Must-read technical guides and tips to ensure SEO is part of your web development process, whether you’re building, redesigning, or migrating your website.
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WordPress 5.5 is out now. It’s a major update. This is what’s happening, in plain English.
WordPress suspended the Astra theme for five weeks for violating prohibitions on affiliate links. Theme publishers denied that the theme added affiliate links.
Critical vulnerability discovered in Elegant Themes Divi and Extra Themes as well as in the Divi Builder WordPress plugin.
Chrome 85 will automatically decide referrer information sent for sites that do not set a referrer (referer) header.
Google announced an update to the AMP Validation Tool. It now will validate the Web Story format.
Short answer: As quick as possible. But that isn’t always easy. Here’s how fast your pages should load and tips to speed up your website.
WordPress released more information about the new WordPress 5.5 XML Sitemap. How publishers generate sitemaps may be significantly different.
Learn about inclusive design and how to optimize your website for ADA compliance with this beginner’s guide to accessibility.
Researchers discovered a vulnerability in All in One SEO Pack. Exploit could allow a total takeover of a WordPress website.
While reloading a script automatically doesn’t affect SEO, it’s still a bad idea overall. Here’s why it’s not worth the short-term revenue gains.
A major bug in Grow by Mediavine caused recipe bloggers to lose rich results features. Some sites lost rankings.
Google dropped images from recipe blog rich snippets again. Some say WP Rocket might have something to do with it.
Google introduced 1-line layouts, screaming fast bare-bones web page layouts. They use astonishingly little code and don’t need media queries.
WordPress bans links to commercial sites from official documentation. But allows links to Stack Overflow. Some say that’s unfair.
Google Web Stories is a new way to get more traffic. Google’s official WordPress plugin makes it easier to participate.
There are seemingly endless plugins for WordPress. Knowing the seven that are crucial for UX, resources, and SEO reasons can help up your game.
SEO professionals can change their browser’s user-agent to identify issues with cloaking or audit websites on different devices. Learn the process here.
Many people now depend on the web for basic necessities. It has uncovered the website accessibility issues most businesses have. Here’s how to address them.
Google is planning for a live digital event taking place over three days, which is geared toward developers and has some search-specific sessions as well.
Check out these Google Analytics plugins, which can make a huge impact on the performance of your WordPress site.
