You might've seen the news about serious PHP security vulnerabilities doing the rounds. A few companies even took their sites offline over it. Emergency patches have been released, but here's the thing — this doesn't automatically mean you've been hacked or that you need to panic. What it does mean is you need to check one thing: has your hosting provider actually applied the fix? If you look after your own hosting, or pay someone else to, here's what to do: ✅ Ring your host and ask whether the latest PHP security patches have been applied to your server. Don't assume. Ask. ✅ Ask specifically whether the fix is properly installed — or whether they're just using temporary protective measures. Those aren't the same thing. Not even close. ✅ Don't fall into the trap of thinking updating WordPress, your themes, or your plugins sorts this. It won't. It's the underlying PHP software that needs attention here. You can literally copy and send this to your host: "Please confirm whether my website is protected against the PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, whether the security patches have been installed, and whether I need to take any action." If you're running your own server rather than using managed hosting — don't sit there assuming someone else has handled it. That assumption is how things go wrong. No need to lose your mind over this. But it's absolutely worth a five-minute check rather than finding out the hard way. Not sure what your host's response actually means? Or just don't want to deal with the back-and-forth? Drop me a message and we'll help you work it out. 👇

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And look, I totally get the scepticism. We've all been here before. Cast your mind back to the glory days (actually I still get them) of "we'll get you to number 1 on Google, guaranteed". Usually delivered by a somone off another planet who'd just discovered PageRank and printed some business cards. We all know how that ended. So when Google launched "AI Search" the tsunami hit and the inbox started filling up with people promising to "dominate ChatGPT results" with a framework they apparently invented last Tuesday or worse, a YouTube course put together by someone who only learned about it themselves a week ago. So no wonder why most people filed it straight under yeah, right. But here's the thing. Underneath all the noise, the question is completely legitimate: how do we make sure we show up when AI answers our customers' questions? We've been sitting with that question for the best part of a year. Not as observers — as practitioners with clients asking us for answers we didn't yet have. So we did what any slightly obsessed team would do. We went deep. Not blog-post deep. Not watched-a-YouTube-video deep. Talking to data scientists, AI search specialists, and engineers who actually build these systems deep. We pulled apart the academic research. We mapped every factor we've been able to find at this early stage that demonstrably influences whether an AI system cites your content and by exactly how much. And then we went looking for a tool that put it all together. We couldn't find one. Some tools gave you an audit and left you with a long to-do list and no way to action it. Others monitored whether AI was citing you but couldn't tell you why it wasn't. A few generated schema markup you'd still have to manually paste into your CMS. Every tool did one thing. Nobody closed the full loop. So inevitably, we built our own. AIView Score audits your website against 55 criteria, automatically applies schema and structural fixes via a single script tag, and tracks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews are actually citing your site. (Grok and others coming soon)