Hackers installed backdoors on WordPress sites using UpdraftPlus, putting over 3 million active installations at risk.

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Taking a site offline to patch PHP? Serve a 503 from outside PHP and keep robots.txt reachable. Days of server errors may get URLs dropped.

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Measure SEO beyond keyword positions with brand visibility, AI citations, and revenue as rank tracking outages expose gaps in traditional reporting.

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A beginner’s guide to exploring browser network data, how it uncovered a $13,337 Google exploit, and what it reveals about Google and ChatGPT.

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PHP's emergency security fixes are available today, October 21, and website owners should ask their hosts to install them immediately.

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Chrome and Firefox now display JPEG XL, but Google says it isn't currently supported in Google Images or Discover previews.

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Google's John Mueller says raw and percent-encoded brackets are different URLs and recommends using one form across links, canonical tags, and sitemaps.

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China's five-part GEO standard offers Western SEOs a practical framework for measuring AI visibility, evaluating vendors, and separating optimization from manipulation.

The post China Wrote The First GEO Rulebook After A TV Scandal – Western SEOs Should Take Notes appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

New details on Google Discover's SDF gives publishers insights into planning the right mix of content that will rank better.

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Build an SEO and content strategy for audiences who use AI but distrust it, with clearer sourcing, audience segmentation, and honest product limits.

The post Your Audience Uses AI But Doesn’t Trust It – Build Content For The Gap appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Cloudflare says its network signals helped OpenAI index hundreds of millions of new pages for ChatGPT search.

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Regain control of Google Ads with a curated article stack on lead quality, Local Services Ads migration, Smart Bidding goals, and proving PPC business value.

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DeepSeek’s date filters dropped every undated page, 11% of results. Six practical checks for SEOs testing the new Search API, from localization to logs.

The post I Tested DeepSeek’s New Search Api, Here’s How It Ranks And Scores Websites appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Meta's Muse and OpenAI's dots reach websites through connectors or cloud browsers, changing what robots.txt, on-page SEO, and analytics can tell you.

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Search's share of North American publisher pageviews fell to 12%, but a lower share alone doesn't show fewer search pageviews.

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CTM’s Lisa Salvatore and Brian Barranger show how to mine customer conversations for useful content, qualified-lead criteria, conversion feedback, and product-demand signals.

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Meta removed training from the crawling clause in its upcoming Commercial Terms. The permission to crawl sites tied to business users is still in place.

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Learn how to choose B2B marketing channels, fund a trial campaign and measure results with CallRail and Matter Made on October 29.

The post B2B Lead Generation: How To Choose Your 2027 Marketing Channels [Webinar] appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

A Chinese AI lab opened its search engine to developers. Each result carries a page-level authority tier, and DeepSeek says it filters GEO manipulation.

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A model can recite your brand’s description and still fail the buyer’s question. Research on training data shows why “knowing” is the hard part.

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