Google Removes Job Search Experience From South Korean Search Results
Job Search Experience rich results in Google search is no longer available in South Korea
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W3C Launches Beta Of New Website Redesign
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) offers a sneak peek at their redesigned website and asks for feedback
All In One SEO WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Affects Up To 3+ Million
AIOSEO WordPress plugin contains two vulnerabilities affecting versions up to and including 4.2.9
Google Updates Guidance On Helpful Content System and Discover Traffic
Google clarifies guidance on Discover traffic to increase emphasis on helpful content and the Helpful Content System
How Bing AI Search Uses Website Content
This is why Bing GPT Search is a win for website publishers and users
Google February 2023 Product Reviews Update
Google announced the February 2023 Product Reviews Update, accompanied by a clarification in the product reviews update guidance
Google: Don’t Use 403/404 Error Responses For Rate Limiting Googlebot
Google responds to increase in erroneous use of 403/404 responses from publishers and Content Delivery Networks as a way to rate limit Googlebot
Four Takeaways from Google’s Updated Link Guidance
Google’s expanded guidance on links and how it tracks surprisingly close with algorithms and HTML best practices
WordPress Vulnerability: ShortPixel Enable Media Replace Plugin
Over 600,000 active installations of ShortPixel Enable Media Replace WordPress Plugin
Google Chrome Lighthouse 10 Contains Two New Audits
Two new audits in Lighthouse 10 help improve site security and performance
Lighthouse 10 Improves PageSpeed Insights Scores For 90% Of Pages
Removal of TTI Metric in Lighthouse 10 improves PageSpeed Insights scores for 90% of webpages
Google On Use Of Product Structured Data For A Services Business
John Mueller’s answer to a question about structured data shows differences between official Schema.org documentation and what Google recommends
Google Bard AI – What Sites Were Used To Train It?
LaMDA, the underlying technology of Bard AI, is trained with a dataset called Infiniset, the details of which are kept exceedingly vague
Chrome 110 Changes How Web Share API Embeds Third Party Content
Chrome 110 introduces a “potentially breaking change” to third-party embedding. This is why it’s actually a good thing.
Google Updates Structured Data Guidance To Clarify Supported Formats
Google updated the structured data guidance to clarify why JSON-LD is preferred and to confirm that Microdata & RDFa are fine
Google: Headings With Hierarchical Structure An “Awesome Idea”
Google’s John Mueller says headings with a hierarchical structure is an “awesome idea & a great practice”
How to Block OpenAI ChatGPT From Using Your Website Content
This is how ChatGPT gets website data to learn from and how to block that from happening.
Response to ChatGPT $20 Plan: Take My Money!
New $20 ChatGPT subscription plan was greeted by a virtual stampede of enthusiastic users ready to shower money on OpenAI
Google’s Mueller Criticizes Negative SEO & Link Disavow Companies
John Mueller criticized negative SEO services as well as certain kinds of link disavow companies, saying that they were “making things up”
How Yelp Removes Fake Reviews & Fake Business Pages
Yelp releases report on how they removed lead generators and closed down paid review rings on social media sites in 2022
The WordPress Security Guide To Keep Your Site Safe
Discover eight steps to take to keep your WordPress website safe from hackers, malware, and vulnerabilities.
Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leak: Insights
Catch up with the Yandex ranking factors leak and what it’s all about. Gain a better understanding of how search engines generally work.
11 Disadvantages Of ChatGPT Content
Virtually all ChatGPT content contains one or more of these flaws. This is how to prevent them.
10 Tools You Can Use For SEO Competitive Analysis
Here are the 10 SEO competitive analysis tools that you need to know.
Yoast SEO Founder: WordPress Admin Interface Is “Simply Bad”
Joost de Valk says “This is how we lose CMS market share to companies like Wix”
Is ChatGPT Use Of Web Content Fair?
A review of ethical concerns regarding how ChatGPT and other large language models use web content without attribution
Google Updates Discover Follow Feed Guidelines
Google updated the Discover Follow feed guidelines to highlight the importance of two feed elements
Meta Reinstates Trump to Facebook & Instagram
Meta lifts two year ban on former president Trump, promises that guardrails will impose heightened penalties for new violations of policy
Yoast SEO 20.0 Update Makes Big Changes
Yoast SEO 20.0 WordPress plugin introduces bold design updates that will change how users interact with the plugin
Duda Announces WooRank Integration
WooRank integration into Duda adds powerful SEO auditing and optimization tools