“If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the morning!†You may be too young to remember this song, and I am not sure if there has been a remake of the 60’s hit by Peter, Paul Mary. It was a song written by Pete Seeger that spoke of revolution and change a coming. Websites...Read More
Lollipop, the latest version of Google’s Android OS, brings Material Design to phones, tablets and wearables. Google hide caption itoggle caption Google If you’re an Android user, there’s a chance that earlier this week your phone or tablet alerted you about a new update to its operating system. Yearly system updates are a part of...Read More
By Kaya Ismail November 17, 2014  Comments WordPress 4.1 is on the horizon. The first beta will give us a taste of the latest features soon to be added to the most popular CMS on earth (Yes, WordPress is a CMS). The most recent major release, WordPress 4.0 Benny, introduced a number of handy features, including...Read More
Global SEO updates like Panda and Penguin changed fundamental ranking processes across the board, but one of Google’s latest changes, deemed the “Pigeon†update, has made an impact on a much more local local level. The Pigeon update, designed to give users a better search experience when looking for local businesses, has put a stop...Read More
WordPress is the favourite CMS platform in the world used by over 74 million websites. But let’s go back to the beginning. WordPress was originally created to be a platform for bloggers to share their stories, advice, tips and knowledge. So it’s no wonder that now it’s not only the number 1 CMS platform but...Read More
No one gets a site penalty on purpose. Sometimes it happens through carelessness, sometimes through black-hat techniques and, sometimes, through honest SEO mistakes. I’ve watched four such mistakes happen recently. These sites were honestly attempting to follow SEO best practices, but they were penalized. Why? I’ll explain all. It is worth noting that I wrote...Read More
Sad news, web merchants: if you relied on Google Wallet to process the online payments for your feline subculture e-zine (or any other digital product you’ve got kicking around), you’d better start looking for something else to do the job. On March 2, 2015, Google will officially pull the plug on its Wallet for Digital...Read More
I bet you have heard it before: you need to capture emails from your blog visitors. It is the most effective way to implement your marketing plan. For many of us bloggers, 80% of visitors pop by once and never return. Getting their email address is the best way to develop a relationship with that...Read More
Hello, SEO friends and colleagues. It’s time for us to have an important conversation. Recently, I read two posts by Larry Kim which detailed an email outreach campaign by Hotels.com in which they apparently solicited paid links from travel bloggers. After reading both articles, it occurred to me that we’re long overdue for a conversation about the concept of...Read More
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