Google is killing Project Ara, it’s modular smartphone concept that aimed to let you ‘upgrade’ your phone piece by piece. In theory, it sounds pretty amazing. In practice, it would have been terrible. Google was trying to gamify upgrades All Killer, No Filler We’re bringing Momentum to New York: our newest event, showcasing only the...Read More
WordPress is used by millions of people right around the world to setup websites for a variety of applications. While it’s popular because it’s easy to get up and running and use, it still requires proper optimization in order to really improve your overall search engine rankings. This guide will give WordPress beginners a basic...Read More
Ah, the SEO request for proposal (RFP). Whether you are writing one from the client side or responding to one as an agency, they are a foundational part of enterprise-level SEO. While each RFP should include a few questions that are unique to the business at hand, there are also some “standard†questions that can...Read More
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is killing plans to make a modular phone, according to two people familiar with the project, the end of an ambitious internal program to reinvent smartphones. The company told partners in the past week that it was ending its three-year-old Project Ara, which aimed to develop smartphones with modular, replaceable parts that...Read More
This may seem strange coming from an SEO guy, but there are many situations where organic search may not be the best option for a given marketing challenge. In fact, there are times when SEO is just simply not a good fit. In this article, I am going to look at a few common scenarios we...Read More
The update brings the plug-in up to version 1.1.6, fixes a bug with automatically publishing scheduled posts, displays meta box even on draft post, and adds image settings The WordPress plug-in for Apple News, used by publishers to push their content to the Apple app, was updated today to version 1.1.6. The plug-in has come...Read More
Did you know that you can increase your SEO task efficiency by using extensions in Google Chrome? If you perform most of your SEO tasks manually, these extensions can help reduce the headache of repetitive tasks and help you make your work day run more smoothly. Following are five free Chrome extensions I use on a...Read More
Following in the footsteps of commenting systems Echo, Disqus and Intense Debate, WordPress.com has launched WordPress, Twitter and Facebook authorization and identity systems for its own commenting platform, in that order. The blog host didn’t even have the WordPress.com option before. Coming before Facebook on this is another albeit small win for Twitter, who yesterday became...Read More
When it comes to using SEO in content marketing, it seems like everyone’s doing it. But most content marketers are doing it wrong. In fact, I would wager that only about 10 percent of content marketers are effectively using SEO. If SEO has been around for so long, why are so many marketers so terrible...Read More
Reuters/Mark Blinch Google is a company of frightening size and scope. The sheer amount of info it has on any given internet user is astounding, and the fact that so many of us are reliant on its apps to function means it should only keep growing. It’s also pretty nerdy. Or at least, that’s the...Read More
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