Microsoft announced a new partnership today that makes it a lot easier to transfer your OneNote writings over to WordPress. The company has created a WordPress plugin that inserts a OneNote button into your editor. When clicked, you’ll be able to search for the specific onenote page you’d like to publish. As OneNote documents are...Read More
Local search engine optimization (SEO) is crucial for brick-and-mortar or service businesses seeking to capture local customers who might be searching for you online. By optimizing your website, as well as your business listings on external sites (like Google My Business or Yelp), you can gain visibility in search engine results when someone is looking for the product(s) or...Read More
At an 18th-century mansion in England’s countryside last week, current and former spy chiefs from seven countries faced off with representatives from tech giants Apple and Google to discuss government surveillance in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s leaks. The three-day conference, which took place behind closed doors and under strict rules about confidentiality, was aimed at...Read More
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress, has announced its acquisition of WooThemes, the maker of popular blog themes and an even more popular WordPress-based, e-commerce platform called WooCommerce. The WooCommerce plugin currently has more than 7.6 million downloads and more than a million active installations. In his blog post announcing the deal, Automattic co-founder Matt...Read More
This post has been brought to you by SEO PowerSuite: all the SEO tools you’ll ever need under one roof. The search engine optimization (SEO) world has undergone some big changes in the last few years—the biggest being coming in the form of Google’s heightened push towards strong user experiences. It’s hard to imagine that...Read More
Raise your hand if you remember Writely. A four-person company called Upstartle launched the online-only word processor in August 2005, taking advantage of a then-new browser technology called AJAX. It allowed users to instantly save and retrieve content generated in the browser but stored on the server. And it worked—so well that Google bought Upstartle...Read More
If you’re looking to turn your WordPress site into an online shop, one option reigns supreme: WooCommerce. With roughly 7.5 million downloads, it’s easily the most popular e-commerce WordPress plugin — hell, it’s one of the top 10 most popular WordPress plugins overall. And now it’s officially a part of the WordPress family. Automattic, the...Read More
With search engines, social-media platforms and content-recommendation services all touting their pay-per-click options to instantly boost traffic to your website, search engine optimization (SEO) sometimes gets forgotten. But it shouldn’t. SEO can provide a huge benefit to entrepreneurs – even if the results aren’t immediate. For those that are still hesitant and come up come...Read More
Google’s adorable self-driving car prototype hits the road this summer, the tech giant announced last week. Real roads, in the real world. The car has no steering wheel or pedals, so it’s up to the computer to do all the driving. As cool as this sounds, it isn’t a huge technological step forward. The goofy...Read More
couch mode print story It is recommended that you include Related Posts on your blog pages as they help decrease the bounce rate of your site and are good from the SEO perspective. That’s because when you publish a new article, the old content, that was previously hiding in the archives, shows up in the...Read More
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