Elementor WordPress Contact Form Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Up To 200,000 Sites via @sejournal, @martinibuster

As you know, Google released the December 2020 broad core update at 1pm ET on December 3, 2020. This was after Black Friday (November 27) and Cyber Monday (November 30) but before the actual holiday season – Chanukah is Thursday night (December 10th) and Christmas is later this month. Was this the right time to release a core update or should Google have held off until after January 1st?

Google adds landing page load time to Quality Score In 2008, Google AdWords confirmed a new addition to Quality Score: landing page load time. Google said they did this for two reasons: First, users have the best experience when they don’t have to wait a long time for landing pages to load. Interstitial pages, multiple redirects, excessively slow servers, and other things that can increase load times only keep users from getting what they want: information about your business. Second, users are more likely to abandon landing pages that load […]

Greg Sterling ran a poll on Twitter asking, “Are you now branching out from Google as a search/discovery tool?” Almost 30% of those who answered, which are primarily SEOs/SEms, said they are, while the other 70% said they are sticking with Google 99% of the time.