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This week we covered the ongoing Google June 2025 core update and how we are finally seeing some recoveries with the past helpful content updates, and some core updates. Google Search Console’s performance report…

Google is testing a zoom effect when you place your mouse cursor over the images in the search result snippets. Normally, these images do not move, but in this test, Google is using this zoom feature to give the results a bit more dimension.

Starting around June 25, 2025, many are noticing huge declines in impressions and clicks from their local rankings in Google. This is from the Google Business Profiles performance reports and I think it is a data/reporting glitch, but who knows, maybe it was a ranking change?

@RupertLowe10 You put criminals in prison and you remand anyone who commits a crime that doesn’t have a bail address to go to. Put them on remand until court and then send them to prison for ten years for entering the country illegally then send them back after they finish their 10 year — Mike

RT @MikeMartinGB: Is success inevitable if you never quit? — Mike Martin (@MikeMartinGB) Jul 11, 2025 from Twitter https://twitter.com/MikeMartinGB July 11, 2025 at 01:05PM

Microsoft is testing showing the “See more" button at the top of the Bing local pack, instead of the bottom of the local pack. I suspect this is a test and not a bug, but who knows.

With a round led by Vertis, the next-generation CMS platform accelerates its focus on AI, performance, and European expansion. Target: surpass €10M in recurring revenue by 2027. Live Story, the tech company founded by Stefano Mocellini, has closed a €2.7 million seed round led by Vertis, one of Italy’s leading early-growth venture capital firms. The funding will support the company’s international […]