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Pay-per-click (PPC) marketing has been around almost since the dawn of the internet age. Its basic premise is that companies or individuals purchase advertisements from search engines. These ads are prominently placed in the list of results when someone searches for certain keywords. The company or individual pays the search engine every time a visitor…
Today we want to dive into how to better use and understand the data from the popular website speed test tool Pingdom. You can use it to do what we call a waterfall analysis of your WordPress website. This helps you more easily diagnose performance issues, and also not misdiagnose a problem. We see a lot…
WordPress database tables all begin with the wp_ prefix by default. Security gurus often recommend changing the prefix to secure your site, but is it really worth doing? Or is it just all sizzle and no steak? The idea is that changing the database prefix helps avoid nasty SQL injections since hackers usually use queries…
Imagine this scenario: You’re working on a WordPress development project and have a dozen or more plugins installed. However, your site isn’t humming along quite the way you’d like it to. You’ve eliminated all of the usual suspects: hosting is adequate, there are no obvious JavaScript or PHP errors, and there is nothing else clearly…
You can find him on LinkedIn as well. This is our recent interview with him, as part of our Kinsta Kingpin series. Q1: What inspired you to create Kinetise? Well, we saw a need to automate what we have been doing, meaning developing mobile apps. There were so many potential clients who came and bounced back…
The Data Team at Automattic is pleased to announce a new blog for everyone who loves data! Data for Breakfast will feature posts about our data stack, trends in WordPress.com usage, and whatever currently tickles our data fancy. We’re data scientists and engineers with a passion for our craft, and we’re starting this blog…
There are many types of knowledge base articles: informational, troubleshooting, how-tos, documentation, FAQs amongst others. From these, the how-to posts get discussed a lot. I think I know why: Most companies invest in live workflow tools and on-site help widgets to help their users get onboard. These resources take care of the initial technical setup…
HTTP status codes are like a short note from the web server that gets tacked onto the top of a web page. It’s not actually part of the web page. Instead, it’s a message from the server letting you know how things went when the request to view the page was received by the server. These…
Confession: I’ve had TERRIBLE portfolios. I’m not being falsely modest. When I think back to some of my old portfolios—I realize that there were some real stinkers there. Think obnoxiously bright yellow background with totally unreadable type. Case studies with paragraph after paragraph that really didn’t SAY anything. A vanilla bio that I didn’t spend…
In recent pieces here on the blog, we’ve gone deep on various considerations to bear in mind when creating a knowledge base – and we’ve also highlighted some excellent real world examples to learn from. This time around, we want to hone in on an aspect of running your own knowledge base in the context of one…
One of the buzz words around Netapp Ontap 9 is the new feature of data compaction. Working along side other storage efficiency mechanisms such as dedupe and compression, data compaction is able to further reduce your data foot print. How does Netapp Data Compaction Work Data Compaction is an inline process which takes I/O’s that would…
Kinsta is excited to welcome Brian Jackson to the team as our new inbound marketing director. He will be helping us with our online growth strategies, lead generation, content creation, technical SEO, and outreach within the WordPress community. Brian comes to us from KeyCDN where he spent the last year helping to create strategic content, generate leads,…
What is the ROI of your support content? To answer, try filling out this sentence: “My support content saves me ___ tickets each week. Thus saving me ___ hours every 7 days, which is like freeing up ____ days a month.” Now, if you realize while answering that you aren’t saving much time with your…
Hello this is Kurt Francom from Fiddler Online and this is one of hundreds of videos where I answer the most commonly asked questions related to small business web design. Today’s question is “What do I do if I want to start a blog or newsletter?” That’s a great question because content is king and…
Your Instagram account is a great way to share your life, products, and services online. With all that great content, why not showcase your Instagram account on your website or blog? Learn three ways WordPress.com makes it easy and discover other sites that are doing it well. Activate the Instagram Widget The Instagram Widget allows…
Today we’re launching a feature that will show instant notifications for new comments and likes — even when you are not actively using WordPress.com. Browser notifications give you a real-time sense of your readers’ reactions, allowing you to stay more engaged with your audience. Notifications will show up in Chrome or Firefox in the same…
Is Tech Right for You? Take Our 3-Minute Quiz to Find Out! How’s your Instagram aesthetic? If you’re like me, or the thousands of other users who have realized the social media site’s potential for displaying your artistic endeavors and eye for design, your profile is probably a carefully-cultivated piece of art all on its…
Ontap 9 is still relatively new, only being released a few weeks ago and with all the hype around the new features and performance gains between previous versions, I really wanted to see this for myself. Netapp Ontap 9 Performance Lab Testing I have taken to the lab with 3 different versions of the operating…
Using multimedia content in your blog posts can result in more shares, more backlinks, more conversions, and more of anything else that you’re looking to achieve. The readers will see the effort and they will reward you by sharing or liking your posts. Not to forget that users are getting quite picky. People’s attention spans shrink…
Millions of websites are powered with WordPress, from personal blogs right up to huge corporate websites. It’s the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world. I got my start with WordPress about a decade ago. I started out blogging with a free blog on WordPress.com, and shortly after I moved on to the self-hosted…