All blogs hosted by WordPress.com are getting the ability to host VR content today. The site is launching support for 360-degree photos and videos, which will be viewable on desktop, mobile, and through actual virtual reality headsets. The experience differs depending on how you’re visiting the site. On a desktop browser, you’ll be able to...Read More
pexels.com It’s that time again. We’re drawing a close to 2016, and getting ready for 2017, and as marketers, that means evaluating our strategies and planning ahead for our budgets and tactics for the new year. I’ve already written about how I expect 2017 to change SEO (and some of the highlights from 2016), but...Read More
Google will be launching two new flagship smartwatches in the first quarter of next year, according to Jeff Chang, product manager of Android Wear at Google. In an exclusive interview with The Verge, Chang said that the new watches will be the flagship Android Wear 2.0 devices and will be the first ones to launch...Read More
WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world and is used by nearly 75 million websites. According to WordPress, more than 409 million people view more than 23.6 billion pages each month and users produce 69.5 million new posts and 46.8 million new comments every month. It also powers more than 25% of the world’s websites. Whether it’s personal blogs or major magazines and news organizations...Read More
SEO continues to evolve, yet many website owners seem to be stuck in the past with their online marketing and SEO strategies. What worked a few years ago doesn’t work any longer, especially if you’ve been executing short-term tactics instead of long-term strategies. You used to be able to write keyword-stuffed copy. Blast a few...Read More
Over the past three weeks, the number of brute-force attacks against WordPress sites has almost doubled, according to WordPress security firm WordFence. The company says it recorded a sharp increase in the number of daily attacks and daily IPs involved in brute-force requests following November 24. Brute-force attacks are attempts to guess a websites admin...Read More
With hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and even millions of pages, sites, and keywords to manage and optimize, SEO has become increasingly complicated and time-consuming. Using an SEO software platform can increase efficiency and productivity while reducing the time and errors involved in managing organic search campaign. Marketing Land’s “Enterprise SEO Platforms: A Marketer’s Guideâ€...Read More
Steve Biko fought apartheid in South Africa before his death at the age of 30. Photo by Google Near the end of his life, Steve Biko wasn’t permitted to speak to more than one person at a time, but that didn’t stop him from spreading the message of equality for all. Biko was an anti-apartheid...Read More
WordPress is embracing WebVR as it begins to roll out support for 360-degree videos and photos to its network of sites. In a blog post, the company says its aim is “to make publishing VR content as simple as publishing text or photos to the web.†Currently, the 360-photo feature has been made available to all blog...Read More
If you’re not a tech expert, local SEO can be daunting. From the outside, it may seem like a lot of speculation and experimentation without consistent results. And yet, it can have a big impact on your business success. Just consider these statistics: 93 percent of online experiences begin with a search engine 75 percent...Read More
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