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Keyword Clustering – What It Is and Why You Need to Do It (+Tools!)

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March 12, 2019

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Keyword clustering is an excellent SEO tool. If your pages fail to gain traction in search engines and don’t bring in the amount of visitors you wanted, grouping keywords is a great way to improve upon this situation. It can also help you improve your site in general. In the following blog post, we will define what it is and how it can benefit your site. After that, we will show you how to apply this technique in order to gain its benefits. Let’s get started right away. What is Keyword Clustering (And Why Should You Care)? As a first […]

Twenty Nineteen Theme Review – The New WordPress 5.0 Default Theme

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February 27, 2019

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As a veteran WordPress user, you are probably aware that every year since 201o WordPress developers have given us a new default theme. In the past, it came with the last major release at the end of the year and was a highlight for many of us. This tradition picked up again with the release of WordPress 5.0, which, among other things, brought us Twenty Nineteen, the new WordPress default theme. Anyway, the theme’s arrival was reason enough for us to load a copy into a testing environment and give it a spin. In the following Twenty Nineteen theme review, […]

State of the Word 2018: Learn Blocks Deeply

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December 8, 2018

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With snow lightly falling in downtown Nashville, Matt Mullenweg took the stage for his annual State of the Word address. The speech wrapped up another successful WordCamp US 2018 full of talks, networking, and fun. Mullenweg began by letting WordPress reintroduce itself. Reminding the community it was built on the constitution and is powered by the community. “It is both free and priceless,” he said. Gutenberg After stating the reasons we are all here, Mullenweg played some user test videos of the current editor. “Suffice it to say, this editor experience is not working for us,” Mullenweg said. The solution […]

Making Mobile Web a Priority

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October 17, 2018

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More and more people are ditching their desktops for phones and tablets. If your site doesn’t display properly on mobile, you run the risk at falling behind your competitors. According to Global Product Partnership, Barb Palsner, the median mobile web experience has grown almost 1,000 percent in the last eight years. That is a staggering number. It’s clear mobile users can’t be ignored. It’s not enough to allow for your site to work on mobile, you have to cater to these users specifically. Just because you have an agile desktop site doesn’t mean it will translate to a phone or […]

A Comprehensive List of GDPR-Related Resources

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May 22, 2018

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There’s been a lot of talk about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) so far this year. In fact, there’s been so much talk that it’s easy to lose track of what’s most important to understand. Given the penalties imposed for non-compliance, this could be catastrophic. While there are a wide array of articles on the subject being produced regularly, you’ll want to keep track of additional sources of information. For example, WordPress’ own reaction to the GDPR should be closely monitored, along with the responses of various developers and businesses connected to the platform. In this post, we’ll round […]

5 Artificial Intelligence Tools for Content Marketing

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May 22, 2018

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Content discovery, writing, editing, SEO, content distribution, and data analysis are some of the operations that you can automate with AI. Find out five great tools to improve and speed-up your content marketing workflow. How can you automate and scale-up your content marketing operations with artificial intelligence? What can you do today? In this article, you’ll find out which tools can help you create more value, speed-up your operations, promote your content. All these things, by just hiring a digital brain on your team. What is Artificial Intelligence? Narratives about AI go from dystopia—robots will take over human work—to the […]

Making your WordPress Database HEART Healthy

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May 22, 2018

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If your WordPress site was analogous to the human body, the core code would be the brain and your plugins and theme would be the rest of the central nervous system that makes the site do what you tell it to do.  However, in the Information Age, where data is currency and the lifeblood of your site and business, the WordPress database would be the heart of your site. The queries you execute on your database would be the arteries and veins that feed that lifeblood to your site and receive data from your audience. This is why it is […]

Why and How to Increase Dwell Time on Your WordPress Website

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March 21, 2018

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Dwell time and how to increase dwell time are often neglected elements of search engine optimization. You, too, probably mostly concentrate on how to get visitors on your site and rarely give a thought about how to keep them there. However, dwell time, the amount of time visitors spend on your site, is an important indicator. Longer dwell time usually indicates a positive user experience. It’s also something search engines take notice of. For that reason, in this post we will dive into the topic of how to increase dwell time on your WordPress site. For that, we will first […]

WordCamp Europe 2018 Announces Speakers

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March 12, 2018

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Editor’s Note: This post will be updated with each new group announcement.  WordCamp Europe, the biggest WordCamp in the world, is just around the corner in Belgrade, Serbia. Users gather from all over to celebrate the CMS. Organizers have started announcing speakers in groups based on the topic they’re talking about. Group One: Open Source and the Web The first group was announced last week and revolves around Open Source and the Web. Paolo Belcastro is going to be talking about “The World of WordPress” David Needham will tackle, “An Intro to Drupal for WordPress Users” Hajj Flemings will talk […]

WordPress Now Powers 30 Percent Of The Web

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March 5, 2018

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What began as a blogging platform nearly 15 years ago is one step closer to taking control of the entire web. WordPress officially powers 30 percent of the web according to W3Techs. It is also the fastest growing CMS by far, with Squarespace and Wix barely coming close. These numbers are a huge victory for WordPress and the entire community. The CMS has outgrown its blogging roots and is now the most powerful CMS on the market. Not only does it power personal blogs, but it helps create digital experiences for enterprise companies. Let’s go over how we got here and […]

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