WordPress Popular Posts Plugin Vulnerability Affects 100k+ Sites
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…
WordPress Backup Plugin Vulnerability Affects 3+ Million Sites
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:…
Google Shows How To Confirm Indexing Issues Due To JavaScript
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…
OpenAI Blames Cloud Provider For ChatGPT Outage
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…
How Brevity Is Winning Hearts
The less a person says to communicate, the better. Shakespeare said “Brevity is the soul of wit.” And in just six words, underlined why brevity impacts communication. I appreciate brevity…
Google’s JavaScript Warning & How It Relates To AI Search
A recent discussion among the Google Search Relations team highlights a challenge in web development: getting JavaScript to work well with modern search tools. In Google’s latest Search Off The…
Google Podcast Discusses SEO Expertise
Google’s recent Search Off the Record podcast touched on the issue of SEO expertise and the disconnect between how SEOs think Google ranks websites how Googlers understand it. The disparity…
An In-Depth Guide For Brands
TikTok is a highly influential social media platform that is invaluable for trends and information sourcing. It might not have the direct conversion of other platforms, but most brands should…
Introduction To Vector Databases And How To Use AI For SEO
A vector database is a collection of data where each piece of data is stored as a (numerical) vector. A vector represents an object or entity, such as an image,…
Email Marketing: An In-Depth Guide
Email is as a highly effective direct marketing channel and could be considered the modern version of direct response marketing. Email marketing campaigns are core strategies in modern digital marketing,…
Keys To A Successful Webinar That Drives Leads For Brands
So, you’ve decided to host a webinar. After all, you’ve heard it’s a great means of thought leadership, communicating directly with your ideal audience and providing your expert insights in…
Why I Wouldn’t Start Affiliate Marketing in 2025 (And What I’d Do Instead)
Back in the day, I ran a couple of semi-successful affiliate websites. I even once ranked #1 for “best protein powder.” This was a pretty lucrative keyword given its commercial…
6 Takeaways From the Success of CarMats.co.uk
In May 2020, during the height of the COVID pandemic, Ash Young started an ecommerce store selling car mats in the UK. His goal was to hit £1M in sales…
Google Speculates If SEO ‘Is On A Dying Path’
Google’s latest Search Off the Record podcast discussed whether ‘SEO is on a dying path’ because of AI Search. Their assessment sought to explain that SEO remains unchanged by the…
7 Changes Marketers Should Make
Paid media marketers, take a deep breath – 2024 was a whirlwind, wasn’t it? AI officially moved from buzzword to business-as-usual, with tools like Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot changing…
How To Build Real Connections And Succeed
Reddit has always been a tricky platform for brands to navigate. As someone who has been active on Reddit since it launched nearly 20 years ago, I’ve seen firsthand how…
the 2024 recap | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 It might happen that by the end of this post you’re going to try to decide who wrote this blog post, a large language model (LLM)…
5 Reasons Your Direct Traffic Can Suddenly Drop
If one channel shows a drop, but the others hold up, usually you suspect something went wrong with that channel. Perhaps your organic traffic was negatively affected by an algorithm…
Top 10 Digital Marketing Trends For 2025
Digital marketing is changing and the industry is trying to adapt whilst accepting the uncertainty. So, let me offer an alternative approach that you could take this year. Invite all…
Google AI Overviews Claims More Pixel Height in SERPs
New data from BrightEdge reveals that Google’s AI Overviews is increasingly blocking organic search results. If this trend continues, Google AI Overviews and advertisements could cover well over half of…
8 Websites Driving Insane Traffic Using… Calculators
Calculators are the unlikely tactic savvy website owners are using to drive hundreds of thousands (and sometimes millions) of clicks from Google to their websites. In this article, I’ll share…
How Long Should An SEO Migration Take? [Study]
Website migrations, specifically domain migrations, are often seen as one of the more complex parts of SEO. They are becoming increasingly more common as businesses are consolidating websites and assets…
WordPress Developer Publishes Code To Block Mullenweg’s Web Hosting Clients
A prolific WordPress plugin publisher who has created over three dozen free plugins has released code that other plugin and theme publishers can use to block client’s of Matt Mullenweg’s…
Google CEO Describes A 2025 Beyond A Search Box
Google’s Sundar Pichai outlined the 2025 strategy, emphasizing consumer-focused AI, rapid development of agentic apps, a Chrome AI prototype called Project Mariner, and upgrades to Gemini and Project Astra, signaling…
Google Gemini Deep Research May Erode Website Earnings
There’s a compelling theory floating around that Google’s AI agent, called Deep Research, could negatively impact affiliate sites. If true, not only would this impact affiliate site earnings, it could…
ChatGPT Search Manipulated With Hidden Instructions
New report claims that ChatGPT Search can be manipulated with hidden text featuring instructions telling ChatGPT Search how to respond to an answer Tests also showed that ChatGPT could be…
Google Explains How CDNs Impact Crawling & SEO
Google published an explainer that discusses how Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) influence search crawling and improve SEO but also how they can sometimes cause problems. What Is A CDN? A…
What Drama Can I Create In 2025?
Matt Mullenweg started a Reddit discussion in the r/WPDrama subreddit asking what kind of drama he can create in 2025, sparking an avalanche of responses that subsequently generated a spinoff…
Google Says Temporal Anomalies Affect Googlebot Crawl
Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about Googlebot crawling and the completeness of the snapshot. The person asking the question received a response that touched on edge cases…
Google’s December 2024 Updates: Final Results
Google launched two updates in December that rolled out in succession like waves carrying happy surfers to the beach and a tsunami to the unlucky few. Many SEOs who braced…