Google Updates Product Structured Data Documentation
Google updated the documentation for the product structured data to now include product returns policy markup
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Google Reduces What Triggers Video Thumbnails In The SERPs
Google’s updated guidance announces they changed what will trigger video thumbnails to appear in the SERPs
Open Source Language Model Named Dolly 2.0 Trained Similarly To ChatGPT
Dolly 2.0: World’s first open source instruction-tuned language model trained using method similar InstructGPT, which underlies ChatGPT
Google April 2023 Reviews Update Focuses Heavily On Experience
Signals of experience play a strong role in Google’s April 2023 Reviews System update
Google’s Webspam Report Explains Role Of SpamBrain
Google’s annual webspam report highlights the incredible advances SpamBrain has made over the past year
Google’s John Mueller On Links From News Sites
Google’s John Mueller offers his insights into how Google handles links from news sites
WordPress Security Plugin Vulnerability Affects +1 Million Sites
Two security vulnerabilities affect the popular All-In-One Security (AIOS) WordPress plugin
New Adobe PDF WordPress Plugin Radically Improves User Experience
Adobe PDF Embed WordPress plugin finally makes PDF files easy to use on websites
Seven Free Open Source GPT Models Released
Seven open source GPT models challenge the closed-source models by OpenAI, Deepmind and Meta
Google Reveals How It Catches Fake Local Business Reviews
Google explains how it catches fake and misleading business reviews and accounts on Google Maps
Yoast SEO Founders Invest in WordPress Accessibility Plugin
WordPress accessibility plugin scans and creates reports on unlimited pages – Free
Google Updates Search Console With New Merchant Reports
Google Search Console adds clicks and impressions reports for product snippets and merchant listings
New Open Source ChatGPT Clone – Called Dolly
Open Source AI movement achieves another milestone with the release of a ChatGPT clone that anyone can use
WordPress WooCommerce Payments Plugin Vulnerability
WordPress plugin vulnerability allows full site takeover by unauthenticated attackers. Affects over 500,000 WordPress WooCommerce sites
Mozilla Open Source AI To Challenge ChatGPT & Bard
Mozilla announced an open source counterweight against profit-focused AI companies. Will create an open source challenger to ChatGPT and Bard
Google Explains Why Sites Should Combine Structured Data
Google explains why it’s recommended to combine multiple structured data into one script
OpenAI GPT-4 Arriving Mid-March 2023
OpenAI GPT-4 is confirmed to be releasing mid-March. Described as multimodal
Bing AI-Powered Search & Edge Browser Grow Users & Engagement
Microsoft shares an upbeat report on continued growth in users and engagement for Bing search and Edge Browser
WP Statistics WordPress Plugin Patches CSRF Vulnerability
WP Statistics WordPress plugin, with 600,000+ active installs, patched a CSRF vulnerability
Elementor WordPress Contact Form Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Up To 200,000 Sites
Vulnerability discovered in Metform Elementor Contact Form Builder plugin affects hundreds of thousands of WordPress websites
Brave Search Engine Summarizing Webpages in SERPs
Brave SERPs now feature a rich result created by an AI Summarizer, sometimes summarizing two webpages in a single summary
Google Removes Job Search Experience From South Korean Search Results
Job Search Experience rich results in Google search is no longer available in South Korea
W3C Launches Beta Of New Website Redesign
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) offers a sneak peek at their redesigned website and asks for feedback
All In One SEO WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Affects Up To 3+ Million
AIOSEO WordPress plugin contains two vulnerabilities affecting versions up to and including 4.2.9
Google Updates Guidance On Helpful Content System and Discover Traffic
Google clarifies guidance on Discover traffic to increase emphasis on helpful content and the Helpful Content System
How Bing AI Search Uses Website Content
This is why Bing GPT Search is a win for website publishers and users
Google February 2023 Product Reviews Update
Google announced the February 2023 Product Reviews Update, accompanied by a clarification in the product reviews update guidance
Google: Don’t Use 403/404 Error Responses For Rate Limiting Googlebot
Google responds to increase in erroneous use of 403/404 responses from publishers and Content Delivery Networks as a way to rate limit Googlebot
Four Takeaways from Google’s Updated Link Guidance
Google’s expanded guidance on links and how it tracks surprisingly close with algorithms and HTML best practices
WordPress Vulnerability: ShortPixel Enable Media Replace Plugin
Over 600,000 active installations of ShortPixel Enable Media Replace WordPress Plugin