WordPress.com Welcomes the Award-Winning Atavist Magazine to the Platform
At WordPress.com, part of our mission is to support and empower storytellers and publishers of all…
10 examples of social media posts to get inspired
You’ve probably heard it a dozen times before, but social media needs to be part of…
Let’s Celebrate Pride by Supporting Nonprofits
It’s Pride month; perhaps you’ve noticed from the rainbows all over everything? A most unusual Pride…
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…
Day One, the Journaling App, Joins Automattic
We’re excited to welcome Day One to the Automattic team. Day One is a private journaling…
How to timestamp YouTube videos and create Key Moments
Key Moments arrived to Google search in late 2019. They are a feature that enables expansive,…
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…
WordPress.com is the fastest WordPress host in Review Signal’s 2021 test
For the past eight years, Review Signal has published its WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks, and 2021’s…
How to check the performance of your rich results in Google Search Console
Adding structured data to your site is a great way of describing your content to Google…
10 reasons your page won’t rank – even though it’s optimized
If your perfectly optimized post isn’t ranking, what could be the matter? Is the problem that…
SEO news in May 2021: Google introduces a new language model
This month, Google held their annual I/O conference, an event at which they announce new product…
What is E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness)?
Have you ever looked at a piece of content online and thinking: Hmm, I’m not sure…
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…
Google’s MUM understands what you need: 1000x more powerful than BERT
Natural language understanding has been a tough nut to crack, but thanks to Google’s continued investment…
Contact page mistakes: Five annoying errors to avoid
If you have a website for a business, it’s essential to maintain a good contact page…
Rich results are rocking the SERPs
Rich search results are everywhere. Years ago, search engines presented search results without much adornment. Today,…
Yoast SEO 16.3: Schema structured data improvements
Making sure search engines can understand your site is one of the top priorities in SEO….
One-click Portfolio Designs, Instant PDF Embeds, and More Improvements to the Block Editor
We have some exciting new block editor updates to share with you today including fresh collection…
4 creative writing exercises to improve your writing
Creating content is essential for SEO. However, if you’re a blogger or content creator of some…
5 years of writing readable content with Yoast SEO
Writing seems simple enough, but writing a compelling text that keeps the attention is quite hard….