Search Engine Optimization & Updates | SketchWeb Blog
- Adobe plans to buy Semrush in a $1.9 billion all-cash deal.
- The offer is $12 per share, a big premium on Semrush’s last price.
- Semrush will join Adobe’s Digital Experience and Adobe Experience Cloud tools.
- The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2026, after approvals.
- Marketers can expect tighter links between SEO data, AI search results, and customer journeys.
- The Google Search Console (GSC) Crawl Stats report is missing a full day of data — specifically October 14, 2025.
- The data gap appears across all profiles in GSC, pointing to a Google-side issue, not a site-specific problem.
- This glitch is not new: similar one-day data drops occurred in May 2022, February 2022, and November 2021.
- The issue appears to be a reporting error, not a crawl / indexing problem — so no immediate SEO panic needed.
- Site owners should document the anomaly, avoid drawing conclusions from the temporary gap, and monitor for data restoration.
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider 23.0 (“Rush Hour”) introduces major improvements including updated Lighthouse/PageSpeed Insights audits, new Ahrefs API v3 integration, crawl retention settings, semantic embedding rules, and better link visualizations.
- The update modernizes data integrations, enhances automation, and simplifies large-scale site management.
- This guide explains how to use each new feature, why it matters, and best practices for teams to maximize the new release.
- Google has added AI Mode directly to the Chrome address bar (omnibox).
- Users can now ask long, complex questions right from the omnibox.
- AI Mode also lets you analyze and ask questions about entire webpages.
- Contextual suggestions and AI Overviews are available while browsing.
- Google calls AI Mode the future of Search, expanding globally soon.
Adobe’s $1.9B Semrush Acquisition and the Future of SEO
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Google Search Console’s Crawl Stats Report Missing a Day of Data (Oct 14, 2025)
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How to Get the Most from the Screaming Frog SEO Spider 23.0 Update
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Bing Supporting Data NoSnippet HTML Attribute
On October 15, Bing published a blog post revealing the support of “Data No-Snippet” HTML attribute in Bing Search Engine.
It means webmasters can now hide a particular section in HTML to appear in Bing Search or any other AI engines supported by Bing.
Google AI Mode Now Integrated into Chrome Browser
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The Evolution of Command Based Queries
After the introduction of Generative Engines, we are seeing a new type of query evoluting, which we call “Command Based Query”.
Seeing the rising demand of command based queries we see that legacy search engines have also modified their features. It doesn’t matter, whether it is AI Overviews, AI Mode or Copilot.
You Can Now Choose Your Preferred Sources for Google Top Stories
How to Win in Google Discover: Top SEO Strategies Backed by 200M Articles
Google Discover has quietly become one of the biggest traffic machines on the internet. For many news websites, it now outpaces even traditional Google Search—and the man who’s been decoding it since the beginning is John Shehata, the founder of NewzDash and GD Dash.
In a recent presentation, he broke down how Discover really works and how you can position your content to ride the algorithmic wave.