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WordPress is an extremely versatile platform. Thanks to the thousands of plugins for ecommerce on WordPress,…
How To Effectively Organize Your Ecommerce Site Design
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We are big fans of Google Search Console — and you should be too! It’s an…
Yoast SEO 16.5: New Social Appearance Templates
Social media are essential tools in every site owner’s marketing toolkit. It is, however, hard to…
The beginner’s guide to Yoast SEO
Let’s say you have a website but know little about SEO. But you’ve heard about Yoast…
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If your perfectly optimized post isn’t ranking, what could be the matter? Is the problem that…
On-page video SEO: how to optimize your video pages
When publishing a new video on your website, there are several considerations you need to take…
The Best of Both Worlds: WordPress.com Managed Hosting
How to get the total freedom to create without the hassles that come with managing your…
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Going to the gym regularly might get you fit, but dropping that routine will get out…
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A bit of a scandal involving hospitals and the noindex tag, a postponed deadline for your…
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‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen’. The first…
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Pop quiz: how does your social presence stack up against your closest competitors? Seems like a…
The WordPress.com Year in Review (and Resolutions for 2018)
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Update Your Avatar on WordPress.com
We’ve given one of our favorite features a boost! You can now manage your profile photo,…
A Faster Mobile Web: WordPress.com Updates for Accelerated Mobile Pages
Earlier this year we were proud to announce that WordPress.com users’s sites would automatically support Accelerated…
Coming Soon: New .Blog Domains for Websites
For more than a decade, the word “blog” has been synonymous with “your home on the…
Field Notes: CMS Africa Summit 2016
Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day….
The 2015 WordPress.com Year In Review!
Here’s an incredible fact: together, you published more than 660 million posts on WordPress.com in 2015, and…
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The last few weeks of the year are the perfect time to look back and reflect…
What Inspires Us to Blog?
Every day, people from all around the world start a site on WordPress.com to share everything…
The Business of Freelancing, Blogging, and Books, According to Author Jennifer Armstrong
First, I should note: I am not related to Jennifer Armstrong. But! I have followed her…