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Facebook And Instagram Hit By Massive Outage
Massive outage hits Facebook and Instagram
Google Announces New Structured Data Carousels (beta) Rich Results
Google announced a new scrolling carousel that displays as a rich result that can be used for products, local businesses and events
E-E-A-T’s Google Ranking Influence Decoded
How should SEOs implement E-E-A-T in their strategies according to recent statements from Google’s SearchLiaison?
Google Testing AI Tool That Finds & Rewrites Quality Content
Google’s beta AI content rewriting tool is said be “incentivizing the production of AI-generated slop”
Google Confirms That Filetype Search Operator’s Missing – Fixed
Google’s SearchLiaison responded on Twitter to confirm that the filetype search operator is missing
NYTimes “Paid Someone To Hack OpenAI’s Products”
Court filing alleges The New York Times paid someone who made “tens of thousands of attempts” with “deceptive prompts”
WordPress, Wix & Squarespace Show Best CWV Rate Of Improvement
Squarespace, Wix and WordPress are the fastest improving content management systems out of six CMS platforms compared by HTTPArchive
Google Answers A Crawl Budget Issue Question
Google’s John Mueller answers a Reddit SEO question about a crawl budget problem and offers advice about crawl budgets in general
Does AI Democratize SEO Or Amplify Incompetence?
This is what AI can realistically do for SEO and what should be expected in terms of results
Google Gemini Failure Offers Lessons For SEO
Gemini Image Generator flaw offers insights into how Google’s search ranking algorithms can also fail
Google Announces Deal To Show More Reddit Content
Google reached a deal to license Reddit data to for displaying in search and training models
Why Google Seems To Favor Big Brands & Low-Quality Content
An exploration of what could cause Google’s algorithms to favor big brands and low-quality content
Google Announces Gemma: Laptop-Friendly Open Language Model
Google releases a powerful open model AI based on Gemini technology that is also laptop-friendly
Google Responds To Evidence Of Reviews Algorithm Bias
Google responds to detailed exposé of Reviews System Algorithm bias towards big brands at the expense of small publishers
5 Questions Answered About The OpenAI Search Engine
Five questions reveal what’s probably behind the OpenAI search engine announcement
Bricks Builder For WordPress RCE Vulnerability
Critical vulnerability in the popular Bricks visual website builder being actively exploited
Google Updates Guidance On Image Removal From Search Index
Update to the image removal guidance clarifies multiple points
Google Updates Rel=Canonical Documentation
The newly updated rel=canonical documentation better explains how Google uses rel canonicals
WordPress User Survey Indicates Rising Frustration
Respondents to the annual WordPress survey express frustration with the Gutenberg editor and poor site performance
Google On 404 Errors And Search Console Validation Fix
John Mueller answers questions about fixing 404 errors and validating fixes for 404s when they still exist
OpenAI ChatGPT Is Testing A Memory Feature
OpenAI is rolling out a test of a new memory feature for ChatGPT that can improve responses and become more efficient
Why Did Google Gemini “Leak” Chat Data?
This is why Google Gemini chat pages seemingly leaked onto the Internet
WordPress SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle Plugin Vulnerability Affects +600,000 Sites
WordPress plugin by SiteOrigin patched a stored XSS vulnerability affecting up to +600,000 websites
WordPress Backup Plugin DoS Vulnerability Affects +200,000 Sites
A high severity Denial of Service vulnerability patched in WordPress backup plugin with +200,00 installations
Google Gemini Warning: Don’t Share Confidential Information
Google Gemini warns against sharing confidential info that could be reviewed by humans or used in AI datasets.
Google Updates Web Stories Availability
The documentation for Web Stories has been updated to reflect changes in the availability
Google Clarifies the “Google-Extended” Crawler Documentation
Google updated the Google-Extended crawler documentation and adds a clarification
Research Shows That Offering Tips To ChatGPT Improves Responses
Researchers test 26 different prompting strategies and discover new and easy ways to get better results out of ChatGPT
Get Ready For Google’s INP Metric With These 5 Tools
Outpace competitors with these free tools for optimizing Interaction To Next Paint scores