Snapchat is finally coming to the web

After more than a decade as a mobile app.

The best ways to learn email marketing

Resources for starting your email marketing learning journey.

How to optimize social media images

Easily produce images that stand out in feeds and search results.

Global Remote Work Index

Discover the best scoring countries to accommodate remote employees.

Why expertise is the most important ranking factor of them all

Expertise, authority, and trustworthiness is becoming crucial for SEO success.

Call to Action Examples

A curated list of call-to-action phrases for different goals.

Sunset of the social network

The end of the era in which your friends shaped your online life.

“Hard skills get you hired. But soft skills get you promoted.”

Zero-click content

The counterintuitive way to succeed in a platform-native world.

The new Google Tag: one tag to rule them all

Control all Google’s tagging products from one centralized location.

Hacker News Slack Bot

Slack notifications for company/product mentions on Hacker News.

How we’re improving search results when you use quotes

Google Search with quotes gets even more powerful.

The newsletter boom is over

The current state of the hype surrounding paid newsletters.

New in structured data: Pros and cons

Google introduced a new schema for product review pages.

Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser

How to protect yourself as a website provider or user.

“Hot take: ‘Internet Explorer’ was the most friendly, and arguably best, name of any web browser.”

CX and UX: where they differ and where they meet

Strategies to succeed in an increasingly competitive market.

“Say it with me: browser tabs are not a todo list.”

The pageview paradox

How great results cause poor performance.

What creators should know about Google’s helpful content update

Google Search’s next update focuses on people-first content.

Take care of your blog

There are no rules to blogging except one.

“Tools like Figma represent what the future of all software will look like: collaborative, multi-player, and built natively for the web.”

summarize.tech

Get AI-powered summaries of your YouTube videos.

Five walled garden

How operating systems are holding browsers back.

Data Never Sleeps 10.0

What happens on the internet every minute 2022.

Google Rank Tracker

Rank track keywords based on Google Search Console data.

Goodbye, Alexa. Hello, Cloudflare Radar domain rankings

Cloudflare now aggregates the top most popular domains based on usage.

Blocking annoying and privacy-harming cookie consent banners

The Brave browser will soon hide cookie consent notifications.

How bots corrupted advertising

“Fake online users make up as much as 40 percent of all web traffic.”

19 advanced Google search operators you need to know

More efficient and accurate Google searches with the right search operators.

Share Links Cheatsheet

Create sharing links of major social platforms for your websites.

A new way to identify your YouTube channel

YouTube handles, like youtube.com/@handle, are coming.

How to measure “hard-to-measure” marketing channels

Channels like organic search and native social media deserve investment.

“The talk-preparation swing from ‘do I have enough content’ to ‘I think I have too much content’ gives me whiplash every time.”

Introducing site names on Google Search

Google makes it easier to identify the websites behind mobile search results.

Goodbye Google Webmaster Guidelines, hello Google Search Essentials

Google is launching a simplified version of its Webmaster Guidelines.

None of your business

“You don’t have to like your work for it to work.”

DuckDuckGo for Mac is now available for public testing

A Windows version of the application is still in development.

“Sometimes hard work is like a pie eating contest where the prize is more pie.”

Privacy online just got easier with today’s Firefox release

New privacy shortcut button, list of recently closed tabs, and more.

Study claims widespread collection of unconsented data

Many companies are unknowingly violating data protection laws.

The most visited website in every country

Every country has its own web life and preferences.

How to work with freelance writers

Where to find freelancers, how much to pay, and how to network.

Vercel acquires Splitbee to expand first-party analytics

The all-in-one analytics and conversion tool goes to the Next.js platform.

iA Presenter

A fresh way to do presentations that puts the focus on stories.

Zero-clicks study

More and more Google searchers aren’t clicking anymore.

Postlight Reader

A browser extension to clear the clutter from online articles.

Europe prepares to rewrite the rules of the internet

A law will force Big Tech companies to open their walled gardens.

The password killer of Microsoft, Apple, and Google is finally here

Passkeys are safer and easier to use.

Getting started with Mastodon

What to expect from the open-source social network similar to Twitter.

Why one web pioneer thinks it’s time to reinvent the browser

Darin Fisher has been building browsers for decades.

Stellar

A curated directory of talented freelance creatives.

Don’t specialize, hybridize

“Specialization is too heavily encouraged as a career path.”

“Social media has become the foundation of social engineering by exploiting the fact that truth is whatever you are willing to believe.”

The many branches of the Fediverse

How the social network Mastodon fits into the much larger Fediverse concept.

“The best way to know whether something will work is to ship it.”

What is hashtag marketing?

“Hashtag marketing can be a game-changer, especially for small business owners.”

Google needs 9x more time to crawl JavaScript than HTML

If you need your content indexed quickly, use plain HTML.

Metaphor

An AI-powered search engine with a fresh approach.

Mastodon is just blogs

An analogy may help to understand the decentralized social network better.

By bots, for Bots

When AI generates both good and bad news.

“If you’re lucky enough to have built an early version of something people actually want, quality is truly the ultimate growth lever.”

Feedle

A search engine for blogs and podcasts where every search is an RSS feed.

Start showing your products on Google Shopping

Search Console now helps merchants to reach more shoppers.

“Whenever I add a new RSS feed to my reader, I feel like I’ve added a new gem to my treasure box.”

Introducing our new guide to Google Search ranking systems

Google makes it easier to learn about how its systems work

Google’s duplicate detection algorithm is broken

A Google bug can cause the deindexation of web pages.

ooh! directory

A collection of noteworthy blogs, including a design and a development section.

News from UK and EU

Browser engines are now on the regulators’ agenda.

How Google interprets the robots.txt specification

Google’s interpretation of the Robots Exclusion Protocol explained.

One Word Domains

A huge database of available and brandable one-word domains.

“I’m going to reinstate a blog roll and RSS on my website (and you should too.) That might be a great way to bring back the feeling we had about blogs pre-Twitter.”

Google’s Year in Search 2022

Explore the searches that shaped the year in your country and worldwide.

Improving SEO without knowing where to start

Search engine optimization with the help of Opquast rules.

Writing is magic

“The output of writing is almost always more clarity, and sometimes a clear decision.”

Visual elements gallery of Google Search

Terminology, illustrations, and SEO opportunities at a glance.

Introducing the Google Search Status Dashboard

The dashboard reports issues related to crawling, indexing, or serving.

Why marketers, creators, and brands should start using Mastodon ASAP

While this network is rising rapidly, there are exciting opportunities.

Will Google Search be disrupted by ChatGPT?

“Google Search will look very different in a few years.”

“My favorite part of year end is closing out all the tabs on my browser that have been open since January.”

2023 is the year of the RSS reader

There is an opportunity for a retro version of tech disruption next year.

The SERP Pursuit SEO Quiz 2023

Test your knowledge of the latest updates to Google’s SERP features.

ChatGPT for SEO

Ways to leverage the popular chat bot in your SEO activities.

The Content Marketing Salary Report 2023

The good, bad, and ugly of content marketing income.

Email marketing trends 2023

12th edition of The Future of Email Marketing & Marketing Automation.

“Product, brand, marketing, and even content design teams are often so siloed, it's a shame. True magic happens when these teams work closely together.”

Medium embraces Mastodon

The popular publishing platform is launching a Mastodon instance.

The triumph of Safari

“Let’s celebrate 2022 as the year that Safari turned a corner and triumphed.”

“The hardest part of being a designer isn’t the design, it’s dealing with people who don’t understand it. Taking time to learn how to communicate with those people and say ‘no’ when you need to is a critical part of your skillset as a designer.”

Ways to trim the fat in your newsletter

Many newsletters are bloated, but there is a remedy for that.

“The irony of ChatGPT having a CAPTCHA to prove I’m ‘not a robot’ when I log in is pretty great.”

“It’s funny how everyone wants to use AI to write content but at the same time no one wants to read content written by AI.”

“Most of our users are on Desktop”

What to consider when you analyze low mobile usage on your website.

The State of Technical SEO 2023

The collective insights of over 500 technical search engine optimizers.

RSS-to-email

Buttondown can now send newsletters from RSS feeds.

Arc browser for iPhone is bringing skeuomorphism back

The current state of Arc’s innovative browser for mobile.

Golden Kitty Awards 2022

Product Hunt winners in the categories Design Tools, Developer Tools, and more.

“The hottest new programming language is English.”

Yandex ‘leak’ reveals 1,922 search ranking factors

SEOs have already started analyzing Yandex’s search ranking factors

“It’s weird that a web page can’t play audio or show multiple alerts without my permission but can easily take 100% of my CPU/memory.”