all the cascading DNS servers.” (SEJ) Full article and coverage via Search Engine Journal @sejournal Social Media Media Man Peg-On SEJ on the front foot, as is Google. Google's Search Off The Record podcast is back. A multi-time 'Podcast Of The Month' winner and semi-finalist. Valuable search and internet business wisdom straight from the horse's (affectionately) mouth, It's off to the races again and the mission to unlock the secrets of search and the Internet to find that Holy Grail. That's the G Chat-Up news for now my friends. Media Man News Search Engine Journal wins Media Man 'Search Publication Of the Month' award #SEJ #SearchEngineJournal #Google #GoogleSearch #SOTR #SearchOffTheRecord #GoogleChatGPT #ChatGPT #AI #AINews #Podcast #PodcastOfTheMonth #Digital #Broadcast #Stream #Streaming #SEOTips #AITips #Trend #Buzz #Media

SEJ ⋅ Content Creation Why AI Misreads The Middle Of Your Best Pages Why models drift in the middle, why systems compress it away, and what to change without rewriting everything. (In Case You Missed It) February 19, 2026 By Duane Forrester The middle is where your content dies, and not because your writing suddenly gets bad halfway down the page, and not because your reader gets bored. But because large language models have a repeatable weakness with long contexts, and modern AI systems increasingly squeeze long content before the model even reads it. That combo creates what I think of as dog-bone thinking. Strong at the beginning, strong at the end, and the middle gets wobbly. The model drifts, loses the thread, or grabs the wrong supporting detail. You can publish a long, well-researched piece and still watch the system lift the intro, lift the conclusion, then hallucinate the connective tissue in between. This is not theory as it shows up in research, and it also shows up in production systems. (SEJ) Full article and coverage via Search Engine Journal @sejournal searchenginejournal.com/why-… searchenginejournal.com Social Media Media Man Peg-On Search Engine Journal: SEJ's Duane with a great write-up/read on AI, content and such, as why where it is placed on a page and site matters. Quick take: Get the real message high up on the page, and follow-up the message content, theme etc in the middle, and further, to ensure the A.I powers that be get the message and understand what to draw main attention and focus on. The scribe by SEJ got our attention, hence the peg-on, so Search Engine Journal and associates are doing many things right. Success once again Now, back to the webcode and the core business at hand. #SEJ #SearchEngineJournal #Search #AI #AINews #AISearch #Content #ContentNews #ContentMarketing #Publishing #Code #Webcode #System #Results #Authority #Expert #Algorithm #Tech #Developer #Developers #Webtips #SEONews #SEOTips #Comms #Trend #Buzz #News #Media

SEJ - SEO - GEO Is Google Finally Cracking Down On Self-Promotional Listicles? The most popular "GEO" tactic might indeed be risky for SEO purposes after all. February 5, 2026 (In Case You Missed It) By Lily Ray Jump straight to examples of affected websites. searchenginejournal.com/is-g… Over the past year, one of the most common tactics for gaining visibility in AI search has been for companies to publish “listicle” content on their own blogs – ranking the best companies or products in their niche and placing themselves in the No. 1 spot. There are variations of this approach – the listicle might contain a list of the best companies, or it could also list the best products in a specific industry. The common thread is that the company publishing the blog post ranks itself, and/or its own products, in the top position. It has also become increasingly common for companies using this tactic to collaborate with others in the same industry, mutually promoting one another in their respective listicles – a modern twist on reciprocal linking: you mention me, and I’ll mention you. Over the past year or two, these self-serving listicles have proven to be effective at influencing traditional search rankings – and, by extension, visibility within LLMs that rely on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) – when users search for the top companies, products, or services in a given niche. For example, if you type “best content marketing agencies” into Google’s AI Overviews, you might see a result like this: (SEJ) Full article via Search Engine Journal @sejournal searchenginejournal.com/is-g… searchenginejournal.com Social Media Media Man Peg-On SEJ news on GEO, SEO and more. Search Engine Journal on the front foot. High risk. Not always high reward. Alphabet's Google tipped off. The List you don't want to be on. Pop Culture reference for the day: "You just made The List" (Chris Jericho, pro wrestling legend, rock n roller and media and entertainment entrepreneur"). Class over for now kids. Social media peg-on for both education and entertainment purposes. Former Hitwise Australia Top 10 semi-finalist, Entertainment/Celebrity/Pop Culture category. If you didn't know, now you do! Now back to The Internet Matrix Of Things. White Hat with just a dash of grey, Media Man Media Man Int News Search Engine Journal wins Media Man 'Search Publication Of The Month' award #SEJ #SearchEngine #SearchEngineJournal #Google #SEO #GEO #List #Top10 #Listicle #Lists #Content #ContentNews #ContentCreation #ContentMarketing #ContentStrategy #Publishers #Digital #Search #SearchNews #Results #Expert #Authority #Algorithm #Biz #media #mediaman

SEJ - SEO - GEO Is Google Finally Cracking Down On Self-Promotional Listicles? The most popular "GEO" tactic might indeed be risky for SEO purposes after all. February 5, 2026 (In Case You Missed It) By Lily Ray Jump straight to examples of affected websites. searchenginejournal.com/is-g… Over the past year, one of the most common tactics for gaining visibility in AI search has been for companies to publish “listicle” content on their own blogs – ranking the best companies or products in their niche and placing themselves in the No. 1 spot. There are variations of this approach – the listicle might contain a list of the best companies, or it could also list the best products in a specific industry. The common thread is that the company publishing the blog post ranks itself, and/or its own products, in the top position. It has also become increasingly common for companies using this tactic to collaborate with others in the same industry, mutually promoting one another in their respective listicles – a modern twist on reciprocal linking: you mention me, and I’ll mention you. Over the past year or two, these self-serving listicles have proven to be effective at influencing traditional search rankings – and, by extension, visibility within LLMs that rely on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) – when users search for the top companies, products, or services in a given niche. For example, if you type “best content marketing agencies” into Google’s AI Overviews, you might see a result like this: (SEJ) Full article via Search Engine Journal @sejournal searchenginejournal.com/is-g… searchenginejournal.com Social Media Media Man Peg-On SEJ news on GEO, SEO and more. Search Engine Journal on the front foot. High risk. Not always high reward. Alphabet's Google tipped off. The List you don't want to be on. Pop Culture reference for the day: "You just made The List" (Chris Jericho, pro wrestling legend, rock n roller and media and entertainment entrepreneur"). Class over for now kids. Social media peg-on for both education and entertainment purposes. Former Hitwise Australia Top 10 semi-finalist, Entertainment/Celebrity/Pop Culture category. If you didn't know, now you do! Now back to The Internet Matrix Of Things. White Hat with just a dash of grey, Media Man Media Man Int News Search Engine Journal wins Media Man 'Search Publication Of The Month' award #SEJ #SearchEngine #SearchEngineJournal #Google #SEO #GEO #List #Top10 #Listicle #Lists #Content #ContentNews #ContentCreation #ContentMarketing #ContentStrategy #Publishers #Digital #Search #SearchNews #Results #Expert #Authority #Algorithm #Biz #media #mediaman

Search Engine Journal Google's Year in Search reveals trending actors, movies, athletes, games, recipes, and travel destinations that captured attention throughout 2025. Highlights Google's Gemini topped trending searches, while AI-generated content captured US trend interest. Mikey Madison and Pedro Pascal led global and US actor searches following breakthrough performances in major releases. Sports interest split between global cricket focus and US-specific NFL and basketball players. By Matt G. Southern In 2025, Google’s AI tool Gemini topped global searches. People tracked cricket matches between India and England, looked up details on the new Pope, and searched for information about Iran and the TikTok ban. They followed LA fires and government shutdowns. But between the headlines, they also looked up Pedro Pascal and Mikey Madison. They wanted to make hot honey and marry me chicken. They planned trips to Prague and Edinburgh. They searched for bookstores from Livraria Lello in Porto to Powell’s in Portland. Google’s Year in Search tracks what spiked. These lists show queries that grew the fastest relative to 2024, ranging from breaking news to entertainment, sports, and lifestyle. Together, they present a picture of what captured attention throughout the year. Top Searches Of 2025 Google’s AI assistant Gemini became the top trending search globally, showing how widely AI tools were embraced throughout the year. The rest of the top 10 was filled with sports, with cricket matches between India and England, the Club World Cup, and the Asia Cup capturing a lot of public interest. The global top 10 trending searches were: Global top 10: Gemini India vs England Charlie Kirk Club World Cup India vs Australia Deepseek Asia Cup Iran iPhone17 Pakistan and India The US list reflected different priorities and diverged from global trends, with Charlie Kirk at the top and entertainment properties ranking highly. KPop Demon Hunters secured the second position. (SEJ) @sejournal Click here for full article and coverage searchenginejournal.com/goog… Social Media Peg On By Media Man Group/Greg Tingle SEJ's Matt on Google's Year In Search Review. It's safe to say that we can stop calling socials "social media", and just call it "media". What shall we start calling AI though? A fad, here to stay, normal, unnatural, or all the above?!Happy New Year SEJ, Google and all the readership. From the real Greg Tingle. Sources: Search Engine Journal searchenginejournal.com/goog… Google trends.withgoogle.com/year-i… Google Australia Blog blog.google/intl/en-au/produ… *The Media Man Group was founded in Sydney, Australia, so we have included the reference point Media Man Int Google News (Media Man Int) mediamanint.com/articles/goo… SEO News (Media Man Int) mediamanint.com/seo_news.htm… #SEJ #SEONews #SearchEngineJournal #Google #SEO #GoogleNews #Search #YearInReview #YearInSearch #SocialMedia #Results #Top10 #LinkedIn #PopCulture #media #mediaman #XNews

"Traditional Link Building Is Obsolete" Have a look at competitive SERPs and you know this is bs The reason why you are meant "to be careful about what sites you obtain links from and to be super careful about what sites your site links out to" is because links are heavily guarded, because links ARE the driver of rankings Some people rank, some people read SearchEngineJournal...

🛍️ The critical role of Google AI Overviews in Shopping and Ecommerce in November and early December. Roger Montti @martinibuster breaks down the where and what in this must-read. Where does AI show up in the buyer's journey? And what should you expect? @BrightEdge data reveals some pattern over on #SearchEngineJournal 📊 searchenginejournal.com/data… #AIO #SEO #GoogleAI #Ecommerce #Holidays2025 #BrightEdge

I see what you mean, SearchEngineJournal! Brand mentions definitely play a big role, but the quality matters, you know?

Media Man 'SEO Find Of The Week' Google On Negative Authorship Signal And Mini-Site Reputation, By Roger Monti (Search Engine Journal) (In Case You Missed It) Google's Danny Sullivan discussed author and site reputation, using the mini-site metaphor to show how reputation can split within a site via Search Engine Journal @sejournal searchenginejournal.com/goog… Media Man pop cultured themed peg-on to the article in socials (LinkedIn) .. as as per the expression, if you know, if you know, and if you don't ... look it up and learn ... SEJ's Roger on the conspiracy of Google "Divide And Conquer, "Banned For Life" or "Google God Cop, Bad Cop". Online publishers and the SEO community love a good conspiracy right! 'Fahrenheit 451' and 'The Librarian" from 'The Twilight Zone' may live on via the web. Pleased to report our online rep is that of a white knight, sometimes dancing around black knights and dark matter. May the force be with you. That's our pop culture contribution for the day. Now back to webcode and online publishing. (Greg Tingle, Media Man Int/Media Man Australia) News Search Engine Journal wins Media Man 'Search Publication Of The Month' award Media Man Int Technology News (Media Man Int) mediamanint.com/news3.html #GoogleNews #Google #GoogleSearch #SEJ #SearchEngineJournal #SearchEngineNews #SearchNews #OnlineNews #Index #Algorithm #OnlinePublishing #Topics #Subjects #PopCulture #Find #FindOfTheWeek #Authority #SEONews #SEOTips #LinkedIn #PegOn #media #mediaman #XSEO #XSearch