Google's AI Mode self-citations tripled in nine months. SE Ranking data shows that more links now lead to organic search results, not business profiles.

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Google's John Mueller confirmed that most sites don't need to use a disavow file but if you need to be sure, do it.

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NanoClaw's creator says Google ranks a fake website above his project's real site despite 18K GitHub stars, press coverage, and structured data setup.

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New SMEC study analyzes AI Max in Google Ads Search campaigns, showing a 13% conversion value lift but higher CPA and unpredictable ROAS results.

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Google removed its JavaScript accessibility guidance from help documents, saying the advice is outdated and noting it has rendered JavaScript for years.

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WordPress releases three plugins for integrating Claude, Gemini, or OpenAI into websites

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Google updated AI Mode to change how it displays recipes and links to the creators

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Yoast SEO introduces a feature that consolidates site schema and disambiguates entities like authors, articles, products, and organizations.

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A warning was issued about two vulnerabilities affecting up to 60,000 installations of the Seraphinite Accelerator WordPress plugin.

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Up to a hundred thousands websites affected by WordPress calendar plugin vulnerability.

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Page Builder by SiteOrigin WordPress vulnerability rated 8.8/10 affects up to 500,000 websites.

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Critical vulnerability in WordPress User Registration & Membership plugin enables unauthenticated attackers to obtain administrator role.

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Google's Titans architecture and MIRAS framework enable AI to handle massive amounts of data and work faster.

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Google's AI landing page generator patent is limited to low conversion shopping pages, product feeds and advertising.

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New data finds AI Overviews often cite sources beyond page one. Fan-out queries may help explain why, and YouTube appears frequently in citations.

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Google updated its Image SEO and Discover documentation to explain how schema markup and the og:image meta tag influence thumbnail selection.

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It might come as a surprise that some open source projects like WordPress are said to be run by benevolent dictators for life.

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Voiceprint Claude plugin clones your writing style based on five writing samples. Works with any SKILL.md-compatible tool.

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Patchstack's state of WordPress Security report shows more sites get hacked within hours of vulnerability disclosure

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Google AI Overviews shows fast growth across nine industries, now triggering AI Search in nearly half of all search queries.

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Bing rewrote its webmaster guidelines to cover Copilot grounding, meta directive controls for AI answers, and a softened stance on AI-generated content.

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Google's February Discover core update is complete after a roughly 22-day rollout. Early data suggests fewer domains in top slots.

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Google's Gary Illyes clarifies why resource hints do not influence Googlebot's crawling behavior, and notes that HTML validity is not a ranking factor.

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Lack of support for an independent WordPress plugin and theme repository leads Joost de Valk to step away.

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Researchers compared two ways to improve rankings in LLMs: Shadow Model and Query-based solutions.

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Google is preparing to test search result changes in the EU that would show rival vertical search services alongside its own results

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Survey data shows 49% of U.S. consumers have used TikTok for search, but Gen Z's TikTok-over-Google preference is dropping.

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Anthropic updated its crawler documentation to list separate Claude bots for training, search indexing, and user requests, with visibility tradeoffs when blocked.

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Early third-party tracking data offers a first look at how Google's February Discover core update is changing what users see in their feeds.

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SerpApi filed a motion to dismiss Google's DMCA lawsuit, arguing the search giant lacks standing to invoke copyright law over publicly visible search results.

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Google's John Mueller points to site content as the reason for Search Console sitemap error messages

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Microsoft found 31 companies hiding prompt injections inside "Summarize with AI" buttons aimed at biasing what AI assistants recommend in future conversations.

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Google Ads PMax placement reporting is now populating with data for more accounts, revealing Search Partner domains and impression counts for brand safety review.

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Google launched an AI Professional Certificate with seven self-paced modules and three months of AI Pro access. Eligible U.S. small businesses can enroll free.

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Peec AI analyzed fan-out queries from 10M+ ChatGPT prompts and found 43% of background searches ran in English, even for non-English prompts.

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