An SEO experiment shows how easily misinformation ranks in Google Search and spreads to other sites.

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Google's John Mueller says why migrating a site to HTTPS may cause a site to lose all rankings.

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Chartbeat data shows search referral traffic fell 60% for small publishers over two years, compared with 22% for large publishers, per an Axios report.

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SISTRIX analyzed over 100 million German keywords and found AI Overviews reduce the position one click rate from 27% to 11%. Impact varies by industry.

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Google confirmed it removed "What People Suggest" from health searches. Additionally, the company announced new AI health tools for YouTube.

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Google is expanding Personal Intelligence to free U.S. users in AI Mode, connecting Gmail and Photos to search. Gemini app and Chrome rollout starting.

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The official WordPress Plugin Checker provides automated code review for security and best practices, perfect for checking vibe coded plugins.

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Data from 4M AI citations shows syndicated press releases barely register in AI answers. Editorial content and owned newsrooms fare better.

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Google shared that Googlebot's crawl limits are flexible and can be increased or decreased depending on the need.

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New third-party data shows local publishers lost national reach after Google's Discover core update.

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Google's Gary Illyes offered a candid overview of Googlebot, explaining there are hundreds of crawlers that are not publicly documented.

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Formidable Forms WordPress vulnerability enables unauthenticated attackers to pay a small amount and have a larger purchase marked as paid.

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An analysis of ChatGPT conversations found the default and premium models cite almost entirely different sources for the same queries.

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Google Maps launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for local discovery in the U.S. and India, plus a navigation overhaul in the U.S.

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Google announced that Search Console's brand queries filter is open to all eligible sites, spurring questions about the feature.

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Gutenberg 22.7 adds features that lay the groundwork for a role as an AI publishing platform and improve the editing experience.

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WordPress issues second security release 6.9.4 to address vulnerabilities that version 6.9.2 apparently failed to patch.

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A survey of B2B decision-makers found peer recommendations are trusted nearly twice as much as AI chatbots, and white papers rank last for perceived value.

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A federal judge granted Amazon a preliminary injunction barring Perplexity's Comet AI agent from accessing Amazon accounts and ordering data destroyed.

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Official WordPress AI Experiments plugin enables users to get advance access to AI features right now.

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A study of U.S. workers finds 14% report "brain fry" from AI overuse. Marketing had the highest rate at 26%.

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Google's John Mueller shared the Disavow File Domain Directive which disavows entire Top Level Domains (TLDs) but cautioned about using it.

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Google's head of Search described how multimodal LLMs help Google understand audio and video, and discussed a direction for subscription-aware search.

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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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