Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web……

MonsterInsights Google Analytics plugin XSS vulnerability affects up to +3 million websites The post Vulnerability in WordPress Google Analytics Plugin Hits +3 Million Websites appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

Paid search advertising and SEO are among the channels most likely to have reduced investment in 2023, according to Gartner’s latest CMO Spend and Strategy survey. But it’s not all bad news for search marketing. Search advertising. Although 26% of …

Google now supports Site names for subdomains on mobile devices, the search company just announced. Google wrote, “Site names are now supported for subdomains on mobile devices.” Google updated its help documentation to specify subdomains on mobile. Site names. …

Meta has been hit with a record $1.3 billion fine by the European Union for breaching data transfer laws. What happened. Facebook transferred the data of EU citizens to the U.S., violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), …

Neeva will shut down June 2. The ad-free search engine launched less than two years ago. Neeva’s failure was due to its inability to attract enough users, the rise of generative AI and LLMs and the current economic environment, according …

Microsoft has doubled the character limit of Bing Chat from 2,000 characters to now 4,000 characters. This is still rolling out for some users, but I personally see it in creative and precise mode, not in the standard balanced mode.…

Google is now testing displaying the 3D/AR or 360 product images on desktop. This was live for mobile search for a while but not Google is testing it on the desktop interface.…

I am hearing reports from SEOs that Google did another batch switchover from desktop-first indexing to mobile-first indexing for many sites. As you know, Google started the mobile-first indexing over six years ago but told us earlier this month that …

If you still use AMP on your site, then go to the AMP enhancements report in Google Search Console and filter by “crawl issues.” You may see a spike in the number of crawl issues reported on and going forward …

Google’s John Mueller felt the need to post a PSA that said having an incorrect date set in your last modification date within your HTTP header won’t hurt your SEO. He said on Mastodon, having an incorrect date set there …

In part one with Glenn Gabe, we talk about Bing chat and Google Bard and also the use of AI-generated content, in part two we dig more into E-E-A-T and how AI tools may replace us all……

Google started its efforts to move sites over to mobile-first indexing over six and a half years ago. Today, Google confirmed those efforts are now done, and the last batch of sites eligible for mobile-first indexing have been moved over.…

SEO tools are essential for optimizing website content and improving organic traffic and are especially important to the success of enterprise SEO.  Throughout my experience, I’ve observed that many companies need more scalable tools that align with the needs of …

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