McCrossen Marketing & Consulting

07/31/2026

https://mccrossenmarketing.com/critical-security-advisory-resolved-within-3-5-hours-zero-downtime

07/29/2026

🛡️ MCCROSSEN THREAT INTELLIGENCE NETWORK™

14,610 malicious IPs tracked. 6,800 in the active feed. Epoch 312 — delivered. 🟢

Most WordPress security plugins protect your site in isolation. MTIN™ doesn't. It correlates attack patterns across every protected site on the network — so a threat confirmed on one site gets blocked on yours before the attacker ever knocks. 🌐

⚡ What's under the hood:
🍯 Honeypot Verification — invisible traps only bots trigger
📊 Multi-Axis Scoring — behavioral signals, not just IP blocklists
📡 Network Threat Feed — confirmed threats pushed fleet-wide
🔍 Entity Threat History — full timeline on any IP or email

Every intelligence cycle ships as a numbered Epoch, so you always know exactly which intelligence your site is running.

Free WordPress plugin. Free MTIN™ feed access. No subscription, no upsell, no crippled tier. 🇺🇸 Veteran owned and operated.

👉 mccrossenmarketing.com/securityshield

05/21/2026

McCrossenSEO™ v3.0.13 compatible with WordPress 7 is now live and available for download:

WordPress SEO plugin with meta management, schema markup, XML sitemap, Open Graph, redirect manager, and optional platform-powered optimization.

05/12/2026

Quick read: Did you know Google killed 🗡️ 💀 FAQ rich results on May 7? The display feature is dead. The data isn't. And if you read what's happening on the AI side of search, the data 📊 probably matters more in 2026 than it did when rich snippets were the headline feature.

https://mccrossenmarketing.com/why-faq-schema-still-matters-in-2026-and-beyond

FAQ Schema still matters in 2026, but details matter in how you approach both the visible FAQ text and how the schema EXACTLY matches the visible text.

05/11/2026

🚨 McCrossen Marketing Releases McCrossenSEO™ Free on WordPress's Plugin Directory. Veteran-owned Texas SaaS company ships a single, no-cost WordPress SEO plugin that bundles capabilities competing solutions split across free base plugins, paid Premium upgrades, and separately sold add-ons—plus unique native features such as a 30-day rollback log and an integrated auto-diagnostic engine.
➡️ Download at https://mccrossenmarketing.com/mccrossenseo
➡️ Read the full Press Release at https://mccrossenmedia.com/news/mccrossen-marketing/mccrossen-marketing-releases-mccrossenseo-free-on-wordpress-org

05/01/2026

🎉 Sharing a major update for this week's work. This update is about the 🔐 McCrossen Threat Intelligence Network (MTIN™). We made several decisions that added 1,141 IP addresses back to the feed for good reasons we are not disclosing. Our team thanks the Singapore data center for allowing the bots to populate MTIN™ over the past two weeks. 😁

04/27/2026

🔎 New McCrossen Marketing Intel - Why your business needs press releases in 2026:

Discover why press releases remain essential for small business visibility in 2026 and how McCrossen Marketing helps you create and publish them effectively.

04/25/2026

One of the first videos produced on mccrossenmarketing.com met about 90% test criteria, featuring our platform's Enhanced Prompt generator. The standalone video creation tool is almost ready to go live for all customers using the CreativeCanvas™ suite.

Building our own video generation tool was a foundational piece to a more complex project that will allow small business teams and marketers to plan, draft, refine, and produce multi-clip projects with full character and voice consistency throughout your story arc.

04/24/2026

Your backlink strategy is probably 4 years out of date — and it's quietly costing you rankings.
🔗 Editorial quality and topical relevance now beat volume 3-to-1 for ranking stability
🤖 High-authority links now influence LLM training data — shaping how AI answers cite your brand
Read the full breakdown: https://mccrossenmarketing.com/the-2026-state-of-seo-backlinks-a-comprehensive-analysis-of-current-status-and-future-trajectory

Comprehensive analysis of SEO backlinks in 2026. Expert insights on current status, emerging trends, and strategic implications for marketing agencies.

04/23/2026

Top 5 Things to Make Your Website LLM Friendly
🧑‍💻 Structure Your Content with Clear, Semantic HTML
💬 Write Conversational, Question-Based Content
🔗 Implement Comprehensive Internal Linking
📰 Optimize for Featured Snippets and Direct Answers
🫡 Maintain Fresh, Authoritative Content

Transform your WordPress site for AI search with these 5 essential LLM optimization strategies. Expert guidance from McCrossen Marketing.