Archive for January, 2025

WordPress Popular Posts Plugin Vulnerability Affects 100k+ Sites via @sejournal, @martinibuster

2025/01/05

High-severity WordPress vulnerability in Popular Posts plugin makes it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary shortcodes. The post WordPress Popular Posts Plugin Vulnerability Affects 100k+ Sites appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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WordPress Backup Plugin Vulnerability Affects 3+ Million Sites via @sejournal, @martinibuster

2025/01/05

High severity vulnerability in a WordPress backup plugin makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject a PHP Object. The post WordPress Backup Plugin Vulnerability Affects 3+ Million Sites appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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Google Shows How To Confirm Indexing Issues Due To JavaScript via @sejournal, @martinibuster

2025/01/04

Google’s Martin Splitt offers easy ways that SEOs can check if JavaScript is causing indexing issues The post Google Shows How To Confirm Indexing Issues Due To JavaScript appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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OpenAI Blames Cloud Provider For ChatGPT Outage via @sejournal, @martinibuster

2025/01/03

OpenAI releases report on ChatGPT outage that blames cloud provider for lack of automatic failure recovery The post OpenAI Blames Cloud Provider For ChatGPT Outage appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 3, 2025

2025/01/03

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.

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google New Years Ranking Volatility, 2024 Algorithm Updates, Gemini In 2025 & More

2025/01/03

It’s the new year and why should that mean that Google Search calm down at all, in fact, it has been heated all holiday season, through New Years. I posted the 2024 Google algorithm update infographic.

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Google What People Are Saying Expandable Carousels

2025/01/03

We’ve seen various flavors of the what people are saying sections in the search results before. We’ve even see Google use AI to return results within them. But it seems this expandable carousel format is live in the mobile Google search results now.

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Google Ads API Does Not Currently Support Placement Exclusions For PMax

2025/01/03

The Google Ads API currently does not accept or support placement exclusions for Performance Max campaigns. This is also the case even if specified at the account level, Michael Cloonan, a Google Ads API specialist, wrote.

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Google: Adding Country Codes To URLs Won’t Help For SEO

2025/01/03

Google’s John Mueller said that simply adding country codes to your URLs won’t result in “any change at all” for regional ranking reasons. He added, changing your URLs will result in “temporary fluctuations” because of the URL change but it won’t help you in the long run with ranking well in those regions.

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Threads And The Art Of Short-Form Storytelling: How Brevity Is Winning Hearts via @sejournal, @donutcaramel13

2025/01/03

Explore the art of short-form storytelling and its impact on social media.

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