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WordPress Platform Powers 23 Percent Of Websites In The World, Statistics Say

The WordPress platform, when it was released in 2004, was an unassuming piece of software aimed at making the lives of the blogging community a little bit easier. Back then, nobody could have imagined that the WordPress platform would turn into a behemoth powering almost a quarter of all websites in the world, turning into...
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Local SEO For Franchises Means Teamwork

SEO is commonly viewed as one of the most challenging marketing activities to orchestrate across a national-to-local network. In addition to trying to figure out how to “win” at SEO in general, franchise businesses also often face the unique dilemma of needing multiple sites from the same domain to rank well in a search results....
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Google and Toy Maker Mattel Reveal Virtual Reality "View-Master"

Google and toy maker Mattel revealed that they are collaborating on a new version of the classic View-Master toy that uses Google’s smartphone-based virtual reality solution, Cardboard. Like Google Cardboard and Samsung’s and Oculus’ Gear VR, the new View-Master is a headset with a slot that holds an Android smartphone, which will produce the images....
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Lack of CSPRNG Threatens WordPress Sites

WordPress has become a huge target for attackers and vulnerability researchers, and with good reason. The software runs a large fraction of the sites on the Internet and serious vulnerabilities in the platform have not been hard to come by lately. But there’s now a new bug that’s been disclosed in all versions of WordPress that...
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Emphasis on Content Marketing Revives Agency SEO Efforts and Revenues

What good is digital content if no one can find it? That’s a question driving growth at agencies as marketers rediscover search-engine-optimization’s role in making or breaking a campaign — and selling product. “A lot of our clients are starting to put a heavy focus on organic search,” said Huge’s director of marketing and SEO,...
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Google, Mighty Now, but Not Forever

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How sleeping 6 times a day helped the founder of WordPress build a billion …

Matt Mullenweg’s WordPress content management platform is one of the most influential pieces of software on the Internet, running more than 19 percent of websites (including VentureBeat). But before Automattic, the parent company of WordPress, was on the path to being a billion-dollar company, Mullenweg was simply an eager coder with a healthy attitude for self-experimentation....
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10 WordPress SEO Questions That Took Me 10 Years To Answer!

Of the many different content management systems and web publishing platforms I’ve done SEO for, WordPress is the most popular. Blogs, company websites and web shops run on WordPress. Designers are fascinated by its versatility and the range of adaptations possible with it. Users love its simplicity and effectiveness. It’s a simple blogging system that...
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Google Will Make Health Searches Less Scary With Fact-Checked Results

Dr. Google has always been a bit of a quack, doling out ever shoddier medical advice with every passing search result. Search the symptoms of a rash and somehow, someway, you will inevitably come to believe you have cancer. Now, the search engine is trying to bring some much-needed validity to the world of health-related...
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20 Tutorials for WordPress Merchants

WordPress is a free content management system for a blog — and an online store. The popular open-source project has an active development community and an abundance of instructional tutorials to get started. Here is a list of tutorials to learn WordPress. There are tutorials to get started quickly, comprehensive guides to master WordPress, and...
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