Content Marketing and SEO

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. View the full article

Formidable Forms WordPress vulnerability enables unauthenticated attackers to pay a small amount and have a larger purchase marked as paid. The post Formidable Forms Flaw Lets Attackers Pay Less For Expensive Purchases appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's Gary Illyes offered a candid overview of Googlebot, explaining there are hundreds of crawlers that are not publicly documented. The post Google Says They Deploy Hundreds Of Undocumented Crawlers appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

At SEJ Live, we sorted Q1's AI search changes into what's hot and what's not. Here's what we covered and where to watch it. The post What’s Hot, What’s Not: AI Search Changes In Q1 2026 [Recap] appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Understand why entity linking is becoming a strategic requirement for local SEO in AI search environments. The post Case Study: How Entity Linking Can Support Local Search Success appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

This week's Ask a PPC reframes the AI conversation around responsibility, showing why strategy, data integrity, and human judgment now define PPC success. The post Ask A PPC: What Is The PPC Manager’s Role In The AI Era? appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Master lead management in 2026 and uncover strategies to ensure leads do not go cold in your sales process. The post The Way Your Agency Handles Leads Will Define Success in 2026 [Webinar] appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

New data shows that most web pages fall well below Googlebot's two-megabyte crawl limit. The post New Data Shows Googlebot’s 2 MB Crawl Limit Is Enough appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Cloudflare launched Markdown for Agents, converting HTML pages to markdown automatically when AI crawlers request it through content negotiation. The post Cloudflare’s New Markdown for AI Bots: What You Need To Know appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

A site owner blamed Google AI Search for falsely reporting their site offline. The answer was a content delivery pitfall. The post Google AI Shows A Site Is Offline Due To JS Content Delivery appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Gen Z’s discovery habits are rewriting Google Ads playbooks, forcing advertisers to rethink creative, targeting, and attribution across AI-driven surfaces. The post Are Your Google Ads Gen Z Proof? Strategies To Win The 18-24 Segment appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Automattic's James LePage describes emerging WooCommerce capabilities that will enable Sidekick-type AI extensions The post WooCommerce May Gain Sidekick-Type AI Through Extensions appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's Jeff Dean explains why latency and cost make Flash Google's production tier for AI search, and why models are built to retrieve, not memorize. The post Why Google Runs AI Mode On Flash, Explained By Google’s Chief Scientist appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Peec AI analyzed fan-out queries from 10M+ ChatGPT prompts and found 43% of background searches ran in English, even for non-English prompts. The post ChatGPT Search Often Switches To English In Fan-Out Queries: Report appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Long-form content doesn’t fail because it’s weak. It fails because LLMs lose the middle. This article explains how to engineer it to survive. The post Why AI Misreads The Middle Of Your Best Pages appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

The latest SEO Pulse examines how AI interfaces reshape link visibility, redirect clicks, and filter sources before rankings apply. The post Google AI Mode Link Update, Click Share Data & ChatGPT Fan-Outs – SEO Pulse appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Anthropic updated its crawler documentation to list separate Claude bots for training, search indexing, and user requests, with visibility tradeoffs when blocked. The post Anthropic’s Claude Bots Make Robots.txt Decisions More Granular appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Survey data shows 49% of U.S. consumers have used TikTok for search, but Gen Z's TikTok-over-Google preference is dropping. The post Gen Z Preference For TikTok Over Google Drops 50%, Data Shows appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google updated its Image SEO and Discover documentation to explain how schema markup and the og:image meta tag influence thumbnail selection. The post Google Clarifies How It Picks Thumbnails For Search, Discover appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Builderius page builder announced an experimental AI integration that enables it to apply changes inside the builder. The post Builderius WordPress Page Builder Integrates Claude AI appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google's head of Search described how multimodal LLMs help Google understand audio and video, and discussed a direction for subscription-aware search. The post Google’s Liz Reid Says LLMs Unlock Audio And Video Indexing appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Advertisers using feed-only Performance Max can narrow campaign focus to product feed signals, improving efficiency when automation spreads spend too broadly. The post How To Build A ‘Feed-Only’ Performance Max Campaign appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Google announced that Search Console's brand queries filter is open to all eligible sites, spurring questions about the feature. The post Google Answers Questions About Search Console’s Branded Queries Filter appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

Consider a new model for travel marketing where content adapts to traveler context instead of relying on static destination pages. The post How AI Automation Turns Static Travel Pages Into Living Content & Experiences appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article

An analysis of ChatGPT conversations found the default and premium models cite almost entirely different sources for the same queries. The post ChatGPT’s Default & Premium Models Search The Web Differently appeared first on Search Engine Journal. View the full article