A vulnerability advisory was issued for a WordPress Contact Form 7 add-on plugin that enables unauthenticated attackers to “easily” launch a remote code execution. The vulnerability is rated high (8.8/10)…

Ahrefs released a public dashboard that tracks how much referral traffic websites receive from Google Search versus ChatGPT, with monthly updates. The first dataset covers three complete months across 44,421…

Google’s Barry Pollard recently explained why website owners see different Core Web Vitals scores in Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) versus Google Search Console. The short answer: both tools can…

Just under one month ago, on July 23, 2025, Amazon vanished from Google Shopping ads overnight. No trial, no warning, no phased retreat. One of the biggest advertisers on the…

Google’s AI-generated results reshape how people search, and Google has said that websites should expect traffic fluctuations and that prior success in organic Search does not guarantee future success in…

A software engineer from New York got so fed up with the irrelevant results and SEO spam in search engines that he decided to create a better one. Two months…

I’ve spent 30 years navigating the turbulent waters of what was once called “internet marketing” and is now called “digital marketing.” Based on my experience, the past year has been…

OpenAI is rolling out a new subscription tier called ChatGPT Go, a competitively priced version that will initially be available only to users in India. It features ten times higher…

Google makes Merchant API generally available and announces plans to sunset the Content API. New features include order tracking, issue resolution, and Product Studio. Merchant API is now generally available.…

Google says the new Trends API is opening to a “quite small” set of testers at first, with access expanding over time. The company formally announced the alpha at Search…

LinkedIn notifications now alert you when posts drive profile views & followers. Learn how these real-time analytics can help. LinkedIn will notify you when posts generate profile views and new…

A peer-reviewed PNAS study finds that large language models tend to prefer content written by other LLMs when asked to choose between comparable options. The authors say this pattern could…

If you lead a marketing team, chances are you’ve had this conversation: “How are the campaigns doing?” “Well, our ROAS is 4:1.” The room breathes a collective sigh of relief.…

OpenAI updated GPT-5 to make it warmer and more familiar (in the sense of being friendlier) while taking care that the model didn’t become sycophantic, a problem discovered with GPT-4o.…

Running iOS app campaigns in Google has never been straightforward. Between Apple’s privacy changes and evolving user behavior, marketers have often felt like they were working with one hand tied…

Someone posted details of a novel negative SEO attack that they said appeared to be a Core Web Vitals performance poisoning attack. Google’s John Mueller and Chrome’s Barry Pollard assisted…

A new Yext analysis of 8.7 million Google search results suggests many common local SEO tactics don’t perform the same across industries and regions. The dataset, drawn from the company’s…

A Reddit thread about a sharp crawl drop prompted guidance from Google’s John Mueller. Here’s how to diagnose the cause. Sudden crawl drops are more consistent with 429/500/503 responses or…

Using outdated and traditional SEO tactics centered around keywords and backlinks is not moving the needle anymore, as Google shifts toward AI-driven answers. Organic clicks are going down as a…

Google’s Gary Illyes answered a question about why Google doesn’t use social sharing as a ranking factor, explaining that it’s about the inability to control certain kinds of external signals.…

Google adds an AI “Flight Deals” tool to Google Flights, part of a broader push into vertical, conversational search experiences. Google launched Flight Deals in Google Flights. It’s rolling out…

OpenAI announced that it has added connectors to Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts for ChatGPT Plus users, enabling ChatGPT to use data from those apps within ChatGPT chats. ChatGPT…

For years, marketers built their strategies around a clear and visible funnel: awareness, consideration, conversion. It worked well in a web where behaviors were traceable, people clicked links, visited pages,…

AI tools can do a lot of SEO now. Draft content. Suggest keywords. Generate metadata. Flag potential issues. We’re well past the novelty stage. But for all the speed and…

While industry professionals have debates over nomenclature of SEO, GEO, or AEO, and if ChatGPT or Google’s AI Overviews will replace traditional search, a more fundamental shift is happening that…

OpenAI has restored GPT-4o to the ChatGPT model picker for paid accounts and says it will give advance notice before removing models in the future. The company made the change…

Google is rolling out updates to the Gemini app that personalize responses using past conversations and add new privacy controls, including a Temporary Chat mode. The changes start today and…

This week’s Ask an SEO question comes from Zahara: “What metrics should small businesses actually care about when measuring content strategy success? Everyone talks about different KPIs, but I need…