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Doc Pop’s News Drop: Google Dives Into WordPress, 4.9.4 Update, and Plugin Madness!

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February 7, 2018

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Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. On this week’s News Drop, Doc talks about Google’s move into open source CMSs, the WordPress 4.9.4 (and 4.9.3) update and… something else.. I can’t remember… PLUGIN MADNESS!!! Love WordPress News, but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. March is a month away, which means it’s almost time for Plugin Madness. Plugin Madness is our bracket style competition where we pit 64 WordPress plugins […]

Torque Toons: Google, Doc?

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Doc Pop

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Torque Toons

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May 3, 2017

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There’s a new email phishing scam working it’s way around the web today. If you’ve recently received a Google Doc invite that you weren’t expecting, you might want to check your Google permissions. Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!

Google’s Search Quality Rating Guidelines – What They Mean For Your WordPress Website

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January 4, 2016

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Don’t we all want to be on the first place in Google? Getting masses of organic free traffic every month is a dream that is probably as old as the search engine itself. Hell, the entire field of SEO is basically based on this goal. If only we could get a glimpse at the inner workings of Google and how they put together their search rankings. Now you can, with the release of Google’s Search Quality Rating Guidelines. To understand what they are, you first need to know that Google has hired hundreds of people as content quality raters. Their entire job is to […]

A quick look at Google’s locale-aware crawling changes

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February 3, 2015

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The Internet has made it possible to run a website for a truly global audience. This raises the interesting question, though: how do I best serve readers in different countries? For many webmasters, this isn’t a problem at all. For example, here at Torque our content is identical whether you’re based in the US, UK, France, or anywhere else in the world. As long as you can read English, our content will serve you well. Sometimes, however, a one-size-fits-all approach isn’t the best option. Consider an eCommerce store, for example. If the eCommerce store sells internationally, it may need to adjust its […]

Google Officially Releases Mobile Friendly Labels

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November 19, 2014

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Yesterday Google officially announced the latest addition to its search engine results pages: mobile friendly labels. With the number of mobile users constantly on the rise, it is little surprise the latest changes were implemented with mobile users in mind. Creating a mobile-friendly experience is hardly groundbreaking — webmasters have long been embracing responsive designs to cater to mobile users, and Google already penalizes websites that aren’t optimized for mobile devices. However, the latest announcement signals a serious commitment to mobile users, and this could have repercussions for the millions of WordPress users around the globe. What are the changes? […]

Why Your Business Needs to Be on Google+

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June 4, 2014

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When you think of Google+, you don’t exactly think “popular social network,” especially when comparing it to powerhouses Facebook and Twitter. However, from an SEO (search engine optimization) standpoint, Google is undoubtedly king. In other words, if you’re looking to market your brand, your business must be visible on Google+. Here are the reasons why: Google is the most popular search engine in the world You might be asking, “So what does this have to do with Google+?” The answer is: everything. Any content that is associated with Google+ (Google+ posts, pages, and people profiles) is favored in Google search […]

Matt Cutts on Guest Blogging and SEO

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February 13, 2014

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When it comes to Google and Search Engine Optimization, Matt Cutts is no stranger. Having worked at Google for fourteen years, Cutts knows all that there is to know about search engines. Apart from that, he also happens to be the subject of a good number of internet memes. So when Matt Cutts recently wrote an article titled The Decay and Fall of Guest Blogging for SEO, the internet went wild. What could this mean? Matt Cutts on Guest Blogging and SEO The Action To cut the long story short, this is what Cutts had to say: “Okay, I’m calling it: […]

Less is More: 3 WordPress Plugins for SEO

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November 21, 2013

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WordPress plugins are a fast and simple way to customize your site’s performance or modify its look. It is common (and tempting) for new webmasters to load up their site with dozens of plugins, but this practice may actually be doing more harm than good. I’m of the belief that less is more. My team at DigitalTraffic.com has been doing eCommerce SEO for over a decade. When we optimize a client’s website, there are really only 3 plugins that we always use. This is not to say that certain desired functionalities won’t require other plugins, but for the vast majority of our […]

The Myth of the Dedicated IP Address for SEO

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August 12, 2013

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Scott Offord, Director of Internet Marketing at Orion Group, cuts through the confusion once and for all. The Myth There has been a lot of misunderstanding around the topic of dedicated IP addresses for SEO. Misperception about whether a dedicated IP address will provide a boost to your SEO or not still lingers from the false notion that Google penalized virtual hosted sites. It was a misunderstanding that should have been cleared up back in 2003, but it still clouds public perception, even though it shouldn’t. I want to cut through the confusion: A dedicated IP will not boost your […]

WP on Google's App Engine? Engine Lights are Green.

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May 16, 2013

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The title is my lame Thursday afternoon attempt at some humor but as I read it over and over again in my head it makes less and less sense, so I’ll go ahead and hit the publish button before I go insane. Via Bronson Quick, it appears that Google App Engine has launched their PHP runtime during I/O so that you can run WordPress directly on App Engine itself. They’ve even got a tutorial already live so that you can learn how to deploy a simple WordPress installation to the Cloud Platform. Make note, the tutorial assumes you know what you’re doing […]

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