Automattic, the company behind the popular WordPress.com blogging platform, receives thousands of takedown requests from rightsholders. A few days ago the company published its latest transparency report, showing that they processed 5,006 requests during the second half of last year. While this is a significant amount, it pales in comparison to many other user-generated services....Read More
I get several emails each week stating, “For $199 a month, you can be No. 1 on Google.†I delete them as fast as any other piece of spam because that’s what they are – shady people misrepresenting the “service†they’re selling. Meanwhile, I run an agency that offers real SEO – SEO that includes audits, analytics...Read More
Like all CMOs, you have your hands full. You’re managing branding, marketing communications, advertising, promotions, public relations, market research, sales management and product development, and you’re doing your best to keep up with the changing technological landscape that complicates the successful execution of each. Well, here I am to throw another wrench in the gears....Read More
This article was sponsored by Artbees – creators of the Jupiter WordPress theme. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. WordPress is the world’s most successful Content Management System. It powers 28% of all websites. A massive 59% of sites running a CMS choose to use WordPress. The software is open source...Read More
About Jim Bader Jim brings over 15 years of search engine optimization and Ecommerce experience to the team as our Senior Director of SEO. He has held a variety of SEO leadership positions, with agencies and managing successful in-house teams for companies including CVS Health and Choice Hotels International.Read More
Alphabet is committing to training another 1 million students under its Digital Skills for Africa program in the next 12 months, the company said at events in Lagos, Nairobi, and Johannesburg. The commitment follows the company’s 1 million mark milestone reached today and follows the opening of Google’s Launchpad Accelerator for African startups earlier this month —...Read More
The recently patched WordPress REST API Endpoint vulnerability is the gift that keeps on giving. Already responsible for more than one million website defacements and attempts to monetize some of those attacks, the flaw also opens the door to a separate attack. Researchers at Sucuri who found the original bug on Monday disclosed details on how...Read More
When I first spoke to Siri, I acted like the most high-school, skeptical, ridiculous version of myself. “Hey Siri. Can you call me Bunny?†– “Yeah, sure, Bunny.†– “You’re a *****.†– “Bunny, your language!†If you’re anything like me, you started playing around with voice search not because you believed it was at...Read More
Wearable technology once promised to take us away from our phones and to improve our lives in subtle but powerful ways. The reality, however, has been a bit less exciting. More often than not, devices have been hampered by clunky design and bad taste, resulting in products that are expensive, unnecessary, and ugly. Yet it’s...Read More
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