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Vulnerability Discovered in Redirection for Contact Form 7 WordPress Plugin www.boldoutlook.com/redirection-...

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Vulnerability Discovered in Redirection for Contact Form 7 WordPress Plugin
A vulnerability in the Redirection for Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin allows unauthenticated attackers to upload or copy files under certain server configurations. Users are advised to update to vers...
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January 1, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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Google’s Top Searches of 2025 Highlight a Year Shaped by AI, Global Events, and Everyday Curiosity www.boldoutlook.com/google-top-s...

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Google’s Top Searches of 2025 Highlight a Year Shaped by AI, Global Events, and Everyday Curiosity
Google’s Year in Search 2025 reveals how AI, global events, politics, entertainment, and travel shaped what people searched for worldwide and in the U.S., highlighting a year defined by technological ...
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December 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Sam Altman Outlines OpenAI’s Long-Term Bet on Profitability www.boldoutlook.com/sam-altman-o...

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Sam Altman Outlines OpenAI’s Long-Term Bet on Profitability
Sam Altman explains OpenAI’s long-term path to profitability, arguing that rising losses reflect aggressive investment in AI training and compute capacity as the company bets on sustained revenue grow...
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December 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Microsoft Outlines How Duplicate Content Impacts AI Search Visibility www.boldoutlook.com/microsoft-du...

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Microsoft Outlines How Duplicate Content Impacts AI Search Visibility
Microsoft explains how duplicate and near-duplicate content affects AI-powered search visibility, including how LLMs select representative URLs, why duplication weakens signals, and how consolidation ...
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December 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Google Begins Rollout of December 2025 Core Search Update www.boldoutlook.com/google-decem...

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Google Begins Rollout of December 2025 Core Search Update
Google has begun rolling out its December 2025 core search update, the third of the year. The update affects rankings globally and may take up to three weeks to complete, following earlier core update...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Google Disputes Report Claiming Ads Are Coming to Gemini in 2026 www.boldoutlook.com/google-denie...

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Google Disputes Report Claiming Ads Are Coming to Gemini in 2026
Google is disputing a report claiming ads will appear in the Gemini AI chatbot in 2026, stating there are no current plans to monetize the app. The company continues to test ad placements in other AI-...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Google Pilots Social Channel Insights in Search Console www.boldoutlook.com/google-searc...

#google #googlesearch #seo #socialmedia #digitalmarketing
Google Pilots Social Channel Insights in Search Console
Google is testing a new Search Console feature that shows how social media profiles perform in Google Search, offering unified metrics for reach, queries, and content trends across web and social chan...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Google’s John Mueller Says Some Sites in “Bad State” May Need a Full Restart www.boldoutlook.com/google-muell...

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Google’s John Mueller Says Some Sites in “Bad State” May Need a Full Restart
Google’s John Mueller says sites damaged by low-quality content may not recover through rewriting alone. Domains in a “bad state” may require a full restart, emphasizing authentic value, clear purpose...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Google’s John Mueller Says Background Video Loading Unlikely to Affect SEO www.boldoutlook.com/google-muell...

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Google’s John Mueller Says Background Video Loading Unlikely to Affect SEO
Google’s John Mueller says large background videos loading asynchronously are unlikely to affect SEO if primary content loads first. The clarification highlights best practices for lazy loading, Core ...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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EU Proposes “Digital Omnibus” Package to Ease GDPR, AI Act, and Cookie Rules www.boldoutlook.com/eu-digital-o...

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EU Proposes “Digital Omnibus” Package to Ease GDPR, AI Act, and Cookie Rules
The European Commission has proposed a “Digital Omnibus” to ease parts of the GDPR, AI Act, and cookie rules. The package seeks to simplify data use, delay AI obligations, and reduce consent banners, ...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Google’s John Mueller Pushes Back on Trend of Creating LLM-Only Web Pages www.boldoutlook.com/google-john-...

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Google’s John Mueller Pushes Back on Trend of Creating LLM-Only Web Pages
Google’s John Mueller says publishers don’t need separate Markdown or JSON pages for LLMs, emphasizing that AI systems already parse standard HTML. Experts note structured data matters only when platf...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Google Integrates Gemini 3 Into Search’s AI Mode, Expanding Advanced Reasoning Capabilities www.boldoutlook.com/google-gemin...

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Google Integrates Gemini 3 Into Search’s AI Mode, Expanding Advanced Reasoning Capabilities
Google has integrated Gemini 3 into Search’s AI Mode, introducing advanced reasoning, dynamic generative interfaces, expanded query fan-out, and interactive tools. The update marks the first same-day ...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Google CTR Trends Show Shifts in Branded Searches, Query Length, and Industry Performance in Q3 www.boldoutlook.com/google-ctr-t...

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Google CTR Trends Show Shifts in Branded Searches, Query Length, and Industry Performance in Q3
New Q3 data from Advanced Web Ranking shows declining CTR for top organic results in branded, commercial, and local searches, while longer queries and select industries remain more stable. Key trends ...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Critical W3 Total Cache Vulnerability Exposes Over One Million WordPress Sites to Remote Code Execution www.boldoutlook.com/w3-total-cac...

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Critical W3 Total Cache Vulnerability Exposes Over One Million WordPress Sites to Remote Code Execution
A critical vulnerability in the W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin allows unauthenticated PHP command injection, leaving hundreds of thousands of sites exposed. Learn how CVE-2025-9501 works, its risks, ...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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YouTube Remains the Most Widely Used Social Platform as Usage Patterns Shift Across the U.S. www.boldoutlook.com/pew-social-m...

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YouTube Remains the Most Widely Used Social Platform as Usage Patterns Shift Across the U.S.
New Pew data shows YouTube and Facebook remain the most widely used social platforms in the U.S., while TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Reddit continue steady growth. Daily usage and demographic tren...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Adobe Announces $1.9 Billion Agreement to Acquire Semrush www.boldoutlook.com/adobe-acquir...

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Adobe Announces $1.9 Billion Agreement to Acquire Semrush
Adobe will acquire Semrush in a $1.9B all-cash deal, expanding its Experience Cloud with leading SEO and AI-driven visibility tools. The acquisition brings Semrush’s search, GEO, and competitive intel...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Google Expands AI Travel Planning and Booking Features in Search www.boldoutlook.com/google-expan...

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Google Expands AI Travel Planning and Booking Features in Search
Google is expanding AI-powered travel tools in Search with Canvas itinerary planning, global Flight Deals, and broader agentic booking. The updates deepen Google’s move toward end-to-end trip planning...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Google Clarifies Review Snippet Guidance: Use a Single Review Target www.boldoutlook.com/google-revie...

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Google Clarifies Review Snippet Guidance: Use a Single Review Target
Google updated its review snippet documentation to clarify that each review or rating must link to one clear target. The change highlights common schema errors that create ambiguous relationships and ...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Google Announces Major Improvements to Ads Account Suspension Accuracy and Appeal Speed www.boldoutlook.com/google-ads-i...

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Google Announces Major Improvements to Ads Account Suspension Accuracy and Appeal Speed
Google has introduced major improvements to its Ads enforcement system, reducing incorrect suspensions by over 80% and speeding up appeal reviews. Advertisers can now expect faster resolutions, cleare...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Meta Projects ~$16 B in Revenue from Scam and Illicit Ads, Internal Documents Show www.boldoutlook.com/meta-16-bill...

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Meta Projects ~$16 B in Revenue from Scam and Illicit Ads, Internal Documents Show
Internal Meta documents reviewed by Reuters reveal up to 10% of Meta’s 2024 ad revenue — about $16 billion — may come from scam and banned-goods ads. The report raises questions about Meta’s enforceme...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman Warns That Personalized AI Raises Major Security Risks www.boldoutlook.com/sam-altman-a...

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman Warns That Personalized AI Raises Major Security Risks
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI security will define the next phase of AI development, warning that personalization introduces new risks as models learn from user data. He urges researchers to focus on ...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Robots.txt Deep Dive: Advanced Configurations for Complex Websites www.boldoutlook.com/robotstxt-de...

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Robots.txt Deep Dive: Advanced Configurations for Complex Websites
Gain full control of your site’s crawl behavior with this in-depth technical guide to advanced robots.txt configurations. Learn how to optimize crawl budgets, manage complex architectures, and orchest...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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YouTube Clarifies: No Benefit to Waiting 24–48 Hours Before Publishing Videos www.boldoutlook.com/youtube-no-b...

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YouTube Clarifies: No Benefit to Waiting 24–48 Hours Before Publishing Videos
YouTube clarified there’s no algorithmic advantage to waiting 24–48 hours before publishing. The platform’s recommendation system learns only from audience behavior once videos are public, not from up...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Google Maintains Commitment to Structured Data Despite Select Deprecations www.boldoutlook.com/google-struc...

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Google Maintains Commitment to Structured Data Despite Select Deprecations
Google confirmed it will continue supporting structured data across Search, despite retiring select schema types in January 2026. The update aims to simplify results, removing lesser-used features lik...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Google AI Overviews Appear on 21% of Desktop Search Queries, New Study Shows www.boldoutlook.com/google-ai-ov...

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Google AI Overviews Appear on 21% of Desktop Search Queries, New Study Shows
Ahrefs analyzed 146 million Google searches and found AI Overviews appear on 21% of queries—mostly long, informational, or question-based searches. Science and health topics show the highest rates, wh...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM