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6 Ways WordPress.com Courses Help You Grow

Web Monkey3 years ago01 mins

WordPress.com experts invite you to join our community-driven courses to get your blog or podcast started, launched, or taken to the next level. Join today for on-demand content, access to a course community of peers, weekly office hours with our dedicated experts, and virtual meet-ups to connect with other learners like you.…

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Do the SEO workout to rank higher with your best content

Web Monkey3 years ago3 years ago014 mins

Are you ranking with the content you want to rank with? With your very best content? The content you’re the proudest of? When you’re doing SEO, you want your best posts and pages to be the ones that get the most attention.…

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Get your website back into shape with SEO fitness

Web Monkey3 years ago015 mins

Back to Yoast.com Whether your website is brand new or has been around for a while, it’s important to keep it healthy in every way you can.…

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WordPress.com Welcomes the Award-Winning Atavist Magazine to the Platform

Web Monkey3 years ago04 mins

At WordPress.com, part of our mission is to support and empower storytellers and publishers of all sizes. We’re thrilled to announce that the award-winning Atavist Magazine has moved to WordPress.com,…

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10 examples of social media posts to get inspired

Web Monkey3 years ago3 years ago025 mins

You’ve probably heard it a dozen times before, but social media needs to be part of your online strategy. Whether you have a website, personal blog or webshop, social media allows you to reach and connect with your audience.…

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Let’s Celebrate Pride by Supporting Nonprofits

Web Monkey3 years ago08 mins

It’s Pride month; perhaps you’ve noticed from the rainbows all over everything? A most unusual Pride month it is, too — the familiar sights of parades were missing last year, and those happening this year are somewhat cautious by comparison to years past.…

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The Best of Both Worlds: WordPress.com Managed Hosting

Web Monkey3 years ago010 mins

How to get the total freedom to create without the hassles that come with managing your own website. The open source WordPress project has given the world a powerful publishing platform that now powers 41% of the web.…

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SEO news in April 2021: More time for your Core Web Vitals

Web Monkey3 years ago024 mins

A bit of a scandal involving hospitals and the noindex tag, a postponed deadline for your Core Web Vitals and a whole new editing experience in WordPress.…

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How to come up with social media content using feedback from your silent fans

Web Monkey3 years ago012 mins

Likes, shares and follows tell us a lot about what kind of content lands with our audience. However, these engagements paint an incomplete picture. Just consider the “90-9-1 Rule”.…

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News SEO: How to optimize your news site

Web Monkey3 years ago020 mins

If your website is all about news, there’s a lot you can do to optimize it for search engines (and your users in the process). In this post, we’ll address some things you need to keep in mind, specifically when optimizing your news website.…

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How to use competitive benchmarking to grow your social presence

Web Monkey3 years ago021 mins

Pop quiz: how does your social presence stack up against your closest competitors? Seems like a pretty straightforward question. However, measuring success on social media is tricky.…

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WordPress.com Design Update for a More Intuitive Experience

Web Monkey3 years ago03 mins

We’re excited to tell you more about WordPress.com’s new navigation experience. The update makes managing your entire site more intuitive and creates consistency across all parts of WordPress.com.…

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Social Spotlight: Drift wins by keeping things personal

Web Monkey3 years ago015 mins

We’ve written a lot of Social Spotlights over the past year. And while our writers typically rely on outside observations and research to inform our content, we thought it only fitting to make this spotlight a bit more…personal.…

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Hear me out… Social media gimmicks won’t save your social strategy

Web Monkey3 years ago08 mins

In recent years, it feels as if organic social reach is on the decline. While there’s some debate as to what’s directly causing this phenomenon (Algorithms!…

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Turn Your WordPress.com Blog into a Podcast with Anchor

Web Monkey3 years ago07 mins

Blogging on WordPress.com is all about sharing your unique voice, and starting today, you can extend that to another platform: Anchor. We previously shared some tips and tricks for getting started with a podcast on WordPress.com…

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Field Notes: Grow Leadership Academy 2016

Web Monkey8 years ago05 mins

Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day. Periodically, they report back on the exciting things they do in the community.…

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The 2015 WordPress.com Year In Review!

Web Monkey8 years ago020 mins

Here’s an incredible fact: together, you published more than 660 million posts on WordPress.com in 2015, and made more than 655 million comments. That’s a whole lot of joy, laughter, tears, insight, and thoughtfulness.…

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Five Ways to Boost your Site with Social Media

Web Monkey8 years ago07 mins

Looking for more traffic? Social media is your best friend. Every Facebook like and retweet helps you grow your audience and attract more customers. To ace your online strategy, optimize your website for social media.…

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Early Theme Adopters: Resonar

Web Monkey9 years ago05 mins

Resonar, designed by Automattic’s own Takashi Irie, made its debut in March. Created for food and design bloggers to showcase photography and longform posts, we’ve loved watching how you’ve turned Resonar on its head.…

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Field Notes: BlogHer PRO 2014

Web Monkey9 years ago05 mins

Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day. Periodically, they report back on the exciting things they do when not in front of a computer — from talking about making great products to using design to tackle social challenges.…