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Tips this week include:
• WordPress 7.1.4 security release
• Follow up on major attacks
• More attacks to come – prep now
• UpdraftPlus update
• Cookie plugin workshop follow up
• Google lost their shirt on AI Search
• What will become of Google Search now?
• Adjustments to poisoned SERPs
• Technical SEO still reigns
• Opt out of all AI training with one line
• Discord is replacing Reddit in Search
• How to read YouTube’s new metrics
• Hot topics get views and make money
• Is the AI bubble bursting?
• Is Grok throwing in the towel?
• New and updated Webmaster tutorials
• WordPress security nonce issue

Tips this week include:
• UpdraftCentral hacked
• PHP Zero-Day vulnerabilities
• Sites running old PHP didn’t get updated directly
• .php files hit directly
• Where you host matters more than ever now
• 19 attacks and counting
• Why Open-Source must be funded
• Banks denying access to AI Agents
• How to protect yourself from all these attacks
• Cookie Tracking Workshop this week
• Meta AI scraping workshop in November
• Ranking in AI Searches
• Google poisoning SERPS for AI bots
• How this poisoning affects us
• More links in Google AI Summary and Overviews

• WP 7.1.3 release
• WP 7.2 release coming
• Custom cron jobs dropped
• New lawsuits for tracking prior to consent
• GDPR vs FCC vs State privacy laws
• Real-time collaboration is now a plugin
• CSS in WP Core standards change
• Whitelist Zoho to Gmail forward
• Is Rank Tracking a thing of the past?
• Today’s AI is not profitable
• Google completes September Spam Update
• Claude AI cracks down on face sources
• New authorship proof tutorial
• Chapter linking works on YouTube
• Why I stopped linking to my other sites

Tips this week include:
• Google recommends fact-check on AI content including titles and metadata
• Google’s going after fake authors – and what we’ll be doing about it
• Reddit is now blocking browser access
• YouTube cutting reach of parasite accounts
• Seasonal product reviews make money
• Shopify enrolls stores in all AI shopping channels

Tips this week include:
• WordPress is all in on AI
• Emergency WP security release
• Reminder – don’t click links in emails
• Meta limits links
• Promote your Link in Bio page – and how to make one
• Google Pics launches
• Searchers are unhappy with Google AI Mode
• ChatGPT as a Search Engine
• Google’s new AI spam detector
• Check your video comments
• Linked Products in videos – my experience with it

Tips this week include:
• Check your WP 7.1.1 update
• Roadmap to WP 7.2
• Matt returns as CEO
• Cloudflare changes to mixed-use bots
• Google pilots AI Payouts for creators
• AI accused of stealing from content creators
• Will we ever see a class action lawsuit?
• The biggest issue for content creators now
• Why video will rule
• Why to do demos and reviews
• Substack is good for written content

Tips this week include:
• WP 7.1.1 expected on Thursday
• Minimum PHP version debate
• Matt Mullenweg asked to step away as CEO
• Matt’s next move has us concerned
• Check BackBlaze backups carefully
• Turn off and unplug devices
• New Google Search Console AI report
• AI Could Kill Us All – that’s the headline, see the real story