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…
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This month, Google held their annual I/O conference, an event at which they announce new product…
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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 a digital story in WordPress
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9 social media lead generations to try in your next campaign
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News SEO: How to optimize your news site
If your website is all about news, there’s a lot you can do to optimize it…
Social Spotlight: How Tim Hortons puts people first in its social strategy
Overview Tim Hortons and Canada have a symbiotic relationship. The restaurant chain has crafted a brand…
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…
6 brilliant Facebook campaigns (& why they worked)
As the widest-reaching social network around, Facebook boasts nearly 2.8 billion monthly active users. But given…
How social drives transformation: Q&A with Twitter’s Zach Hofer-Shall
For years now we’ve heard about the impending digital transformation—the slow-rolling wave of businesses removing non-digital,…
Social Spotlight: Drift wins by keeping things personal
We’ve written a lot of Social Spotlights over the past year. And while our writers typically…
How to build a B2B social strategy (that isn’t boring)
Reality check: B2B social media is here to stay. In fact, recent statistics note that social…
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…
To spring break or not to spring break? That is the question for brands navigating the pandemic
Ten years in Chicago has taught me that, even though the temperature reads 60 degrees outside,…
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I’m celebrating nine years at Canonical, and coming up on 15 years since I started contributing…
The State of Robotics – November 2020
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS upgrade vs extended security maintenance
Weighing the options with an Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus is transitioning from…
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The world of software is a vast and complex one, often too difficult to easily assess…
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…