Search traffic rocks. Even though just two years ago only 44% of shoppers began their purchase by using a search engine (Interconnected World: Shopping and Personal Finance, 2012), today I am sure this number is a lot higher. Moreover, 70% of these people click on organic listings instead of Adwords ads when looking for products...Read More
Google introduced Android, the first open platform for mobile devices, in 2007. The company and outside developers have continued to innovate and expand the capabilities of the platform. In June, Google unveiled Android Wear smart watches at the annual Google developer’s conference in San Francisco. Users can simply sync the watch with their Android phones...Read More
Many of us know WordPress as the free blogging platform. But did you also know that it is a software that can be used to create full-featured websites, including, but not limited to, blogs? In other words, at WordPress.com you can set up a blog for free; but at WordPress.org you may download the whole...Read More
Co-authored with Ian Lurie, CEO and founder of Seattle-based Portent Inc. A version of this post first appeared on the Portent blog. Editorial teams control the single most ‘future proof’ search rankings factor: Content quality. Consistent ‘quality’ as defined by Google, though, means following some specific rules. So, here’s my very short checklist for editorial...Read More
By Kaya Ismail August 15, 2014 Articles and Editorials  Comments Advertisement WordPress is just a glorified blogging tool. Apparently. The debate about WordPress’ status has been raging for years now. Is it still just a blogging platform, or has it grown into a what can be described as a CMS? It’s a touchy subject for...Read More
SEO is very much alive. It’s just getting ripped-apart limb from limb, organ-by-organ, and transplanted as living tissue into various branches of marketing, development and IT departments. While companies incorporate SEO into specialties (experts working in detached disciplines), the industry’s response has been for SEO professionals to generalize as Inbound Marketers. Now that I’ve set...Read More
It is rare to go a day without hearing about a vulnerability impacting a certain WordPress plugin or theme. Most recently, vulnerabilities targeting WordPress thumbnailing plugin TimThumb, SEO plugin All in One SEO, and MailPoet, the newsletter plugin with more than 1.7 million downloads, have been exposed, leaving users and their web hosts scrambling to...Read More
There are widespread reports within the industry of negative SEO extortion emails being sent to website owners, webmasters, SEOs and others. The emails are claiming that an evil SEO will ruin the site’s ranking in Google and other search engines if they do not come up and wire $1,500 to the evil SEO. Both Dan...Read More
Xiaomi, a Chinese phone maker, sells devices running a modified version of Google’s Android operating system, but without any Google services. Zhang Jin/Xinhua—Alamy Google’s Android operating system can be used—and changed—by anyone. Now the search giant might be losing control of its creation. When Amazon’s Kindle Fire phone debuted last month, the engineers at Google’s...Read More
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