Back in 2013, Google launched Play for Education, a program that made it easier for educators to purchase apps and books and distribute them to their students’ Android tablets. Now, this program is coming to an end. As first reported by CRN and also confirmed by us today, Google will stop selling Play for Education licenses...Read More
By default there are two features in WordPress which help us to sort our content: categories and tags. Some plugins and themes add their own taxonomies but these two are the most commonly used, as everyone has them. But some users don’t know why we have both of these. After all, categories are fine to...Read More
If you like getting repeatedly punched in the face with a boxing glove on a mechanical arm, then working on a Local SEO program for multi-location franchises is the right job for you. While SEO for any multi-location organization can be tricky, the complicated dynamics of franchises can make a SEO engagement the equivalent of...Read More
Google is abandoning Picasa, its photo editor and sharing service that is, well, kinda dated. The desktop application will no longer be supported by Google beginning March 15, 2016, according to a company blog post, and in May the company will archive users’ Picasa Web Albums. A blog post from Google Photos head Anil Sabharwal...Read More
WordPress (WP) powers an astonishing 25% of the web, and it’s easy for new users to get a 1-click install WP site. Then shortly after that, they come back to their domain looking for how to log into WordPress. No sweat, it’s super easy and we’ll use this as a reference article for subsequent WordPress...Read More
To many startups, search engine optimization (SEO) is a task that sits on their company’s back burner. With features to launch and customers to support, the idea of spending time fiddling with your title tags can seem like a fool’s errand. That’s especially true when there’s no guarantee that your hard work will result in...Read More
On Friday morning, Google fired up its official Picasa blog for the first time in over four years — only to tell users of the photo service that it is no more. That’s because Google made a better photo service, Google Photos, that is tailored for mobile phones. So Google is shuttling all Picasa photos and...Read More
WordPress, the most popular blogging platform on the Web, continues to update its official iOS app with new features to make on-the-go WordPress blog and website management quicker and easier. In recent months, improvements delivered to WordPress for iOS included support for more site settings, notification filters, and iPad split-screen multitasking. Now, the app has...Read More
Yesterday, the folks over at Stone Temple Consulting interviewed Google’s Gary Illyes and posted the interview on YouTube, and one question that Gary answered was about SEO certification. In short, Gary said that Google discussed internally if they should add an SEO certification program and have decided not to do so. Google does offer certification...Read More
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