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Joost De Valk, founder of Yoast SEO, announced that he is stepping away from FAIR, a Linux Foundation project for creating an independent repository of themes and plugins. Fair Project The FAIR project was launched in mid-2025 in response to the Matt Mullenweg replaced WP Engine’s Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin in the official repository […]
Researchers published the results of a study showing how AI search rankings can be systematically influenced, with a high success rate for product search tests that also generalizes to other categories like travel. The name of the research paper is Controlling Output Rankings in Generative Engines for LLM-based Search and the approach to optimization is […]
Microsoft’s Defender Security Research Team published research describing what it calls “AI Recommendation Poisoning.” The technique involves businesses hiding prompt-injection instructions within website buttons labeled “Summarize with AI.” When you click one of these buttons, it opens an AI assistant with a pre-filled prompt delivered through a URL query parameter. The visible part tells the […]
Welcome to this week’s PPC Pulse, where this week’s focus is on scenario-based planning in both Google and Microsoft platforms. Google introduced a new Scenario Planner within Meridian, giving marketers the ability to model budget allocation shifts before committing spend. Microsoft launched a scenario-based Performance Max learning path designed to walk advertisers through practical campaign […]
This month’s Ask a PPC explores a common advertiser question: Why budgets sometimes overspend even when a target ROAS or target CPA is in place. Understanding this behavior requires separating two concepts that are often conflated: budgets and goals. While they work together, they serve very different functions within auction‑based ad platforms. In this post, […]
Google spent 2025 losing. Two federal courts ruled it had illegally monopolized search and ad tech. Regulators in Brussels opened new proceedings against it. And its stock still gained 65% for the year, more than any other major tech company. That gap between legal exposure and market performance is not a fluke — it is […]
Welcome to the week’s Pulse for SEO: updates cover how you track AI visibility, how a ghost page can break your site name in search results, and what new crawl data reveals about Googlebot’s file size limits. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Bing Webmaster Tools Adds AI Citation Dashboard Microsoft introduced an […]
Three separate updates landed this week, a new Shopping ad test inside AI Mode, an AI search playbook from Microsoft Advertising, and a candid podcast admission from Google about keywords, and they all point at the same underlying shift. AI is not adding a new layer on top of paid search. It is stress-testing whether […]
WP Engine recently filed its third amended complaint against WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and Automattic, which includes newly s allegations that Mullenweg identified ten companies to pursue for licensing fees and contacted a Stripe executive in an effort to persuade Stripe to cancel contracts and partnerships with WPE. Mullenweg And “Nuclear War” The defendants argued […]
Microsoft introduced an AI Performance dashboard in Bing Webmaster Tools, giving visibility into how content gets cited across Copilot and AI-generated answers in Bing. The feature, now in public preview, shows citation counts, page-level activity, and trends over time. It covers AI experiences across Copilot, AI summaries in Bing, and select partner integrations. Microsoft announced […]