WordPress security scanner WPScan’s 2024 WordPress vulnerability report calls attention to WordPress vulnerability trends and suggests the kinds of things website publishers (and SEOs) should be looking out for. Some of the key findings from the report were that just over 20% of vulnerabilities were rated as high or critical level threats, with medium severity … Read more
Google has announced improvements to its Interaction to Next Paint (INP) metric for websites using popular consent management platforms (CMPs). Google made this possible by working directly with platforms like OneTrust, Complianz, and Axeptio. Barry Pollard, a Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) team member, announced the initiative in a recent post on the CrUX Announcements … Read more
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about whether the March Core Update was finished and whether it’s okay to begin fixing things in response to the update. Core Update Question On Reddit The person asking the question wanted to know if the core update was finished because they’ve experienced a 60% loss in traffic and … Read more
Yesterday we reported Google is testing products and products sites in the search bar tab in the European regions. Today, Google is testing places and places sites in the search bar tab in the European regions. Here is a screenshot of the search bar from Frank Standtmann on Mastodon who wrote, “Google seems to be … Read more
Google is now testing placing “product sites” as its own search bar filter tab in the search results. Also, Google is testing replacing “Shopping” with “Products” in that search bar. This was spotted by Shameem Adhikarath on X – he shared a video but here is a screenshot from that video: We first saw a … Read more
While honest websites experienced the ups and downs of Google’s March 2024 update, SEOs and recipe bloggers noticed AI spam sites surging to the top of search results. One example as of yesterday ranked for over 217K queries, 14.9K of which rank in the top 10 – and that number has increased a day later. … Read more
The days after the Google March 2024 spam and core updates were released, Google issued tons of manual actions. They were mostly pure spam manual actions that resulted in all or parts of a website being deindexed for violating Google’s search spam policies, as Google calls it. Most, if not all, of those sites that … Read more
Hundreds of major brands unknowingly have their ads served on Made for Advertising (MFA) websites. Ads are being placed on these sites through both programmatic and non-programmatic channels, according to a new study by Analytics. What are MFA websites? MFA websites are sites created primarily for profit through advertising and generally provide a poor user … Read more
The updated Google Search Quality Raters guidelines last week and added an example of what it considers the “lowest quality pages.” In section 4.7 it states the only mention of using AI and writes, “The website terms of use states that “some articles” are generated by artificial intelligence and may have errors or be out … Read more
Google Ads will soon support showing the Search Partner Network in the Performance Max Placement report. This means Google will show you which sites your PMax ads are running on – which is a first. Google posted the update in this help document saying, “Starting in March, 2024: The Performance Max Placement report will support … Read more
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