Website News & Reviews
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A selection of news from around the web that matters to website owners, together with reviews of the tools and services we think are worth your time, with their drawbacks set out alongside their benefits.
The subjects range widely, from changes at search engines and browsers to the services small businesses rely on to run their sites, but the test for inclusion is always the same: whether it makes a practical difference to someone running a website or an online shop.
For our regular practical guides, see the blog, or browse the search engine optimisation and website hosting articles.
Blocking AI Training Without Disappearing From Google
Refusing to let your site train AI models used to mean losing your search visibility, because the same crawler did both jobs. That trade has been broken apart. What changed, the four lines any site can add regardless of host, and how to decide whether you want to.
What If a Plugin Could Not Read Your Whole Site?
Every WordPress plugin you install has complete access to your content, your customer data and your credentials. A new CMS from Cloudflare does it differently, with phone-style permissions enforced by the runtime. Whether it matters to you, and what to do in the meantime.
Bing Webmaster Tools: What It Tells You That Search Console Does Not
Bing Webmaster Tools imports straight from Search Console and then reports problems Google never mentions. What it found on our own site, and what to ignore.
The Cloudflare Free Plan: What You Actually Get
What the Cloudflare free plan genuinely provides, where its limits bite in practice, and the settings that most often break a site when switched on carelessly.