Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect the legal footing of the SERP tools you rely on, what it’s worth to keep your content in Google’s index, and where the revenue behind Search is heading
Search Growth Slows, Publishers Weigh Leaving Google – SEO Pulse Read Post »
WordPress has patched a serious core vulnerability chain known as wp2shell, and site owners are understandably focused on updating their own sites. But there’s another question worth asking: what happens to ordinary visitors when they land on a compromised site?
What happens if you visit a WordPress site hacked through wp2shell? Read Post »
There were 2,100 press releases posted in the last 24 hours and 480,713 in the last 365 days
In April 2026 the United States Patent Office published Google’s continuation on a patent for a search system that detects when there is no satisfactory answer for a query and waits to automatically deliver the answer when it becomes available. A recently published interview with Liz Reid from Google I/O shows that Google may be…
Google’s Liz Reid Discusses Persistent Autonomous Search Read Post »
Home / Google News / Google Updates / Google Search Ranking Volatility This Weekend – Around July 18th Jul 19, 2026 – 8:04 am10 — Filed UnderGoogle Updates
Google Search Ranking Volatility This Weekend (July 18th) Read Post »
Google has published new guidance that canonicalizes itself as the single The new guidance, published on Google Search Central, is Google’s strongest assertion of itself as the official
Google’s New Guidance Claims Authority Over SEO, Tools, And AEO/GEO Read Post »
I’ve sat through enough client meetings to know what happens when the SEO team leads with rankings. They present a slide full of ranking improvements and traffic increases, and the response from the business side is a polite nod followed by silence
How to report SEO results executives actually care about Read Post »
Someone posted on social media about their experience writing deep and insightful articles last year and was pleasantly surprised to see that AI was leaning on their articles and even referencing them. Their secret was to choose highly specific topics, which is a good idea
AI SEO: Writing That’s Specific May Get Cited More Read Post »
Home / Google News / Google Updates / Google Search Ranking Volatility Around 7-Eleven Jul 13, 2026 – 9:25 am62 — Filed UnderGoogle Updates
Google Search Ranking Volatility Around July 11th Read Post »
Calgary, Alberta–(Newsfile Corp. – July 14, 2026) – Marvel Marketing, a Calgary-based digital marketing and web design agency serving clients across Calgary, Toronto, and Vancouver, announced today that every new WordPress website it designs and develops now includes a complimentary 12-month technical warranty. The policy covers a full 365 calendar days from official launch, at…
Marvel Marketing Introduces Standard 1-Year Warranty on All New WordPress Websites Read Post »
Search engines are not losing the trust war to AI chatbots. They are winning it by more than 40 points, and nowhere is that margin wider than in the United States
Only 28% Of Americans Trust AI Search – And That Gap Is Your SEO Opening Read Post »
The latest statistics from W3Techs make it clear that WordPress is losing market share while other platforms are stable or experiencing strong interest. Yet, there is reason to believe that WordPress may turn around
WordPress Market Share Declines For Six Months In A Row Read Post »
On July 10, 2025, Instagram quietly changed who owns your audience. Public posts from eligible professional accounts became crawlable by Google — meaning your Reels, carousels, and photo posts could appear in organic search results alongside blog articles, YouTube videos, and news stories, reaching people who have never opened the Instagram app. A year later,…
Instagram Posts Now Rank on Google: How to Measure and Win Search Traffic Read Post »
WordPress released a minor maintenance release, version 7.0.1, that addresses 31 bugs, including one that improves PHP 8.5 compatibility and another that fixes a security-related function
WordPress 7.0.1 Maintenance Release Contains 31 Bug Fixes Read Post »
Propellic, a full-service travel marketing agency, will host a live webinar on July 16 breaking down how AI is reshaping hotel discovery and what hotel marketers can do about it. Hotel SEO and GEO best practices for 2026 takes place at 10am Central Time and is free to attend
Propellic’s hotel SEO expert reveals how AI decides which hotels to recommend Read Post »
Google is introducing a new property type in Search Console called platform properties, which lets you monitor how social media and video posts perform in Google Search and Discover. This feature supports platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube and is available even to creators who don’t have their own websites
Google Search Console Adds Reports For Social Posts Read Post »
Home / Google News / Google SEO / Google Search Console Now Shows You Instagram, TikTok, X & YouTube Content Search Performance Jul 7, 2026 – 9:00 am6 — Filed UnderGoogle Search Engine Optimization
Google’s John Mueller responded to a post on Bluesky that lamented all the effort being wasted on AI agent accessibility instead of focusing on the more productive activity of making sites accessible for humans
Google On Using Markdown For AI SEO Read Post »
