Find Your Top Converting Content in 10-Steps

Using Google Analytics and Google Sheets.

“Learning to make web sites is cool but the real treasure are the friends we make along the way.”

You still can’t edit your tweets, but you may soon be able to 'clarify' them

What’s on Twitters drawing board.

Protect IID

Protect your privacy with single-use email addresses.

“If I do a job in 30 minutes it’s because I spent 10 years learning how to do that in 30 minutes. You owe me for the years, not the minutes.”

Buttondown

An easy and pleasant way to run your newsletter.

Why newsletters beat social media

Where email and newsletters differ entirely.

How To Write A Great Product Description Page

A sort-of-system for better product descriptions.

We Analyzed 912 Million Blog Posts

Let’s better understand the world of content marketing.

SpeedMonitor.io

Track performance metrics over time, with monitoring and alerts.

“The best entrepreneurs I know have one thing in common: As soon as they think of a great idea, they take one step toward making it a reality.”

Wi-Fi 6: is it really that much faster?

The next generation brings more than just faster speeds.

“When websites say ‘use our app, it’s much better’, they mean better for them, not you.”

WWW: Where's the Writable Web?

What kept the writeable browser from being part of technology today.

“I love that in this industry you get to be an expert and a beginner at the same time. Learning new things, being a beginner, reminds me what that is like and makes me a better teacher of the things I am expert in.”

Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked

Security holes are appearing in cryptocurrency.

The Rise of Maker Communities

An attempt to map the maker ecosystem.

Your Mission Is To Produce Outcomes, Not Outputs

Outcome-based businesses value results.

Remote Work

Jobs, companies, virtual teams, and remote work tips.

The Complete SEO Audit Checklist

Make sure that the SEO of your website is up-to-date.

The best internal linking structure depends on your business model

Centralized vs. decentralized web sites.

Coda

A new tool that blends tables and text together.

Actiondesk

Build powerful automations with just your spreadsheet skills.

FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an Independent Retail Website

Fake reviews in the U.S. can become expensive.

“You don’t hire talented people to tell them what to do. You hire talented people to tell you what to do.”

The Foolproof Method For Turning Your Content Into Serious Traffic

A breakdown of the process.

“I am suspicious of any successful person who refuses to admit that a significant factor in their success was luck.”

“If you are not annoying your boss, you are not doing your job.”

Facebook won’t let you opt-out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting

Facebook weakens your privacy with a security feature.

10 years of remote working: This is what I have learned so far.

Pros and cons of going remote.

Prioritize Opportunities, Not Solutions

What matters are the problems we solve for our customers.

The web just got an official password-free login standard

WebAuthn can sign you in with a fingerprint or security key.

Startup Calculator

Get a quick impression of how profitable your startup will be.

An SEO’s guide to site architecture

An actionable basis for the beginner to intermediate SEO.

U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

User numbers goes down the second straight year.

Startup Cemetery

Learn from mistakes, or why 100+ startups have failed.

“Work From Home is overrated. Instead, I propose Work From IKEA. Go to IKEA when it’s absolutely dead during the week and join a video conference from a different mock room every hour until your team notices.”

Microsoft confirms Skype for Web does not work in Safari, Firefox, and Opera

It only supports Edge and Chrome.

How TikTok Is Rewriting the World

It will change the way your social media works.

Introducing Firefox Send

Free file transfers without compromising your personal information.

How To Check If Search Engine Evaluators Have Manually Reviewed Your Site

Your site could be next on their list.

Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users in ~60 markets

More search engines to choose from in Chrome.

“I think I’m going to start an email newsletter titled ‘Links I Wanted to Read But Didn’t’.”

Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web

Skype for Web does not work in all major browsers.

Hello, Goodbye

Browser extension to block chat or helpdesk pop ups.

“Until we measure what we value, we will over-value what we measure.”

Avataaars Generator

Easily make your own personal avatar.

User Click Through Rates and Search Result Rankings at Google

A look at Google’s new continuation patent.

Killed by Google

List of dead Google products, services, and devices

Keeping Passwords Secure

Facebook notifies countless users that their passwords were stored in plain text.

“The ability to break down a complex project into manageable chunks is a hugely underrated professional skill. Strange that so few people hire and evaluate for it.”

Webspam report 2018

Google’s efforts to provide high quality search results.

A first look at Microsoft’s new Chromium-powered Edge browser

“You’ll probably never need Chrome again.”

The European Copyright Directive:

What is it, and why has it drawn more controversy than any other directive in EU history?

Always Own Your Platform

“Stop giving away your work to people who don’t care about it.”

An Unpopular List of Marketing Trends for 2019

What really will impact web marketing.

Google begins shutting down its failed Google+ social network

The deletion of personal accounts has started.

Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand

The latest batch of dead and dying Google apps.

User experience improvements with page speed in mobile search

The impact of Google’s new search ranking factor.

Old, Online, And Fed On Lies

How An Aging Population Will Reshape The Internet.

Ethical Alternatives & Resources

An open list of resources for ethical living.

Puma Browser

Privacy focused browser with a new way to pay for content.

A Guide to Better Designer Client Relationships

A client-first viewpoint for owners of design studios.

Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk

What to do if you care about privacy.

Dropmark

Organize, collaborate, curate, and share online.

Blog Statistics 2019: What We Learned from 1,117 Bloggers

Questions, answers, and takeaways.

Digital Marketing Industry Pricing Survey (updated 2019)

How marketing agencies and consultants price themselves.

How to Diagnose and Solve JavaScript SEO Issues in 6 Steps

A challenge for developers and search engine optimizers.

Everything I know about freelancing

Freelancing can be a long-term career.

Nothing Fails Like Success

The father of web standards on why the Web sucks.

‘Ethics’ and Ethics

Questions and answers about ethics in design.

Links as a Google Ranking Factor: A 2019 Study

Let’s find out if links still matter.

“Build a product to solve your own problem. That way you’ll have at least one user – more than most startups ever get.”

17 Charts That Show Where Social Media is Heading

Social Media is here to stay.

Advanced Google Chrome Bookmarklets for SEOs

A detailed guide.

How to run remote design interviews

Remote interviews with modern collaboration tools.

Enriching Search Results Through Structured Data

How the Google Search Console can help.

Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.2

Safari continues to improve the protection of user privacy.

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach to Marketing

How artificial intelligence is impacting marketing.

“When in doubt, assume best intentions. You won’t always be right, but it’s a much better kind of wrong.”

Paid Email Newsletters Are Proving Themselves As A Meaningful Revenue Generator For Writers

Small audiences translate to meaningful dollars.

Keep track of your social metrics

Delivered to your inbox, every Monday morning.

The Pyramid of Remote Team Communication

Tools to stay connected as a remote team.

5 Signs That Web Design Is Reaching Its Own Industrial Age

The Internet is developing fast.

Facebook is redesigning its core app around the two parts people actually like to use

What’s taking center stage.

Instagram redesigns its camera and starts hiding Like counts

Updates aim to bring artists closer to their audiences.

The productivity pit: how Slack is ruining work

You can also have too much communication.

The inception bar: a new phishing method

How the attack works.

Your Analytics Data Isn’t Real And It’s Only Getting Worse

The environment is about to change dramatically.

Monitoring structured data with Search Console

Make the most out of structured data for your site.

Update Regarding Add-ons in Firefox

Mozilla rolls out a fix for the issues with add-ons.

Introducing auto-delete controls for your Location History and activity data

Google makes it easier to manage your data.

Getting paid to speak (the gory details)

What to expect as a paid conference speaker.

The new evergreen Googlebot

Google’s search index crawler now supports 1000+ new features.

Android Q exclusive first look

Dark mode, better gestures, and an impressive new accessibility feature.

New in structured data: FAQ and How-to

How you can expand your content to new surfaces.

The Biggest Trend in SEO

There’s so much more to search than rankings.

“Tell people if you think they did something remarkable, no matter how small. Don’t just think it to yourself, tell them!”

Into the Personal-Website-Verse

The state of the web and the importance of personal websites.

SEO & Progressive Web Apps: Looking to the Future

How SEO practitioners may need to adapt.