Welcome to Online Marketing Tips, Tricks and Secrets from Gilmedia! Episode 38 reveals how to anticipate Google's next moves - analyzing summer 2025 updates where news publishers lost 600M+ visits and SpamBrain now identifies 200x more spam, with 6 key predictions for fall/winter 2025. Key Topics Covered: June 2025 core update: Zero-click news queries jumped from 56% to 69% August spam update: SpamBrain detects 200x more spam than previous year 6 predictions: Quality crackdown, author authority, AI integration, hyper-personalization, stricter Core Web Vitals, behavioral EEAT Gartner prediction: 25% search volume drop by 2026 from AI assistants Recent Update Impact: ✅ News publishers: Traffic plummeted from 2.3B to 1.7B visits ✅ Zero-click searches becoming majority by 2026 (over 50% projected) ✅ AI overviews now in 13%+ of searches and climbing ✅ Quality Rater guidelines (Jan 2025) stress highest EEAT standards for YMYL Three Major Signals: AI Overviews Here to Stay - Sundar Pichai confirms usage grows over time EEAT Intensifying - Real human expertise required amid AI-generated content flood Zero-Click New Normal - Goal shifts from ranking #1 to becoming cited source 6 Predictions for Fall/Winter 2025: Core Update (Oct-Dec) - Targeting mass-produced AI content, thin content, lack of topical authority Enhanced Author Authority - Cross-referenced credentials, verified expertise, author schema essential AI Overview Integration - Ranking factors prioritize structured data, citation-worthiness rewards originality Hyper-Personalization - Two people side-by-side get different "best pizza" results by 2026 Stricter Core Web Vitals - Today's "good" scores become tomorrow's "needs improvement" Behavioral EEAT - User signals (dwell time, engagement, return rates) validate quality Foundation Requirements: Mobile-friendliness (non-negotiable) Core Web Vitals: LCP (load speed), INP (responsiveness), CLS (visual stability) SpamBrain targeting thin AI content, expired domain abuse, site reputation abuse Two-Phase Action Plan: Phase 1 (Now): Foundation audit - GSC health check, crawl reports, Core Web Vitals analysis, content quality assessment Phase 2 (Immediate): Strategic improvements - enhance EEAT signals, implement author schema, optimize for AI discovery, topic clusters Transform your algorithm resilience with future-proof web design and performance optimization, comprehensive anticipatory SEO strategies and EEAT authority building, and expert algorithm-resilient architecture and user experience excellence that thrives through updates. Subscribe for strategies that prepare you for Google's next move!