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Google’s John Mueller answered a question about moving to HTTPS, explaining why the process of making a site secure is actually a major undertaking that can have a negative impact on rankings. Loss Of Top 3 Google Rankings A person asked on Reddit why they lost their top 3 rankings in Google after making their […]

SEJ Live’s opening panel covered three months of AI search changes from three angles. I covered the news, SEJ Founder Loren Baker covered the business case, and Managing Editor Shelley Walsh covered content strategy. The on-demand recording is available here. The session was called “What’s Hot, What’s Not,” and our goal was to identify the […]

A BuzzStream report analyzing 4 million AI citations found that press releases distributed through syndication channels barely appear in AI-generated answers. Background Press release distribution services have been marketing AI visibility as a selling point. For example, ACCESS Newswire offers an “AI Visibility Checklist” for press releases. eReleases published a guide positioning press releases as […]

Chris Green helped analyze 17 million websites and co-authored the latest SEO chapter for the Web Almanac, and his conclusion should matter to anyone who does SEO for a living. Green said the data showed that individual SEOs have “minimal” web-wide impact compared to CMS platform defaults. He wrote: “If you are really determined to […]

Google’s Gary Ilyes and Martin Splitt discussed Googlebot’s crawl limits, providing more details about why limits exist and revealing new information about how those limits can be adjusted upward or dialed down depending on needs and what is being accomplished. Details About Googlebot Limits Gary Illyes shared details of what is going on behind the […]

A vulnerability in the Formidable Forms WordPress plugin installed on over 300,000 websites enables unauthenticated attackers to bypass payment verification. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 6.28. It makes it possible for attackers to reuse a Stripe payment made for a lower amount to mark a more expensive transaction as paid. Formidable […]

Google Maps is launching Ask Maps, a conversational feature powered by Gemini that lets users ask complex questions about locations and receive AI-generated suggestions on a personalized map. The feature is now rolling out in the U.S. and India on Android and iOS, with a desktop version coming soon. What Ask Maps Does Ask Maps lets […]

On March 3, 2026, OpenAI pushed GPT-5.3 Instant to all ChatGPT users, free and paid, with no fanfare about what else might have changed beneath the surface. Within days, SEO and AI search practitioners began documenting something unexpected: The internal metadata that had allowed third-party tools to observe ChatGPT’s query fan-out behavior (the sub-queries the […]

tag inside the block). Preview Style Variation Transforms In The Editor Core blocks such as Heading, Image, Paragraph, and Button include built-in style variations. There is now a live preview for style variation transforms, allowing users to see how a style change will look before applying it. The official announcement explains: “Style variation transforms now […]

WordPress published a troubled security release version 6.9.2 to patch ten vulnerabilities that also caused some sites to crash (display a white screen), so WordPress quickly followed up with  a bugfix release version 6.9.3. Today, WordPress announced another update, version 6.9.4 because not all of the vulnerabilities were adequately addressed. WordPress security firm Wordfence published […]