The open-source content management system WordPress has released urgent security updates for versions 4.7.2 and earlier and “strongly encourages†users to update right away. A Look at the WordPress March 2017 Critical Security Update The new Version 4.7.3 contains system fixes to half a dozen security flows that allowed for: Cross-site scripting (XSS) via media file metadata,...Read More
Editor’s note: This post continues our weekly primer in SEO, touching on all of the foundational aspects. In the end, you’ll be able to practice SEO more confidently and converse about its challenges and opportunities. When optimizing a large site for search engines, you need a plan of attack. Keyword mapping is the process by...Read More
The Cloud Video Intelligence API is now in a private beta, meaning companies will get their hands on it long before you can use it to hunt down esoterica on YouTube. At this point, it is an enterprise solution, a deep-learning tool built on frameworks like TensorFlow that companies can use to parse through their...Read More
A new add-on for Google Docs allows multiple content creators to write, edit, and collaborate in real-time — then easily save as a blog post in WordPress. As the company notes in the announcement, the add-on works with WordPress.com as well as any Jetpack-connected WordPress.org site. WordPress is the most popular content management system on...Read More
Why is it so difficult to get more traffic to your website? This is a challenge many entrepreneurs face. They create a website. They write content. They even sign up for social media accounts. And they have no visitors. When this happens, it’s usually because these entrepreneurs did not invest time or money into a...Read More
As the debate surrounding the prevalence, scope and impact of fake news continues to rage on unabated, the latest tech company being accused of passively enabling misinformation to spread far and wide is Google. In a fascinating post over at The Outline, Adrianne Jeffries explains how the answer boxes provided by Google Search (also known as Featured...Read More
Internet scribblers who use WordPress must update their installation of the publishing tool following the disclosure and patching of six security holes. Version 4.7.3 of the content management system includes fixes for the half dozen flaws that could allow for, among other things, cross-site scripting and request forgery attacks. “This is a security release for...Read More
I wanted to share some notes on an experiment my agency performed recently, which resulted in Google believing our website was the canonical version of their own search engine optimization starter guide PDF — and ranking us in place of their own content for “search engine optimization†and thousands of other phrases. We perform many tests...Read More
Saturday, March 4, 2017 GRANITEVILLE, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) — One local 4th grader’s art may end up on the Google home page. Alex Fernandez is a student at Byrd Elementary School and was one of the thousands of K-12 students who submitted their art to be on the website’s homepage. “Sometimes I just come up with...Read More
Publishing platform Medium recently laid off dozens of people. So if you don’t want to hand away your precious writing to a startup that is still looking for its business model, you can move your content to WordPress.com in just a few clicks. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, just launched a new importing tool that...Read More
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