# PublishMyBlog

> Daily news for people who build, grow and earn from websites: AI, SEO, website tools, marketing tech, creators and SaaS. Written by Saeed Shahriar.

Every article is available as markdown: add index.md to its URL, or request the article URL with the header Accept: text/markdown.

## Sections

- [AI](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/): AI tools, models and search for website owners.
- [SEO](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/): Search news and practical guidance for growing visibility.
- [Website Tools](https://publishmyblog.com/website-tools/): Platforms and tools for building better websites.
- [Marketing](https://publishmyblog.com/marketing/): Technology and tactics for reaching more customers.
- [Creators](https://publishmyblog.com/creators/): Publishing, audience growth and creator income.
- [SaaS & Startups](https://publishmyblog.com/saas/): Software launches and the businesses behind them.

## Latest news

- [Gemini 4 Hydrogen Is Now the Default Model in Google AI Mode](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/gemini-4-hydrogen-ai-mode-default/index.md): Google made Gemini 4 Hydrogen the default in AI Mode and uses it for the hardest AI Overviews, mid core update. What site owners and developers should check.
- [OpenAI Launches Business Profiles and Agents in ChatGPT](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/chatgpt-businesses-launch/index.md): OpenAI's Businesses in ChatGPT beta lets you claim a verified profile, see mentions and clicks, and, in the US, run a brand agent. Who qualifies and what to do.
- [Gemini 4 Carbon Is Out, and Its API Price Doubles on December 1](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/google-releases-gemini-4-carbon/index.md): Google's Gemini 4 Carbon is out in the API, the Gemini app and AI Mode for Ultra subscribers, and its $2/$10 API price doubles on December 1. Who it's for.
- [Apple Is Pushing to Turn Siri Into an AI Agent, Gurman Says](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/apple-pushes-agentic-siri/index.md): Bloomberg says Apple's CEO wants Siri turned into an AI agent. Third-party app support is due in spring, so app and booking businesses should check now.
- [Anthropic Pushes On With Its IPO, at a Lower Valuation](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/anthropic-ipo-lower-valuation/index.md): Anthropic still plans to list before Thanksgiving despite a tech selloff, the FT reports, at $1.25T to $1.75T, while OpenAI raised $11B at $1.25T.
- [ChatGPT Is Building Mention and Click Charts for Businesses](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/chatgpt-business-hub-analytics/index.md): A banner spotted in ChatGPT invites businesses to claim their listing and track daily mentions and clicks. OpenAI hasn't announced it. What it shows and lacks.
- [Google Briefly Keeps Important URLs Indexed After 4xx Errors](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/google-protects-important-urls-index/index.md): Google's Gary Illyes says Search can briefly keep an important URL indexed after a 4xx error, as VLC's site found, and what your listing loses meanwhile.
- [Apparel and Electronics Lead Ads in Google's AI Answers](https://publishmyblog.com/marketing/ai-answer-ads-apparel-electronics/index.md): Adthena counted about 175,000 ads in Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode from June to September, most of them apparel and electronics. Here's what to check.
- [Anthropic Signs Its First News Licensing Deal, With the AP](https://publishmyblog.com/creators/anthropic-ap-news-licensing-deal/index.md): Anthropic signed a content licensing deal with the Associated Press, its first with a publisher, Adweek reports. What it means if you block AI crawlers.
- [FTC Alleges Amazon Secretly Raised Ad Prices Up to 250%](https://publishmyblog.com/marketing/ftc-amazon-ads-surcharge-details/index.md): The FTC unsealed claims that Amazon pushed ad prices up to 250% above auction results on Prime Day. What Amazon advertisers should check before Black Friday.
- [Airbnb Sets the First Half of 2027 for Its AI Travel Agent](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/airbnb-ai-travel-agent-2027/index.md): Airbnb's AI travel agent arrives in the first half of 2027 and builds maps, photos and itineraries around a question. What hosts and travel sites should know.
- [Perplexity Launches Teammates, Always-On Agents for Work](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/perplexity-teammates-work-agents/index.md): Perplexity's new Teammates are agents that own ongoing work like ads, SEO and support, for Max subscribers on the web. What they do and who should try them.
- [Dropbox to Buy Tigris for $350M and Sell Storage for AI Apps](https://publishmyblog.com/saas/dropbox-buys-tigris-ai-storage/index.md): Dropbox plans to buy Tigris Data for $350 million and launched DBX Agent Cloud, S3-compatible storage for AI apps. Here is what changes for app builders.
- [Claude Gets Personal Finance, Linking Bank Accounts via Plaid](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/claude-personal-finance-plaid/index.md): Anthropic's Personal Finance beta lets US Pro, Max and Ultra users connect bank and card accounts to Claude through Plaid, read-only. What it can see and do.
- [TikTok Shop Gets Its Own App in Four Southeast Asian Markets](https://publishmyblog.com/creators/tiktok-shop-standalone-app/index.md): TikTok quietly released a standalone TikTok Shop app in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. What sellers and affiliate creators should check.
- [Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash Makes 15-Second Clips, 30% Cheaper](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/gemini-omni-1-2-flash-longer-clips/index.md): Google DeepMind's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash makes AI video clips up to 15 seconds at $0.07 a second, with free clips in Google Vids. What creators and brands get.
- [OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Cyber to Select Security Teams](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/openai-gpt-6-cyber-model/index.md): OpenAI's GPT-6 Cyber finds software flaws, builds exploits and suggests patches. Only select Daybreak Red customers get it. What it means for your site.
- [Instagram's Edits App Comes to Mac With AI Agent Support](https://publishmyblog.com/creators/instagram-edits-desktop-mac-ai-agents/index.md): Instagram's Edits video editor is now a free Mac app with 4K exports, a multi-track timeline and an MCP connection that lets AI agents make your rough cuts.
- [Ricursive Releases Ripple-65B, an Open Model for Coding Agents](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/ricursive-ripple-65b-open-model/index.md): Ricursive's Ripple-65B Preview is a 65B open-weight model under Apache 2.0 that it says tops U.S. open models at agentic coding. What it means for dev teams.
- [Vercel Security Review Scans Every Push for Vulnerabilities](https://publishmyblog.com/website-tools/vercel-security-review-beta/index.md): Vercel Security Review, in public beta for Pro and Enterprise teams, has an AI agent check every GitHub push for flaws. Reviews are free until November 10.
- [Snap Will Stop Reporting Daily Users as Growth Stalls](https://publishmyblog.com/marketing/snapchat-q3-2026-users-ad-revenue/index.md): Snapchat added 2 million daily users in Q3, none in North America or Europe, and Snap will swap DAU for monthly users in 2027. What advertisers should know.
- [Facebook's 6 Million AI Answer Pages Are Ranking in Google](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/facebook-answers-ai-pages-google/index.md): Google has indexed about 6 million AI-written Facebook Answers pages, and they rank in search and AI Overviews. What it means for publishers and brands.
- [Tencent Releases Hy4 With Vision and Computer Use](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/tencent-hy4-vision-computer-use/index.md): Tencent's Hy4 can now read images and operate apps and terminals. It's live through Tencent Cloud and OpenRouter, with open weights promised in the coming days.
- [Google Emails Sites: Reputation Abuse Penalties Lifted in the EEA](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/google-lifts-reputation-penalties-eea/index.md): Google is emailing sites with past site reputation abuse manual actions that those penalties no longer affect results in the EEA. Here's what changes.
- [Google Search Console Shows Odd Click Spikes for Some Sites](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/search-console-click-spikes/index.md): Some sites saw Search Console clicks jump up to 10 times normal around October 31 while impressions stayed flat. Google hasn't explained it. How to check yours.
- [Google Brings AI Mode Checkout to Canada, Merchant Center Next](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/google-ai-mode-checkout-canada/index.md): Canadians can now buy from lululemon, Shoppers Drug Mart, Simons and some Shopify stores inside AI Mode and Gemini. Merchant Center access opens next year.
- [Apple Cuts Some Engineers' Daily AI Budgets to $200](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/apple-cuts-employee-ai-budgets/index.md): Apple cut some engineers' daily AI spending cap from $300 to $200 and may go lower, Bloomberg reports. What it means for your own team's AI tool bill.
- [Uber Says AI Agents Booked Just Four Rides](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/uber-ai-agents-four-rides/index.md): Uber says AI agents booked four rides and about 500 Uber Eats orders against roughly 320 million trips. What it says about building your site for agents.
- [Anthropic Prototype Proves Which AI Model Wrote an Answer](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/anthropic-proves-model-identity/index.md): Anthropic's open-source FlashProve gives a cryptographic proof of which AI model wrote an answer. What it means if you pay for AI through a tool or reseller.
- [Meta Buys Conductor, the App for Running Coding Agents in Parallel](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/meta-acquires-conductor-coding-agents/index.md): Meta has acquired Conductor, an app that runs Anthropic and OpenAI coding agents side by side. Its cloud service shuts on November 20. What users should do.
- [Cloudflare Lets Sites Allow or Block Personal AI Agents](https://publishmyblog.com/website-tools/cloudflare-personal-agents-controls/index.md): Cloudflare now shows which personal AI agents visit your site and lets you allow or block each one, or block it only on ad pages. What site owners should check.
- [Canva Restructure Hits 22% of Staff as Growth Slows](https://publishmyblog.com/creators/canva-restructure-22-percent-staff/index.md): Canva is cutting, moving or changing the roles of about 1,271 people, 22% of its staff, after growth slowed. What it means if your designs live in Canva.
- [ChatGPT Now Makes Animated GIFs With Images 2.6](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/chatgpt-images-2-6-animated-gifs/index.md): OpenAI's Images 2.6 lets ChatGPT make GIFs you can edit frame by frame, and adds two faster API models. What creators, marketers and developers should know.
- [Google Ad Tags in Server-Side GTM Will Get Full IP Addresses](https://publishmyblog.com/marketing/server-side-gtm-full-ip-addresses/index.md): From January 11, 2027, Google Ads and other Google ad tags in server-side Tag Manager accept full IP addresses unless you redact them with a transformation.
- [Microsoft Clarity Now Shows What AI Agents Do on Your Site](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/microsoft-clarity-agentic-analytics/index.md): Microsoft Clarity's free Agent Activity dashboard shows which AI agents visit your site and what they do, and can test whether they finish a checkout.
- [Google AI Mode Now Links to Home Service Bookings and Quotes](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/ai-mode-home-services-booking-links/index.md): Google's AI Mode now links U.S. searchers to booking and quote forms through Jobber, Housecall Pro and Angi. What home service businesses need to check.
- [OpenAI Says ChatGPT Now Handles a Fifth of Google's Search Volume](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/chatgpt-search-volume-vs-google/index.md): OpenAI says ChatGPT now handles about a fifth of Google's search volume. What it counts, what it left out, and what you should check in your own traffic.
- [Adobe Premiere Mobile Is Adding Licensed Music From UMG and Warner](https://publishmyblog.com/creators/adobe-premiere-mobile-licensed-music/index.md): Adobe is adding licensed song clips from Universal and Warner to its free Premiere mobile app. The catch for creators: personal, non-commercial use only.
- [Ahrefs Study: Reddit Mentions Track AI Visibility Most Closely](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/ahrefs-mention-types-ai-visibility/index.md): Ahrefs compared seven mention types with AI answers for 10,000 brands. Reddit tracked AI visibility most closely; press scored below ordinary pages.
- [Publishers Angry at Meta's New Terms Say They Still Can't Quit](https://publishmyblog.com/marketing/publishers-cant-quit-meta/index.md): Meta has paused its new business terms, but publishers told Digiday they can't leave Facebook or Instagram, and trade groups say Meta hasn't called them yet.
- [Study: ChatGPT Ad Visits Earn 64% Less Than Google Search Ads](https://publishmyblog.com/marketing/chatgpt-ads-revenue-per-visit/index.md): A working paper finds U.S. ChatGPT ad visits earned $0.89 in revenue against $2.45 for Google Search ads. What advertisers testing ChatGPT Ads should check.
- [Publicis Closes LiveRamp Deal, and Liquid Death Says It's Leaving](https://publishmyblog.com/marketing/publicis-closes-liveramp-deal/index.md): Publicis now owns LiveRamp and pitches it with Epsilon data as an AI growth engine. Liquid Death plans to leave, and WPP and Omnicom are winding down use.
- [Google Moves Brand-Search AI Overviews to the Right Column](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/ai-overviews-brands-right-column/index.md): Google now shows AI Overviews for many brand searches in the right-hand column, where the knowledge panel sat. What brands and site owners should check.
- [Google Spotted Testing a Search Bar Without the AI Mode Button](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/google-tests-removing-ai-mode-button/index.md): One searcher says Google removed the AI Mode button from the search bar in a test, though it is still there elsewhere. What site owners should watch.
- [Apple Rates Dating Apps and Romantic AI Companions 18+](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/apple-age-limit-ai-companion-apps/index.md): From November 16, Apple asks apps to declare dating and romantic AI companion features, which get an 18+ rating. All apps must answer by January 12, 2027.
- [John Mueller: Robots.txt Can Hide a Popup From Googlebot](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/google-robots-txt-block-javascript/index.md): Google's John Mueller says blocking an age-verification popup's script with robots.txt generally works. Here's how, and when site owners shouldn't do it.
- [Squarespace Lays Off 19% of Staff: What It Means for Your Site](https://publishmyblog.com/website-tools/squarespace-lays-off-19-percent/index.md): Squarespace is cutting about 300 of its 1,800 jobs as AI site builders reshape its market. What the layoffs mean if your site or store runs on Squarespace.
- [Google Will Switch Off Search for K-12 Student Accounts](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/google-search-off-k12-schools/index.md): Google will turn Search and Gemini off by default for K-12 student accounts and pilot Guided Learning in Search. Here is what it means for education sites.
- [Google Rewrites Its Help Text for Crawled, Not Indexed Pages](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/crawled-not-indexed-docs-update/index.md): Google's Search Console help now calls Crawled, currently not indexed a common message. Here's what changed and what to check if your key pages are stuck.
- [Google Says Performance Max May Filter Out Brand Searches](https://publishmyblog.com/marketing/pmax-filters-brand-queries/index.md): Google's help page now says Performance Max may skip brand and navigational searches so your brand Search campaigns serve them. Check budgets and Search Themes.
- [Cloudflare Launches Zero Wire, a Public Feed of Critical Web Flaws](https://publishmyblog.com/website-tools/cloudflare-zero-wire/index.md): Cloudflare Zero Wire is a public feed on Radar that explains critical web vulnerabilities, who should check them and what to do, for customers or not.
- [Google Has No Date for AI Click Data in Search Console](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/search-console-ai-reporting-no-clicks/index.md): Gary Illyes says Google has nothing to announce on clicks or queries for AI Overviews and AI Mode in Search Console, a month before the UK CMA's deadline.
- [New York Times Sues Brave for Selling Scraped News to AI Firms](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/new-york-times-sues-brave/index.md): The New York Times says Brave scraped its articles, sold them to AI firms through its Search API and let readers skip its paywall. What site owners should know.
- [PageSpeed Insights Moves to Lighthouse 13.6, and Scores Can Jump](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/pagespeed-insights-lighthouse-13-6/index.md): PageSpeed Insights now runs Lighthouse 13.6, which changes how load times are simulated. Scores can rise with no change to your page, mostly on JS sites.
- [Anthropic Watermarks 4 Older Claude Models, With a Loophole](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/anthropic-claude-watermark-rollout/index.md): Anthropic is adding its hidden text watermark to Claude Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.7 and Mythos 5, but one sampling tweak skips it on two of them.
- [ChatGPT Share-Link Flaw Could Read Private Chats, Now Fixed](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/chatgpt-shared-link-flaw/index.md): Parameter showed a public ChatGPT share link could run code in a signed-in viewer's session and read private chats. OpenAI fixed it on October 26.
- [Wikimedia Tells Court AI Training Is Fair Use but Grounding Isn't](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/wikimedia-ai-fair-use-brief/index.md): In the New York Times v. OpenAI case, Wikipedia's operator says training AI on your content can be fair use, but AI answers that copy it back need a license.
- [Alibaba's Qwen Will Power Parts of Apple Intelligence in China](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/qwen-powers-apple-intelligence-china/index.md): Apple Intelligence reaches iPhone users in China with iOS 27.3 in December, with Alibaba's Qwen inside Siri and Writing Tools. Testing starts November 4.
- [DeepSeek Open-Sources Super-agent, a Team Coding Agent](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/deepseek-super-agent-open-source/index.md): DeepSeek put Super-agent, a prototype coding agent that watches one GitHub repo and optional Feishu chats, on GitHub under MIT. Here's what it needs to run.
- [AI Writing Detectors Are Still Flagging Human Writers](https://publishmyblog.com/creators/ai-detectors-flag-human-writers/index.md): Writers tell NPR that AI detectors flagged their own work as machine-made. Here's what triggers a false positive and what freelancers can do about it.
- [Big Travel Brands Lead AI Answers, but Not Every Question](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/brightedge-ai-search-travel-brands/index.md): BrightEdge data shows big travel brands lead ChatGPT and AI Overviews answers, while inspiration questions leave more room for blogs and smaller sites.
- [California Gives Kids of Family Vloggers a Right to Delete](https://publishmyblog.com/creators/california-family-vlogger-law/index.md): California's SB 1247 lets adults who appeared as kids in a family vlogger's paid content demand it's deleted or edited. It takes effect January 1, 2027.
- [Affle to Buy Perion for $420 Million in an All-Cash Deal](https://publishmyblog.com/saas/affle-to-buy-perion/index.md): Affle agreed to buy ad tech firm Perion for $11.70 a share, about $420 million. Here's what changes for advertisers and publishers using Perion One and Outmax.
- [Northflank Breach Led to Abuse of Customers' AI API Keys](https://publishmyblog.com/website-tools/northflank-breach-ai-api-keys/index.md): Northflank tells every customer to assume their environment variables were decrypted and to rotate all secrets, after users reported AI API keys being misused.
- [ChatGPT and Codex Will Share One Usage Allowance in December](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/chatgpt-codex-shared-usage-allowance/index.md): From December, OpenAI will count ChatGPT and Codex use against one token-based allowance on Plus, Pro and Business plans. Here's what changes for you.
- [Vercel Releases Geist Serif, a Free Display Font for Headlines](https://publishmyblog.com/website-tools/vercel-geist-serif-typeface/index.md): Vercel has added Geist Serif to its free Geist font family: a high-contrast display serif for headlines, in one weight and four variants for now.
- [DebugBear Tells Sites to Remove Its RUM Script After DNS Hijack](https://publishmyblog.com/website-tools/debugbear-script-hijack-polymarket/index.md): DebugBear says attackers hijacked its DNS through its registrar and served a wallet drainer via its RUM script. Sites using it should remove it now.
- [Cloudflare Private Origins Goes GA for Enterprise Accounts](https://publishmyblog.com/website-tools/cloudflare-private-origins-ga/index.md): Cloudflare can now put its WAF, cache, bot management and Workers in front of servers with only a private IP. It's generally available, on Enterprise plans.
- [Google May Be Bringing Back the num=100 Results Parameter](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/google-num-100-parameter-returns/index.md): An SEO saw 99 organic results on one Google page through num=100, a parameter Google dropped in September 2025. Nobody has reproduced it yet.
- [Google's Gary Illyes Blames AI for More Fake Googlebots](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/fake-googlebots-ai-scrapers/index.md): Google's Gary Illyes says AI training demand has made bots posing as Googlebot a bigger problem. A DNS check tells site owners which Googlebots are real.
- [Vercel Will Bill Data Cache Use as It Moves to Runtime Cache](https://publishmyblog.com/website-tools/vercel-data-cache-runtime-cache/index.md): Vercel is folding Data Cache into Runtime Cache, so Next.js cache reads and writes it never billed will now cost money. Hobby teams move on November 29.
- [Reddit splits its home feed into For You and Following](https://publishmyblog.com/marketing/reddit-splits-its-home-feed-into-for-you/index.md): Reddit is adding an algorithm-driven For You feed beside Following, so posts can reach people who don't follow your subreddit. Here's what to check.
- [Bing Splits AI Training From AI Search Grounding](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/bing-splits-ai-training-and-grounding/index.md): Microsoft announced Bing controls letting site owners block AI training and stay eligible for Bing search results. Publishers should check settings and dates.
- [ChatGPT Ads Turns On Ad Rewrites by Default: Check Your Setting](https://publishmyblog.com/marketing/chatgpt-ads-ad-rewrites-default/index.md): OpenAI expanded ChatGPT Ads to 26 more countries and turned on automatic ad rewrites by default. Here's what advertisers should check now, including tracking.
- [Google plans to support one robots.txt rule for AI training opt-outs](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/google-will-back-one-robots-txt-rule-for-ai/index.md): Google aims to support a shared AI training control in robots.txt in 2027, so site owners can opt out once for participating AI firms. Review your rules now.
- [AI Overviews Estimated at 0.9% CTR in One Opt-Out Test](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/ai-overviews-0-9-ctr-opt-out-test/index.md): A small case study estimates about 0.9% click-through from Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, and reports organic clicks fell on one site that opted out.
- [Gemini Seems to Have Dropped UTM Tags From Cited Links](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/gemini-drops-utm-tags-from-cited-links/index.md): Gemini appears to have stopped adding UTM tags to the links it cites. Some visits may now show as Direct in GA4, so check before you call AI traffic down.
- [Apple's Safari block pushes ad tech server-side, WPP pitches InfoSum](https://publishmyblog.com/marketing/safari-block-pushes-ad-tech-server-side/index.md): Apple's latest Safari block is pushing ad tech toward server-side setups. WPP's CEO says its InfoSum platform barely feels it, so check your own setup.
- [Instagram reportedly offers YouTubers up to $500,000 for Features](https://publishmyblog.com/creators/instagram-features-youtuber-offers/index.md): Instagram's new Features format is a small test of long widescreen video. Reported creator deals reach $500,000, but Meta has no clear payout plan.
- [Reddit is moving to logged-in pages as search traffic falls](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/reddit-logged-in-pages/index.md): Reddit is moving primarily to a logged-in experience as search referrals fall. The change could reshape Google results and community marketing for site owners.
- [Amazon Ads hits $19.6B in Q3 as it bets on its AI Ads Agent](https://publishmyblog.com/marketing/amazon-ads-hits-19-6b-in-q3/index.md): Amazon Ads grew 12% to $19.6B in Q3 as its Ads Agent pushes AI-run buying. Advertisers gain simpler campaigns but may lose visibility into decisions.
- [Vercel Lets Sites Control AI Crawlers and Assistants Separately](https://publishmyblog.com/website-tools/vercel-ai-crawler-assistant-controls/index.md): Vercel added separate Firewall controls for AI crawlers and assistants, giving site owners on any plan more choice over how AI bots access their pages.
- [YouTube: Living Room TV Viewing Accounts for One-Third of Ad Revenue](https://publishmyblog.com/creators/youtube-tv-viewing-third-of-ad-revenue/index.md): Alphabet says living room TV viewing accounts for a third of YouTube's ad revenue as Q3 ad sales hit $11.2 billion, a shift creators may want to plan for.
- [Google Lets Restaurants Control Ordering Links in Business Profiles](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/google-business-profile-ordering-links/index.md): Google adds pickup and delivery controls for restaurant ordering links in Business Profiles, letting owners manage which providers appear in Search and Maps.
- [Discord Will Put Some Public Server Chats in Search Results](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/discord-public-server-chats-search/index.md): Discoverable Discord servers get public web pages on November 16, which may carry AI summaries. From mid-December, some public messages may show in search.
- [Google Expands AI Mode Ads as Search Revenue Growth Slows](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/google-expands-ai-mode-ads/index.md): Google is expanding AI Mode ads to more countries while describing AI Mode monetization as lower. Site owners should watch traffic and ad results closely.
- [ServiceNow Puts Its Workflows Inside ChatGPT With an MCP Plugin](https://publishmyblog.com/saas/servicenow-chatgpt-mcp-plugin/index.md): ServiceNow and OpenAI expanded their deal: a ServiceNow MCP plugin is live in ChatGPT now, with voice, security and Codex tools expected in 2027.
- [YouTube Tests a $20 AdSense Payout Threshold](https://publishmyblog.com/creators/youtube-tests-a-20-adsense-payout-threshold/index.md): YouTube is testing a $20 AdSense payout threshold for some US, Indian and Indonesian creators, which could help smaller channels access earnings sooner.
- [WordPress 7.1.4 Security Release Fixes an Updater Flaw and More](https://publishmyblog.com/website-tools/wordpress-7-1-4-security-release/index.md): Search Engine Journal counts 22 vulnerabilities in WordPress 7.1.4, including an updater flaw that could allow remote code execution. Update now.
- [WordPress Targets 7.3 for Built-In AI Agent Access](https://publishmyblog.com/website-tools/wordpress-7-3-ai-agent-access/index.md): WordPress's AI team wants MCP, core abilities and OAuth in WordPress 7.3, after a benchmark found agents finished no owner tasks through today's MCP Adapter.
- [Freshworks Buys Robusta to Add AI Incident Investigation](https://publishmyblog.com/saas/freshworks-buys-robusta/index.md): Freshworks acquired Robusta, whose AI agents find why services fail, for IT teams using Freshservice and FireHydrant. Freshworks didn't disclose a price.
- [Google Previews a Platform for Outside Apps in Gemini and Search](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/google-connected-apps-platform-preview/index.md): Google's Connected Apps Platform preview, open to US developers on a waitlist, lets services plug into Gemini and Search through MCP. It matters to SaaS owners.
- [TikTok Adds Must Eat, a Restaurant Guide Built From Videos](https://publishmyblog.com/marketing/tiktok-must-eat-restaurant-guide/index.md): TikTok launched Must Eat in three US regions, turning community posts into restaurant guides that could affect how local businesses get discovered.
- [Guidewire to Buy Hyperexponential for $1.7 Billion](https://publishmyblog.com/saas/guidewire-buys-hyperexponential/index.md): Guidewire agreed to buy Hyperexponential for $1.7 billion, adding AI underwriting and pricing tools to its insurance software for SaaS buyers.
- [Googlebot Must Now Follow Redirects to Find Your Favicon](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/googlebot-favicon-redirects/index.md): Google's favicon docs now say Googlebot must follow redirects from your home page to the favicon page. Here's what site owners with redirects should check.
- [WordPress 7.2 Beta 2 Is Out: What to Test Before December 8](https://publishmyblog.com/website-tools/wordpress-7-2-beta-2/index.md): WordPress 7.2 Beta 2 adds work on the Abilities API, DataViews and admin loading. The final release is set for December 8, so test your sites on staging now.
- [Semrush Confirms Poisoned Google Results Are Hitting Rank Trackers](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/semrush-poisoned-google-results-rank-trackers/index.md): Semrush says some Google results its tools collect differ from what real users see. Ahrefs and other rank trackers report the same problem with poisoned SERPs.
- [YouTube Pushes Microdramas With Members-Only Episodes on Mobile](https://publishmyblog.com/creators/youtube-microdramas-members-only-episodes/index.md): YouTube says microdramas passed 6.5 billion views in the first half of 2026 and will revamp members-only episodes on mobile in the coming weeks.
- [Google Search Central Docs, Late October: Spam, URLs, Controls](https://publishmyblog.com/seo/google-search-central-docs-october-updates/index.md): Google changed three Search Central docs in late October: user-generated spam, hyphens in URLs and the controls page. Here's what each means for your site.
- [OpenAI Releases GPT-6.1 Terra at Half the Price of Sol](https://publishmyblog.com/ai/openai-gpt-6-1-terra/index.md): OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra targets computer use at $1 and $5 per million API tokens. It's in the API and for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users.

## Guides

- [How to Block AI Crawlers and Keep Your AI Search Traffic](https://publishmyblog.com/guides/block-ai-crawlers/index.md): Block AI training without vanishing from ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity answers: the AI crawler list by job, robots.txt rules, CDN controls and fake bots.
- [AI Email Summaries: How to Write Emails They Get Right](https://publishmyblog.com/guides/ai-email-summaries/index.md): Apple Mail, Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo now summarize your emails. What each one reads, what it skips, and seven fixes for newsletters, promos and pitches.
- [Claude Code Video Editing: 10 Best Skills and Tools to Try](https://publishmyblog.com/guides/claude-code-video-editing-tools/index.md): Claude Code video editing, checked: 10 GitHub skills and AI video editing tools, what each does, who it suits, how to install it and the catch.
- [10 Best Claude Design Skills That Stop Generic AI Websites](https://publishmyblog.com/guides/claude-design-skills/index.md): Ten Claude design skills for frontend work, each checked on its own page: what it does, who it's for, how to install it and what the viral carousel got wrong.
- [Best Free Animation Software: 10 Open-Source Tools, Checked](https://publishmyblog.com/guides/free-animation-software/index.md): The best free animation software on GitHub, checked: 10 open-source tools for 2D cartoons, motion graphics and effects, who each suits, which went quiet.
- [How to Choose a Blogging Platform for Your Goals and Budget](https://publishmyblog.com/guides/choose-a-blogging-platform/index.md): There's no single best blogging platform. How to choose between WordPress, Ghost, Substack, Wix and the rest by goal, real cost and how easily you can leave.
- [Website Launch Checklist: What to Check Before You Go Live](https://publishmyblog.com/guides/website-launch-checklist/index.md): A website launch checklist for new sites: own every account, test forms and checkout on the live domain, keep email working at cutover and watch the first week.
- [How to Start a Newsletter for Your Website and Keep It Going](https://publishmyblog.com/guides/how-to-start-a-newsletter/index.md): How to start a newsletter for your website: a promise readers want, a platform, sending from your own domain, forms on your best posts and a cadence you keep.
- [AI Search and Your Website: Practical Steps That Still Matter](https://publishmyblog.com/guides/ai-search-optimization/index.md): AI search optimization without the hype: which AI crawlers to let in, what Google says to ignore, how to earn citations and how to measure AI traffic to a site.
- [How to Speed Up a WordPress Site: Find and Fix the Biggest Bottlenecks](https://publishmyblog.com/guides/wordpress-speed-optimization/index.md): WordPress speed optimization that starts with measuring: find whether the server, the main image or scripts slow your site, fix that first and check it worked.
- [Website Migration SEO Checklist: Move a Site Without Losing Traffic](https://publishmyblog.com/guides/website-migration-seo-checklist/index.md): A website migration SEO checklist in 9 checks: list every old URL, redirect each one to its new home, launch cleanly and watch Search Console for weeks.
- [How to Make Money Blogging: Pick the Right Revenue Model](https://publishmyblog.com/guides/how-to-make-money-blogging/index.md): How to make money blogging: the five revenue models, the traffic each one needs in 2026, the math to run first, and the rules on disclosing what you earn.
- [WordPress Backups: How to Back Up Your Site and Test a Restore](https://publishmyblog.com/guides/wordpress-backup/index.md): How to back up a WordPress site: what a full backup holds, what your host keeps, where copies should live, and how to test a restore before you need one.
- [How to Run a Technical SEO Audit: A Step-by-Step Checklist](https://publishmyblog.com/guides/technical-seo-audit-checklist/index.md): A technical SEO audit checklist of 11 checks in the order Google meets your site, with the free tool for each one and how to tell a fix really worked.
- [WordPress Security Checklist: 15 Checks for a Safer Website](https://publishmyblog.com/guides/wordpress-security-checklist/index.md): A WordPress security checklist of 15 checks, from updates and logins to backups and a hack plan, with where to do each one and how to confirm it's done.

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