SEO recap: week of 1 Dec 2025

A summary of what actually happened in search during this period, ranked by likely impact on a single site rather than by publication time. Built from our own archive of 1,452 stories.

2 Stories archived
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0 Update-flagged
0 Technical areas

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Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.

Simo Ahava

Run Server-side Google Tag Manager On Localhost

Server-side Google Tag Manager is essentially a server application (running on Node.js), which Google has helpfully composed into a Docker image. Docker, on the other hand, is an environment for…

Majestic SEO Podcast

A Sneak Preview of SEO in 2026

Each year we ask the world’s leading SEOs to share their number one actionable tip for the upcoming year. This makes our SEOin2026 guide a great way to learn from the best in the business and to help…

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Assembled from our own archive of 1,452 stories, which currently runs from 19 October 2022. Ranking is by the impact score described on the front page — an estimate of how much a story is likely to affect one website, not a measure of how much attention it got.

The archive only holds what it has seen. Periods before it started are empty rather than quiet, and it gets more complete every week it runs.