Google is testing another ad format, another card like format, for its search ads. We previously saw the vertical and tall ad cards, then the carousel horizontal card format and now here are just plain horizontal ad cards.

Google was asked if having two websites and Google finding out about them would cause the websites to drop in rankings. John Mueller from Google said that is “not likely,” adding that many people have several websites and that is fine.

Gary Illyes from Google said in the recent Google SEO office hours the Google Indexing API may work for unsupported content formats, but that you shouldn’t be “surprised if suddenly it stopped working for unsupported verticals overnight.”

The topic of using hyphens in domain names is one of the oldest SEO topics we have in this space.

Fabrice Canel from Microsoft announced that BingBot now fully supports Brotli compression and will soon be testing zstd Zstandard compression, a lossless data compression, for its crawler.

Take a look at 25 SEO-friendly WordPress alternatives separated by primary functionality, so you can make the best choice for your needs.

Discover the essential considerations for SEOs when building headless websites in this insightful Whiteboard Friday by Peter Richman.

Meta’s AI assistant, now powered by Llama 3, integrates real-time search results from Google and Bing.

2024 WordPress vulnerability report shows top reasons why many WordPress sites were compromised over the past year The post 2024 WordPress Vulnerability Report Shows Errors Sites Keep Making appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…