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What is IndexNow? What is New in WordPress 6.0 and 6.0.1 Is it Hard to Manage an Online Store? Importance of WordPress Security How Online Shopping Changed the Landscape of Holiday Shopping Tips to Promote Your Business During the Holidays How Much Does it Cost to Design a Website? How Do You Know a Website is Secure During the Holiday Season? Contactless Curbside pickup: What Will Curbside Pickup Look Like During the Holidays? Meta Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org What’s the difference between the reCAPTCHA Versions? What is reCaptcha? reCAPTCHA is a free Google service that protects websites from spam and abuse by identifying human users over automated bots. It is a more advanced version of the traditional CAPTCHA system. How Does it Work? reCAPTCHA uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to recognize human behavior that bots cannot follow. The tests are passable enough for any human user regardless of age, gender, education and language. Image reCAPTCHA V1 The image recognition reCAPTCHA test uses either nine of sixteen real life images in the form of a square with instructions above to select traffic lights, crosswalks, or bikes. Once the squares are selected the system compares its answers to that of a million others, if it matches majority than it passes. These images are typically low resolution, making it harder for the bots to see but still visible enough for humans. Checkbox reCAPTCHA V2 Another form of reCAPTCHA is a simple check box that states I’m not a robot”. This test distinguishes the difference between humans and bots by tracking the movement of the cursor as it approaches the checkbox. A bot will typically move to the box in a straight line with no variation at all, verses a human will show variation. Even the slightest variation of cursor movement to the checkbox is noted. reCAPTCHA V2 Invisible reCAPTCHA V2 Invisible works the same way but takes out the checkbox of the equation. Like traditional reCAPTCHA, an additional challenge will sometimes appear if it thinks you’re not a human, but with invisible reCAPTCHA, this happens when you submit form (and the submission will really be sent once you validate the image test) instead of when you tick the checkbox. reCAPTCHA V3 A newer version aims to avoid disrupting the user experience by limiting user interaction through calculating a score according to the present user behavior and history. Computers then determine the score for the user in a preliminary Turing test. The Turing Test is a method of inquiry in artificial intelligence (AI) for determining whether or not a computer is capable of thinking like a human being. Using reCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA can protect you also when logging into your website to prevent Brute force attacks. Brute force attacks are a common threat to web developers which is a password- guessing attack. It tries to discover a password by systematically trying every possible combination of letters, numbers, and symbols until it finds the correct combination. Using CAPTCHA creates an authentication process that essentially blocks this process. Conclusion reCAPTCHA actively protects the integrity of your site by preventing spam, abuse, and date theft from bots. ReCAPTCHA is free for everyone, it provides security for you, your business, and your consumers information. There are numerous options available for you to decide which works best. Posted on August 16, 2022 Author CBoyd Categories News , Technology , Website Design , Websites Tags Custom Website Design , reCAPTCHA , Updates , WEB DESIGN Leave a comment What is IndexNow? What We Know IndexNow is an open source and open to all participating search engines. When certain content is published or updated on a website, IndexNow notifies all participating search engines, in turn this reduces the time for indexing dramatically. How it does this is by changing the content discovery to the push method where a CMS such as WordPress tells the search engines when the content is published or has been updated. This is beneficial because it takes away the wait time for search engines to try and discover the content. Instead, the search engines know about it right away and they can visit the site to grab the new or updated pages. Why This Is Important Search engines have been accessing content the same way for way to long. If you are not a large website with a lot of traffic, chances are it can be days or even weeks before a search engine accesses your site and indexes new or updated pages. This can cost you important traffic to competitors. With IndexNow, an open-source protocol, websites can index across search engines, updating results based upon the latest content changes, immediately. In a simpler form, a ping is sent to notify search engines that a URL and its content has been added, updated or even deleted, which improves efficiency. How it Works Search engines obtain data through a push and pull operative. Pull: a search engine visits your site to request web pages and gather data from the server. Push: a web publisher or content management system notifies the search engine that pages have been added, deleted, or have any other changes have been made. Where IndexNow differs, is that it allows all URLs submitted to any indexNow enabled search engine to be simultaneously submitted to all the other search engines using the protocol. How Do You Use It? It is pretty straightforward when it comes to IndexNow Generate an API Key- this is submitted alongside URLs to ensure ownership of the domain. You can use an online key generator tool for this Host API Key- Your API key is hosted on the root directory in a text format Submit URLs with Parameters- You can either submit URLs individually or in bulk. Submit your key location as a parameter. Check your submissions- using the Bing Webmaster tools, you can verify which URLs have been submitted and discovered. So Who is Using It? IndexNow is still fairly new, at the time of publication, only Bing and Yandex were using IndexNow. There is confirmation that Google will be testing IndexNow, they have no confirmed whether or not they will use it but just the fact that they are willing to experiment with it says a lot about its potential. Other Uses and FAQs You can provide search engines with a list of up to 10,000 URLs with a single API call. The sooner your pages are indexed, the more quickly they can start competing for high-ranking search engine spots Posted on August 16, 2022 Author CBoyd Categories Content Marketing , Marketing , Social Media Tags Business Website , google , IndexNow , SEM , SEO Leave a comment What is New in WordPress 6.0 and 6.0.1 Key Improvements from 5.9 WordPress has recently launched a new update. The update includes more improvements to the full site editing feature with wide set blocks, editable templates and more patterns. Themes and Templates Easier way to switch themes with just...