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A Glimpse Inside the Dark World of SEO

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Brandon Yanofsky

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Community, Featured

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May 19, 2015

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If you read Internet marketing blogs or follow SEO news, you’ll notice story after story about how crazy the SEO world is getting. One week, Google says your site needs an SSL certificate to rank higher. Not long after, it says that your ranking will drop if you’re not mobile friendly. But beneath all of this, there is a strange story, one that almost seems like it’s from the pages of a George Orwell novel, involving a large monolithic organization, a group of rebel SEOs trying to outsmart the organization, and a group of citizens none the wiser to what’s going on. It’s the […]

How to Easily Add Custom Fonts to Your WordPress Website

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Nick Schäferhoff

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Featured

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May 18, 2015

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Like colors, images, and other structural elements, typography is an important part of web design. It communicates brand and personality, spices up content and can overall greatly improve the aesthetics of a WordPress website (except Comic Sans, which I strongly recommend not using). Thankfully, in recent years free fonts and typekits have become more readily available. Designers and website owners alike can now draw on a great number of resources to include beautiful typeface on their online presence. In this article we will look at two ways to get custom fonts on your WordPress website, via the two services Google […]

This Week In WordPress: 05/18/2015

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Doc Pop

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News

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May 18, 2015

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Have a news tip or upcoming WordPress event you’d like to share? Write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: In Defense of WordPress: With all the recent coverage of XSS vulnerabilities, Mattias Geniar asks the question why WordPress doesn’t get more credit for how it handled those updates. Proposed Password Changes for 4.3: Mark Jaquith confirmed that WordPress 4.3 will see an overhaul in the way passwords are generated. WordPress Essential Training on Lynda.com: In celebration of 100,000 views, Lynda.com has made their WordPress essential training tutorials free until June 18th. Easter Eggs in May: Go to webdevstudios.com and type the letters W, D, and S, […]

How Online Retail Startups Should Allocate Their Financial Resources

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Venchito Tampon

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Featured

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May 15, 2015

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Online retail startups are popular among budding entrepreneurs. You can run it from the comfort of home, by yourself, or with a partner. It can also prove to be a great way for you to bring out your creativity. However, as with any other business, you’ll need finances, and this is especially true when it comes to its allocation. So, how should online retail startups best allocate their financial resources? Here are five things you can start with: Design a Dynamic Website This is, in essence, your storefront. You’ll want to have a site that catches the attention of the web users out there, but in […]

CMS Comparison: WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla

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Gary Dek

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Community

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May 14, 2015

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If you’re thinking about starting a website, then you’ve likely wondered which content management system will best fit your needs. Fortunately, the top three open-source platforms–WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal—are all maintained and supported by thousands of great developers, and are continuously being improved upon to leverage new technologies, SEO, and social media concepts, and add-on features. You really can’t go wrong with any of the platforms in terms of pure performance. CMS Comparison Guide Instead of inundating you with technical jargon and minutia, I’ve developed a wonderful graphic to demonstrate the pros and cons of the different CMS platforms. The following […]

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