A prolific WordPress plugin publisher who has created over three dozen free plugins has released code that other plugin and theme publishers can use to block client’s of Matt Mullenweg’s WordPress.com commercial web hosting platform from using them. What The Plugin & Theme Code Does The plugin was created so that other plugin and theme […]
Google’s Sundar Pichai outlined the 2025 strategy, emphasizing consumer-focused AI, rapid development of agentic apps, a Chrome AI prototype called Project Mariner, and upgrades to Gemini and Project Astra, signaling a shift toward AI apps as the user interface for search. Although Pichai did not say Google is de-emphasizing the Google Search box, he did […]
Setting yourself and your organization up for successful marketing means understanding the interesting dates, holidays, and events throughout the year that you can leverage for your brand. Pulling that information together takes time and effort, so we’ve done the legwork for you. Our complete marketing calendar for 2025 with a template gives you all the […]
There’s a compelling theory floating around that Google’s AI agent, called Deep Research, could negatively impact affiliate sites. If true, not only would this impact affiliate site earnings, it could also decrease ad revenues and web traffic and to informational sites, including to the “lucky” sites that are linked to by Google’s AI research assistant. […]
Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, and its executive team held a strategy meeting with employees last week on its 2025 outlook and what Google needs to focus on to get there. As you can imagine, much of it was around AI and shipping AI products that are better, faster and more consumer focused. This was covered […]
When Google Voice was released in 2012, and then Amazon Alexa was released in 2014 voice search was expected to be highly influential. Voice search didn’t quite take off in an industry-shaking way. But, as the technology has improved, it’s become integrated into so many devices and daily user journeys that it’s important to understand […]
Google published an explainer that discusses how Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) influence search crawling and improve SEO but also how they can sometimes cause problems. What Is A CDN? A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a service that caches a web page and displays it from a data center that’s closest to the browser requesting […]
New report claims that ChatGPT Search can be manipulated with hidden text featuring instructions telling ChatGPT Search how to respond to an answer Tests also showed that ChatGPT could be manipulated without the instructions, with just the hidden text. ChatGPT Search Can Be Manipulated With Hidden Text A report from The Guardian outlines how they […]
Matt Mullenweg started a Reddit discussion in the r/WPDrama subreddit asking what kind of drama he can create in 2025, sparking an avalanche of responses that subsequently generated a spinoff discussion about one of his responses to another Redditor. The public r/WPDrama subreddit was created in October 2024 as a place to discuss the fallout […]
Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about Googlebot crawling and the completeness of the snapshot. The person asking the question received a response that touched on edge cases and temporal anomalies in crawling. A Googlebot “screenshot” refers to a representation of what a web page looks like to Googlebot. What a web page […]