The New York Knicks just won their first NBA championship since 1973, ending one of the longest title droughts in professional sports, and both New York City and the internet have erupted in response. But you don’t need to be a basketball fan to appreciate what just happened. In fact, we would argue that last…
MonsterInsights website has been under attack, is said to have been hacked, and is sending phishing emails to its customers. The free version of MonsterInsights is installed in over two million websites and is claimed to be installed on a total of three million sites. MonsterInsights Under Attack The official MonsterInsights website is down and…
Google’s seven rules for building agent-friendly websites are the accessibility playbook restated for AI agents. Same audit, two visitor classes. The practitioners who already did the work for blind and low-vision users are most of the way to passing. I noticed the page because Matt G. Southern wrote about it on Search Engine Journal on…
Do you prefer recording a quick video to writing a text? If so, you’ll really like what Reddit just unveiled. Reddit announced the launch of video comments for all of its users on Thursday. The feature allows any Redditor to upload or record a short-form video reply right in the comments of any post in…
I’m far from Google’s biggest fan. In fact, I have a well-earned reputation as an outspoken critic. But I believe my criticism comes from a position of fairness and balance. When Google does something right, I want to highlight that as well. This is one such occasion. I see what Google is trying to do…
Busy week in search-land. So Google finally rolled out some kind of AI reporting (if you can call that reporting), and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced some new measures Google must take to restore some level of parity with publishers and search results. Where’s the blue line fellas? (Image Credit: Harry Clarkson-Bennett) “Conduct…
An orange and blue fever has been spreading through the city of New York, as hometown team the Knicks compete in the NBA finals for the first time in 27 years. Donning jerseys and custom airbrushed Knicks merch bought outside their local corner store, residents have been flooding the streets, jumping on top of taxis,…
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SEO has been given different names in the past couple of years, usually based on whatever it’s trying to optimize for at the time: LEO (LLM engine optimization), AEO, GEO, and so on. That is, before Google came out with new AI search guidance and said the quiet part out loud: It’s all still just…
Ann Handley posted something on LinkedIn last week that stopped me mid-scroll. She’s a Wall Street Journal bestselling author and one of the most respected voices in marketing, and she wrote: “AI literacy is not prompt literacy. It’s judgment literacy.“ Her post went on to ask a question that nobody in the AI training industry…