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Last updated: April 03, 2026 at 11:12 AMElliot Richmond discusses his 20+ years with WordPress, from early b2 days to founding a successful pizza delivery business powered by WordPress and WooCommerce. He shares plans for a pizza plugin and licensing model,...
Many website owners collect user feedback but never act on it, so they keep making the same guesses about what to build, write, or fix next. A customer feedback loop changes that by turning survey responses into a clear...
Welcome to Issue 22 of WPBeginner Spotlight! March was full of exciting developments in the WordPress industry. In this issue, we are celebrating a massive decade-long milestone for one of our favorite WordPress form...
Your WordPress membership content could be circulating on public forums for free right now, and you wouldn’t know it until your revenue starts to drop. Many site owners rely on simple password protection, which...
April 9-11, 2026 | Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai, India WordCamp Asia 2026 brings the WordPress community to Mumbai, India, from April 9 to 11, with a schedule shaped around artificial intelligence,...
AI is collapsing discovery, search, and purchase into a single moment. Brands without clear positioning risk getting left out of the answer.
Automation handles execution. Performance now depends on signal quality — data, creative, and conversion design.
Turn search intent into profit by routing queries from discovery to high-performing terms across Google and Amazon Ads.
From Reddit threads to repeated claims, learn how AI search constructs brand narratives — and how to audit, correct, and influence them.
ChatGPT ads favor clarity because the platform rewards precise, context-driven messaging that delivers immediate value.
Customers are overwhelmed and teams are burned out. Here’s how to use AI to simplify decisions and improve marketing performance.
Top rankings don’t guarantee AI Overview visibility. Learn how to optimize for retrieval, structure, and citations.
Expanding beyond paid social? Learn how to structure campaigns, control spend, and unlock demand without relying on the Meta playbook.
Google's new channel performance view for PMax gives advertisers a timeline breakdown of what's working across Search, YouTube, Display
Follow a practical framework to build an AI visibility tracker using vibe coding across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Google.
Agentic AI shopping may not be good for SEO. But there's a reason why SEOs won't need to worry about it. The post Why Agentic AI Shopping Feels Unnatural And May Not Threaten SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google's March core update is rolling out. Illyes explains Googlebot's crawling architecture, and Gemini referral traffic doubles. The post Google Core Update, Crawl Limits & Gemini Traffic Data – SEO Pulse...
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT Ads and launching self-serve access. Here’s what PPC managers should know before deciding whether it deserves real budget. The post ChatGPT Ads: New Acquisition Channel Or Just Another Brand...
Matt Mullenweg invokes Will Smith's Oscars slap in response to Cloudflare's boat that EmDash is a successor to WordPress. The post Mullenweg To Cloudflare: Keep WordPress Out Of Your Mouth appeared first on Search...
Google's John Mueller answers question of whether splitting a sitemap is worth the extra work. The post Google Answers Why Some SEOs Split Their Sitemap Into Multiple Files appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
AI led all cited reasons for U.S. job cuts in March at 25% of the total, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The post AI Leads All Reasons For U.S. Job Cuts In March, Report Says appeared first...
Brands must move beyond llms.txt toward structured APIs, entity graphs, and provenance to earn accurate AI citations. The post Llms.txt Was Step One. Here’s The Architecture That Comes Next appeared first on Search...
This week's Ask A PPC dives into how to identify and solve click fraud in paid media to optimize your advertising efforts. The post How To Identify And Solve Click Fraud In Paid Media – Ask A PPC appeared first on...
Cloudflare's WordPress competitor EmDash may be the future of CMSs, but there are six reasons why it's not that CMS today. The post 6 Reasons Why Cloudflare’s EmDash Can’t Compete With WordPress appeared...
Why traditional evergreen SEO content is losing impact and how to reframe it around information gain, audience value, and business outcomes. The post How To Do Evergreen Content In 2026 (And Beyond) appeared first on...
How CMOs should structure PPC teams to manage AI-driven campaigns, avoid blind spots, and align spend with profit, not platform metrics. The post Building An In-House PPC Team: Why A Hybrid Model May Protect Your Ad...
Bill Hunt explains why enterprise SEO performance improves when accountability matches authority across content, technology, and governance. The post Who Owns SEO In The Enterprise? The Accountability Gap That Kills...
Google's John Mueller answered a question about the nature of core updates: Are they rolled out in steps or all at once then refined? The post Google Answers Why Core Updates Can Roll Out In Stages appeared first on...
Google's Gary Illyes published a blog post explaining how Googlebot works as one client of a centralized crawling platform, with new byte-level details. The post Google Explains Googlebot Byte Limits And Crawling...
Part 3 of this analysis reveals what AI actually rewards in content, from entity types to structure, across seven verticals. The post The Science Of What AI Actually Rewards appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Organic traffic is declining, but answer engines are driving higher-intent conversions. Here’s how CMOs should rethink strategy, structure, and measurement. The post So Your Traffic Tanked: What Smart CMOs Do Next...
Delay in release of WordPress 7.0 stems from concerns over the real-time collaboration feature. The focus is on targeting "extreme stability." The post WordPress Delays Release Of Version 7.0 To Focus On Stability...
Learn how different LLMs impact conversions in your industry. Do not miss our expert panel webinar for practical advice. The post How To Identify Which LLM Is Actually Working For You [Webinar] appeared first on Search...
Google's Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt discuss page weight growth, the 15MB crawl limit, and whether structured data is adding bloat to web pages. The post Google: Pages Are Getting Larger & It Still Matters...
Tufts index projects 9M U.S. jobs at risk from AI. Writers and Authors, Computer Programmers, and Web and Digital Interface Designers top the risk list. The post New AI Jobs Index Ranks 784 Occupations By Loss Risk...
Key Takeaways Your marketing reports probably look fine. Traffic is up. Engagement is solid. Return on ad spend (ROAS) hits the benchmarks your team set last quarter. But here is the problem with why your marketing...
Key Takeaways If you’re not getting views on your LinkedIn posts, you’re losing business. How do I know that? LinkedIn is where buyers vet your credibility and compare options before they ever book a call. The platform...