Google’s wearable tech outfit was granted a patent this week for a Glass-like heads-up display that could be affixed to a person’s head with a flexible band. The “wearable device with input and output structures” would be adjustable and only sit on one side of the wearer’s face. That’s a departure from the original iteration of Glass,...Read More
WordPress.com, the fully hosted version of WordPress, has a received one of its biggest updates ever today. Codenamed Calypso, Automattic rewrote WordPress.com from scratch — everything is new under the hood. Here are the big changes. First, WordPress.com is now fully separated from the WordPress core. WordPress.com is now an admin interface that interacts with...Read More
NAPLES, FL–(Marketwired – November 27, 2015) – topseos.com, the independent authority on online marketing, has named Boostability the best local SEO firm for November 2015. Each month the independent research team at topseos.com reviews thousands of companies to uncover which companies produce the most strong solutions. The recommendations are updated on a monthly basis to...Read More
WordPress.com has replaced PHP with web technologies and a RESTful back-end API for the administration console. Writing about why WordPress.com decided to move from PHP to JavaScript, Matt Mullenweg, Founder and CEOÂ of Automattic Inc., the company behind wordpress.com, said that the foundations of the platform were not strong enough for what is to come, and...Read More
Europe’s “right to be forgotten” rules remain a growing issue for Google. Today, the company released its twice-yearly transparency report, detailing the requests it’s received for copyright takedowns, user data, and the removal of search results that point to inadequate or irrelevant information about a European citizen. Since the policy was put into place last May,...Read More
At the time of writing, I got more than 10 million results for searching the topic “SEO is dead.” The question arises: Is SEO dead? The answer has two sides: If you build a search engine friendly site for generating organic traffic and enrich the user experience side by side, the answer is NO. If...Read More
Google parent Alphabet Inc. is moving to make its disparate parts more accountable internally for spending, according to people familiar with the matter, in an effort to ensure that its more speculative projects are self-sustaining. Under the new system, “bet†companies such as Google X, Google Fiber and Google Life Sciences will be charged for...Read More
The popular blogging site WordPress.com unveiled a new admin interface today for managing blogs, posting content, and reading other people’s sites. If you’re a regular user, you’ll notice a new look and feel. If you’re a code geek, you’ll notice something more remarkable below the surface: JavaScript instead of PHP. If you run the open...Read More
A lot of companies, particularly mid-sized multi-location brands, can’t seem to get their acts together to do “national†SEO. They may have hired an SEO consultant, or they may have an in-house team driving SEO strategy, but they can’t seem to execute. When it takes six months to update a title tag, you know you’ve got some...Read More
Gary Illyes, Webmaster Trends Analyst from Google, keynoted State of Search on Monday talked about AMP and how Google will be pushing it aggressively in 2016. But he also mentioned something else, that Google is working with both WordPress and Joomla to support AMP as well. WordPress has previously announced their efforts with AMP. But...Read More
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