WordPress is the most widely used content management system (CMS) in the world — roughly half of sites that use a CMS use WordPress. There is good reason for WordPress’ popularity. It’s versatile, easy to use and highly customizable, due to the numerous plugins and themes available. Many believe that using WordPress to host a site automatically guarantees good SEO. As...Read More
Like any SEO veteran, I can recount my share of horror stories — launching Google Analytics and noticing that sudden, sickening drop in traffic. Sometimes, sudden drops in traffic may be the result of an algorithm changes (such as Panda). However, in many cases, they are caused by bugs, inadvertent changes or overambitious engineers with a little bit of...Read More
How big is Google? We can answer that question in terms of revenue or stock price or customers or, well, metaphysical influence. But that’s not all. Google is, among other things, a vast empire of computer software. We can answer in terms of code. Google’s Rachel Potvin came pretty close to an answer Monday at...Read More
Any successful website is the product of clever management and good design. Right now, you can pay what you want to learn the necessary skills, and enjoy 85% off access to Themes Kingdom’s entire library via TNW Deals. The ‘WordPress Wizard’ bundle offers 12 video courses that teach you how to build up your blog. Along...Read More
SEO is dead. When it comes to digital marketing, this might be one of the trendiest things to say right now. The ever-changing digital landscape is usually cited as proof of this, with people claiming that SEO simply “doesn’t work” today. The average consumer is just unwilling to believe in anything that doesn’t have social...Read More
MOSCOW—Google Inc. has been found guilty in a rapid Russian antitrust probe, a spokesperson for the country’s antitrust regulator told The Wall Street Journal. In February, Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service opened a probe into Google for alleged anticompetitive practices related to how the company bundles apps with its Android mobile…Read More
At Yahoo’s first mobile developer conference in New York City, the company’s senior vice president of publishing products Simon Khalaf said that SEO, SEM, and blue links “are gone” on mobile because people are not using browsers. As apps dominate mobile activity, is traditional search marketing via SEO and SEM going to disappear? Not necessarily, industry experts...Read More
There are plenty of ways to attribute blame for the failure of the Google Books project. It was the most ambitious library project of our time—a plan to scan all of the world’s books and make them available to the public online. “We think that we can do it all inside of ten years,†Marissa...Read More
Tables (and generally everything where cells are involved) can be a pain in WordPress. Offering a good viewing experience in these cases is often difficult, as one would need to take care of various resolutions and devices to work properly on a responsive website. I covered TablePress in April here on SitePoint, which also comes...Read More
I’m willing to bet you came across this article because you were looking for the latest and greatest tactics to be found in the world of SEO. No shame in that. We all want to keep up with the algorithms and maybe even get out ahead of them a bit. But as you read your...Read More
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