June 2026 SEO news

Jack Chambers-Ward hosts a solo episode to recap the biggest SEO news from June 2026, including Google’s “Preferred Sources” expanding from Discover into AI Mode and AI Overviews, the new Search Console generative AI performance reporting and contrasts it with Bing Webmaster Tools’ expanded AI visibility reporting.

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News stories

⁠https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/original-high-quality-content-search/
⁠⁠https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/a-new-profile-to-help-publishers-and-creators-highlight-their-work-on-search/
⁠⁠https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/06/gen-ai-performance-reports
⁠⁠https://blogs.bing.com/search/June-2026/New-AI-Visibility-Insights-in-Bing-Webmaster-Tools-Intents-Topics-Citation-Share-Compare⁠
⁠https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/16930347⁠⁠
https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/⁠

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Mark Williams-Cook (holding Snoop the dog) and Jack Chambers-Ward standing together, smiling. Jack is wearing an Opeth t-shirt. They are a cool Scandinavian metal band, apparently.