If you need an easy-to-use website to grow your business or your brand, there are plenty of options to choose from. But for last several years, when asked this question, I’ve suggest using WordPress in almost all cases. This came up again recently so I wanted to write down why I tend to recommend WordPress...Read More
Magento is the most used e-commerce platform in the world and powers over 200,000 e-commerce stores. Magento can be SEO-friendly, however the “out of the box†installation does have a number of SEO issues. With this in mind, this guide is designed to help Magento users configure their installation in the most effective way from...Read More
Written by Hayley Tsukayama E-mail the writer Google is pushing into a new world of smartphone hardware, with a new prototype phone that can create a 3D-map of a room. The prototype phone , a 5-inch device codenamed Project Tango, was revealed on Thursday. Its sensors can read a room by tracking the motion of...Read More
With so many significant changes in the world of SEO over the past year, it can be hard for non-SEO professionals to keep track of what’s still relevant and what isn’t. Fortunately, while Google completely replaced their previous algorithm with Hummingbird, their gold standard for webmasters hasn’t changed: they want us to provide the best...Read More
By Vinny Polston February 18, 2014  Comments Advertisement It was just over a decade ago that WordPress was first released as a free and open source blogging tool. Since those good ol’ days WordPress has grown up; it has gone from a simple blogging platform to a fully fledged CMS (content management system) that literally...Read More
At its core, the job of the SEO entails bridging the gap between the technical needs of search engine bots and the human needs for information, products or services – all for the purpose of increasing an organization’s revenue. Whether that revenue is gained from products sold, leads captured, or page views earned, SEO professionals...Read More
Key Considerations for your Platform as a Service Strategy The maker of a popular plugin that provides two-factor authentication for WordPress bloggers is preparing an update – after finding a vulnerability in its system. It advises that anyone using two-factor plugins from any vendor need to check their security strength. Duo Security’s duo_wordpress plugin is...Read More
Dan Cobley, Google UK’s Managing Director, recently revealed that Google’s infamous 2007 “50 Shades of Blue†experiment involving ad links in Gmail increased revenue by $200 million a year. These results switched the balance of power from design-driven to engineering data-driven decisions, and famously led Google’s top designer, Doug Bowman, to ultimately to resign in frustration....Read More
Google Earth has proved to be not just a virtual globe, but a place to feast your eyes on never-before-seen sights around the world from a bird’s-eye perspective. Some of these surprising images show natural phenomena, others reveal fleeting moments captured in nature and some are simply a familiar view from an unfamiliar perspective. But in...Read More
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