Yoast SEO 16.6: An internal linking workout for SEO fitness
SEO is just like staying healthy — you have to work at regularly it to keep…
A long term SEO strategy? Knowing what Google wants is the key
Ranking signals, algorithm updates. One day you have the right number of keywords, the next day…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
What can Google’s “product reviews update” teach us about “high-quality content”?
In April 2021, Google changed how they assess content which ‘reviews’ products and services. The “Product…
SEO news in April 2021: More time for your Core Web Vitals
A bit of a scandal involving hospitals and the noindex tag, a postponed deadline for your…
How to create eye-catching social images for your content
The web, and our online habits with it, are never at a standstill. One result of…
Which is the best video hosting platform for SEO?
Can you tell me which video hosting platform is best for SEO? This is the question…
SEO news in March 2021: A rise in Google’s zero-click searches
There was quite a bit of discussion about a study that said that nearly 65% of…
Mobile parity: does your site offer a singular experience?
You might have heard the term parity before in SEO, or more specifically, mobile parity. It…
How does video SEO work?
Video is great for explaining a topic in just a couple of minutes. Or, to give…
25 YouTube stats and facts to power your 2021 marketing strategy
If you’re interested in ramping up your video marketing strategy in 2021, you’re probably doing some…
MAAS 2.9 is now available
Canonical is happy to announce that MAAS 2.9 is now available. We’ll get to the details…
Snaps: How we got here
I’m celebrating nine years at Canonical, and coming up on 15 years since I started contributing…
Design and Web team summary – 08 December 2020
The web team here at Canonical run two week iterations. Here are some of the highlights…
Migrating the Launchpad Keyservers from SKS to Hockeypuck
Ubuntu and Launchpad use OpenPGP keys heavily. Each source package is signed with the uploader’s key,…
Recommended Reads for International Day of Disabled Persons
WordPress.com, as my colleague Anne recently wrote, continues to be a space for people to tell…