Gutenberg 22.7 adds features that lay the groundwork for a role as an AI publishing platform and improve the editing experience. The post WordPress Gutenberg 22.7 Lays Groundwork For AI Publishing appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
WordPress issues second security release 6.9.4 to address vulnerabilities that version 6.9.2 apparently failed to patch. The post WordPress Security Release 6.9.4 Fixes Issues 6.9.2 Failed To Address appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Eight in ten Performance Max advertisers are receiving connected TV (CTV) impressions via YouTube, as reported by Smarter Ecoommerce’s Mike Ryan. Google has expanded the channel’s reach over the past year — and the trajectory is only accelerating. The timeline of how we got here: Q2 2025: Google began serving CTV ads using standard product
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Yahoo today introduced MyScout, a customizable homepage inside Yahoo Scout, its beta AI answer engine. How MyScout works. Logged-in users can customize the homepage with tiles that pull information from Yahoo properties (e.g., Mail, News, Sports, Finance, Games). Examples include: Inbox previews from Yahoo Mail. Stock updates from Yahoo Finance watchlists. News topics and trending
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Google’s branded queries filter in Search Console is now available to all eligible sites. Google’s new branded queries filter, announced Nov. 20, lets you separate branded and non-branded search traffic in the Performance report. Why we care. Separating branded and non-branded queries has long required manual regex filters or keyword lists. This update gives you
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We joke every time we hear Google’s John Mueller answer a question with “it depends.” But actually, it’s true. There are few definitive answers or universally established facts in SEO. Do meta titles matter? Yes. Is internal linking a good practice? Yes. Is duplicate content bad for SEO? Yes. But if I tried to make
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The largest annual survey of PPC professionals finds the industry under growing pressure — more opaque platforms, weaker measurement, and AI tools that help but haven’t transformed the day-to-day. Why we care. More than half of practitioners (53%) say PPC is harder than it was two years ago, up from 49%. The dominant reason isn’t
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Google is making Merchant Center for Agencies generally available in the U.S. and Canada today — giving agency teams a single login to manage, monitor, and optimize merchant clients at scale. What’s included: A unified dashboard for managing all client accounts from a single login Proactive diagnostics that surface critical alerts across the portfolio Merchandising-based
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Every few weeks, a new study drops declaring that Reddit (or YouTube, or Wikipedia) is the most important source for AI citations. Marketers share it. Clients ask about it. Someone starts drafting a Reddit strategy. Because it does. These analyses often flatten the nuance of prompt intent, model differences, and vertical context into a single
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Five takeaways from Liz Reid on AI agents, the future of Google Search, and why originality now matters more than ever. The post 5 Things I Learned About The Future Of Search From Liz Reid’s Latest Interview appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
