A mockup of WordPress logo Today, most new and upcoming business owners fall between one of two categories. The first know they need a website, but they haven’t been able to find the finances to fund one, or haven’t had the time to make their vision a virtual reality. The second already have a website...Read More
I recently wrote about how you can dig deeper with an SEO keyword that’s working. Among the tactics mentioned, I included a couple of ways to get more organic traffic for a page that’s already working: Flesh out the page that’s ranking for modified versions of the core term. Reconsider the ranking page’s title tag....Read More
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (CNN)After going underwater, climbing mountains and riding atop trains, Google Street View this month chalked up another achievement. Its first festival. Not just any festival, but Naadam — rugged Mongolia’s annual display of horsemanship, marksmanship and muscle. And CNN got to tag along for the ride. Held each summer in Ulaanbaatar (this year...Read More
As founders, we are conceptualizers, thinkers, leaders, developers and most of all, we are change agents. We obviously oversee the most serious issues in business; do we really have to get worked up with all those SEO tips and tweaks we hear all the time? Definitely not. Our SEO guy should take care of those....Read More
How much would you pay to live longer? What if Google were making the pill to do it? On Tuesday, Calico, the medical research company Google incubated in 2013, announced it had cut a deal for access to genetic information from Ancestry, the largest family tree website. It’s among the first public moves from Calico,...Read More
(Image: stock photo) The company behind popular web blogging software WordPress said it has not received a single national security order in two years, according to its latest transparency report. That’s a decline from the demands it received in the second half of 2013, which Automattic confirmed it received between zero and 249 demands. However,...Read More
As of late, there has been a lot of discussion surrounding SEO — whether it ceases to exist, if it’s now blended into the tactics better known as “content marketing,” or if it still remains essential, and predominantly a set of website-centric tasks. By now, I’m sure we’ve all heard the phrase, “SEO is dead.”...Read More
How much do mobile users hate interstitial screens blocking their mobile browsing by urging them to down the native app instead? An overwhelming amount, judging by a study conducted by Google in July last year. Well, that and common sense when you think about the contrast between the aim of mobile computing (speed, convenience) and the point of interstitials (slow, distract). The ad...Read More
Developers of the popular WordPress blogging platform have released a critical security update to fix a vulnerability that can be exploited to take over websites. WordPress 4.2.3, released Thursday, resolves a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could allow users with the Contributor or Author roles to compromise a website, said Gary Pendergast, a member of...Read More
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