If you’ve followed Buffer for a while, then you know we have a few uncommon approaches to teammate benefits and compensation. The example I’ll dig into today is our “Dependent Grant,” which we launched in 2016. Our Dependent Grant is separate benefit, outside of salary, that we grant teammates who are taking care of and … Read more
Whenever I ask any marketer or copywriting expert about their writing process, I find there’s no specific process they follow and few copywriting templates to guide them. While this is partly due to natural variation in everyone’s creative process, copywriting best practices vary based on your audience, purpose, and format — not to mention year, … Read more
We know that Google changes constantly, but what about the internet itself? Dr. Pete’s analysis shows that from the end of 2019 to the end of 2024, content churn has more than doubled. What does this mean in the context of content marketing? Source link
An awkward Q&A at WordCamp Asia 2025 saw Matt Mullenweg struggle to answer where WordPress will be in five years. Apparently caught off guard, he turned to the Lead Architect of Gutenberg for ideas, but he couldn’t answer either. Project Gutenberg Gutenberg is a reimagining of how WordPress users can build websites without knowing any … Read more
Do you hear what I hear? That’s the whooshing sound of hundreds of thousands of holiday emails dashing through the snow on the way to subscribers’ inboxes. (Or if you’re dreading the season, you may catch the ominous clinking chains of the Ghost of Holiday Emails Past.) November and December are two of the busiest … Read more
Google and Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai sat down for a discussion on AI that inevitably focused on the future of search. He explained his of search and the role of websites, insisting that the only thing different is the technology. These Are The Early Days The interviewer asked if Sundar was caught by surprise by … Read more
Explore a decade of Google’s ever-evolving algorithm, revealing over 30,000 changes and a surge in updates, as we delve into the intricate dance between human-driven decisions and machine learning’s influence on search rankings. Source link
I have been running Search London, a networking event, for 13 years, and it has been so successful that it has become a major feature in the SEO conference calendar. I originally launched the event in October 2010, but I will be celebrating its 13th birthday on February 26th, 2024, in central London. I wanted … Read more
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) was announced in October 2020 as the next measurement solution to replace Universal Analytics(UA). GA4 was designed to improve privacy standards in collecting measurements and incorporates more AI and machine-learning than UA. Google announced that GA4 would replace Universal Analytics in July 2023 and historical data would not transfer from UA … Read more
What’s the one metric your email team obsesses over? Opens. You can’t get a conversion without an open. Here we are, writing the punniest subject lines, using every emoji, experimenting with send times and from names and days of the week, just to get that open. What if… instead of fighting for a single open, … Read more
It seems like every commercial is trying to be funny these days, and it makes sense because humor is a way to sell your brand without outwardly selling something. By appealing to a consumers’ funny bone, you’re able to engage with them and help them remember your brand. Incorporating humor can work for almost any … Read more
Update Florida, which happened twenty years ago this month, completely shook up the search results and changed what it meant to do SEO. The lessons learned in 2004 hold a key to understanding and surviving Google updates today. Before the update known as Florida, Google had monthly index refreshes that for a few days made … Read more
According to an announcement by Google, optimizations related to Core Web Vitals (CWV) have saved Chrome users more than 10,000 years in page load time in 2023. CWV are a set of metrics developed by Google to quantify the user experience on web pages. The three key metrics are Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), which measures … Read more
Established two years ago with the primary objective of streamlining how websites signal their content changes to search engines, IndexNow has been on an impressive trajectory. As of now, 60 million websites join the platform daily, and an astounding 1.4 billion URLs are submitted each day. Addressing the Disconnect Between Search Engine Results And Real-Time … Read more
Is SEO dead? ↪ No, it’s not. (I’ll explain below) Will SEO exist in 10 years? ↪ Yes, it will. (In some form or fashion) What’s the future of SEO? ↪ A marriage between AI, SEO, & Humans. Do I have your attention? My name is Connor Gillivan. I’m an SEO and Entrepreneur. I’ve built … Read more
🖤 At Buffer, we’ve long aimed to default to transparency, a practice we believe helps eliminate inequality and gives everyone a greater chance of succeeding. Financial transparency is especially close to our hearts, which is why we’re proud to share Open Books, a series of small business owners giving us a peek inside their books … Read more
If you look up Matt Ragland’s name in the Buffer blog search bar, you’ll come across this article from over a decade ago – when Matt still referred to himself as an “aspiring blogger.” The term doesn’t apply now, as Matt has grown in leaps and bounds. Matt’s come a long way since that article, … Read more
On July 24, Elon Musk made the surprise announcement that Twitter would be rebranding as ‘X’, with a new logo and brand identity arriving quickly after that announcement. Shortly after, X.com started redirecting (302) to Twitter.com. Any experienced SEO knows how perilous a major site migration can be, and Twitter.com has been accumulating authority for … Read more
