For the past 15 years the internets largest websites have ganged up and attacked small websites using one tool, the nofollow rel attribute. Now, a growing tech-focused blog platform wants to right that wrong. Navigation: How to Get a Company Page on Hacker Noon Nofollow, which effectively stops...
Nearly 3 years ago in December of 2017 Facebook announced a quality update for the News Feed algorithm in a post titled “Fighting Engagement Bait on Facebook”. The post explains that users have complained about posts that “goad them into interacting with likes, shares, comments, and other actions”...
Update January 9th-10th, 2021: I have gotten 3 separate, credible reports now that this issue is happening again. This time however there has been no word from Facebook about it. The Facebook employee who was previously helping, Rob Leathern, has recently left the company. The closest person at...
Update 12/02/2020: Today Facebook appears to have removed the ability for page and group owners to switch to the old desktop design somewhere around 3pm Central time. Tweet: https://twitter.com/YoungbloodJoe/status/1334245086624960520 We’re still in the middle of a pandemic and Facebook is in the middle of taking their classic website...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused retail giants to take an unprecedented step – consider alternatives to traditional retail models where dozens of products are stacked on shelves and arranged to entice shoppers to come in and buy. Besieged now on all fronts with the pandemic, high commercial rents,...
WARNING: This article contains a discussion about U.S. Presidential Candidates in the 2020 election. It is not meant to endorse any candidate or their issues. It is also not meant to disparage any candidate or their voter base. This is only a look at each of the main...
Spam is a plague on Google Maps. There are various kinds of spam listings that haunt the platform, with the two worst offenders being keyword stuffed business names and businesses working out of temporary office locations. Zach Todd, founder of Persuaded.io (a local map rank tracking tool), has...
This is the first in a series of posts that will examine the data outputs from tools that we rely on for performance optimization on the web. The goal is to provide examples of scores for websites more generally considered to be ‘better’ by CEOs, CMOs, and business...
Update 3 (6/01/2020 at 3:03pm): It took just under 3 weeks (roughly 21 total days) and Google is now ranking the new “Player Stats” page from NFL.com as the number 1 result for the query “NFL Stats”. The NFL never built redirects from the old URL to the...
Adding a description to Shopify Collection pages can have a positive impact on your the SEO for your Shopify website helping those pages rank better in search engines for shorter, higher-volume queries. Adding text descriptions might also help the pages themselves and the website look much less ‘thin’...
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