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WordPress membership plugin vulnerability exposing Stripe payment setup data affects up to 10,000 websites. The post WordPress Membership Plugin Flaw Exposes Sensitive Stripe Data appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
A study of 50,807 German health queries finds Google AI Overviews cite YouTube most, as Google pulls some health summaries after a Guardian report. The post Google Health AI Overviews Cite YouTube More Than Any Hospital Site appeared first on…
A vulnerability in the popular AIOSEO plugin affecting up to 3 million sites is in addition to the six found in 2025. The post All In One SEO WordPress Vulnerability Affects Over 3 Million Sites appeared first on Search Engine…
Marketers can now set a total budget for a campaign over a defined period. Google automatically optimizes spend to fully use the budget by the campaign’s end date. The feature, earlier only available for Performance Max, is now available Search…
Google Ads is adding account-level placement exclusions, letting advertisers block unwanted inventory across all campaigns from a single setting. What’s new. Advertisers can now apply one exclusion list at the account level. Exclusions apply across Performance Max, Demand Gen, YouTube,…
Google AdSense publishers are reporting sharp drops in earnings over the past 24 hours, with many seeing eCPM and RPM declines of 50–70%, according to widespread forum complaints. Why we care. For publishers that rely on AdSense to fund operations,…
YouTube is upgrading its Promotions tool, letting creators target potential viewers by interests, not just age, gender, or location. What’s new. Creators can now target users by interest categories like Food & Dining. These categories are built from aggregated, anonymized…
Microsoft Advertising is starting 2026 with a broad set of updates aimed squarely at search-first marketers, with a focus on better controls, clearer insights, and easier campaign management across the platform. Driving the news. In its latest product roundup, Microsoft…
A Reuters Institute survey finds publishers expect search traffic to drop over 40% in three years as AI answer engines expand. The post Survey: Publishers Expect Search Traffic To Fall Over 40% appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
As search marketers, we tend to focus on what we can control: keywords, links, Core Web Vitals, indexed pages. We have dashboards for our dashboards. But not everything that shapes search behavior lives inside GSC, GA4, or your favorite rank…