SEO recap: December 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 551 stories.

3 Stories archived
0 High impact
0 Update-flagged
2 Technical areas

Biggest stories

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

Medium Bing Webmaster Blog

Does Duplicate Content Hurt SEO and AI Search Visibility?

Duplicate content quietly drains your search visibility. When multiple versions of a page blur signals and dilute authority, search engines may surface outdated or unintended URLs. Learn how…

Ranking & Algorithms Content & Quality

Yandex Webmaster (RU)

Новый инструмент в Яндекс Вебмастере: «Настройка GET‑параметров»

GET‑параметры — это дополнительные элементы в URL, которые выполняют разнообразные функции: помогают анализировать эффективность рекламных кампаний, отслеживать поведения пользователей на сайте или…

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…

What the period was about

Busiest technical areas

  • Ranking & Algorithms 1
  • Content & Quality 1

Most active sources

  • Bing Webmaster Blog 1
  • Simo Ahava 1
  • Yandex Webmaster (RU) 1

About these recaps

Assembled from our own archive of 551 stories, which currently runs from 4 October 2023. 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.