Currently there are over 74.6 million websites built on the Wordpress platform with over 37 million Wordpress related web searches happening each month. Clearly the popularity of the Wordpress platform …
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Yahoo launched LocalWorks back in 2013, a product that it says will help small businesses recapture sales they may be losing due to incorrect or outdated online listings. Through a partnership with Yext, Yahoo LocalWorks is designed to help companies easily update their online listings across more than 50 online platforms designed to reach 150 million local searchers, […]
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Google Removes Carousel From Local Listings
Back in June last year I had first mentioned the introduction of the carousel display for Google local listings which was loved by many business owners allowing alot more businesses to be on the first page for a search result. Sadly Google has officially dropped the black carousel user interface from their local listings. So now […]
Facebook Targets Yelp, Launches New Places Directory
Without much of an announcement Facebook has launched a revamped Places Directory which seems to target Yelp as their competitor. The new directory lets you run a search …
Google Trends Now Shows Trending YouTube Videos
The Google Trends is a great little service that lets you easily keep up with all the popular news of the day. This used to be based solely on searches, however as of yesterday Google Trends will now also showcase trending Youtube videos which will surely have video marketers excited. If you click into Trending […]
Bing Introduces Their Mobile Bots To The World
Bing has published a new post on their webmaster blog which outlines the various mobile bots they use to crawl your sites along with a few mobile recommendations. For starters Bing makes it a point to mention the benefit of responsive design vs separate mobile website versions. Actually Bing has been preaching this since 2012. Furthermore […]
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Yahoo Buys Video Ad Platform BrightRoll for $640 Million
In a press release issued late last night Yahoo has announced that they have closed the deal with BrightRoll, the digital video advertising service purchasing it for $640 million (€514 million). This new purchase gives Yahoo a fighting chance at becoming the huge video advertising platform they’ve been wanting to achieve. “Video, along with mobile, social, and […]
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Mozilla Launches Developer Edition of Firefox Browser
As announced last week the Firefox Developer Edition browser has been released today by the Mozilla Foundation – and upon downloading it the first thing you’re bound to notice is how much more developer friendly things look. The browser boasts a new minimalistc, dark UI which matches well with whatever IDE you also have open. […]
Firefox Turns 10!
10 years ago today Mozilla released the very first version of the Firefox browser – and as such may very well have started the open source browser revolution. While Google Chrome does hold the top spot in the browser popularity wars; Firefox is is on the forefront of fighting for an open web and user security. […]
Elon Musk and Former Googler Greg Wyler Partner to Create Internet Satellites
As both a webmaster and a car guy – I’m extremely excited that Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, has partnered with former Google executive Greg Wyler to create satellites …
Fixing Your Website After a base64 Attack
Website attacks are becoming more and more popular these days, and Base64 attacks are by far one of the most common. They focus on exploiting a PHP vulnerability within a website and injecting malicious, base64-encoded code. The main targets of such attacks are usually out-dated, poorly coded, or nulled plugins. With that said if you’ve […]
Strikingly Launches Facebook Page One-Click Website Generator
If you’re not familiar with Strikingly yet – they’re a WIX-style website builder that focuses on making things as simple as possible. The goal is to utilize existing social media profiles …
Twitter Releases 827 Emojis For Everyone
Continuing on with the Twitter news today Twitter has decided to open source a huge library of it’s emojis. The library is available over on GitHub and it’s open for any developer who wants to implement the characters into their apps, sites and wherever else they may fit. There are 872 emojis in the bunch, […]
Twitter Makes It Even Easier To Compose Tweets
Twitter has introduced a small change to the Twitter home stream by moving the new tweet box off the left-hand side to the top of users’ feed. This means when someone wants to compose a tweet they no longer have to click on the small box on the left. This gives Twitter much the same user […]
Adobe Announces Brackets 1.0 – An Open Source Code Editor
About three years ago Adobe quietly created Brackets – an open source text editor built specifically for web designers and web developers. Since then it has taken roughly 45 minor releases to finally bring Brackets to it’s first stable version. The editor blends visual tools into the editor, making it easier to design in code. Furthermore some […]
Google Gets Flooded With DMCA Requests To Remove 11.6 Million URLs
Remember when Google announced their new DMCA algorithm update a bit ago. Well over the past week, the search engine has received enough DMCA requests to remove 11,668,660 …