When I need stock photos, I get them for free on Unsplash. Yet, for some reason, many other publishers continue to push out cheap (and usually cheesy) stock photography to serve as a representation of their brand. The truth is high-quality stock photos don’t have to come hand-in-hand with a hassle or high price tag. … Read more
As Google starts restricting third-party cookies in Chrome, it’s offering a limited deprecation trial for sites proving functionality issues. Google is phasing out third-party cookie access in Chrome by 2024. Some third-party services can get temporary cookie access through a deprecation trial. Businesses should audit their site’s cookie usage before more users are impacted. Source … Read more
In video marketing, choosing the right soundtrack can be the difference between a video that grips your audience from start to finish and one that they can barely get halfway through. Not just any music will do, and knowing where to find the best royalty-free music sites is helpful. Play a fitting soundtrack or jingle … Read more
Accelerated Mobile Pages WordPress plugin, with over 100,000 installations, patched a medium severity vulnerability that could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts to be executed by website visitors. Cross-Site Scripting Via Shortcode A cross-site scripting (XSS) is one of the most frequent kind of vulnerability. In the context of WordPress plugins, XSS vulnerabilities happen … Read more
Many publishers and developers have been reporting that updating to WordPress 6.4 triggered a fatal error, bringing their websites down. A search for solutions began and within hours developers discovered a bug in the page builder they all used. Sites Crashing After Updating To 6.4 One of the first reports happened not long after WordPress … Read more
Social media is integral to our daily lives. With 4.8 billion social media users worldwide – accounting for 59.9% of the global population – social platforms have become necessary hubs for gathering information, connecting with our friends and loved ones, and growing our businesses. And social media users have grown to trust and rely on … Read more
Kinsta announced free hosting for up to 100 static websites, including static WordPress sites, and 100 GB bandwidth per month Free hosting offered by Kinsta for static websites, including static WordPress sites 100 GB bandwidth per month per company 1 GB build image size per site Free tier will remain free “forever” according to Kinsta … Read more
Google’s John Mueller offered advice about the use of Google Sites for SEO, downplaying the usefulness of Google Sites for SEO. Google Sites Google Sites is a website creation service offered at sites.google.com/new with a signed-in Google account. The site is hosted website builder that’s free and published under a sites.google.com domain although one can … Read more
Google Search Advocate John Mueller recently corrected a common misunderstanding about linking to popular sites like Wikipedia while conversing online with the SEO community. Mueller was participating in a discussion on the r/SEO subreddit, where SEO experts exchange ideas and insights about the latest developments in their industry. He clarified that linking to sites like … Read more
The Internet is an ever-evolving virtual universe with over 1.1 billion websites. Do you think that Google can crawl every website in the world? Even with all the resources, money, and data centers that Google has, it cannot even crawl the entire web – nor does it want to. What Is Crawl Budget, And Is … Read more
Creating business listings on directory websites is an easy way to improve your local SEO. All you have to do is list your business in online local directories such as Yellow Pages, Manta, and more. This is called building citations, and it’s a critical piece of a local marketing strategy. By building citations, you can … Read more
Google’s John Mueller participated in an interesting conversation on Mastodon about linking between sites that are different languages and whether or not that may impact rankings. The person asking the question was afraid that receiving links from a non-English language site to their English language site might negatively affect that sites ability to rank. There … Read more
In a new video tutorial, Google Search Advocates Daniel Waisberg and Cherry Prommawin explain how to leverage Google Search Console’s reports for managing and optimizing news websites. The video provides comprehensive information about using Search Console data to achieve greater success on Google’s platforms. Performance Report: The Key To Analyzing Search Presence Waisberg begins by … Read more
Google has revealed new information about a ranking system called ‘Topic Authority.’ This system aims to deliver more relevant, expert, and knowledgeable content in Google Search and News for queries on specialized topics. Why Topic Authority? The inception of Topic Authority is an attempt to address a common challenge Google users face when seeking authoritative … Read more
A recent WordPress security update featuring multiple security fixes is also causing some sites to stop functioning, causing one developer to exclaim, “This is chaos!!” The update removed a key functionality that caused numerous plugins to stop working on site that use the WordPress blocks system. Affected plugins ranged from forms to sliders to breadcrumbs. … Read more
Google’s John Mueller commented in a Twitter discussion about the supposed ranking power of links from news sites and offered a different way of thinking about how Google treats those links. Links from Viral PR Campaigns The discussion on Twitter started with a tweet by Patrick Stox, commenting on an article he wrote for AHREFS … Read more
The latest episode of Google’s Search Off The Record podcast discusses the challenges of launching websites and preventing staging sites from being indexed by search engines. Staging sites used for testing and development should ideally not be indexed, and Google highlights password protection as one method of preventing accidental indexing. Hosts John Mueller, Gary Illyes, … Read more
Google’s Lizzi Sassman answered a question in a Google SEO Office hours session about whether it’s okay to combine different structured data types. The answer illuminated an important point about how Google interprets structured data and whether it’s better to combine structured data or two separate them out. Combining multiple structured data is called nesting. … Read more
