Getting Indexed No Longer Means Getting Visited via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester
Being indexed used to buy a visit. In the answer layer, it buys eligibility, and nothing promises anyone arrives at your site. The post Getting Indexed No Longer Means Getting Visited appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Why Reddit Belongs In Your PR Strategy via @sejournal, @brentcsutoras
Reddit conversations can become news stories. Brands that listen and respond gain a chance to address problems before coverage follows. The post Why Reddit Belongs In Your PR Strategy appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google’s Illyes: Robots.txt Covers Crawling, Not AI Training via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google’s new robots.txt video says the standard covers crawling, not how content gets used, and recommends percent-encoding non-English robots.txt paths. The post Google’s Illyes: Robots.txt Covers Crawling, Not AI Training appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Views Search Absorbed Into Agentic Layer via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the future of Search is an agentic layer that unifies Google’s Search and AI experiences. The post Google CEO Sundar Pichai Views Search Absorbed Into Agentic Layer appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
UpdraftPlus WordPress Plugin Security Breach Enables Backdoor Attacks via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Hackers installed backdoors on WordPress sites using UpdraftPlus, putting over 3 million active installations at risk. The post UpdraftPlus WordPress Plugin Security Breach Enables Backdoor Attacks appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google Reminds Sites To Serve A 503 During PHP Patch Downtime via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Taking a site offline to patch PHP? Serve a 503 from outside PHP and keep robots.txt reachable. Days of server errors may get URLs dropped. The post Google Reminds Sites To Serve A 503 During PHP Patch Downtime appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Rank Tracking Broke In September – The Future Is Measured By Brand & Revenue via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW
Measure SEO beyond keyword positions with brand visibility, AI citations, and revenue as rank tracking outages expose gaps in traditional reporting. The post Rank Tracking Broke In September – The Future Is Measured By Brand & Revenue appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Wiretapping The SERP: Reverse Engineering Network Data
A beginner’s guide to exploring browser network data, how it uncovered a $13,337 Google exploit, and what it reveals about Google and ChatGPT. The post Wiretapping The SERP: Reverse Engineering Network Data appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Critical PHP Core Security Flaws Affect Websites, Including WordPress via @sejournal, @vahandev
An emergency PHP update is due today. Website owners need their hosts to install the fix, and older PHP versions may need an upgrade first. The post Critical PHP Core Security Flaws Affect Websites, Including WordPress appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google Images & Discover Previews Don’t Support JPEG XL via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Chrome and Firefox now display JPEG XL, but Google says it isn’t currently supported in Google Images or Discover previews. The post Google Images & Discover Previews Don’t Support JPEG XL appeared first on Search Engine Journal.