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Rank Math WordPress Plugin Accused Of Secretly Taking Admin Access via @sejournal, @martinibuster
New allegations surfaced that Rank Math has introduced a functionality that silently gives the company administrator-level permissions over WordPress sites. The access is triggered when a user [...]
Search Engine Journal
Google’s Mueller Shares Their Experience With Markdown For AI SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google's John Mueller shares what happened when he checked whether AI crawlers were actually asking his sites for markdown.
Search Engine Journal
Microsoft Advertising New Updated Design Preview
Microsoft Advertising is previewing a new design and usability update for its ad platform.
This update has a redesigned navigation and improved tables and layouts. This update should make managing [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Merchant Center Popular Products Enhanced Coverage & Insights
Google posted a note that it has made enhancements to the Merchant Center's Popular products reports. Specifically, the coverage and insights sections were improved back in June of this year, but [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Forcing Copilot Users To Login But Not For Copilot Search Answers
Microsoft is now forcing all users to log in before using Copilot, but this currently does not apply to Copilot Search answers within Bing Search. When you try to go directly to Copilot, even by [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Confirms Search Spam Team Is Fighting & Well Resourced
Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering for Google Search, has confirmed that the Google Search team is still well-resourced in its fight against search spam. The spam team continues to update its spam [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Mode With Inline Shopping Carousel Ads & Single Ad Unit
Google is now showing shopping ads in a carousel format inline within AI Mode results.
Plus, Google is also showing a similar ad unit at the bottom of the AI Mode results.
We got a lot of ads in AI [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
How to map AI search prompts to every stage of the sales funnel
Your brand may win the shortlist and lose the buyer earlier. Map prompts to see where AI introduces, recommends, compares, or drops you.
Search Engine Land
5 steps to building Reddit authority for Google and ChatGPT visibility
Reddit can reveal why people choose, reject, or question a brand. Turn those insights into better content for organic and AI search.
Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 31, 2026
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.
Google Search is making AI Overviews fully expanded [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console AI performance reports and Search generative AI control rolling out globally
After a few months of slowing rolling out these features, everyone should soon have access to them.
Search Engine Land
Calls and clicks keep falling as Google Maps becomes the destination
New findings show rankings remain stable while customer behavior changes, making profile quality and reviews critical for local visibility.
Search Engine Land
Google European Search Dataset Licensing Program Details
Google has updated its Google European Search Dataset Licensing Program page with details on the program.
Google has been designated as a "gatekeeper" under the DMA and is thus legally [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Don't Penalize For Old Outbound Links With Shady Content
Google's John Mueller was asked if Google would penalize a site for old outbound links to a site that once hosted quality content and now changed ownership and hosts shady content.
John said Google [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Rank Math SEO Plugin Pauses Controversial Feature. Says It Will Return via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Rank Math paused its controversial feature, acknowledge a serious consent failure, and explains why it's coming back.
Search Engine Journal