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I recently presented at Pubcon Vegas in October and March 2024, and over the past 20 years have presented at search conferences across the United States: Pubcon, SMX, Affiliate Summit & SES (Search Engine Strategies) and have served as a Head Judge at the U.S. Search Awards .
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Duda Adds SEO Automation To Their AI Assistant for Enhanced Efficiency
Duda announces AI SEO automation that helps agencies and developers scale SEO for clients while reducing costs
SERP Volatility: What Do You Do About It?
This is what SERP volatility is and how to keep it from disrupting your rankings.
Google Explains The “Hostload Exceeded” Issue With Indexing
Google’s John Mueller offers possible explanations for the Hostload Exceeded error and why search console does not index submitted URLs
Google Trends: How To Use It For SEO & Content Marketing
Use these Google Trends insights to elevate your keyword research and SEO.
Kinsta Unveils Free Hosting for Your Static Sites
Kinsta announces free hosting for static websites, including static WordPress sites, with 100 GB bandwidth per month for up to 100 websites
Google Lighthouse 11.2.0 Updates Coming To PageSpeed Insights
Google Chrome team published details about an update to Lighthouse that introduces numerous changes to PageSpeed Insights
WordPress 6.4 Release Contains +100 Performance Wins
The New WordPress 6.4 contains over 100 performance improvements, making this version one of the most important updates so far
SEO For AI Search: Understand Qualified Clicks
The concept of Qualified Clicks is relevant to AI search and to the future of SEO
X Is Testing a $1 Paid Subscription To Reduce Spam
X (formerly Twitter) rolls out a $1/year charge for new users in two test countries
Bing Explains SEO For AI Search
Bing’s Fabrice Canel offers insights about AI search and what SEOs should do right now to get ready for it
Ahrefs Not Renewing 15% of Legacy Accounts
Ahrefs CEO announced it is not renewing 15% of legacy accounts who are overloading the system with data scraping and heavy use
Jetpack WordPress Plugin Update Adds More AI
Jetpack WordPress plugin updated with a new AI excerpt generator and a tiered newsletter subscription option
WordPress 6.3.2 Security Update For 8 Vulnerabilities
Important WordPress security release patches vulnerabilities, including one that could lead to a full site takeover
Research: GPT-4 Jailbreak Easily Defeats Safety Guardrails
Research shows how to bypass GPT-4 safety guardrails and make it produce harmful and dangerous responses
Right Now: Tell WordPress How To Make It Better For You
This is how to improve WordPress if you’re an SEO, recipe blogger or small business. But the window is closing soon
HTTP/2 Rapid Reset DDOS Vulnerability Affects Virtually All Websites
Details of a DDOS vulnerability that affects virtually every modern server is publicly releases
How AI Search Will Impact SEO
This is how AI search engines are evolving and how SEO should respond to keep up
GA4 Unveils New Way To Redact Personally Identifying Information
Google published documentation on GA4 Data Redaction Feature, which is turned on by default for new properties
Google Discover Documentation Updated
Update to Google Discover documentation clarifies why Discover traffic cannot be relied upon
Emails Show Google Search & Ad Execs Working Together To Increase Ad Revenue
Emails between Ads, Chrome and Search executives uncovers scheme to increase ad revenues
Is E-E-A-T A Ranking Factor?
Google’s E-E-A-T is important for top rankings in Google. So how come some say they’re not ranking factors?
Google Completely Removes How-To Rich Results
Google is simplifying the SERPs by removing the How-To rich results from desktop and mobile search in all languages
Google September 2023 Helpful Content Update – Changes To The Algorithm
Google’s September 2023 Helpful Content Update contains two algorithm changes that affect how sites are ranked
Mark Zuckerberg’s Remarks To Senators Promotes American AI Dominance
Mark Zuckerberg’s remarks to Senate promotes a government-corporate alliance as a way to maintain American leadership in AI technology
Microsoft Research: Generative Retrieval For Ranking Answers
Research paper explores a new conversational question answering model to retrieve and rank relevant passages
New Open Source LLM With Zero Guardrails Rivals Google’s Palm 2
Hugging Face releases Falcon 180B, an open source LLM with zero guardrails that rivals Google’s best LLM, Palm 2
Google Updates Crawler Documentation To Fix A Typo
Google updated official crawler documentation to fix a typo in a user agent string that could cause errors in crawler identification
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Discusses Ethics & Global Scale Of Changes AI Brings
Sam Altman on ethics that will define AI, importance of access to GPT-4 even if it’s used in ways he disagrees with
WordPress Interview: How SEOs & Publishers Can Improve WordPress
Interview discusses how SEOs, Affiliates and Publishers can get inside of WordPress and make it better