New research indicates that Google’s AI Overviews appear in 18% of publisher-related search queries. Additionally, the findings suggest that traditional search ranking factors may be less relevant for content appearing in AI Overviews. Here are more highlights from the study released by ZipTie.dev, which analyzes over 500,000 queries across multiple industries. Key Findings Data indicates … Read more
Struggling to keep up with Google’s latest generative AI updates? Wondering how AI-organized SERPs and Overviews are impacting your SEO strategy? You’re not alone. Join us for an exclusive webinar as we break down the newest developments in AI-powered search and share actionable insights to help you succeed in this evolving landscape. Why This Webinar … Read more
Artificial intelligence isn’t just influencing search – it’s fundamentally reshaping how users discover information and how search engines deliver results. This evolution presents extraordinary opportunities while adding more complexity for enterprise SEO organizations. How Enterprise SEO Has Changed Organizations are grappling with an environment where AI doesn’t just assist with search – it fundamentally shapes … Read more
TikTok trends move so quickly that it’s not easy to keep pace, as memes can appear and disappear within days. For anyone working in social media or content marketing, keeping up to date is important to leverage relevant trends and inspire new content. From observation, TikTok is becoming the starting point for many trends and … Read more
Matt Mullenweg cited a Reddit thread on X to promote the idea that WP Engine makes it difficult to cancel accounts. Turns out that his own hosting company does the exact same thing. “Money Grab” Post By Redditor Someone posted that they cancelled a WP Engine account on Friday December 6th. They subsequently learned that … Read more
As the fourth industrial revolution continues to evolve, the ways we consume news, interact with brands, and market our products are radically shifting. A key driver of this shift remains on the content we create – both written and visual – and how we leverage emerging technologies to engage, influence, and convert readers. At the … Read more
An advisory has been issued about a high-severity WordPress vulnerability that makes it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary shortcodes into sites using the WordPress Popular Posts plugin. Attackers do not need a user account to launch an attack. WordPress Popular Posts is installed in over 100,000 websites enables websites to display the most popular … Read more
A high severity vulnerability in a popular WordPress backup plugin allows unauthenticated attackers to exploit the flaw. The vulnerability is rated 8.8 on a scale of 0.0 to 10. UpdraftPlus: WP Backup & Migration Plugin The vulnerability affects the popular Updraft Plus WordPress plugin, installed in over 3 million websites. Updraft Plus comes in a … Read more
SearchNorwich recently published an excellent video featuring Google’s Martin Splitt discussing how to debug crawling and indexing issues related to JavaScript, saying that most of the times it’s not JavaScript that’s causing indexing issues, the actual cause is something else. Even if you don’t know how to code with JavaScript, the tips that Martin shares … Read more
OpenAI published an incident report detailing the cause of last weeks ChatGPT outage and what they are doing to prevent a repeat. The outage began on December 26th, 2024 at 10:40 AM and was mostly resolved by 3:11 PM, except for except ChatGPT which was 100% recovered by 6:20 PM. The following services were impacted: … Read more