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We are big fans of Google Search Console — and you should be too! It’s an essential tool to keep your site working properly and find opportunities to get better results from the SERPs.…

Yoast SEO 16.5: New Social Appearance Templates

Web Monkey2 years ago2 years ago09 mins

Social media are essential tools in every site owner’s marketing toolkit. It is, however, hard to control how your URLs are being shared on Facebook and Twitter.…

The beginner’s guide to Yoast SEO

Web Monkey2 years ago025 mins

Let’s say you have a website but know little about SEO. But you’ve heard about Yoast SEO and people have told you it’s a great tool to optimize your site for Google, Bing, and Yandex.…

10 reasons your page won’t rank – even though it’s optimized

Web Monkey3 years ago027 mins

If your perfectly optimized post isn’t ranking, what could be the matter? Is the problem that your site is not on Google at all, or is something else going wrong?…

On-page video SEO: how to optimize your video pages

Web Monkey3 years ago017 mins

When publishing a new video on your website, there are several considerations you need to take into account for video SEO. Not only does the video itself need to be optimized, but so does the page it’s embedded on.…

The Best of Both Worlds: WordPress.com Managed Hosting

Web Monkey3 years ago010 mins

How to get the total freedom to create without the hassles that come with managing your own website. The open source WordPress project has given the world a powerful publishing platform that now powers 41% of the web.…

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Technical SEO fitness: take our quiz to assess your fitness

Web Monkey3 years ago012 mins

Going to the gym regularly might get you fit, but dropping that routine will get out out of shape in no time. The same goes for your website — without a good fitness routine and proper maintenance, it might become a mess.…

SEO news in April 2021: More time for your Core Web Vitals

Web Monkey3 years ago024 mins

A bit of a scandal involving hospitals and the noindex tag, a postponed deadline for your Core Web Vitals and a whole new editing experience in WordPress.…

How to create a digital story in WordPress

Web Monkey3 years ago028 mins

‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen’. The first line of George Orwells’s book titled 1984. Kind of pulls you in right?…

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How to use competitive benchmarking to grow your social presence

Web Monkey3 years ago021 mins

Pop quiz: how does your social presence stack up against your closest competitors? Seems like a pretty straightforward question. However, measuring success on social media is tricky.…

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The WordPress.com Year in Review (and Resolutions for 2018)

Web Monkey6 years ago010 mins

Some years go by slowly — not because they’re busier, but maybe there’s just more out there in the world to stop and notice. We hope the WordPress.com…

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Update Your Avatar on WordPress.com

Web Monkey6 years ago03 mins

We’ve given one of our favorite features a boost! You can now manage your profile photo, or avatar, right on WordPress.com. This avatar, powered by a service called Gravatar, is the image that represents you online — a thumbnail that appears next to your name when you interact on blogs and websites.…

A Faster Mobile Web: WordPress.com Updates for Accelerated Mobile Pages

Web Monkey7 years ago02 mins

Earlier this year we were proud to announce that WordPress.com users’s sites would automatically support Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) — a new open-source project spearheaded by Google to dramatically improve the performance of web pages on mobile devices.…

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Coming Soon: New .Blog Domains for Websites

Web Monkey8 years ago04 mins

For more than a decade, the word “blog” has been synonymous with “your home on the web.” And since 2005, WordPress.com has been proud to help you create a unique space that is all yours.…

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Field Notes: CMS Africa Summit 2016

Web Monkey8 years ago04 mins

Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day. Periodically, they report back on the exciting things they do when not in front of a computer.…

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The 2015 WordPress.com Year In Review!

Web Monkey8 years ago020 mins

Here’s an incredible fact: together, you published more than 660 million posts on WordPress.com in 2015, and made more than 655 million comments. That’s a whole lot of joy, laughter, tears, insight, and thoughtfulness.…

What Was Your Favorite Post You Wrote in 2015?

Web Monkey8 years ago014 mins

The last few weeks of the year are the perfect time to look back and reflect on our most memorable work, so we asked a few bloggers to tell us about one blog post they put together in 2015 that they especially liked.…

What Inspires Us to Blog?

Web Monkey8 years ago019 mins

Every day, people from all around the world start a site on WordPress.com to share everything from photos from their latest adventures to deeply personal stories from their lives.…

The Business of Freelancing, Blogging, and Books, According to Author Jennifer Armstrong

Web Monkey9 years ago020 mins

First, I should note: I am not related to Jennifer Armstrong. But! I have followed her writing closely over the years — first during her years at Entertainment Weekly, and more recently as the author of books like Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted (Simon & Schuster), which offered a definitive history of the classic TV series.…

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Did Google Search Console send an email with an error message?

The beginner’s guide to Yoast SEO

On-page video SEO: how to optimize your video pages

The Best of Both Worlds: WordPress.com Managed Hosting

Technical SEO fitness: take our quiz to assess your fitness

Update Your Avatar on WordPress.com

A Faster Mobile Web: WordPress.com Updates for Accelerated Mobile Pages

Coming Soon: New .Blog Domains for Websites

Field Notes: CMS Africa Summit 2016

The 2015 WordPress.com Year In Review!