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There’s a report that blocking AI training bots with Cloudflare is also blocking legitimate Googlebot and Bingbot from indexing a website. Cloudflare recently announced that this would happen beginning in September. It’s unclear whether this is a fluke or user error but it does serve as a reminder to be aware of the pending change […]
Google has finally separated generative AI visibility from the rest of the data in Search Console. On June 3, 2026, Google announced dedicated Generative AI performance reports for Search and Discover. The announcement fell on my birthday, which felt briefly thoughtful until I realized the gift was all impressions and no clicks. The Search report […]
For much of the past 18 months, paid search growth has coincided with growing pressure on organic traffic. AI Overviews and other zero-click search experiences have made organic clicks harder to capture. At the same time, advertisers have continued to increase paid media investment, reinforcing the idea that paid could absorb at least some of […]
A critical vulnerability in the WooCommerce Social Login WordPress plugin enables unauthenticated attackers to log in as any existing user, including an administrator. The authentication bypass vulnerability is rated 9.8 out of 10 and affects all versions up to and including 2.8.7. WooCommerce Social Login Plugin The WooCommerce Social Login plugin enables frictionless one-click login […]
A website made of pages hands a machine half of what it needs. It can read each page on its own, but nothing on the website tells it how the pages relate, and nothing tells it whether what it is reading is still true. Those are two separate gaps. For a while I only had […]
Kris Jones joined me for an episode of Search Engine Journal’s podcast. He has been in search since the late 1990s and now runs the agency LSEO, after building and selling Pepper Jam. We spent most of the conversation on one question, which is what actually decides whether an AI system recommends your brand. Kris […]
The latest Datos x SparkToro State of Search Report is out, and it’s something of a doozy. AI is certainly on the rise, search still hasn’t been replaced (it’s not even in the process of), and more people than ever stay in Google’s ecosystem. Headline Findings: June was a record low for the open web […]
Google updated its crawl budget documentation with new information about how Google’s different crawlers all share a website’s crawl capacity and added a recommendation to use a 304 server response to reduce the amount of server resources used by crawlers. Both of these additions are to Google’s Optimize Your Crawl Budget Documentation that is for […]
For years, you could gauge local visibility by checking the map pack and a page of organic results. These have always mattered, but now, the same business details that feed them are also powering AI assistants. Instead of presenting a page full of options, an assistant responds with just a few names. This change emphasizes […]
Google’s newly updated crawl budget optimization guide has been updated to be more precise, with emphasis given to the different parts of crawling in order to provide greater detail that is more precise than the previous version of the documentation. Aside from improvements in precision and understandability, Google adds an entirely new section. The previous […]