Hiring an SEO firm can be stressful. With prices ranging anywhere from several hundred to tens of thousands of dollars per month, depending on your specific needs, it is difficult to hear an SEO firm tell you it will take a few months before you can expect to see results. How do you know if...Read More
Actor Robin Williams, who died this year, was the top trending Google search term of 2014 Getty Images What a difference a year makes. In 2014, “how to Airdrop” was the top trending phrase (beginning with the words “how to) searched on Google in the US. That refers to the method of wirelessly sharing files...Read More
A Russian malware called SoakSoak has infected over 100,000 WordPress sites since this Sunday, turning blogs into attack platforms. It’s a potential shitshow, and it could’ve been prevented earlier this fall. Google has already blocked 11,000 domains to try to curb the damage. According to security firm Sucuri, the malware uses a vulnerability in a...Read More
As we now know better than ever before, SEO best practices are constantly changing. Not only are there new algorithm announcements and changes you have to follow, but understanding what you need to do in response or how your strategy needs to be altered can be tough. It’s the SEO gurus who help keep us...Read More
At least in Europe, the newspaper wars are not quite over. Five years ago this month, Eric Schmidt, the chairman and then-CEO of Google, published a column in the Wall Street Journal about the crisis in print. Newspapers are “struggling to adapt to a new, disruptive world,†he said. “The Internet has broken down the entire...Read More
WordPress’s latest update, 4.0.1, patches a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability affecting comment boxes on websites running the content management system software. An attacker would need only to inject malicious JavaScript into a comment that would infect a reader viewing it on the webpage or an admin in the management dashboard. Jouko Pynnonen, a security researcher...Read More
“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard… is what makes it great.†– Jimmy Dugan, AKA Tom Hanks, A League of Their Own SEO, referring to Search Engine Optimization, is the practice of making a website findable by search engines like Google, and is one of the...Read More
November 21, 2014 WordPress version 4.0 is not affected by the critical XSS issue, which could enable an anonymous user to compromise a site. Released on Thursday, WordPress version 4.0.1 addresses more than 20 vulnerabilities, and WordPress versions 3.9.3, 3.8.5 and 3.7.5 address a critical cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, according to a post. WordPress version...Read More
Microsoft gave away some of the secrets behind the algorithm that ranks search results in Bing, giving new insights for ways to better your search engine optimization. 15 photos Jacob Demmitt Staff Writer- Puget Sound Business Journal Email  | Twitter Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled some of the secret recipe behind its Bing search engine, letting...Read More
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