Web-hosting provider GoDaddy has unveiled its latest way to get small businesses running on it — a simple way to get WordPress running on its servers. Starting tomorrow, companies may set up their own WordPress-based sites on GoDaddy, from basic blogs to far more complex web applications, the hosting vendor announced today in a press...Read More
Last fall, Google rolled out one of its largest changes of the past decade – an entirely new search algorithm, nicknamed “Hummingbird.” In contrast to the past updates, Panda and Penguin, which modified existing search algorithms and affected roughly 2 to 5 percent of search queries, Hummingbird is believed to have affected nearly 90 percent...Read More
(CNN) — Google is knocking at your front door. It wants to come inside, make itself at home, and quietly turn all of your boring home devices into “smart” connected gadgets that learn about your patterns and preferences, talk to each other, collect data about your habits and make life easier by assisting with daily...Read More
Google today launched a plug-in for self-hosted WordPress blogs in public beta that makes adding AdSense ads to websites easier and makes verifying a site with Webmaster Tools a single-click process. Given that WordPress now powers more than 20 percent of websites, it’s no surprise that Google has decided to take WordPress very seriously. Despite its legacy...Read More
Would you buy SEO from this guy? I don’t like to criticize competitors. I think it makes me look bad. I much prefer the approach, “I’ve heard great things about so and so; they really seem to do a great job. Here’s why our clients hire us…†But there are too many business getting swindled...Read More
The big obsession yesterday was with why Google spent $3.2 billion on startup Nest Labs. But lost in the shuffle of the breathtaking price and lots of questionable speculation about whether this is relevant to Apple Apple was exactly what motivated the company to take the deal. Nest CEO Tony Fadell had the right soundbite:...Read More
Automattic and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg speaking at LeWeb in 2012. (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, having hit 30, is taking over as CEO of the company behind the blogging platform, Automattic. In a blog post Monday, Mullenweg wrote that he and current CEO Toni Schneider are swapping roles at Automattic. Mullenweg wrote...Read More
SEO, like many things in life, can be really good or really bad, depending on who’s doing it. Unfortunately, there are too many people claiming to be SEO professionals who don’t seem to know much beyond the basics, and in many cases are nothing more than middle-men who just outsource the actual fulfillment to places...Read More
Google signs you up for more than you think. Are you up to date on these five settings? Google caused a stir this week when it announced a controversial change that lets those with Gmail and Google+ accounts email anyone who also has both accounts — even if the sender doesn’t know the recipient’s email...Read More
Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress and co-founder of Automattic Automattic, the creator of WordPress, is one of the most unique companies in the world, powering almost 19% of the Internet with only 225 employees, almost none of whom work in the same office, or even the same cities. And according to CEO Matt Mullenweg, it...Read More
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